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  1. Re:Lock-in and dependence on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    Each website will inevitably have its own API that is incompatible with every other similar service.

    Nothing you can't solve with an adapter API controlled by 47 tons of incomprehensible XML.

    Of course, now you have two problems.

    https://xkcd.com/927/

  2. Re:I know how to change my oil. on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised how many can't even file a decent bug report, even if you give them a template with six simple questions on it.

    "Oh, I thought I only had to answer one".

  3. UI design is the needful on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    I'd teach them UI design. I'd start by beating into their heads that when you click on a story title you expect to open the story so you can post on it, not toggle the description's visibility.

  4. Re:Proof of learning on How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? · · Score: 1

    If they were picture books, how did you recite them word-for-word?

    They were in Egyptian hieroglyphs, obviously.

  5. Kids today... on Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    Are you incapable of adding the markup for links manually? It uses those pointy lefty-righty things, they're usually down near the bottom.

  6. Re:It talks! My God, it *really* talks! on Linux 4.3 Bringing Stable Intel Skylake Support, Reworked NVIDIA Driver · · Score: 1

    Sod off skids, you narcoleptic red-light running gerontophile.

  7. Re:Self learning classroom learning on How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? · · Score: 1

    We can't even get traditional classroom education quantified in much more than "years spent in classes on this subject"

    I had this idea that you could put people in a room, and give them a paper with questions on it and see how many they get right. Or you set them a task and see how well they do it.

    Crazy talk, I know.

  8. 256th on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that 256 counting from 0 or from 1?

  9. My oh my, Lennart. Don't they teach the golden rule (Matt. 7:12) in Bocheland?

    When people say things like that to you get a total fucking face on.

  10. Re: Sounds stupid on Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    So the costruction workers and factory workers doesn't really exist in software development.

    I thought their equivalent was the users. Hitting a nail through a pipe, sticking a part in upside down, putting the number of employees in the NAICS code ...

  11. Re:Look inward? on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 1

    If the aliens really are intelligent then they're probably walking around among us, perhaps for a long time.

    Sometimes giggling, often sneering.

    Hey, perhaps hipsters are aliens?

  12. frist on Linux 4.3 Bringing Stable Intel Skylake Support, Reworked NVIDIA Driver · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fister pots, thanks to systemd!

  13. Re:Sounds stupid on Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time · · Score: 2

    Like this, probably. http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-...

  14. First time submitter? Hope it's the last time too. on Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time · · Score: 2

    Looks like another excuse for low-balling rates. Hey, you stopped typing for 30 seconds, I want 10% off!

    P.S. Don't you think you should have included a link to Live Coding itself?

  15. Huh huh heh heh. He said "get head" on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 1

    if I WANT to work 80 hours a week in order to get head

    Prostitutes or fancy meals must be very expensive where you live.

  16. Re:No thanks on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 1

    Those have probably fired more rounds into the backs of unarmed people than you ever will.

    I agree 100%, Mr Coplicker.

  17. What's going on? on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 3, Informative

    Someone literate appears to have hijacked Joe_Dragon's account.

  18. Re:Ordinarily, yes, it works out. on Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge? · · Score: 1

    Very good professors (full, associate, and assistant) often manage to combine academic work and consultancy (especially at technological institutes). Especially when they aren't bogged down by their teaching workload.

    Pretty much all of my profs did consultancy on the side - some were owners of a business that had its labs on campus.

    That was in England. Is this not allowed in the US?

  19. Re: If they want to make money on Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge? · · Score: 2

    Why doesn't he work a few extra hours so he can have his own place instead of living with such a retarded fuckwad?

    P.S. why don't you?

  20. Re: If they want to make money on Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right. Because there are elves that create lesson plans and homework marks itself.

  21. Re:How about take away their guns. on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 1

    diffuse the threat ?

    Not sure why breathing on the lens will help.

  22. And you got the hard one right on 10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Rush's "Red Barchetta" song is no longer the future, it's hear.

    It's a song. You can't see, smell, feel or taste it.

  23. I occasionally have to reverse down a steep exit from a driveway

    If you reversed in you wouldn't have that problem.

  24. Re:Impossible on 25 Years Ago, a Meeting Spawned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    What about war?

  25. Re:Makes sense on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 1

    Ford Prefect is unlikely to arise by mashing the keyboard.

    And if you aren't using a password manager, or you didn't note down that your mother's maiden name was FHGFHGFHA?