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  1. It will be shit but quite successful.

    Then either they'll drop it or revamp it and then drop it.

  2. Re: Yale Analytica! on Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down Amid Scandal Over Use of Facebook Data (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's Cambridge Analytica, not Cardiff.

  3. Re:Clarification from the original poster on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    If that's the best you can do when asking a question I'd suggest you try to work your way up to ditch digger or road-sweeper.

  4. Did you mean "fall"? As in a great one?

  5. Re: Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Since this is the pedants thread

    pedant's

  6. Re:And he knows who is a scammer? on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way someone with no medical training can tell who's a competent surgeon.

  7. Re:Fabrication on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that some of the best drivers in the world have no idea how their car works internally?

    Do you think Lewis Hamilton[1] designed & built his own car?

    [1] He's in that thing like Indy except they can turn both ways.

  8. /|\ Nutter found on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    (i and j? really?)

    If you can't tell them apart, ask your dog for help.

    Would you prefer IndexThatControlsInnerLoop and IndexThatControlsOuterLoop? You think having over 80% of the letters in common makes them easier to distinguish?

  9. Re: ... A job fair can easily test this competenc on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apart from being the established name for an index since forever, its very shortness *is* self-documenting: it's a short-lived, temporary, throwaway variable, so it has a short name.

  10. Re:CoC smokers on Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding (golang.org) · · Score: 1

    I love the Java jive and it loves me.

  11. That may (sorry) well be true. Let's hope so - might knock some of the smugness out of Humpty Dumpty.

  12. It's a two way street. Mr Zuckerberg and others are not breaking a U.K. law unless they are in U.K. territory at the time of breaking it.

    Does it really work both ways? That UFO nutter (the one who looked like a startled Patrick Swayze) who was accused of hacking wasn't anywhere near the US.

  13. He'll spend the whole time explaining simple concepts to them

    What makes you think *he* understands?

  14. Our MPs are pretty tame really.

    Yvette Cooper bloody well isn't.

    Just ask Amber Rudd.

  15. Re: older generations already had a term for this on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Management decided it would be better to teach a group of 'Y' programmers language 'X' then to hire a group of language 'Y' programmers and try to teach them how the system worked. A wise decision!

    I wouldn't call it wise to have twice as many programmers as you need. And why retrain people if you're going to bring in new people anyway?

  16. Re:Fabrication on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There's knowing how to drive, and there's being a mechanic.

    You seem to think it's impossible to do the first without doing the second.

  17. China's action is thought to have prompted Kim's trip to Beijing, where he was perhaps told how things would now play out by his only ally and provider of the vast majority of his foreign trade.

    But what prompted China's action? It's not that long ago that they were positively encouraging the fat little git.

    I'm genuinely puzzled by this. The wily oriental outwitting the arrogant westerner is a trope, but it's probably got some basis in fact. Take General Giap, for example.

  18. A sufficiently advanced autopilot would refuse to go anywhere near Swindon.

  19. Quantity has a quality all of its own on North Korea's Leader Kim Jong-un Says He'll Give Up Weapons if US Promises Not to Invade (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Large armies of rabble have beaten technologically superior enemies before. They've done it in Korea, in fact.

  20. Re:Trump's actually sanctioning Chinese companies on North Korea's Leader Kim Jong-un Says He'll Give Up Weapons if US Promises Not to Invade (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    you are even to dumb to grasp it.

    Theirs allot have it a bout.

  21. Re:Won't work on my car on The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars (defenseone.com) · · Score: 2

    My dad had a Maestro and there's no way some gadget like this would have stopped it, mainly because it wouldn't start in the first place.

  22. English, Jim - but not as we know it on Microsoft Attempts To Spin Its Role in Counterfeiting Case (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Shortly after the Lundgren's was arrested

    You appear to have left out the thing, owned by one Lundgren, that was arrested.

  23. Re: ... A job fair can easily test this competenc on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    they trip you up for no reason related to your actual codung skills.

    Bullshit!

  24. Re: older generations already had a term for this on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I get frustrated with premature product release too.

    I've never heard it called that before, sweetie.

  25. Re:Would you rather not have LCD panels? on Foxconn Will Drain 7 Million Gallons of Water Per Day From Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    My assumption is that permitting and regulatory processes will have already required the company to meet the bar of not polluting the water too much.

    I thought Lake Michigan was in the US?