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  1. Re:Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I wish Cmdr Taco would come back and write a series of memoirs on "How to sell your hobby website and retire"

  2. Re: Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    The issue is that it encourages large and complex client-side processing combined with really bad programming practices that are hard to debug and maintain.

  3. Re: Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a bigger pile of spaghetti code than NodeJS- and that's coming from somebody who remembers inserting three NOPs every other instruction to facilitate JMPS insertions just in case I needed to spaghettifi something.

  4. That has much more to do with the programmer than the language, in my experience

  5. Eclipse seems to me to be an IDE written by hackers for hackers and unsuitable for anything other than hacking.

  6. And yet, amazing amounts of spaghetti code come from both.

  7. Re:Everything is awesome? on How Lego Clicked: The Super Brand That Reinvented Itself (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The one with the round dish does. The one with the square dish is more in the $400 range.

  8. Re: Everything is awesome? on How Lego Clicked: The Super Brand That Reinvented Itself (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I usually call them Erector Pieces. Before giggling like an idiot (yes, I'm in Oregon, where they were invented *completely independently* of meccano in England)

    I swear that crane kit was very phalic on purpose....

  9. Re: Pirates on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who needs to break into the ship? Break into the cargo containers and steal the cargo.

  10. Re:Predict Malfunctions on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They haven't collected enough data to feed the AI yet for all potential malfunctions. And you need a beowulf cluster of raspberry pi to run it.

  11. Re:I agree for different reasons. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    He isn't- but he is a *religious conservative*, very different thing

  12. Re:The manipulated man on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    To be exact, it's immediately after somebody mentioned 50 shades of grey. Still an immense coincidence though

  13. Re:The Bible on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Touching unclean women? Hell, under modern feminism, touching WOMEN is enough to get you fired.

  14. Re: I agree for different reasons. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    $7k/month is more than I make after 20 years as a Software Engineer. That's pretty wealthy.

  15. Re:I agree for different reasons. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Depends what you mean by "religious conservative".

    What he is is a Presbyterian follower of Dr. Vincent Peale, of "Power of Positive Thinking" theology, an early version of the Health & Wealth gospel narrative in which the pastor is healthy and wealthy and claims that YOU CAN BE TOO if you just send him all your spare change every week.

    Obligatory ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKeFnlZ-s0

  16. Re: how 25 versus 15 percent is six times more li on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    What if it isn't about the gay? I bet there are a higher number of magicians in Github as well. And car modders. And anything else that makes one unattractive to the opposite sex and or ostracizes one from one's peer group. Coding provides an outlet for people who couldn't make it in society otherwise.

    And that includes myself.

  17. Re: That's difficult to do on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are using and abusing heroines, you should be in jail.

    Heroin on the other hand, is something quite different.

  18. Needs a better methodology. How about we simple fence off a ghost town, give the prisoners some form of script for currency, guard the perimeter and let them figure the rest out?

  19. Re:The privatization fetish on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Until, of course, the insurance agencies catch on to the scam, and get out of the airliner insurance industry entirely.

  20. Re:The privatization fetish on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The lives are small and unimportant to the bean counters.

    The loss of millions in equipment, especially once the insurance agencies catch on and no longer insure the planes, on the other hand, is a number anybody can see.

  21. Re:The privatization fetish on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would point out that Ford no longer owned those vehicles- had already sold them to somebody else. Airlines OWN their airplanes, and if an airplane isn't flying, it isn't profitable.

    Though a different response did point out that the problem is more shortsighted than that. If the plane doesn't crash within three months of the lack of maintenance, it's an SEP. Which is a problem with modern market based capitalism in general.

  22. Re:The privatization fetish on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You think it is profitable to crash multi-million dollar airliners?

  23. Re:Not controlled by the airlines on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And because greed and amorality run everything:
    1. Corporations pass on costs to customers. This will be a new surcharge on your plane ticket.
    2. You can bet the system will not only be upgraded but the latest GPS and Mesh Networking tech will come into play, because GREED: Losing a $25 million aircraft because some idiot Islamic pilot wants to fly until he runs out of fuel that you can't even get an insurance settlement on because there is no proof that it crashed, is bad.

  24. Re:Is the begining of the END for TSA on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a chance. ATC is under the FAA, TSA is under Department of Homeland Security.

  25. Yes, because large corporations just LOVE losing $2.5 million dollars every time a plane crashes.