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  1. Re:Credit where credit is due on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Not if your current momentum will carry you over the cliff.

  2. Re:Just be honest - it's not for *US* on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    "The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it."

    This is nothing more than opinion, *and* if that's you guys' opinion, no manner of suggestion will change your mind. So...

    Why, pray tell? What exactly won't it cut in four years? It won't match the glitz of the NY Times? It won't look like every pad out there? What exactly won't cut it?

  3. Re:lizard-brain visual heroine on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    "You haven't paid a nickel until your willingness to tolerate the advertising seeps..."

    Nope. His time is worth money as well. Since he knows the ads dance, he occasionally looks at them. If he allows the ads, the company gets the revenue. If he doesn't, they don't. He's paid.

  4. Re:Online Propaganda on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I see you leapt from not paying for bias news to getting software for free. Bad segue. Parent said not one thing about getting the news free.

  5. Re:How do we get more women involved in tech? on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 1

    Their staying out of it does not constitute tech excluding them. Everyone around them is not telling them to stay out of tech, that's simply a lie. Avoid sociology class based assumptions about statistics and causality.

  6. Re: If there's one role model I want for my daught on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your inability to control yourself is really more of a reason to not have you around, not avoid having her around.

  7. Re:Hire them at companies without experience on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 2

    No. It. Isn't. Study some biology instead of SocSci. Brains are more than circuitry, they are also hormonal baths. Different hormones.

  8. Re:Hire them at companies without experience on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 1

    And yet, oddly enough, that "more inclusive" culture is avoiding this field. Are you suggest conscripting them?

  9. Re:Hire them at companies without experience on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 1

    And what, pray tell, is preventing her from contributing on her own? If you're saying Open Source projects are restricting participation to only those with appropriate degrees and/or work for large software firms, I'd sure like you to present some stats to back that up. Real stats, with references.

  10. Re:I'm male but... on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 1

    Cite.

  11. Re:I'm male but... on Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The sexism and harassment that is so common in tech is what turns women off to working in this field.

    If you actually believe that, you do not understand people, much less women.

  12. Re:Picasso on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spoken like a consumer, not a creator.

  13. Re: Nice try on HealthCare.gov Can't Handle Appeals of Errors · · Score: 2

    Translation: I have no point I can make.

  14. Re:Sad to see how the Republicans have killed this on HealthCare.gov Can't Handle Appeals of Errors · · Score: 1

    Actually, my take is that there are a lot of people scrambling to rationalize away any and every expense they can because the horror show is so huge.

  15. Been on that contract on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Do If You're Given a Broken Project? · · Score: 2

    Got a contract a STL phone companyl to examine a system with much the same setup; a billing system purposely avoiding all standards (naming constants "Literal-R" because literals weren't acceptable), no performs, only jumps (not spaghetti, Ramen), etc. I decrypted it's function and what it was supposed to do as well as what it did, wrote a very detailed report on what was wrong and why it was so and turned it in. I spent the last four months of the contract sitting and studying pretty much what I wanted because Mr Silver was a golden, do not touch, boy. Meh, paid very well.

  16. Re:2 things on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 1

    You lie why?

  17. Re:I do not look forward to this. on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 2

    Too many false positives (and setups) makes the thing only marginally useful. You seem just as adamant that this person you don't know at all is most likely guilty. At least the parent poster knew the individual.

  18. Re:Well, Heck... No Wonder! on Environmental Report Raises Pressure On Obama To Approve Keystone Pipeline · · Score: 1

    CO2? You mean the plant food?

  19. Re:clickbait on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And it happens tom that learn to code can be a fantastic tool, probably the best, to achieve that goal.

    Some of the worst logic and most fragmented display of problem solving I have ever seen in my life was produced by people who knew how to code so I disagree, learning to code does nothing by itself.

  20. Re:Why the obsession with desktops on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 1

    Which operating system is it you're saying doesn't allow you to launch multiple, simultaneously functioning applications?

  21. Re:I think you're thinking too hard and the author on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The way other people prefer to work pisses you off? Seriously? Frankly, other people telling me how to work pisses me off.

  22. Re:I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    Lighten up, it's not like that's what's **really** happening at a black hole, just a refined math guess.

  23. Re:The hipsters need to go. Now. on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    Heh, the database version of the recent computer sciences grad that applied for a position and was sure he could write a better compiler for us. Probate Court, K.C., IBM mainframe. He took a walk as well.

  24. Re:Online and RL personalities are different on Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data · · Score: 1

    I happen to agree with you but you actually supported him. That "curbing their tendency" is what would be missing to those s/he curbed around. They weren't on the receiving end before, now they would be because that's what the extraction is drawn from.

  25. Go you one better. Savings. The last one left (and the sooner the better) from an identical set of clones (including brain scans) has a distinct leg up on keeping the cash.