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  1. Re:There's an easy way to fix that on The Sad Graph of Software Death (tinyletter.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, they are intelligent people and say no to your request that they burn their lives up for you.

    No amount of money can give you back the life you've missed.

  2. Re: Let me save you reading the entire article on The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    No they are not. You used current tense there. We have no architecture that even approaches being able to withstand the stresses of that scale resisting the needed forces.

  3. Re:They're called architects on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 2

    Which language was able to do it on the first pass?

  4. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    You're aware that one loud asshole constitutes a "vocal minority", right?

    We got those folks in exactly the same manner that we got those who self-proclaim their contributions to whatever cause and then obliquely assert that others aren't doing as much as they are thereby gaining a sense of superiority to the bulk of a given community - they exist as a small percentage of humankind and cannot be avoided entirely.

    Much to everyone's chagrin in both instances.

  5. Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 0

    It's only galvanized me against the pompous chest-thumpers. Gain some perspective.

  6. Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 2

    Pomposity however, runs ahead at full steam.

  7. Re:Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    How about a couple of things Sparky. First a definition of what constitutes asshollery and second, a cite for your bullshit assertion.

  8. Re:From a former editor on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    "First is highly specialized knowledge..." Explain then why people with exactly that kind of knowledge can't get their information through page sitting editors.

  9. Re:Let newbies be hazed on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    Only an asshole believes that.

  10. Re:Best of luck with this. on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that happened moments after the rule came out.

  11. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    That comment would be banned under Twitter's new rules. Heh

  12. Social studies at its best on Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In a nine sentence abstract the word subjective is used five times, yet the title is "How Body Postures Influence Your Energy Level".

    Science

  13. Which is worse than no machine or monitor how?

  14. Re:Libraries are not free on Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You did not describe free.

  15. Never bitten the head off of any animal.

  16. Re:Muckraking on Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Those interests are not mutually exclusive. Cite evidence otherwise.

  17. Re:No, not everything will have a screen on Marc Andreessen Describes Vision of 'Ambient Computing' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    implanted

    Talk about security concerns.

  18. Re:This is of course true on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Straw argument. You can study evolution with no references to geology or paleontology at all by just studying soft tissue in the lab.

    You're correct though, that's historic evidence of evolution. Those phenotypes were modified by changes in the gene sequences like those we've seen happen in labs. And some of those gene sequences we've extracted, mapped out and compared to living organisms. So evolution is a proven.

  19. Re:Evolution on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do not understand what evolution is. "Create life" is not in the description.

  20. Re:Best way to convert a "non-science" stickler on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    And they respond "Because you asked me to expound upon my imagination." Glad to see you believe string theory and multi-universe don't merit any more discussion than someone's imaginings though.

  21. Re:There is no string theory. on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oxford Dictionary:

    hy.poth.e.sis
    a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation:

    What is the limited evidence?

  22. Re:Only if you Exclude Technological Limits on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Link to a few please.

  23. Re:He caused his own inconvenience on Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics · · Score: 2

    Oh bullshit it's an inconvenience. There've been enough actual bombs that anyone not understanding because they feel themselves 'elite' is trolling for attention or just being pompous. Bag it and notify. Nothing inconvenient about it.

  24. Re:I disagree with the premise on Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that there are many more examples of "successful" open source projects that have poorly designed interfaces than successful commercial closed source projects.

    The is true if and only if you put successful in quotes.

  25. Just because non-UI/UX open source programming is screwing up doesn't mean you have to follow suit.