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  1. Re:Is there anything wrong with this? on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    [No one can be simultaneously good at their job and impossible to work with. ]

    I really disagree with this. Some people can be such a negative influence that they are not worth in, even if they do their job.

    Case in point: Look at the description of the behaviour of some of their employees which got Uber in such big trouble not long ago(The sexual harassment case). If the description of behaviour is correct, those people were so toxic that even if they did their job, I would newer hire them because they caused so much trouble for other employees at Uber that their net contribution were negative. (Even without the press coverage).

    But I currently only personally know 1 person who I would not work with, due to "Attitude problems", so it's a short list :)

  2. Re:Is there anything wrong with this? on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ???

    My list and Googles list contains people can not do the job, or who prevent other from doing their job. Or people who are impossible to work with. It does not contain people I don't like, or don't agree with.

  3. Is there anything wrong with this? on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is there anything wrong with this? I also have a personal list of people I don't want to work with.

    it's not as if anyone at Google tries to enforce the list on other companies.

  4. Re: And then Google says... on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    [On the SAT, males score about 30 points higher in math than females. ]

    Which just goes to show that something is REALLY wrong with the us school system.

  5. Re:Here's a lesson for you on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, he did say that women were in general less able to handle the job.

  6. Re:Socialism's latest success on 'World of Warcraft' Game Currency Now Worth More Than Venezuelan Money (theblaze.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really, because US only allow emigration of highly educated people who can support them self. So the people who moved to US would have been better of then an average person in their home country, even if they stayed home.

    But this is moot. None of the Nordic countries or Germany are what you would call socialist countries. They are "free marked" capitalist countries, and the only difference between them and US, is the exact amount of money the government moves between citizens, and thus exactly which services the the government is responsible for ensuring.

  7. Which "overt US economic sanctions"?

    US buys a large part of their oil and the fact that their oil production have fallen to half of what it used to be, due to political appointments in the oil production is not really the fault of that stupid government which gives socialists a bad name.

  8. Re:Irish passport on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's not about the passport. It's about the ability for any EU citizen, to move to any other EU country and take a job there, and live there.

  9. Re:No words. on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, Systemd did exactly that, which is the problem. It kept the part of the input which was valid(The 0, thus running with pid=0) and then ignored the rest of the invalid input.

    "be liberal in what you accept" is a horrible concept, because it makes it impossible to ever have a standard, without breaking half of the current uses, because they then depend on undocumented implementation specific error handling which is impossible to implement for others.

    Just look at ns4 and internet explorer 5/6. Because they accepted anything with tags as some kind of valid html, all other browsers had to implement the same rules for handling tag soup,
    For example: Did you know that chuck norris is a color code? (Google it :)

  10. Re: Death to middle class on Bad News If You Make $150,000 to $300,000: Higher Taxes for Many (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The out of pocket expenses?

    Does the us insurance system really work that bad, that 150.000$ is not enough to pay for care?

  11. Re:It's such a shame... US should not own world on US Indicts Suspected Russian 'Mastermind' of $4 Billion Bitcoin Laundering Scheme (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering the number of people who failed at securing their coins, it's reall difficult.

  12. Looking forward to the daily wft entries on Qualcomm Opens Its Mobile Chip Deep Learning Framework To All (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I am looking forward to the daily wft entries, such as this one where they do find the max element of an array using two heap-allocated arrays and a bubble sort

    https://what.thedailywtf.com/t...

  13. Re:In theory, yes. In practice, no. on AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv) · · Score: 2

    Funny but no. With https you can still see the target, so it would be easy to detect if someone opened a https connection to a server which the user newer visited.

    But the danger is not that Intel/AMD is going to spy on anyone, because neither company is THAT stupid. The danger is if there is a bug which allow third party code running on the computer, to interfere with the code running on the PSP.

  14. Re:rolling updates not twice-yearly ordeals on Fedora 26 Linux Distro Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What ordeal is that? You just start the upgrade which then download all needed packages. After that you just reboot your computer, and wait about an hour for the upgrade to finish. (Might be longer/shorter depending on number of packages installed, and if you have an ssd).

  15. Re:The Problem is Baby Boomer Logic on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? We are looking for developers, so got a website with a resume and some demo code we can see?

  16. Re:No chance for this Olde Pharte on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you thought about creating a website showing your work? (And creating an account here)

    We are looking for a ui gui to do some work(Long distance is ok) but we can't even contact you, or see your work
     

  17. Oh my god I hope not. We host our servers at aws, and I really hope they provide better reliability then Microsoft.

  18. She did not make it worse. She sold it for 6 billions $ more then it was worth when she took it.

    (If we talk value of yahoo, excluding the Alibaba stocks, which she had nothing to do with).

  19. Did they really run it that bad? on Marissa Mayer Will Make $186 Million on Yahoo's Sale To Verizon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they really run it that bad? I seems to remember that when she took over, the assets now sold for 4.8 billion, had a negative value. So maybe they did something right.

    Remember: They are not selling the "Alibaba" shares.

    Can anyone remember the value of Yahoo, without the Alibaba shares when she took over? I do think that the value she is selling for, is in fact larger then the initial value when she took over, but I could be wrong.
       

  20. Javascript is not THAT bad. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    Javascript is not THAT bad.

    (This lie is the only way, I can continue work).

  21. Re:Value of the open source ecosystem and communit on Linux Foundation Chief: Businesses 'Will Fail' If They Don't Use Open Source Code (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Gnome3 I can understand, but just use Kde instead.

    But how exactly did systemd and PulseAudio destroy usability for you? Personally I found they make my desktop system much better.

  22. I think they are making the chips smaller, but who really cares? (Remember: The package is far larger then the chip itself).

    This can best be seen in the Xeon chips, where they use their abilities to pack even more transistors into a cpu, to include more and more cores(They are up to 26 now, I think).

    They don't do it for consumer chips, because It's really difficult to sell a 8 core chip if each is even 10% slower then in the 4 core version, and there is very little consumer software to use that many cores.
     

  23. Would $45k not be considered an acceptable pay, for a straight out of collage programmer?
     

  24. Re:And the shift to Databases away from Oracle on Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Really? Got any benchmarks to show that? When I tested Oracle* as a single server database with direct attached storage, it was slower then PostgreSQL for most workload.

    *But the Oracle license prevent me from showing these benchmarks, and it was a few years ago. Things may have changed for the better with Oracle.

  25. They do it, because they think education is important, but often not funded enough.

    So they move money from "other areas" to Education.