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  1. Re:Like Coca Cola, git is the real thing on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    And why then does it say in all kind of manuals that you should not use rebash unless you know what you are doing!

    Because you shouldn't do anything without knowing what you're doing. That command is just unique-ish to git, so it requires a bit of special attention (you need to understand how the commit hashes work).

    Once you do though, merge conflicts are 100x easier to handle, commit history makes more sense, etc. There's cases where you don't want to use it (when you want to be able to trace branching history or if you're merging the branch back upstream multiple times), but for most use cases, rebase away!

  2. Re:Beware Rust, Go, and D. on Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    There really isn't a neat for that many languages, even though you need quite a few to cover all the relevant use cases.

    The biggest issue right now with languages though, is that you have language A, that specializes in a very particular use case. Then you have a group who wants A, but with an ecosystem and focus on another use case, so they create B. For a while, life is good, until zealots of A go and try to recreate A in ecosystem B, and vice versa. Then people need to create ecosystem and language C, and history repeat itself.

    Case in point: Ruby/rails plaguing every dynamic language they can.

  3. Re: Beware Rust, Go, and D. on Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    F# is a better functional language than Scala (and isn't plagued by shit like Scalaz and Akka. Also, even though Scala itself is an excellent language, the JVM underneath limits it in weird ways with issues the CLR doesn't have), and C# is better than Java (and in certain, limited cases, better than Scala).

    So the combination of both and the CLR, once it is fully cross platform and instrumentation/support ecosystem is available, would blow them out of the water. It probably won't happen because of the microsoft stigma though.

  4. Re:#1 Productivity Boost: No Distractions on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    All you want me to do is code all day long.

    Errr...no. Well, unless you're working for an outsourcing firm I guess. The coding part is trivial, and doesn't take that long. Figure out what to code, that's harder, and you're not going to do that right alone in your silo with a few hours per sprint of design sessions.

  5. Re:Noise levels are an issue on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I personally don't mind being tapped on the shoulder at all. But people blowing music, yapping on their cellphone next to you, and babbling about non-work related shit non-stop, thats just fucking annoying, and that also make me wipe out the noise cancelling headphones.

  6. Re:Quite simple on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Work Environment For Developers and IT? · · Score: 1

    No. You need people who have 2 bits of communication skills to be able to make clear arguments. There are ways to communicate without being a dick. If you just go being a prick as the only way to get your point across, you're just not that good.

    And yes, the irony isn't lost to me that I fall squarely in the category of people who aren't good enough to make my points properly. That doesn't mean there aren't people better than me at it.

  7. Re:Really? on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 1

    And this is why only a small tiny fraction of rapes ever end up with someone ending up in jail. "Your word vs hers", and without evidence, you can't throw someone in it. There's always going to be issues because our system is broken, mind you, but that doesn't mean you should just go and make it legal.

    In the same way here, if there's not enough evidence, so be it. But there's some people that literally flaunt about it. You can get enough evidence to stop THOSE at least.

  8. Re:Really? on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The implication here is more along the line of: "revenge porn is wrong, period. Some people may not feel like its an issue because they're guys and the victims are usually women".

  9. Re:probably legal outside of california on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 1

    The whole "what people do with the video" isn't the problem in itself. Its that a specific subset of usage of said video squarely fall into various categories of sexual harassment, extortion, etc. This wouldn't get prosecuted as a copyright case.

  10. Re:This is why piracy and boycotts matter... on Sony Buys, Shuts Down OnLive · · Score: 1

    Don't buy it but also don't use it. The dollar vote is how it should happen. But if you're pirating it, you're basically giving them ammos against you.

    You don't need games and movies to live. This isn't food. Play by the rules and screw them over at their own game until the rules change. If people just bypass the rules, then they end up looking like the bad guys, and there's not nearly as much incentive to change the rules themselves.

  11. Re:what about basic income and Health Care for all on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Many countries have that already. Not many countries have self driving cars.

    That being said, one of the biggest cause of unemployment is the inability to efficiently get people from where cheap housing exists and where jobs are plentiful, because generally jobs are in expensive areas.

    Better transportation options helps a lot with that.

  12. Re:Web developer headache? on Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build · · Score: 1

    Even IE11 isn't terrible. We have a pretty large web development team at work for our product, and being a Unix/Mac shop, its annoying to test IE (need VMs, etc). I'm pretty much the only person who consistently test it, and its very very rare people break something, even though they're only testing on latest Firefox and Chrome. Even IE10 doesn't break that often. IE9 however....that horse was dead a long time ago.

    Now, result may vary, if you use a lot of 3d transforms and bleeding edge features, even Firefox and Chrome are totally different. But having to support IE10 makes sure none of that gets in, and it makes things easier (the irony...).

    Companies that target only evergreen browsers and have all these new toys available to them are in for a world of pain, when IE becomes the least of your worries...

  13. Re:Not another new rendering "engine" on Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rendering HTML in the 90s was easy. Rendering html today, is really, really fucking hard (there was stuff added between the 90s and HTML5 you know...)

    There's 2 big issues.

    First, there's just a lot. The CSS3 spec alone would take forever to implement from scratch. Well, no one finished yet.

    Second, the spec is full of holes. FULL of holes. So people just lean on each other to figure out what to do. If you implement the spec exactly as is, you could still make something totaly useless, because you're not handling the undocumented edge cases the same way Firefox or Chrome do.

    At this point, pretty much no one can realistically write a browser rendering engine from scratch. Even Spartan isn't from scratch. They're just getting rid of the parts of Trident that are holding them back, but very much keeping big chunks of it.

    If all of a sudden, all rendering engines and their memories were to spontaneously go poof, but all existing web pages still remained as well as the html5 and related specs, it would be a very, very long time before we could browse the existing web again.

  14. Re:Web is a mess on Why You Should Choose Boring Technology · · Score: 1

    I had that discussion recently at work.

    The problem with the JavaScript scene, is that there's basically 2 communities.

    One community is actually doing javascript, and trying to find the best ways to go at it, improving on what has worked, using the strength of the language and building on top of it, etc. This is where things like Express, Kao, Babel, Lodash, Bluebird, Mocha, Browserify/WebPack/SystemJS, Aurelia, etc come from.

    Then there's the other group, who hates JavaScript, and is basically going: "Hey, pattern/framework XYZ has no equivalent in javascript yet!?! OMG! Why didn't anyone ever think of this????" and go and reimplement it. This is where AtScript/TypeScript/CoffeeScript, Ember, Angular 2.0 (specifically), all the bullshit classical OO stuff, and the 6 million libraries/hour come from.

    After a while, you get pretty good at automatically discarding the second group, and as long as you pick stuff from the first, things go relatively smoothly (at least as smoothly as they go in other languages...which means it still has some pain points)

  15. Re:Top 1 % on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that a lot of 1%er money never gets spent (and thus raise the price) to buy things you would. Unless you were in the market for a multi-billion dollar yacht, it doesn't really matter what Bill Gates, Buffet and Cook spend their money on.

    If everyone ends up with all their money and go to the grocery store with it instead....things won't stay rosy very long.

  16. Re:The last contractors I hired... on Amazon Launches 'Home Services' For Repair, Installation, and Other Work · · Score: 1

    Yeah, dealing with contractors feel like getting a job. It all ends up with a personal network and connections if you want anything good.

    I don't even care how much I pay, if there was any kind of correlation between price and quality of the work. But there isn't. The guy with a razor thin profit margin is often leagues better than the one who charges you twice as much for the same work. Once i find a good one, I just tip them an absurd amount to make sure they want to work for me again (especially for cheaper jobs. Professional painters are paid very little, and its not easy to get it done perfectly... A plumber can be another story, where some trivial jobs cost a fortune).

    At this point I just don't bother calling someone without a strong referal. It never works out,

  17. Re:Standardized pricing? Good luck with that. on Amazon Launches 'Home Services' For Repair, Installation, and Other Work · · Score: 2

    I'd expect them to just do it by zip code...And there's always going to be edge cases.

  18. Re:How sure are we... on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    its an hypothesis and a model attempting to explain some weird stuff we're observing. Its probably wrong, but its a starting point. A bit like the early earth centric models of the solar system originally (that actually ended up giving the correct results, even though they were wrong)

  19. Re:Just in tech? on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 5, Informative

    My wife and I have this discussion all the time (she's pretty rational).

    The thing is that in a lot of industries, and in tech in particular, salaries are negotiated. Sharks and more aggressive personalities always come up ahead with that.

    We saw it pretty straight when at one point, she applied for a job in the same department as me, for the same company (we wouldn't work together, but we shared the same department director).

    I have more experience than she does, but she has better credentials...roughly a wash. She interviewed a bit better than me. We got a similar initial offer (she got a HIGHER initial offer, and rightly so).

    Here's the catch: I refused mine initially. They came back with counter offers, we negotiated for a few days, and I came up way ahead (20%~ higher or so). Even KNOWING this, when my wife got her offer, she just took it as is, no negotiation whatsoever.

    Net result: she made about 10-15% less money than me even though she was more qualified.

    At the end of the day, hiring managers have budgets and they will try to pay as low as possible without hurting employee moral/retention, and they do expect some level of negotiation. If you take the first offer, you'll be paid less. And less "pushy" individuals are more likely to not negotiate.

    That's not the only reason for gender salary gaps, for sure. But its a FUCKING BIG ONE.

  20. Re:Loose the FTC on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 2

    And every time antitrust laws and Apple are mentionned, the regulators will look down at their iphone/ipad, think "No....we can't hurt my PRECIOUS!!" and look the other way.

  21. Re:RIP Internet on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    Yup. Net neutrality is a net loss, because the customer could benefit from having not-so-neutral features (ie: let say ISPs favored streaming instead of throttling it?)

    It was just better than the alternative in light of having so little competition. With proper competition, this would have solved itself.

  22. Re:LoL on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 2

    We could just import dehydrated water. I hear the transportation cost of water, once dehydrated, is minimal. Its an obvious solution.

  23. Re:From a simpler era on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    The primary issue with java applets at the same (if you assumed a world where it was preinstalled and where version management didn't matter, bringing it in line with JavaScript), was complexity and startup time.

    Doing something simple took too much code, and it took forever for a page with it to start. It would have to go in a very different direction than where it was going to have been different.

  24. Re:More important to me on Microsoft Says Free Windows 10 Upgrades For Pirates Will Be Unsupported · · Score: 1

    If you bought a PC with a legitimate version of Windows and you don't have a product key with it, you more or less got screwed.

    Even then, assuming again that its legitimate, you can recover the product key and reinstall with it from a vanilla disk. The OEM product keys have been legit for installing with any other ISO/disk for a long time now.

  25. Re:Oligopoly on Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids · · Score: 1

    Yup. And guess what license Uber Black drivers have?

    Oh, "But we were talking about UberX!!". That's an issue with these discussions....everyone seems to imply Uber ONLY does UberX. Hard to have a balanced discussion.