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  1. its useful on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    i think linkedin is a very useful tool. I managed to find a lot of job offers there - and actually get hired via it several times -, and there are even some interesting stories here and there from groups that i follow.
    Much like any other social network, linedin is only as useful as you make it be.

  2. Re:Since when do languages have logos? on Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding (golang.org) · · Score: 1

    java, php, python, ruby, c++, and many others (even pascal) have logo's
    just because you don't see or use them often, doesn't mean there aren't

  3. Re:what the f- on Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding (golang.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    its not just a vector art. Its a piece of the identify of a brand, and how you should you use.
    that's how a proper brand guide should look like. I take it you never worked with one.

  4. unfair comparison with osx on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    he compared his new style with osx, but he seems to forget that osx has a window' menu bar on the top of the screen, which makes it easier for any application to be more fluid/integrated with the OS ui

  5. sorry i bored you on The Strange Art of Writing Release Notes (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    i am sorry i bored you with my stale and humourless release notes. I will try to insert a meme, witty comment, or try to remove herobrin next time. Who needs to maintain a serious tone when doing serious business, am i right ?

  6. lose-lose situation on Apple Fires Engineer After His Daughter's iPhone X Video Goes Viral (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    its one of those sad moments where everybody lose for no good reason.
    The employee lost his job, sure, but Apple loses what seems to be a good employee, has to deal with any information leak in the video, has to deal with morale issues with close colleagues in the fired employee department.
    Should Apple had ignored this incident and let the employee go with just a warning, that would set an awful precedent for the company, which would make any future incidents like this more likely/damaging.

    welp, if there is anything positive coming from this is that the kid -- and probably a lot of other kids -- are now familiarised with non-disclosure agreements.

  7. never seen it comming on Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Guy writes critical article of the main investor of the company, gets fired. News at 11.

  8. meat is not only meat on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Meat is more than just a combination of cells. Its the result of the how the animal from were it was cut lived and died.

    You have different cuts of meat, based on the muscle of the animal were its cut from. Depending on the animal, how it was raised, and how it was killed, a piece of meat can have different texture and flavour that the same cut from a different animal, raised in different environments.

  9. Re:Map with topo data showing volcanoes on Scientists Discover 91 Volcanoes Below Antarctic Ice Sheet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    funny enough, i was just casually talking about this ridge the other day
    it appears some friends of mine didnt knew about it, and its was very enlightening for them to know about it

  10. i agree that colleges are bad, but not because they are heaven for independent thinking like TFA mentions, but because to some degree you dont need them. We are told from a young age that we need higher education to be someone, to be successful, to be happy. But reality shows that we might not use what we learned in college for our job, that some university graduates eventually work in areas different than the one they graduated or in areas that require no graduation at all. We are neither successful, nor happy, not even someone of note. And this has created the current generation of depressed people who are still struggling to pay for their student debts, a debt they only got by studying something they dont use.

    We need to start valuing the common life again, that one can still be happy and successful while working at a diners, at petrol stations, as a farmer.

    But that would require a cultural shift that i believe most people wouldn't be inclined to.

  11. Re:profit on Net Neutrality is Not a Pirates' Fight Anymore (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    when i say "we already pay for internet access", i was including Netflix on that bundle. My criticism is that now ISP's want to charge for premium/priority bandwidth, which might put some companies out of the market if their competitors simply can pay more to have more priority.

    your explanation of the relationship between Netflix and cogent was enlightening, thank you.

  12. profit on Net Neutrality is Not a Pirates' Fight Anymore (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    now that they see the profit that they can get with the internet, everybody and their neighbour want a (bigger) share of it. Copyright holders are building their own netflix-esque apps. We already pay ISP's for internet access, now they want to charge the providers for additional bandwidth.

  13. Re:The JavaScript on most sites.. on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    you might not like javascript (i am not a fan either), but you can't deny its place in web development. It allow us to do a lot more client side than any alternative, and its finding some niches in server side as well. The only "problem" with javscript (and PHP for that matter) is that since its a easy to learn and use language, a lot of newbies with little knowledge of good practices use it in ways that more senior developers would cringe about. Everybody is a newbie at least once at everything they do in life, even you.

  14. Re:Percentage change on Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    this is why i hate statistics comparison. When you say "this country grew 50% while this other only grew 1%" can mean a lot of difference. If the first country is Sealand, that means a baby was born, while if it was china, that would mean 14 million

  15. Re:Updated video links on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    why link to re-uploads from 3rd-parties when TFA has a link to the original video from LWT on youtube ?

  16. Well d'uh on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    You have utm_medium=feed on the link, so i believe you know how many read news using some sort of rss feed.

  17. localized grading on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    perhaps the solution on imdb's side is to localize the grades of movies. What one country sees as shit can be a mastercraft in another.
    GitS for example, is being dowgraded to heck in the west by SJW claiming 'whitewash', but praised in the Asian market.

  18. in brazil you have the option to create a `boleto` (a barcoded invoice) for your purchase. Its only approved after you pay that boleto in your bank, lottery house, or supermarket. Its handy for everybody, those with our without credit cards.

  19. prisioner dillema case on Bidding Website Rentberry May Be the Startup of Your Nightmares (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    in the future, this company can be used to example the prisioner's dilema in a real life situation. If no one uses this application, it will fail and the life of everybody renting a place will be better (status quo), but should someone use the application, and others follow, everyone's life will be made difficult.

  20. instead of making one circular runaway - which is difficult for the pilots to use -, make 12 runaways in the shape of a dodecagon, or 16 in the shape of a hexadecagon. You'd have the advantage of being able to take of/land from mostly any wind direction, while still having a straight runaway for the pilot to use. And you would always have two working runaways all the time.

  21. "international" space station ? on No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    why not create a UN body responsible for it and allow all mankind to use it and pay for its maintenance ?
    it would be a lot better than de-orbit it and let russia/china have to invest money to build their own from scratch.

  22. being useless to you doesn't mean its useless for others.

    Imagine this being used in convention centers, where one could print the daily schedule on a sheet of paper that was reused from a previous convention.
    This used in mass to handle today's sermon and lyrics to the churchgoers, and then have the flyer be reused on the next day for a different sermon.
    This used internally in companies to share confidential information among employees.
    This used in hospitals, to print the information of a short-term patient.

    There are plenty of uses. You are just thinking about your needs.

  23. Re:Brazilians know that sound on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    this is one of the few times where a big business trully has the right to trademark a simple sound.

  24. what can possibly go wrong ? on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    just this week news broke that several millions bees dies because of pesticides aimed at zika-bearing mosquitos. Imagine that on a global level, with unknown consequences to other species of animals

  25. Re:old, but gold on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    storage is up to half a tera. If i wanted more i could simply use some external drives, but meh
    battery life is really an issue. If it's not plugged to the wall it wont work :/