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  1. Medication for Common Cold? on The Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine That Science Says Doesn't Work (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I never take medication when I have a common cold. It just doesn't help. Is your throat sore? Just drink some tea. Is your nose stuck? blow it. It will get better in a day or two. Only if I get a headache I may take some Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen, but that's it.

  2. Magnets on Functioning Hoverboard Unveiled (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    If you use metal as surface (probably somehow magnetized), couldn't you just hover it with magnets? I mean, what's the big deal here?

  3. 500 bottles of wine on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    at 12% alcohol usually and a wine bottle being 75 cl, that's 45 Liters (11.88 gallons) of pure alcohol. Why this ridiculous comparison? How many beers is it?

  4. Re:Copy and Paste. on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Obviously you should have used the Factory Pattern in conjunction with the Strategy and Visitor Pattern. It would have been way more verbose, more complicated to read and probably a few cpu cycles slower per call, but you would have looked so much smarter :)

  5. it would already have been done. Obviously did not RTFA, but this probably has very bad efficiency and a lot of the power gets lost.

  6. Re:That's what a severance package is on Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They have to give you at least a couple of weeks notice depending on your seniority. If you've been working there for over 10 years, this adds up to almost a year and over. In case of massive lay-offs and sensitive jobs ( sales, IT, R&D , .. ) they will just put you on the street directly and pay out "the due wages" for those months. So yes, that could amount to a nice severance bonus, given that you find work soon thereafter since you're not allowed to collect unemployment while in the severance period.

  7. Re:While not an expert on Maybe You Don't Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a colleague who couldn't eat a warm lunch because he would otherwise fall asleep afterwards :)

  8. Unless they also built an effective parser and include lexical information, this is probably just is an n-gram generator. It doesn't matter how 'deep learning' the neural network, maximum entropy, or naive Bayesian is; you get out what you put in the model.

  9. Re:Shouldn't have been nessecary on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    Faculty of Science, department of Computer Science. But it's true there was an overlap with Faculty of Engineering, whereas the Bio Engineering (whom actually fall under Engineering) were mainly running around the Faculty of Science building :-)

  10. Re:Life is not a comic book on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is that they are exposed to conflict situations on a daily basis meaning the edge where the line is crossed is rather blurry.
    If they are charged because they had to cuff someone and the "victim" has bruised wrists, they are looking at a couple of charges a month.
    same thing with teachers and mistreatment of children. Parents can press charges for ridiculous reasons. If you as a teacher are exposed to helicopter moms who can't fathom that their precious snowflake still poops himself daily in kindergarten and goes home with an inflamed bottom, you can expect some drama for sure.
    Other people just aren't that exposed to these types of charges.

  11. but their commercials say it's for free thinkers? on Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
  12. Women Of OpenStack on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    The link goes to a blog post over a year old. Is this really an active group? If women want to go Open Source but don't like the current regime, they can just start new Open Source projects under their rules.

  13. Re:9 women can't make baby in 1 month on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    I've read the book a couple of years ago, and in my Software Engineering courses in college in the 90s, the same thing was said. Also 15 years in the industry and I've heard the line "If you can't make it on time, we'll add more people to the project" over and over again. Mostly by clueless Project Managers without a CS/SE background.

  14. 9 women can't make baby in 1 month on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    I think it's the same premise, but inverted. Management thinks the project will be finished faster if adding more man-power, but actually the inverse happens, it will be finished even later.
    A logical fallacy is not taking into account the complexity of a task. If one woman makes a baby in 9 months, 9 women should be able to make a baby in 1 month.

  15. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will get right to it after fixing the Patent System. Will keep you posted on further development!

  16. Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis is unproven on Tracing the Limits of Computation · · Score: 0

    The paper gives a "Proof By Contradiction" which would violate "The Strong Exponential time Hypothesis". However this Hypothesis itself is still unproven. Not that I hold any authority as to the validity of it all, though :)

  17. No Formulas Science ??? on Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science · · Score: 1

    Recalling my Physics and Chem classes in high school (not even mentioning Math here), you lost half the general population after v = s / t.
    Newtonian Physics is already too hard to grasp for most students (in general) except for the ones in Advanced Math/Science classes.
    Yes experiments are fun, but they just showcase the problem or the reaction. The actual understanding comes from deriving formulas and doing the actual paperwork. That's the biggest part of the actual science.
    This is like saying they should make English Litterature more fun by introducing more Comics.

  18. Re:May be not on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    /**
    @author your_most_hated_colleague
    */

  19. Apology Accepted! on Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    That settles it, Sir!

  20. Ubuntu always worked for me on laptops on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Reliable Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I currently run Ubuntu on an HP EliteBook and previously on an old slow Acer Aspire one and works very well on both. Easy to install, just boot with usb key and installs itself. Automatically installed the correct drivers for everything (actually, you can already test this with the usb boot key, since that will just boot you into Ubuntu). A lot of people don't like the Unity desktop, but I think it's fine. If you don't like the "bloated" Ubuntu distribution and Unity, you could give Xubuntu or Kubuntu a try.
    Basically most common distributions come with a bootable USB key live version, so you could just try out Mint, Red Hat, etc... as well.
    I would just go for any major laptop manufacturer, most Linux distributions are mature enough to work on them.

  21. Ads purposely deceptive, even on 'respectful' site on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 2

    I gave it some thought and although I agree up to some level (it's true that it's the sole source of income for many so at least non obtrusive ads could be allowed), even respectful news sites pushed the button too far. Ads disguised as real articles, video ads that just start playing and are hard to turn off or even locate (hey, I didn't ask to download 50 mb of HD video while visiting a page), pop-ups that block everything. These ads are served through broker services as well so most sites have little control on what is actually been served to the user.

  22. you'll be the API on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    and code will learn you.

  23. Isn't most Academia going private after their PhD? on Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge? · · Score: 1

    I find this a nonsensical question. Aren't most people basically at the end of their Academic career once they get their PhD? That means grant money ran out, so they need to look for a post-doc or a teaching position. Since there is only one professor or a few per research group, that just leaves no options for the others, even very bright ones once they reach 30-35 years of age.
    If a deep pockets company buys out the whole research group, that's something else. But even University research teams are smart enough to patent their own technology. And that's how Academia works, you build your research on top of that of others.

  24. Self-Driven Factory Carts on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    Many assembly factories (especially car factories) already have completely autonomous carts driving around specialized car parts. This allows the factory to use one line for every flavor or add-on of the car since the cart will bring that particular piece Just-In-Time the technician at that post needs it. This is probably much more complex that golf carts driving around a golf course.

  25. Re:It's a hard problem ... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    As a start-up billionaire, I'm sure you can find fellow start-up billionaires (or millionaires) to hang around with and maybe invest in some other ventures.
    He already managed to build up a very successful company which is a massive online game on different platforms. He probably had to pick his team very carefully from the foundation up; so he should be a good judge to which companies to invest in.