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  1. This is not an 'Excel' problem on The First Rule of Microsoft Excel -- Don't Tell Anyone You're Good at It (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    This is an amateur/professional problem.
    I Learned this lesson first in 1976 of 78 or so when an actuary wanted me to help him clean up, optimise, enhance a few 10's of thousands of lines for FORTRAN 4 he had written. Needless to say it did not go well.

  2. There is only one answer on How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? (github.com) · · Score: 1

    With great trepidation and a bottle of aquavit, and the obvious subconscious yearning for discipline ultimately resulting in years of medication augmented therapy.

  3. Oh FFS on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the homeless guy wakes to notice that it is suddenly comfortably warm in the shelter he built from cartons just before he realises that it actually on fire from a discarded fag end...

  4. Have I experienced ageism? on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, I have.

  5. This is a rhetorical question; right? on Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? (vortex.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google has a preference for channels that produce revenue and so mitigate the overhead of maintaining YouTube. Smaller channels cost more than the make so get passively discouraged.

  6. Slide rules Ha! on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure we had slide rules, I've still got three, but Us Real Geeks had an IBM 360 reference (green) card tucked behind our pocket protectors along with the assembly ref. Just for the cool factor you understand because we had them committed to our magical meat memories and analysed our core dumps easier than mortals could read a bus schedule.

  7. Congratulations on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are now ever so much more than a mere consumer you are now officially a commodity.

  8. Re:So? This is as it should be. on Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach · · Score: 1

    Flame bait? You lot have no sense of humour at all.

  9. Re:Meaningless comparison? on Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach · · Score: 2

    That's why, when capital gets overly concentrated and constrained the cooperative infrastructure on which it rests begins to collapse and we have increasingly chaotic socio-economic upheavals. The stability of the world financial markets is tenuous at best if not outright illusory.

  10. So? This is as it should be. on Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thems what pays more gets more and better. It has always been thus and so shall it always be.
    Complaining about it is for pinko pussies and the like. Get a real job pleb! Oh and fetch me a pillow for my feet while you're at it.

  11. old tech on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    The oldest I have used is a wedge, while producing fire wood.

  12. Re:"Spurious"? on Spurious Drones Buzzing Around Spanish Royal Palace · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you up, it they were spurious they wouldn't be actual drones and by definition unable to fly around doing drone stuff.

  13. interlacing on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    This is simple interlacing and is exactly how one optimises the number of sardines in a tin. People will not like being treated as cargo, no matter that they are. Besides it's harder to ignore the obnoxious person facing you that the one sitting next to you.

  14. Headline stolen from Newspaper Sunday suplement' on The Science of 4th of July Fireworks · · Score: 1

    Now I want to know how the science of 4th of July fireworks differs from the science of say New Years fireworks. I mean that is what I was expecting from the headline Exceptionally American 4th of July Fireworks Sciency Stuff please.

  15. Tony Abbot doesn't understand... on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Tony Abbot doesn't understand anything that isn't making him and his mates a lot of dosh RIGHT NOW!

  16. Well Duhhhhhh on Security Companies Accused of Exaggerating Iran's Cyberthreats Against the US · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's called marketing... Geeez

  17. Re:Buggy whip makers said automobiles aren't... on Lyft CEO: Self-Driving Cars Aren't the Future · · Score: 1

    Seeing that in a more sane world ~90% of the people operating motor vehicles would not be allowed to as they lack the ability to do so in a consistently safe manner I find your argument spurious and rather myopic.

  18. I believe... on The Poem That Passed the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    ..that quotes from 'The Random Depak Chopra Quote Generator' being indistinguishable from actual Depak Chopra quotes has achieved this already as a reflection of sub empirical quantum choices shows... Or is it that Depak Chopra cannot pass the Turing test and is actually a cleverly disguised TRS80.

  19. Re:Established science CANNOT BE QUESTIONED! on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes constant questioning is at the heart of scientific inquiry however deliberate obfuscation of established science for political and economic objectives is not scepticism but subterfuge.

  20. It's pretty much the same as insurance. on Ask Slashdot: Paying For Linux Support vs. Rolling Your Own? · · Score: 2

    Tis question is not exactly but largely analogous to the question : 'Do we self insure or purchase insurance'? The risk evaluation is complex and the answer is dependant on the a number of weighty factors not least of which is the amount of liquid assets available to address a catastrophic failure. Hire a risk analyst.

  21. Sensitive much? on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Whoop-tee shit! It's a stupid and desperate strategy precisely because most people will react as you did but nobody is trying to threaten or intimidate you, though they may be trying to shame or coerce you into engaging with your friends and neighbours in order to encourage them to engage in the political system. I think they are frustrated and grasping at straws because political discourse in the US has deteriorated to such an extent that the process has become mostly dysfunctional.

  22. This is America on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? · · Score: 1

    This is America! Be a good patriot/consumer and STFU! Corporation Banks and hedge funds are your betters and should be deferred to in all circumstances.

  23. twaddle on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    twaddle

  24. Very simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    My pocket knife.

  25. It's not like ... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 0

    We didn't see this coming. The future is here and it's not 'The Jetsons'.