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  1. Ds pivot left...two terms for Trump.

    It's all setup, but the Ds don't have to be dumb as rocks, despite the long tradition.

    One big problem is Hillary sucked all the oxygen from the Ds ecosystem for so long there are no viable candidates. If the Biden from the Onion was running he'd be their best choice, but he's a fictional character.

  2. It was called: 'Correct the Record'. They never denied it was them.

  3. This dude had better move his miner, or the FCC might send him another harshly worded letter.

  4. Re:Clinton Lost Because of Clinton on Facebook VP of Ads Criticised For Tweeting that Russian-bought Ads Had Not Been Designed to Sway the US Election (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You can't answer that question because you don't know the dirt that Hillary succeed in hiding.

    I bet that keeping those emails on her private server was the right choice, given that she has skated so far.

  5. Re:Libel on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    When did 60 minutes lose a libel case? Because they've been openly and notoriously deceptive editing interviews for decades.

    Their favorite trick is to change the questions, so the answers come off as incredibly weasley.

    They still have credibility, with morons, to this day. It's really amazing...

  6. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHA on Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Not disagreeing in principle. But omitting the left's fake news from your list makes you just another liar.

    Add NYTimes, McClatchy, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS to your list of useless crap. Still not complete, but sort of representative.

    Lets not forget to give 60 minutes a nod. For being the modern original american fake news. They were editing different questions in front of responses from their beginning. Got away with it for DECADES.

  7. Re:No on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    By 'card punches' I ment swiss army knives. The we used to cut holes in cards we made from recycled newspapers, while living in the middle of the road and eating ice cold poison from cracked plates.

    We took turns being the card reader, CPU and printer.

    If you tell that to kids today, they won't believe you.

  8. Re:Capacity planning may be problematic on Virgin Hyperloop One is Coming To India (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Where in your plan is there room for bureaucrats to take bribes for the available seats? This is India we're talking about, their basic economics are just different.

  9. Re:Top Secret diversity trade secrets - leaked lis on IBM Sues Microsoft's New Chief Diversity Officer To Protect Diversity Trade Secrets (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    So? Never breakup a circle jerk. Just excuse yourself and don't come back. Works for most indoctrination.

    He really should have known better. Kids these days lack cynicism.

  10. Knowing what IBM paid to make the charges go away will help MS negotiate with the likes of Jesse Jackson.

  11. MS can avoid overpaying Jesse Jackson by knowing what IBM's payoff amount was.

  12. Re:HR is not to blame on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the HR person will trash the wrong 80-90%

    HR should admin benes, bullshit complainers etc. In my experience they have, at multiple companies, repeatedly proven themselves to be incompetent at hiring techs/programmers/engineers.

    Sure personally filtering resumes sucks, but it's the only way to not throw away the good ones. If HR insists, shorten your keyword list, and deal with the stack.

  13. Re:One word: JavaScript on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 0

    You took 4 years to become a javascript monkey?

    I'm sorry...better luck next reincarnation.

  14. Re:SDE is Necessary? on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    What? Autocomplete and reflection from libraries/webmethods is a huge learning aid at all stages.

    As always: Languages are easy, libraries are hard. You should pick up languages in a week, after the first dozen. Libraries can be almost as fast, if you've seen it all before and don't have to memorize the new deckchair arrangements.

  15. Re:Hence all the foreign IT workers on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I need TP too.

  16. Re:No on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    C and at least 2 assemblers should always be among the first 5 languages. Otherwise it's too late, might as well only learn Java.

    Add a 'Lisp like' to the first 5 and you don't have much room for pure learning languages. Select carefully.

  17. Re:No on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Damn kids.

    When I was a kid, if we wanted to program anything, we started by getting an account, then we found our way to the card punches.

    Don't assume your single data point is all there ever was.

  18. You both got fucked by idiotic paper pushers. You by your 'recruiter' he by his HR drone.

    He hadn't seen your resume until the interview started. HR had assured him, they had prefiltered for qualified applicants (read: 'filtered _out_ all qualified applicants').

    HR is useless, recruiters are useless, but you know that. _All_ qualified applicants and good jobs are matched via the side door end runs around HR.

    Watch out for recruiters that want to use 'the back door', unless you're into that kind of thing... Some of those bastards will edit your resume (lying for you) before sending them out.

  19. Wait for the glass to get covered in resin. Once the spaceship glass looks like a bong, no problem. Should take about a week in the executive suite. Longer in the parts where they actually work.

  20. Re:Let's all remember... on Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Every democrat was all for Obama interfering with Israel's election. You don't get to rewrite recent history.

  21. Re:Grammar Here So Bad Can't Tell Who is Russian! on Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

    Reddit is that way. Don't come back.

  22. Re:AI assisted video editing would be next on Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a fucking second...you claim to know a reliable news source? Let me guess, your favorite echo chamber? (Fox or MSNBC/CNN?)

  23. Re:Melania Trump on Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That would have left you an even _bigger_ baby.

    The way to deal with a bully is _hurt_ them. You can lose the fight, but you have to hurt them. Goes for teachers too, just done in different ways.

  24. Re:WTF!? on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How that works: Everybody gets their money from the car behind, who add what they paid out to what they want from the next car back. Being involved raises your rates.

    Fucking lawyers.

  25. Re:Back to full fascism with the Dims on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They self identify as such. Trust them. If they can associate with such a murderous philosophy, believe them.