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  1. I don't think you would know a good programmer if you met one.

    I don't think you _are_ a good programmer. 99% of non-coders can't tell the diff.

  2. Should Julliard also accept students that will go on to 'develop interest later' or should they continue to only accept people that play instruments?

    Computers are everywhere today. Sure the 'coder market' in 1970 was different.

    Face the fact: You learned much quicker when you were younger, everybody does.

  3. Everybody's happy!

  4. Drinkypoo. You need to get out more. 24x7 /. trolling is making you even _more_ stupid and insane.

  5. If you didn't learn 6502 assembler, you are lame.

  6. Re:Not stupid. Evil. on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Might want to check the political affiliation of 'Tipper Gore'.

    There has long been 'puritans' in both political parties.

  7. You claim HS isn't basically tribal and dominated by the large dumb groups (like social media)?

  8. WTF? You answer with relevant unsupported claims.

    1. If you have a future in CS/EE you have learned three or more languages by the end of HS working on projects, for fun.

    2. Bullshit. Learning about computers in HS is a very male dominated demographic. It's considered a problem by all the usual suspects.

    3. Bullshit. That was the exact claim in TFA in the last 'teach everyone to code' article that I actually read/skimmed.

    I will continue to ask 'what languages did you know when you started college' as an interview goto question.

  9. The last place IRL where everybody's opinion mattered is high school. Which is typically a very dysfunctional place run my large groups of morons and future losers.

    It's not surprising, at all, that facebook etc are like _middle_ school.

    Neither HS nor MS are anon, but the shit was thick, just like social media. The problem is morons form packs. Most adults know better, but when it's anon there is no cost, which brings out their inner middle schoolers.

  10. Those of us that say 'If you don't know at least three programming languages by the end of high school, CS/EE is not for you.' are called elitist, sexist pigs for our effort.

    The current PC claim is: 'Learning in college is so much faster than geeks self training, what you know at the end of HS doesn't matter.' Nobody really believes it, but it's the derp.

  11. WTF?

    Linus is known for rudely telling off people that needed to go away and stop bothering him. Like a 'gentleman', he is never rude by accident. He doesn't start there, just ends there.

  12. Re:Collectivists took over Universities. on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    It's a religion. Dumber than average.

  13. Re:Best news ever on New Male Birth Control Pill Succeeds In Preliminary Testing (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Allowing either parent to have a fourth trimester abortion is the best solution!

  14. Re:Ditto Taco Bell on Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Taco bell serves Old Roy brand wet 'beef' dog food as beef. Or at least something that smells _exactly_ the same (plus the smell of taco bell meat spice).

    It was sort of a 'guilty pleasure'. Then I went there after feeding my dogs those cans, the smell of dog food hit me in the face as I walked in. Now I can't eat it, even if I wanted to.

  15. Re:Unless it was guillotined... on Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Prions survive cooking. Good thing everything else in your post is also wrong.

  16. When I was a kid a local arcade sold 'get six free tokens/visit' cards for $10. Thinking kids would get six tokens than spend more money.

    My friend went right by the arcade on his way to school. We threw in and bought him about 10 cards. Soon he had ALL the arcades tokens, they had to buy more.

    Those same tokens worked at another arcade that had better games too. It was sweet.

  17. Almost all electronic locks contain an old school relay and will pop open if a strong magnet is put in the right spot, no logging. _All_ the chinesium ones will.

    Test it.

    Sure you're not a crook, but do you think they don't know?

  18. Dark and lonely on the summer night.
    Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
    Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
    Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
    Slip in his window,
    Break his neck!
    Then his house
    I start to wreck!
    Got no reason --
    What the heck!
    Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
    C-I-L-L ...
    My land - lord ...

    By: Tyrone Greene

  19. Re:Length verification on Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) · · Score: 1

    Grip...rated by the size and weight of the ball she can 'hold' through a jumping jack.

    Most will claim pachinko, but deliver pingpong.

  20. Re:Stuff like this is silly ... on Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) · · Score: 1

    What the world needs in online blind dates that take place in total and complete darkness.

    Beware that the 'girl' doesn't need a shave.

  21. Re:"passed its law" on Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The conductivity of the material doesn't effect eddy currents in your conceptual universe?

    You need to retake fields, or take it for the first time. If you've never taken it, you should shut up now.

  22. Re:Fear of regulator on Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They should decide if they are 'common carriers' and just run 'wires' or if they control speech on their platform.

    If they control it, they are liable for _all_ of it.

  23. The internet is a lot of hardware. It belongs to the owners of the hardware and is governed by the laws of the nation where the hardware sits.

    Many nations choose to have 'great firewalls' and censor the relatively open internet 'homed' in the USA. That's their problem, we can and should ignore their rules. What is the EU going to do about it? Stomp their feet?

  24. Re: So? Anormalities are not excuses. on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your not my lawyer. Fuckoff.

    FYI my last 'ticket' was decades ago. My lawyer got it dismissed as a 'defective speedometer' fix it ticket. 110 in a 25. You should have seen the cops face.

    It was expensive, DAs aren't cheap.

  25. Re:Arms race on Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your claim is the jews were shooting unguided rockets at the Germans and were righteously killed? Nazi!