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  1. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Me too. But the human race most of all.

    Horses and dogs are cool, cats are a mixed bag, some are alright.

  2. They can't win by nominating a Casto loving red who has never worked an honest job in his life (Sanders).

  3. The only reason Trump was nominated was the R establishment saw this as a losing year.

    If anyone but Hillary had been running, they would have just put up an establishment candidate, and almost certainly lost in the general.

    Of course the Ds will take the exact WRONG lesson from this and pivot left. Giving Trump eight years.

  4. Re:Engineer != Software Programmer on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Code is a tool. Engineers know how to use tools.

    But don't expect to learn to code in Engineering school. You should have gotten that down in high school or before. I've never known a computer or electrical engineer that couldn't code at all. Some haven't in years, aren't great at it, prefer assembler etc, but they know how.

    Which doesn't make them 'coders' any more than a mechanical engineer that touches a lathe becomes a 'machinist'.

  5. Re:Alternate 'real world' experience on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Read his post...he's just a clueless PHB. They were good because they filled out TPS reports daily and did the wrong things he told them to do.

  6. Re: Engineers? on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Both mechanical, electrical and software systems are developed to higher standards to be 'man rated'. Not every bit of code needs to be that well tested.

    Engineers understand the difference, software developers might not.

  7. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Management are like dogs. You will never housetrain the ones that are used to shitting all over the place. You just have to move along ASAP.

  8. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't fix framing that is out of square once it's up. Somebody on the crew has to be clueful.

    If you want a _brain dead_ building trade, that would be 'painter'. Even there, the good ones can plaster flat as glass.

  9. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    I once told HR the reason I was leaving was that: 'You aren't paying me enough to take my advice, so I'm gone.' They needed an explanation.

  10. Running a fucked up version of BSD.

  11. Re:Good luck with that! on Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simple solution. Required genital tattoos with identifying numbers.

  12. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really simple, don't buy a HOA house. There are lots of non-HOA houses. But they are in older neighborhoods. Square streets, not subdivisions, big lots.

    If you use a buyer's realtor and they can't understand 'no HOA properties, at all, ever' fire them. They are a dime a dozen and you don't owe them a cent until you buy a house.

  13. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    A week...try a month.

    Throw away all your white socks and get all matching ones.

  14. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    More for me and cheaper.

    V10 or rat for the Fiat 850?..decisions...LS? So many good motors in the parts stream these days.

  15. Re:I have been wearing the same clothes for a week on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Turn your underwear inside out and you're good for another week.

    Don't go for the front/back swap, especially if a girl wearing buttfloss.

  16. Re: Don't buy this on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you using the gentle cycle when you wash the pets? Don't.

  17. Re:But will it kill bedbugs? on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    They laugh. Best bet is putting everything remotely fibrous and worth keeping into black plastic bags and leaving them in direct hot sun for at least a full day. Empty the space. You can't vacuum them up, you have to leave and starve them. Takes a week, bug bombs, professionals etc while you're gone, just so they won't invade your neighbors then come back.

    Better plan: When returning from travel. Always put all clothes worn and luggage through the black bags in the sun treatment before allowing them in the house. Don't forget the clothes on your back, but don't streak into the house, you'll traumatize the dog.

  18. Re: Seriously? on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Fruit with rinds/peels is better. Than you know you're throwing away the parts coworkers have touched. This is tech.

  19. iTunes.

  20. Re:Reminds me of the Pico Brewer on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At the time, my dishwasher wasn't up to it. Mostly about 'throat cultures' plus dry yeast in the bottles that had stood/laid around. Not much water goes up the neck of a bottle.

  21. Re:Seriously? on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying; I'd be advocating for a pony keg of microbrew (rotating flavors) on Fridays. _Much_ better value for money. Gotta watch the Balmer curve though.

    Perhaps along with a BBQ...grilling on coals anyhow...depending on just how much they are spending on $5/half cup juice, we might make whole/half hogs (depending on office size of course). You could make chicken for the vegans and other weirdos.

  22. Re:TED ideas = super obvious ideas on TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Your pretty dense aren't you? 99% of TEDx talks are just as the GP describes.

  23. Re:Anyone paying $400 for a juicer should be fired on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of these vegetable juices are too low in sugar to ferment anyhow. Russia is clearly not their target market.

  24. Re:I am so sick of this shit on Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Feeding them garbage is better than just cutting them off. It has to be turnkey.

  25. Re:Seriously? on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At the price they're charging for the bags, that's an easy $0.50/bag in waste. At about 800 bags you 'break even'.

    Of course a small hydraulic press from Harbor Freight (plus a fixture) would likely get out even more juice, for less than a quarter the price. But you'd have to pump that by hand.

    People that are concerned about price aren't this company's target audience. Everybody loves a chump.