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  1. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It had to have cost a fortune.

  2. Why the comment from the fake news outlet? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anybody care what some partisan hack from the NYTimes says? They have no credibility left, spent it all trying to get the bitch elected.

  3. It's always selective.

    It is the responsibility of the part of government controlled by the 'other side'. Always.

    For example: You give Obama a pass, but no doubt blame Reagan for all the budgets passed by Tip and give Clinton credit for the last 8 years of the 'Reagan boom'.

  4. His dad funded it. I have to say: 'nice job rearranging the wealth pushover nerds'. I hope you extracted maximum value from the coked up fool and did fuckall work for it. The nerds should have used the place as a resume builder. With no functional management you just select your next job skill and justify why the company needs to pay you for a six month learning project.

    Mismanaged companies are opportunities, just require the right attitude and no loyalty.

  5. The amount of malware served up as advertising makes it completely ethical to block ads and just stay a technical step ahead of their 'ad block detector vans'.

    Fuck 'em all, right in the ear. 'What they think' doesn't matter.

  6. Re:Don't work at a place like this on Story Of a Founder Who Burned Through $21M While His Social App Fling Crashed (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Working as a 'coder' is not the same as 'coding' as _part_ of your job.

    Writing code is a required skill. But working as a straight coder is for 2 year degree people who barely know how.

  7. Re:Too late on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    Pick up an instrument/compiler/(anything requiring dedication and time to 'master') anytime you want. But understand the 'self selection' happened decade(s) ago. You don't learn now, like you did at 10, nobody does (obvious exception).

    The kind of person that waits till age 2$ to start, is very unlikely to get good enough for public exposure. It happens, raised Amish and never saw a computer, or raised Baptist and not allowed to dance etc. Rare exceptions, people take to 'it' like ducks to water, first chance.

    I can't put on toe shoes and ever perform non-cringe worthy ballet...HornWumpus performs 'Wrenched Back and Spasm, Crawling to Liquor', improvised modern dance. Some might laugh, but the dancers would just shake their heads and walk away, perhaps render first aid.

  8. Re:So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    Until they start, they are _all_ asshole fascists.

  9. Re:Already saw them 70 years ago on Uber Hires a Nasa Veteran Who Thinks We'll Start Seeing Flying Cars In Next Three Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of overpopulated hell hole do you live in?

  10. Even at the dawn of PC time, some systems (Apple II) supported analog joysticks. Early consoles were lucky to have 8 position 'joy sticks'.

  11. The correct term is 'clitmouse'.

    Like their namesake, they can be tricky to get the most of, but work great once you get the hang of them.

  12. Re:Too late on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    The difference being what drove you to learn to code. If you haven't learned to code by the end of high school, give it up. You have the same chance of being a good coder as someone picking up a violin at the same age has of playing in a major symphony.

  13. What are Uber and Google rivals at?

    Insane valuations? Winner Uber...

    Data mining users? Winner Google...

    I don't really get it. Taxi company vs. Ad agency. Not rivals, almost certainly use each other's services.

  14. Re:Too late on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 0

    Not so much that he can't. It's that he won't.

    He didn't have the time or motivation when young (and bored), he won't find it now (working, chasing skirts etc...busy). The only thing that has changed is money, 99% of people that learn to code for 'money' are 99% worthless.

  15. Re:this happens in most mature markets on 'The End Of The Level Playing Field' (avc.com) · · Score: 1

    Be fair, it ran a network stack just fine, it just didn't come from MS.

  16. Socialism was tried and failed, 80 years ago. Command economies produce police states, just a fact.

    Mixed economies, as capitalist as possible, are the new thing. Tuning the details is what's needed. Functioning markets wherever possible, Multiple, regulated nonprofits everywhere else.

  17. Re:Purpose of sleep is to forget? on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's to make those members of the opposite sex that are attracted to you, attractive enough to you, while you are still sober enough to be any use to them.

    Like all important things, it's about balance.

  18. Re:GoDaddy's location in the Seattle area... on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That kind of place doesn't need good programmers (not many anyhow).

    They need digital janitors that can fog a mirror (and that's OK, C students need jobs too).

    Of course those same students will mostly be unemployable after 10 years at GoDaddy. Sucks to be them.

  19. Socialists are reactionaries who want to return to the broken economics of the 1930s.

    'Progressives' want to continue tuning the mixed economy. Removing some of the excess regulation imposed on capitalism during the last 50 years, so it can continue to make progress.

  20. Re:I for one welcome our new Robo-Taxi overlords on Airbus Is About To Build A Self-Flying Electric Robo-Taxi (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    PHB is that you?

    Everything you don't understand is NOT easy.

  21. Re:Rotary wings are not very energy efficient. on Airbus Is About To Build A Self-Flying Electric Robo-Taxi (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Then buy a Slow Stick with a modern gyro stabilized receiver and realize that RC aircraft (at the easy end of the market) are just as easy to fly and crash resilient as quads, and a whole lot more fun and versatile.

    Adding FPV is similar. Save you from having to learn all the mental control reversals for orientation of the aircraft.

    Quads have lots of uses and are cool to play with, but right now they are having a 'late 1970s CB radio' phase.

  22. Nobody but right wing partisans believed Fox was anything but propaganda. Fox didn't even bother hiding their nature. Further they were behind the standard RNC message. This election didn't go their way either.

    Some people (admittedly mostly morons) still believed the NY Times etc was straight news, until this election cycle. At this point if anyone still believes it, they are as far gone as any 'only Fox news' watcher. The MSM didn't even bother hiding their nature this cycle. Being convinced the bitch would win and they would have at least 4 years of 'first question' to rehabilitate their reputations. Ha ha on them. Propagandists they are.

    MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NYTimes, Wash Post are clearly as bad as Fox ever has been.

  23. Re:Yet another scale model or a real prototype ? on Airbus Is About To Build A Self-Flying Electric Robo-Taxi (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    There have been several commercial attempts at flying cars.

    They fail because they are bad, crazy expensive, cars _and_ bad, terribly performing, airplanes. The problem is the definition of 'flying car' is nebulous. A helicopter is, in a sense, a flying car.

    Making something that's both road and air worthy and not more expensive than an airplane/helicopter and two or three cars is a big challenge. Could be impossible.

    If by 'flying car' they mean 'vertical takeoff air vehicle' that's a helicopter.

  24. You get it. Fox IS just like CNN, the NYT, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera, Wash Post, Mcclatchy papers etc etc. Open propaganda outlets with obvious and notorious bias.

  25. Your proposed solution for a media with it's nose up the governments butt is 'more government'?