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  1. I'd have to see the query plan, a 3k char query is either an act of genius or idiocy. The plan will tell, if it contains words to the effect of 'temp table' the whole thing is sure to be idiocy.

    The genius option is the query is really a stored procedure and some SQL admin thought they owned the server.

  2. That truck's purpose is to roost mud all over the hippies in the Sierra. Any cargo hauling it does is a pure bonus.

  3. Re:the best way to lie to the public is to use % on Electric Vehicles Can Meet Drivers' Needs Enough To Replace 90 Percent of Vehicles Now On The Road (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Second and later cars are cheap to keep. $10 month for insurance, registration will vary, but cheap cars are generally cheap to register.

    Very little maintenance required for a weekend driver.

    I don't live in a rat warren, parking is no problem.

    Muscle car, econo car, classic car and 4x4. All I need is an exotic and the collection is 'complete' (not really).

  4. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    'Well factored' is, to an extent, a matter of opinion.

    I tend to favor more complex key objects, with methods that look like procedural code. Others seem to like no methods with more than 4 lines.

  5. Re:nano-penny efficient or $1,000 efficient? on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Local function call != Context switch.

    Still has overhead, but nothing like a context switch.

  6. emails? on Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody got an email address for the London mayor's office? MOPAC? Any of these wankers?

    I want to make their first investigation an easy one.

  7. I just sent a set of Trucknutz to Germany with my cousin, for a coworker of his girlfriends.

    They are hanging from a set of those tiny trailer hitches common on eurocars.

    I would have broken the bread and gotten the set that hooks to the blinkers, but I suspect he won't leave them on for long.

  8. Sure, good power on your toys, but boring daily driver.

    My 4x4 is bone stock drivetrain too, just no need for power (beyond the big V8) in the hills.

    351s with roller cams are pretty easy to find in the junkyards today. I'm pretty much maxed out on the 302, anything more and the reliability goes to shit. But 400 hp is a reasonably good power level, still very driveable, not like it's trying to kill me.

  9. He's not part of the problem. He drives econo boxes.

    I'm the problem, 400+ ponies, race tuned daily driver, cats safely stored in the garage.

  10. Get a better IDE. They scroll right and left just fine.

    You might also consider breaking your functions into smaller chunks.

  11. Re:Twitter is pro-Free Speech ? REALLY ?? on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    How many millions more have to die before we flush marxism?

  12. Re:Twitter is pro-Free Speech ? REALLY ?? on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude the Nazis expropriated whole industries. They were much more than socialist in name only.

    You have bought the post WWII Soviet propaganda that the Nazis were right wing. In fact the Communists and Nazis were fighting over the same ideological ground and started as allies.

  13. Re: DNC cyber security. on DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Airport tarmacs aren't very public. He did, in fact, get away with it. No witnesses, can't prove anything.

    There was no paper trail, do you believe that was a coincidence?

  14. Re:Short variable names on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I once worked on a project with a global array named 'aLocalArray'. It would have been better if they had just named it 'Ass'.

  15. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The correct disparaging term for an OO mess is 'Object onion'.

  16. 'Extreme indentation' might have been an issue when we all used punched cards. But today? Any flow control statement SHOULD be easily found by looking at the change of indentation.

  17. Re: DNC cyber security. on DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    Unscheduled and unplanned. He almost got away with it, clearly they intended to do it on the sly. SOP

  18. Once you get down to microcode everything is 'load program counter'. Doesn't mean 'load program counter' belongs in a high level language.

  19. DNC cyber security. on DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just never write down any dirt.

    See also: Bill Clinton's meeting on the tarmac. That's how serious dirt is done.

  20. Should be 'off topic' or 'troll'. Not redundant though.

  21. Green means quick look left, right then go. Saved me from being t-boned at least twice. I'm still leaving before most snoozers and pass the ones that start ahead of me before we cross the intersection.

  22. Re:That only works if you can afford it though on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If the mortgage payment is more than the savings on electricity DON'T INSTALL THE PANELS. Duh.

  23. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The liquids are in two states, energized or not. Two tanks or one tank with a moving divider.

  24. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Who will be a very well trained, experienced and certified driver because of the extra hazards involved with hauling a tank that big. Even if the tank didn't contain flammables.

  25. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But now you know the difference?