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  1. Re:Time for you to move into management on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked with an incompetent who consistently ended up with string concatenation operators in his result strings...Atul?

    With an IDE that color coded the literals to help with quote matching.

    Again and again. I think he just changed things until it compiled, then got real confused.

  2. Re:"Did you even test this??!!!" on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Local and connected logs. Local logs will contain all the errors, database only when connectivity is still good.

    Why rotating? As you say it's trivial space.

  3. Re: Arrogant Asshat on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously arguing against error logs or are you just confused about where they reside?

    For the record: Logging errors locally and to currently connected database is typical. Automatically sending errors to the application vendor isn't, having a way to send them in is, even if it's as simple as clicking 'send' on a dialog.

  4. We will ship no code, until it compiles AND links.

    I worked there. It was on the business cards. Even the customers had senses of humor. Grew into a hellhole.

  5. Re:Insult no programmer wants to hear: on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    'Our product would get a failing grade in an undergraduate data structures course.'

    Said to the Chinese PhD who 'designed' it.

    He fixed the problem by adding indexes all the tables. Typically on 50 character text fields that contained an unicode representation of the long int id from a joined table, but there were exceptions... He had inherited the design skeleton, which wasn't insane, just very simple.

    I know better now. The trick would have been to find someone with a PhD in data structures that spoke Cantonese to explain it to him with all the appropriate 'face saving' verbal flourishes. Not my almost German: 'I'll be blunt with you, in private, because I DO respect you...'

    The truth is: I don't respect people who can't handle a blunt criticism, still don't. But now look out for the big babies.

  6. Re:Time for a new job on Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    'Torture' doesn't work because it results in false confessions and bad data. Anything to make it stop.

    But there are many 'enhanced interrogation techniques' that do, most of which have been redefined as 'torture'. Keeping someone awake for 4 days and playing good cop/bad cop works 100% of the time. They actually think the good cop is their friend by then, someone with no sleep for 4 days has the mental capacity of a toddler.

  7. When the Secretary of State says it's not secret.. on Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President (msnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That means that it is not secret.

    References:
    Hillary Clinton's apologists (she knows better than telling her own lies).

  8. Re:WHY IS THIS HERE????! on Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Acid while someone is fucking with you and has the resources to construct an 'acid nightmare house'?

    Tripping balls while undergoing the 'Ludovico technique'?

    Sounds almost as bad as being locked into an EDM festival sober. But whatever works for you.

  9. Re:WHY IS THIS HERE????! on Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They always had other methods. Sleep deprivation is a time tested way to get the truth out of anybody. But it takes 3 or 4 days.

    And the 'bunched pantie brigade' have declared it torture as well, so not much gained, might as well just get out the battery charger.

  10. Re:*TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Your explanation doesn't match the data. Explain doctors, their demographic shift and why that is different...IMHO women as a group are more focused on prestige positions, reflecting their more social nature.

    Girls get tits and figure out that they can get men/boys to do much of the hard, ugly and dirty work, which includes STEM. I've seen a girl go from changing alternators herself to being 'incapable'* of changing a flat tire, because she figured out how to get someone to do it for her. Then go back to fixing things for herself when she got old and the tit shaking thing stopped working.

    The appearance of women in STEM runs the same range as generally sedentary women in general. Dykes and straight butches are over-represented (especially among the competent) but are not the only women in STEM.

    * Unless there was nobody there to help, then she miraculously remembered.

  11. Re:It's been a while since I was a CS student. on Top US Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Skip Cybersecurity Classes (darkreading.com) · · Score: 2

    So basically you're saying 99% of people studying CS should be studying something else?

    CS has expanded beyond it's math roots. Not all CS even comes out of math departments. Some CS is taught out of the business school (spit). Never hire those people.

    If you want to complain about CS majors who program, you should contrast them with CS majors who don't...that is one useless bunch of air thieves.

    IMHO you should get a pretty good handle on programming with self study in high school or before, if you want to study CS, CompE, EE or any science that will require you to use a computer.

  12. Re:*TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The data shows a bend in the curve. There are various possible biological/social explanations. But the data is clear.

    When girls get tits, they apparently forget how to do math.

  13. Re:Scaring The Others Into Better Security? on Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach (wptavern.com) · · Score: 1

    There are other forms of 'transparency', but this qualifies. All data is subject to manipulation. This data should not be accepted at face value, but no data should.

  14. Re:Seattle has the same issue on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Send them to the middle of nowhere 100 miles east where they won't be bothering anyone.

    Stockton? They will just get on the bus or hitchhike back.

    Send the to Salt Lake City. So they fear the cops and getting caught.

  15. Re:Not exactly on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    It was political to raid the SS trust fund for all the decades it went on.

    It is now political to point out that the trust fund is empty and money will have to be spent from the general fund.

    So what? Federal bonds in the SS trust fund are just the federal government righting IOUs to itself. Any insurance company that did similar would have responsible corporate officers _arrested_.

    Even if the IOUs are good as gold, they still have to be PAID. It's never a choice to end a Ponzi scheme.

  16. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    California is in deep trouble BECAUSE of it's last budget surplus. Spending only goes up in good times, never ever down. That would be putting starving children on the street.

  17. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Your poor freeze or move south every winter. Duh.

    Climate prevents 'urban camping'. Barrow Alaska doesn't have a bum problem ether.

  18. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    How long did they hold that gold? 'Speculation' has a definition...

  19. Re: Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    If S Cal ever gave up on taking N Cal's water and the cities just got together things would be just as you describe in CA. But even SF knows it can't turn it's back on LA when it comes to water.

    Even as it is, the 'west of the coast range' vs 'everyone else' fight almost always goes to 'west of the coast range'. Specifically San Diego, LA and SF for those who want to get pedantic about mountain range names.

  20. Re:Scaring The Others Into Better Security? on Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach (wptavern.com) · · Score: 1

    It clearly did in this case, not the first time ether.

  21. I know he was a 'boozy beggar, who could drink you under that table', is there anything else?

  22. Re:What we need on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You could make that pinball machine sound like it was cumming. It was more than a little weird.

  23. Re: *TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Masters of Residential Science.

    The good thing about that, is you can talk right in front of them and they don't get it.

  24. Re: *TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Until they flunk out. Gender studies isn't exactly a challenging program. Unless regurgitating the profs prejudices is a challenge to you.

  25. Re:*TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Test show _girls_ have similar aptitudes and interest in STEM. Than puberty happens and they no longer do. You are not entitled to make up 'facts'.