Slashdot has become an echo chamber favoring this odd kind of American leftism where victimhood is an object of worship and personal responsibility is the name of Satan.
If there had been tax dollars, it would've happened 30 years ago.
The original design for BART was to form a circle around the San Francisco Bay Area. But the residents of San Mateo County declined to have BART go through their neighborhoods, citing quality of life issues. So the BART circle never got built. Building the BART extension to the South Bay 30 years later requires significantly more tax dollars than originally estimated.
I know... do they really expect the system to last forever?
The B-52 bomber is still going strong after 60 years. It will probably serve another 40 years if the Pentagon R&D department can't figure out how to build a replacement bomber that works.
The 2016 electoral map is identical to 2012 electoral map. That means Donald Trump has to do better than Mitt Romney, who only got 27% of the Latino vote. Trump — and the Republican Party in general — is on the losing end of the demographic vote. They need Latino voters but calling them rapists and threatening to deport them isn't helping.
You dodged a bullet. I just hope you have a decent job now.
The internship was 20 years ago. I didn't dodge the Great Recession, where I was out of work for two years, underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. I'm in my second year of government IT and the prime contract is fully funded for the next three years.
If he's got the delegates, he'll throw the GOP establishment enough of a bone to make it worth their while not to give the nomination to someone else.
You don't understand how the math works on the Republican. Trump will have less than 51% of the delegates to win the nomination outright. Even if he did make a deal for the nomination, he will need 70% of the white male vote to overcome the independents and minority voters for Hillary. Reagan and Bush I won 63%, Bush II and Mitt Romney won 62%, respectively, of the white male vote. Trump isn't getting 70% of the white male vote in the general election.
Hillary, on the other hand... every time Sanders wins a primary it seems her lead increases. So much for the "Democratic" party.
You don't understand how the math works on the Democratic side. After Super Tuesday, Bernie had to win every election thereafter with 60% of the votes. He's not doing that and falling behind. Hillary will have 51% of the delegates to win the nomination outright.
I'm using a Python-based static website generator for my website. No more MySQL or PHP attacks from hackers in Russia and Asia. Being able to load web pages in three seconds is also a nice bonus.
They absolutely were. "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." That's the limit on government. They're ignoring the limit. It couldn't be any more obvious.
The Supreme Court also denies THE PEOPLE their First Amendment right by barring protesters from their plaza. Meanwhile, they deny abortion clinics the same protest free zone because it infringes on the First Amendment right of anti-abortion protesters. Hypocrites.
And got 33,000 signatures from other anti-gunners to do what now?
When the Republican Establishment steals the nomination from Donald Trump, some people will express their First Amendment right by exercising their Second Amendment right to shoot up the place.
This should be an interesting social experiment. I'm sure the Trump supporters will be carrying bazookas just in case the Establishment tries to steal the nomination and gives it to someone else. Burn, baby, burn!
I know how to use a hammer, therefore everything is a nail.
As someone who worked 20+ years in Silicon Valley from software testing to help desk to computer security, the hammer as a solution to all my problems is one of my greatest weakness. I'm constantly asking myself how I can do my job better to avoid using the hammer, especially when the hammer have proven itself to be less effective over time. Most people don't want to change, keep hammering away at the problems, and wonder why they're making less money.
With any other language, since roughly the 1950s, standard practice has been to test code, often in two or three steps, THEN deploy it to production after your developers and your QA team have signed off on it.
As a Software QA test intern, I found a crash bug on the test server that I could easily reproduced 100% of the time. My manager could not no matter how many times I showed him how to do so. Since he couldn't reproduce it all, he signed off the update to the production servers. The bug crashed the production servers immediately. The engineers discovered a deep flaw in the code, pulled the production servers offline for three days, and the company lost $250K in revenues. My internship wasn't renewed and I wasn't hired full time (much to the disappointment of my manager). One-third of the staff got laid off a month after I left so the company could recover the lost revenues. That started a death spiral for the project.
With Javascript and node.js, you declare the name of some external package you'll use and it constantly fetches the newest version, with the newest bugs, directly onto production.
The copy-and-paste script kiddies haven't figured out that they need to host local copies of those files with their program files or on a CDN.
[...] Asteroids, Centipede, Pitfall, and Pong [...]
Pitfall wasn't an Atari title, it was an Activision title. Not sure why it got included in this list.
Atari Vault only includes games created by the company. Classic 2600 games from companies like Activision, Namco, Parker Brothers, and others aren't here, including Berzerk, Empire Strikes Back, Frogger, Joust, Pitfall, Q-Bert, and Pole Position.
Perhaps she was Indian by birth but Thai by ancestry?
Not sure how she came about the last name. Intuit had her stuffed into a small conference with 30 other Indians. They're all talking to each other while working on their laptops, which help desk couldn't fix because they were personal laptops. Their boss was a big guy in the center of the room who talked over them on a conference call. Weirdest scene I've ever seen in Corporate America. That was in 2004 or so.
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Slashdot has become an echo chamber favoring this odd kind of American leftism where victimhood is an object of worship and personal responsibility is the name of Satan.
Fox News called and wants their trolls back.
If there had been tax dollars, it would've happened 30 years ago.
The original design for BART was to form a circle around the San Francisco Bay Area. But the residents of San Mateo County declined to have BART go through their neighborhoods, citing quality of life issues. So the BART circle never got built. Building the BART extension to the South Bay 30 years later requires significantly more tax dollars than originally estimated.
those B-52's are far from originals. new engines, new avionics and most of them had air-frames rebuilt because it was worn out.
That's what need to happen to BART if the existing system is to continue.
the only original thing about them is the name and the shape
If the B-52 navigational computer reboots in mid-flight, the pilots can break out the slide ruler and the maps to continue the mission.
Yeah, and since when is military government spending similar in any way to local municipal transit spending?
Gold-plating executive compensation. Oh, wait. That's Wall Street.
And your point?
I know... do they really expect the system to last forever?
The B-52 bomber is still going strong after 60 years. It will probably serve another 40 years if the Pentagon R&D department can't figure out how to build a replacement bomber that works.
http://www.cnet.com/news/sixty-years-on-the-b-52-is-still-going-strong/
They're extending BART into Silicon Valley — 30 years late. Your tax dollars at work.
http://www.vta.org/bart/
The 2016 electoral map is identical to 2012 electoral map. That means Donald Trump has to do better than Mitt Romney, who only got 27% of the Latino vote. Trump — and the Republican Party in general — is on the losing end of the demographic vote. They need Latino voters but calling them rapists and threatening to deport them isn't helping.
You dodged a bullet. I just hope you have a decent job now.
The internship was 20 years ago. I didn't dodge the Great Recession, where I was out of work for two years, underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. I'm in my second year of government IT and the prime contract is fully funded for the next three years.
If he's got the delegates, he'll throw the GOP establishment enough of a bone to make it worth their while not to give the nomination to someone else.
You don't understand how the math works on the Republican. Trump will have less than 51% of the delegates to win the nomination outright. Even if he did make a deal for the nomination, he will need 70% of the white male vote to overcome the independents and minority voters for Hillary. Reagan and Bush I won 63%, Bush II and Mitt Romney won 62%, respectively, of the white male vote. Trump isn't getting 70% of the white male vote in the general election.
Hillary, on the other hand... every time Sanders wins a primary it seems her lead increases. So much for the "Democratic" party.
You don't understand how the math works on the Democratic side. After Super Tuesday, Bernie had to win every election thereafter with 60% of the votes. He's not doing that and falling behind. Hillary will have 51% of the delegates to win the nomination outright.
One could name perl or python...
I'm using a Python-based static website generator for my website. No more MySQL or PHP attacks from hackers in Russia and Asia. Being able to load web pages in three seconds is also a nice bonus.
They absolutely were. "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." That's the limit on government. They're ignoring the limit. It couldn't be any more obvious.
The Supreme Court also denies THE PEOPLE their First Amendment right by barring protesters from their plaza. Meanwhile, they deny abortion clinics the same protest free zone because it infringes on the First Amendment right of anti-abortion protesters. Hypocrites.
No wonder this country is screwed up. Who knew that there were more than one NSA?
So the Establishment will bring bigger guns.
Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio all went out in a whimper. So much for those bigger guns.
And got 33,000 signatures from other anti-gunners to do what now?
When the Republican Establishment steals the nomination from Donald Trump, some people will express their First Amendment right by exercising their Second Amendment right to shoot up the place.
The problem here will of course be liberals posing as conservatives and starting the shooting.
Jeb Bush would be a problem.
This should be an interesting social experiment. I'm sure the Trump supporters will be carrying bazookas just in case the Establishment tries to steal the nomination and gives it to someone else. Burn, baby, burn!
It baffles my mind how somebody would go out of their way to use such an awful language when there are so many better options available.
Most people don't consider PHP to be a better option.
I know how to use a hammer, therefore everything is a nail.
As someone who worked 20+ years in Silicon Valley from software testing to help desk to computer security, the hammer as a solution to all my problems is one of my greatest weakness. I'm constantly asking myself how I can do my job better to avoid using the hammer, especially when the hammer have proven itself to be less effective over time. Most people don't want to change, keep hammering away at the problems, and wonder why they're making less money.
With any other language, since roughly the 1950s, standard practice has been to test code, often in two or three steps, THEN deploy it to production after your developers and your QA team have signed off on it.
As a Software QA test intern, I found a crash bug on the test server that I could easily reproduced 100% of the time. My manager could not no matter how many times I showed him how to do so. Since he couldn't reproduce it all, he signed off the update to the production servers. The bug crashed the production servers immediately. The engineers discovered a deep flaw in the code, pulled the production servers offline for three days, and the company lost $250K in revenues. My internship wasn't renewed and I wasn't hired full time (much to the disappointment of my manager). One-third of the staff got laid off a month after I left so the company could recover the lost revenues. That started a death spiral for the project.
With Javascript and node.js, you declare the name of some external package you'll use and it constantly fetches the newest version, with the newest bugs, directly onto production.
The copy-and-paste script kiddies haven't figured out that they need to host local copies of those files with their program files or on a CDN.
Shut up. You're not funny.
Is that you, Mr. Fuch?
[...] Asteroids, Centipede, Pitfall, and Pong [...]
Pitfall wasn't an Atari title, it was an Activision title. Not sure why it got included in this list.
Atari Vault only includes games created by the company. Classic 2600 games from companies like Activision, Namco, Parker Brothers, and others aren't here, including Berzerk, Empire Strikes Back, Frogger, Joust, Pitfall, Q-Bert, and Pole Position.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3048362/windows/the-atari-vault-hits-steam-with-100-classic-games-to-scratch-your-retro-2600-itch.html
Early Microsoft Word spellcheckers almost always converted Clinton into Klingon (the word, not the language).
Perhaps she was Indian by birth but Thai by ancestry?
Not sure how she came about the last name. Intuit had her stuffed into a small conference with 30 other Indians. They're all talking to each other while working on their laptops, which help desk couldn't fix because they were personal laptops. Their boss was a big guy in the center of the room who talked over them on a conference call. Weirdest scene I've ever seen in Corporate America. That was in 2004 or so.
Mr. Brass and Mrs. Lassiter, we never got to serve them.
I had a Chinese-American teacher called Mr. Fuch. The other teachers had a hard time trying not to mispronounce his last name. They all fucked it up.