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  1. Re:worth checking out? on Mutt Fork Adds Features From Notmuch · · Score: 1

    Yes, another former (al)pine user here. Header caching alone makes it worth it.

  2. Re:Here's how you fix it on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 1

    How do you write down names of people or places? Many open source contributors have names which cannot be rendered in ASCII, and many open source confrences are held in locations which can't be, either. And please, don't say "just make it into ASCII, everyone knows what you mean". It's disrespectful to people if you won't even bother to try spell and say their name right. (It's fine if you get it wrong, but you should at least try.)

  3. Grad school can be a good option, but it's stupidly expensive.

    Not in the hard sciences... they pay you (admittedly only $20k/year or so, and you don't have to pay tuition) to work for them. It's not as much as you'd make in industry, but it's black instead of red.

  4. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But don't waste your time getting another bachelor's degree - go straight to graduate school. My alma mater (UW-Madison, consistently ranked in the top 15 CS grad schools) had lots of people without CS/CE/EE undergrad degrees, and I suspect other good departments are the same. As long as you can code and show you have academic potential (e.g. a peer reviewed paper, even if it's in an unrelated field), you'll be fine.

    Another bachelors degree will mostly be a waste of time, given that you already know the stuff. All you'll be doing is checking a box which you arguably don't need checked anyway. The people in your classes will be unmotivated to work harder than to get whatever grade they want, and in some cases clueless. Contrast this with graduate school, where I learned more from my peers than the courses themselves (as a bonus, these people are actually weird and interesting and have extremely diverse backgrounds).

  5. Re:interaction of two things on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sure, except that (especially in C++ code with templates) VS uses FAR less memory than the GNU toolchain when compiling the same code. This isn't a VS problem, it's a Firefox problem.

  6. Re:I hate vim and emacs. on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Wow, this is great, thanks!

  7. Re:I hate vim and emacs. on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    In bash, C-x C-e is shorthand for "invoke $EDITOR on the current command line and run the result when $EDITOR exits". If you export EDITOR=vim you can get vim instead of emacs, and all is happy.

  8. Re:vim gripe on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    :noremap q <nop>

  9. Re:Maybe Amahi? on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    > No-way-no-how can I just far up dd on the raw device underneath a bunch of partitions, can I?

    Yep, you sure can.

  10. Re:Change for the sake of change? on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Clementine has had both of those features you mention for at least 6 months, if not a year. Give it another try, it's feature complete now and I really love it.

  11. Re:Welcome Back... on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    No, Israel started the 6 day war by bombing Egypt's airbases until they had no planes that could fly (the "threat of attack" by Egypt is just an excuse, anyone know knows the power of the two countries knows that Israel would have destroyed Egypt in an all-out war). The USS Liberty incident is yet another example of Israel abusing its power (hence the use of the connective phrase "also"). Thanks for calling me a racist, though; you troll well.

  12. Re:Back at you. on Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism · · Score: 2

    I'm an atheist, and a devout one at that.

    > Honestly, one cannot be a satanist unless one is a christian, because Christianity makes it's hallmark the separates the continuity of good and evil into a polarity that is then split into autonomous creations.

    Patently false; you should read up on Satanism, it's actually fairly interesting. There are a bunch of different ``sects'', one of which is comprised of people who are entirely atheists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism

    I think most satanists call themselves satanists because they enjoy trolling (I enjoy trolling too, so it's not a criticism). If you meet a satanist, it is unlikely she actually believes in the Judeo-Christian idea of satan.

  13. Re:Welcome Back... on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 3, Informative

    FYI, Israel started the 6 day war. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

  14. Re:Other way on Cutting Through the 4G Hype · · Score: 1

    > In all those cases you are potentially blocking incoming calls

    False. It's pretty clear you've never used a Verizon 3G phone... I get calls while using the 'net all the time on my Droid.

    Back to the original use case: I too, have never had a need to be on a voice call and surf the web at the same time. I could see where it would be useful, but I'll bet for the majority of folks it wouldn't add a whole lot of value.

  15. Re:so? on Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen · · Score: 5, Funny
  16. Re:Not totally. on Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can block applications on a per-application basis too. I've blocked everything people have invited me to, except for the two applications I actually use. Not as good as opt-in, but it does exist.

  17. My Motorola droid gets 93/100 on acid3.acidtests.org, which is the same score my Windows firefox 3.5 gets. My Linux 3.0.14 firefox only gets 72/100.

  18. Re:BS: "tip of the iceberg" on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    Wow. It's not about Windows! It's about being easiest. You could argue about whether this is really easier, but bringing Windows into it is unnecessary.

  19. Re:hunh? on Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended · · Score: 1

    Which writs were rejected, and what were the companies involved? I'd love to know, this isn't just a "citation needed" bitch.

  20. Re:Yes on Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks? · · Score: 1

    > I really can't see a situation where MS is a monopoly, but Apple isn't.

    How about reality? One of those entities is a convicted monopoly, one is not.

  21. Re:Come to the USA! on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    > urinating in public, in which case you'll get a disproportionate sentence, and in the latter case, a scarlet letter as a bonus.

    FYI, you don't get put on the sex offender list for public urination. It's a $94 ticket in my state, though.

  22. Re:Almost on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 3, Informative

    That works as long as the only strategy used is reference counting. There are others, and I think Java uses a fancy version of mark and sweep.

  23. Re:Quite on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I'm 22, so a fairly young *nix user, and I do all of my coding in Vim. However, I do most of my debugging in a visual debugger. How anyone could do anything else, I have no idea. Using a CLI debugger is insanity. For example, when I 'step', I can see every value that changed, without having to query every variable again. It may be easy for small programs, but for large programs with lots of objects it makes things a lot easier.

  24. Re:Lag. on On the Feasibility of Single-Server MMOs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think that's the whole picture.

    For example, if I play WoW and meet a real life friend who plays WoW, we can only play together if we happened to sign up on the same server.

    If I play Guild Wars, we both sign in, switch to the same district, and we're in game together. It is possible for any player to go to any district in the game (if they have unlocked the content, obviously). So, you can always play with new people you haven't connected with before.

  25. Re:Easy solution on The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share · · Score: 1

    Do YOU know what OS/firmware your television/radio/refridgerator/telephone/dishwasher/washingMachine/etc are running?

    In all of the cases you stated, it's almost certainly something proprietary developed by the manufacturer. If I had re-flashed it, then I'd know the source. What's your point?