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  1. Better yet, $350k doing HFT on If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript · · Score: 0

    And after gaining some C++ experience with your defense contractor gig, move on to a high frequency trading firm doing C++ @ $350k per year.

  2. Re:Then switch language on Aging Linux Kernel Community Is Looking For Younger Participants · · Score: 0

    FYI - any time someone suggests anything other than C, even *GASP* C++ here they get modded down to infinity and beyond. Enjoy the ride...

  3. Take it to their forums on CNET Parent CBS Blocks Review and Award To Dish Over Legal Dispute · · Score: 0

    If enough people make a big deal about this in their forums, they won't be able to ignore it.

  4. Re:Recursive? No, very iterative. on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 0

    Heh? C# has been running on linux for a long time. It's called the mono project.

  5. Re:Recursive? No, very iterative. on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 0

    A language can't be fast or slow, that's up to the platform. I can compile java the language into a binary. Likewise I can run a C app in real mode DOS that requires expanded memory access and it would be very slow compared to an platform that has access to 64 bits of memory.

  6. Re:Finally on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 0

    It was pretty tough to pirate CDs back then. CD burners didn't become prevalent much later. Not to mention that my 25 Mhz Packard Bell 486SX probably couldn't keep the burner buffers full.

  7. Don't be a dumbass on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 0

    You can't go through life as a condescending a-hole thinking everyone is an illiterate this or an idiot that. People skills are part of solving problems for people. It sounds like you're in the wrong career. You need to be in something where you will not come into contact with other people.

  8. Re:Not just that on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power · · Score: 1

    Nope. That's actually not how volcanos work. You can't just poke it with a needle and cause an eruption. There has to be enough geologic pressure to cause the magma to go through the surface. At best we might release some funny gases.

  9. Re:Sigh on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 1

    They don't any more. At most startup companies they can't afford a typical bureaucratic IT department. Many use cloud hosting to avoid up-front cap-ex in terms of data centers and the people that work in them. Developers are typically managing their own servers, their own NOSQL cluster, they bring their own iPhones, gPhones, xPads, etc. People are becoming increasingly more comfortable with technology and old-school IT departments are no longer enablers, but barriers as their mindsets and their technology pale in comparison to the consumer sector.

  10. Were they broadcasting 600 years ago? on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 0

    This is sort of the problem with SETI. We will actually be checking if they had an advanced enough civilization that could broadcast into space... 600 years ago. We have only had electrical power generation for 130 years.

  11. Re:Great a new boom. on The Rise of Developeronomics · · Score: 0

    People like to pretend that CS grads are working on operating systems kernels and developing new algorithms, but the reality is that most people on a day-to-day basis are working on a typical line-of-business record keeping system with reports that used to be done in Excel.

  12. Re:also needed for houses on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 0

    I have a 7805 voltage regulator next to me right now that does a fine job of stepping 12V into 5V at up to 1A without a heat sink. And that was a very cheap component. I imagine that one can do a lot more with more money or volume.

  13. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 0

    If google operated under this kind of thinking, they would index 1/10000 of what they do today. This is why startups are choosing the cloud in favor of real data centers with real traditional IT people.

  14. Re:JavaScript... or HTML DOM? on Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings · · Score: 0

    Actually not all. I'm using C++. While new() doesn't work, creating a static instance of a class and using references works awesome. It's amazing the level of complexity you shove into those atmel processors (I went with a teensy).

  15. Re:The industry has been trashed by offshoring. on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 0

    Did you catch today's lead story on the wall street journal? Apparently countries like China and India are commiting "economic espionage" and stealing our technology and ideas! I've never laughed so hard. It isn't stealing if you had them the keys!

  16. SendMessage and WinProc on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    I'll believe it when these functions quit working. The whole thing is still heavily based on the windows message pump and a HUGE legacy C API that does everything under the windows hood. On top of that there's a COM layer and on top of those there's now a .NET layer. But the foundation is still the same 9 gazillion C calls and WM_ messages.

  17. Re:Not to mention, what's the reward? on College Application Inflation — Marketing Meets Admissions · · Score: 0

    Good call. Also outsourcing-proof and at least today the major H-1B & L-1 insourcing shops aren't targeting mechanics.

  18. CSI Miami on Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically · · Score: 0

    Finally, we'll have to quit making fun of the redhead cop every time he asks to zoom into a blurry license plate.

  19. Re:C too complex? Hilarious. on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: -1

    Complexity is required to make simplicity. In order to abstract out a complex problem into software, you need complex tools.

  20. Re:Slashdot moderation abuse on apple related comm on RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is what happened to me once. I posted something negative about C vs C++ in the linux kernel and got modded down to terrible karma. Since all my posts are now -1 nobody reads them, so I never get modded up and can never leave terrible karma land. So I left for Digg. Great system we've got here.

  21. db4o on Good Database Design Books? · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Skip the database part altogether. Just focus on the domain model. Why do the work twice.

  22. Mac OSX Microkernel on "Midori" Concepts Materialize In .NET · · Score: -1

    The Mach kernel uses a message-passing micro-kernel implementation. But it also has a nifty copy-on-write scheme that allows it to be fast and circumvent the usual problems with micr-kernels (copying of messages 300 times between layers).

  23. Re:Obligatory Terminator/RoboCop Reference on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: -1

    You have 3 seconds to comply...

  24. Re:I could have told you that. on Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected · · Score: -1

    Judo & BJJ ftw.

  25. Freenet on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: -1

    We should host this on freenet so that it never disappears.