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  1. Re:Don't Do IT! on The Programmer's Path To Management · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, and yes. If only the managers of the world could figure this out....

  2. Re: There is a reason for this! on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1

    Currently I hold an RHCA(which includes an RHCE). Maybe I am projecting what I think a candidate should be capable of versus the bare minimum they learn to pass the test. Taking too much for granted I suppose. I should have thought some more before making my quick reply.

    Background disclaimer: I work as an engineer to produce linux-powered networking equipment. Our RHCE's have to have a very solid grasp of networking to join our playground.

  3. Re: There is a reason for this! on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1

    Your server admin is lying about his RHCE. The RHCE should have no trouble turning a host with a dozen NICS into a L2 switch with VLANS, span ports, and adding L3 and above functionality. Your Cisco device is important, but is well understood and frankly, somewhat child's play to an RHCE.

  4. Re:BrokenStack - Tsarkon Reports on OpenStack Juno Released · · Score: 1

    OpenStack works fine - your lack of competency doesn't mean the project is shit. Read the docs (repeatedly) until your mind can wrap around it, or just ask someone for help.

  5. Re: Politician thanks company for doing his job on Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Whenever I point this out to a teacher (like my spouse), that they get pay on par with year-round workers, they give the boilerplate response "But we only get paid for the days we work! Not the entire year!".

    Which means given an 8 hour workday, instead of making $24 an hour(for a 52 week year), they are actually making $32 an hour. This is under "underpaid" at all.

    TLDR; Teachers make much more per-hour than people assume, and they do not like it at all when this is pointed out.

  6. Re:This naming trend has to stop on The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi · · Score: 1

    FYI, "Windows Explorer" is much older than "Internet Explorer". The browser was likely named to mimic the file manager, not the other way around.

  7. Re:Alternative explanation on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    You say "Layer 3"(a step in the OSI model), do you mean "Level 3"(an ISP)? They are the ISP and backbone provider that has owns the CDN appliances caching and delivering the [majority of] Netflix streams in the USA.

  8. Re:This is just a repeat on No RIF'd Employees Need Apply For Microsoft External Staff Jobs For 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Never let pride get in the way of sound business sense. If my options were working the grill at Arbies or Microsoft, the next words out of my mouth would be "Yes Mr Balmer, laying off all us slackers really taught us a lesson sir. Would you like me to buff all your golf clubs now?"

    Sad advice but still very good advice. The "to hell with them" crowd is likely too young to know that pride gets in the way of providing for your family, and swallowing your pride is vastly easier than being foreclosed on.

  9. Re:Backtrack the financials... on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners · · Score: 1

    You can buy your own devices with enough cash, which you get from massively profitable trades based on (stolen) insider information.

    I don't think a nuclear arsenal is what they are after though..more likely they just want to take the money and run.

  10. Re: i don't wanna hear how lazy americans are. on In Düsseldorf, A Robot Valet Will Park Your Car · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points - you are absolutely correct.

    I often go to the Deep South where I have family, and so many people are morbidly obese that no one bats an eye any more, and if you did confront people about their weight, they would say "Oh, uh, it must be a thyroid problem".

    No one wants to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, and obesity is one of those consequences.

  11. Re:syntax on Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming · · Score: 0

    Human brains are finite. The simpler* a language is, the more likely the developer can fit the entire thing in his head and still have room for the actual problem he's trying to solve.

    Simple languages for - wait for it - simple developers.

  12. Re:syntax on Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming · · Score: 2

    I notice you don't even tell us what the squiggles are ...

    There is a man page for that, do your own homework if you are capable of comprehending the textbook.

  13. Re:syntax on Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming · · Score: 2

    The mass of programming languages are designed for the mediocre mass of programmers. The others make the top tier of cash, and don't find Perl "too hard!" at all.

  14. Re:So will he go to jail upon return to the US? on Eric Schmidt and Entourage Pay a Call On Cuba · · Score: 1

    It is not illegal to visit Cuba, but you won't be getting in with traditional methods (direct flights to/from the USA, tourism visa, etc). Hundreds of missionaries and educators visit Cuba each year, and are quite welcomed by the Cuban government.

  15. Re:Will this "War on Terrorism" ever end . . . ? on Member of President Obama's NSA Panel Recommends Increased Data Collection · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think the powers that be would like it to ever end. The expression "War is Peace" sums this up...as long as there is a constant threat of war(in this case, "terrorism"), the populace can be made to accept nearly any unreasonable demand in the name of that defending against that threat.

    Imagine if you are the commander of a military force - would you rather a mediocre budget because of peacetime? Or would you rather have a "buy anything and everything no questions asked" mandate because of the imminent threat of war? This also appeals to the sense of power the government leaders have - it allows them a constant state of martial law, effectively letting them act with impunity while "defending us" from war(or in this case, imminent terrorism).

  16. Re:Nethack? on The Geekiest Game Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    I still like nethack, but at some point I switched to 'dungeon crawl stone soup' instead.

  17. Re:Nothing wrong with clear goto code on OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein · · Score: 1

    I second this - `goto' in C is not the hacky technique kids in QBasic use. If you ever look at the kernel source, you'll find plenty of sane `goto' statements there. It's when you improperly use them than sanity begins to ebb away.

  18. Re:GNOME? on SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 · · Score: 1

    This is not for "OS" use.. it's meant to be installed on a media-center style box in your living room by your TV. The only interaction with it is meant to be through a controller - it's not for you to compile code on, instead it's for your kid to pick up a controller and start a game without any "computer" work. It's a pretty cool idea when you think about it, let people build their own "console gaming systems", and just give them a nice OS that will drive them.

  19. Re:SUCK A COCK on High-Frequency Trading For Your Private Data · · Score: 1

    I wish the consumers would get the hell off *all* our lawns. I only want to deal with enthusiasts and engineers...you know, people as interesting as we are to ourselves. The rest of the users should come up with their own watered down "internet" of facebook and similar bullshit. Oh wait...don't know how? Brain full of sports statistics and beer preferences? Think sockets and ports are car-mechanic terminology? Too bad, you lose, GTFO. The unwashed masses were the worst thing to ever happen to the internet, and I really wish they piss off - kindly or otherwise. Just leave.

    The "golden days" main appeal to me was that due to the technical difficulty of connecting to what people refer to as the internet(or ARPAnet then), ruled out the possibility of 99.999% of the current users ever having a chance at participating. *Sigh*, if only it could have stayed that way. I realize every idiots likes to feel "involved", and is thrilled to death to be here with their cat pictures and facebook "likes"...but really? They contribute nothing but e-commerce dollars and ad-views to companies of superior business cunning and intellect. Good for the companies I suppose, but bad for the enthusiats and engineers forced to breath the same air.

    I realize this is just a big "get off my lawn" post...but really, get off ALL our lawns. It's disgusting, all of them are disgusting. This must be how genocidal maniacs felt about the cultures they were butchering - I *hate* them, can't stand them, and wish all the worst for them. Not sure how it's gotten this way, but for some reason I'm mainlining the Haterade(tm) on their account at this moment.

    TLDR; I like the type of website you describe. A hobbyist and generally intelligent human is the only person who should have a right to be here.

  20. Re:Not just kids on Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding · · Score: 1

    That's pretty sane - when I force myself to learn a language just to try it out, I usually end up forgetting it days later. When I really need to learn one for something specific though, it's fun, it sticks, etc etc etc.

    Also, I like your name. Makes me want to go read....

  21. Re:I am confused. on Meet Paunch: the Accused Author of the BlackHole Exploit Kit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're not buying the skeleton of the kit - you're buying the kit equipped with the latest 0-days to be effective. The last thing you'd want to do after you pay thousands for a 0-day exploit and the kit as a payload - is give it away. Then it's in the wild and antivirus is going to protect against it.

  22. Re:Limited uses. on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Only way to get it done within the backup window - 40-50 clients at a time, out of ~750. The idea is to get as close to 100% capacity for network/IO as possible, without creating a backlog. Ideally, with an unlimited budget we could just double or triple our backup destinations, but that's not an option right now.

  23. Re:Limited uses. on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 2

    I'm not quite sure exactly where these would be used, other than in niche systems that need large amounts of local, superfast storage.

    Wireless access to a NAS? You've got it backwards _you_ are the 'niche'. Every NAS I touch is connected via 10GB, and in some cases bonded 10GB lines that aggregate to 40-50GBS. We don't want these for playing warcraft at home - we want them for work.

    Example: I have NAS's as storage targets for backup daemons that receive 40-50 simultaneous backup streams from clients. Each stream can average 120-150 mBytes/sec on it's own; usually the network link is the bottleneck. Even if we pack several dozen 15k SAS drives in the bays - they can't handle that without the network buffer backlogging waiting on disk IO. Solutions like larger and faster SSD's fix these business problems for us.

  24. Re:weird gateway currency on This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America · · Score: 1

    BoA is a household name as a bank (and everyone knows they are rotten to the core). That household name status would make people feel like bitcoin is more "real" though, since they can goto their neighborhood BoA to cash out or buy in, etc. This would be a huge step towards de-anonymizing BTC transactions - linking real humans to all those block chain transactions. Very very bad.

  25. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 2

    Unless you are stress testing the latest and greatest PC games, very little development in my experience requires sustained high CPU frequencies. A lot of development requires little more than Notepad++ which I've got some decade old laptops that do quite well with that.

    Are you talking about web development? Compiling moderate to large c/c++ projects will send the fans into non-stop high gear and turn a laptop into a hot plate. Not fun.