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  1. Re:Matlab on Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech · · Score: 1

    Well swift has a bucket load of nice clean language features for a compiled language.

    Can you name 3? (insert cricket chirps here)

  2. Re:Selling out feels awful on How Publishing Upstart Mendeley Weathered Revolt and Became Part of the Paywall · · Score: 1

    ...but $69-100 million goes a long way to ease the pain.

    Indeed. Money doesn't bring happiness, but it makes unhappiness quite comfortable.

  3. I'M SO PRECIOUS on How Publishing Upstart Mendeley Weathered Revolt and Became Part of the Paywall · · Score: 0, Troll

    I may have a price, but i have yet to see a dollar amount that matches what im worth.

    Either you're one of those entitled millennials, or you listen to your mom way too much. Good luck to people around you.

  4. I don't know about that surveillance thing on The Upsides of a Surveillance Society · · Score: 4, Funny

    But what a cunt. I just wanted to clarify that.

  5. Re:Yeah. Totalitarian dictatorships have upsides t on The Upsides of a Surveillance Society · · Score: 2

    Cheer up! In totalitarian dictatorships there's less petty crime, like shoplifting and drug dealing.

    That's what they tell you.

  6. Re: you're not good at this on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Bill O'Reilly accusing the ACLU of being pedophiles because they took NAMBLA's side in a freedom of speech case.

  7. United We Stand on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    Liberal witch hunters are hilarious. They remind me of those pro-life people who bomb abortion clinics.

  8. Waste of time on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    Why don't you do like me, and put "sudo bash" in your .bashrc. A lot more efficient.

  9. Re:For when you're too cheap to buy two monitors! on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    With a typewriter, you're looking at the copy you're typing instead of what you're actually typing. If you're looking at what you're typing You Are Doing It Wrong.

    I have no idea what this means. I think you have inhaled (or ingested) too much correction fluid during your typewriter days. Also please stop saying "You Are Doing It Wrong" out of context, you are ruining a perfectly good catchphrase.

  10. you're not good at this on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds like something a cool kid told you one day back in school, in front of pretty girls. I bet they laughed, and later that day gave him a blowjob duet while you were alone in your room playing with your Magic cards.

  11. Is Pao saying that women are inferior negotiators? Sound s sexist to me.

    It's ok when *she* says it. But there's public outcry when Satya Nadella says basically the same thing.

  12. Re:Dicing your way to security on How To Make a Bitcoin Address With a TI-89 Calculator · · Score: 1

    I guess "cool" is subjective

  13. Re:Not many devices on How To Make a Bitcoin Address With a TI-89 Calculator · · Score: 1

    You must be a hoot when you play craps in Vegas

  14. Re: The Canadian middle class is dying out. on Best Buy Kills Off Future Shop · · Score: 1

    Anything upwards of about $600,000 in the London area gets you an absolute mansion.

    That's what happens when an entire region relies on Blackberry.

  15. Re:The Canadian middle class is dying out. on Best Buy Kills Off Future Shop · · Score: 2

    It's quite common to deal with macho men in Fort Mac who work in the oil sands for days on end with heavy machinery, yet who have penises that are most appropriately measured in millimetres.

    If size is an issue in that region, why don't you look somewhere else for your fill of penises?

  16. Re:Crazy at the helm on Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was curious about your comment and ended up binge reading stuff about Pao. Based on what I've read, you are spot on.

    Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing.

  17. Re:Comodo, shame on you! on Advertising Tool PrivDog Compromises HTTPS Security · · Score: 1

    What frigging kind of security company is Comodo? Is Comodo a security company at all?

    Google for "cheap ssl" or "discount ssl", you will see them a lot. This is the Walmart of ssl.

    It does not mean their certificates are not good, but buy a certificate from them and see the crappy online account management (a friggin popup that gets blocked by most browsers) and a flood of "special offers" in your inbox. Low-rent.

  18. Re:Fool me once, shame on you... on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    There is no way out with people like you. When you receive positive feedback you gloat, and when you get constructive criticism you get angry and mean. No wonder you think that everyone is a troll, you are forcing people into playing a negative role in your life.

    If there is a beach or a river nearby you should go for a long introspective walk and reflect on what led you down this path of loneliness and fear. Embrace people, don't push them away!

  19. Re:Fool me once, shame on you... on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    But you are correct, that was an awesome point.

    I said it was a "good" point, not "awesome". That's your second factual error in this thread alone (the first one was about Uber).

    So it appears you have to work on your reading skills as well as on your typing skills. Less uppercase and sarcasm, more fact checking. But don't give up - you've got some potential, with a bit of work you could get there. You're like an above-average tennis player, just before he started taking tennis lessons. Godspeed!
     

  20. Re:Fool me once, shame on you... on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    At first I almost made a serious reply to your post because you had good points. But the snarky tone and the uppercase words was just too annoying.

    For the record, besides the way it was expressed, you made a good point when you said this:

    But the question is NEVER what HAS happened, it is always what is going to happen in the future and roughly when. Most people fail HARD at this

    Many large investment banks still rely on VAR indicators based on historical data; that's how they never understood their huge exposure during the subprime mortgage debacle. And many investors pick fund managers based on their past performance without analyzing their strategies. The past is always more convenient to look at.

  21. Re:I hope so on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    Who is "us"? You and your imaginary broker that allows you to do short selling without a fat margin and that won't knock at your door the minute the stock price goes the other way?

  22. Re:Whatever on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    What you describe is not a market crash, it's just a bad trend. Or an unusually depressed bear market.

    In a market crash, the broker who shorted your stock goes bust and/or the other party goes bust and/or the company whose stock you own/shorted goes bust and the stock is worthless or unavailable to you, and your only solution is to join a class action suit or wait in line at the bankruptcy court with thousands of other creditors to get pennies on the c-note.

    Ask anyone who had investments with Bear Stearns.

  23. Re:Whatever on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    You should write a book about this. You could call it "Buy low, sell high, not the opposite". This would definitely be a checkout lane best seller at Wal-mart.

  24. Re:I hope so on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you. Short positions are a bitch to get, on most self-directed accounts it's not even possible. You need a serious account with a fat margin and a good track record with a broker to get in that business. I don't even know you and I can tell that doing that on a lot of stocks is out of your reach.

  25. Re:Bubble on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    That's also part of the battered wife syndrome.