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  1. Re:They're considering doing this where I work. on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm not trolling. I'm just curious; is it best to have a big area and you see the same big room all the time, or to have a separate room for work? Doesn't that bother you to see the kitchen table and tv from your workspace?

  2. Re:More censorship on Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I learned all I needed to know without even seeing the actual website

    Spoken like a true liberal. Making decisions based on preconceived ideas and shallow information. No wonder you almost elected Clinton.

  3. Re:More censorship on Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Must be because they saw all the traffic coming from Slashdot and they got scared so they unblacklisted it for Slashdot visitors.

  4. Re:More censorship on Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah and it looks like an alt-right thing, so the antifa vandals will probably show up and throw glass bottles at them. Popcorn time.

    Still, it's good to see people standing up to censorship.

  5. Re:Is this about Koreans? on Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into An AI Research Lab (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    systemctl start maga

  6. Re:Still Play, Not a Gamer on Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into An AI Research Lab (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    creimer has a similar problem when he goes to Victoria's Secret

  7. Re:Put all the women on a seperate floor on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

    This being said, in terms of credibility, I put the WSJ somewhere between Yahoo Answers and David Icke's youtube channel (including the comments section).

  8. More censorship on Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they do like Google and hide stuff that makes them look bad.

    See this site: http://www.marchongoogle.com/

    try to find it via google if you don't know the domain name.

    the more this shit goes on, the more I understand how bad it was for people who tried to organize demonstrations during the arab spring.

  9. Re:And is anyone surprised? on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    It's not just slashdot:
    -techcrunch
    -newsgroups
    -expert sexchange

    techie blogs/forums also took a nosedive
    -coding horror
    -the daily wtf
    -joel on software

    even sites that used to offer excellent PowerPoint fodder for meetings with PHBs are now garbage:
    -baselinemag
    -mckinsey insights
    -cio.com

    even dilbert is no longer funny.

    nowadays content is numbered titles and a big unsplash header on medium.com ("10 reasons why...") or lame clickbait ("shocking discovery...").

  10. Re:And is anyone surprised? on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    The noise reducing material they make cubicles out of gets very dusty too, bad for allergies.

    This is true and I had never realized that until recently. At work there's a row of cubicle next to a huge window, and I noticed that when the sun is bright in the morning the whole area looks like those aloe vera drinks with floating pulp.

  11. How long can you wear that before it gets hot and annoying?

  12. Re:As someone who went from an open-office to WFH. on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    My manager and peers are constantly amazed at how much work I get done. The secret? Working in an open plan means I overhear conversations and know about upcoming initiatives that will impact my team and my projects. I'm aware of the business needs and big picture, so can plan more successful deliveries.

    I believe you. If your organization is typical, you also probably catch idiotic ideas before they get too far.

    This doesn't require an open floor plan, though. It can be achieved in a cubicle or office setup if you get friendly with the right people and figure out an optimal path to the coffee machine.

  13. Re:As someone who went from an open-office to WFH. on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Don't you get cabin fever after a while? Working from home 1-2 days a week is great, but to me, being home 24x7 sounds a lot like being in jail. I've tried and it drove me nuts.

    Commuting can be a bitch but I used to live really close to the office and it wasn't much better. I need at least a 15 minute buffer to make the switch between home and work life, but maybe it's just me.

  14. dream skill set for today's IT workers on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    First-world-probleming on slashdot is a soft skill, which is one of the biggest difference makers to get hired in IT (besides gender and other forms of diversity-oriented qualities). Runner-up: being involved in a github project that has a code of conduct.

  15. Re:My demands for a job: on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    no less than 1 BTC/month with current value

    That's $3,000 / month... and that's "entitled"? I guess you're some kind of GeekSquad guy who thinks 35k is a big salary, but at my company we pay a lot more than that for helpdesk, which is pretty much at the bottom of the IT ladder.

    I hope you live somewhere cheap.

  16. Re:Put all the women on a seperate floor on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Been in this nightmare before: open floor plan and the thermostat happened to be just behind a menopausal woman.

  17. Re:Put all the women on a seperate floor on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    This is actually very common. Ask the security or maintenance people in the building where you work, they will confirm it.

  18. Re:They're considering doing this where I work. on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Do you have an open floor plan at home?

  19. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait it's about to get better, thanks to Amazon and their great idea of digital channels. They already sell their own hardware. Soon there's going to be bundles. They're just cloudifying the cable company.

  20. Re:/. stop being a marketing droid! on IBM Claims Big Breakthrough in Deep Learning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the document, or did you jump in the discussion armed solely with your preconceived ideas and moral high ground?

  21. Re:TensorFlow has had distributed training for age on IBM Claims Big Breakthrough in Deep Learning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Releasing anything is a breakthrough at IBM. If one day the broken version of wget on AIX supports the --method option there will probably be a documentary about it on Netflix.

  22. Re: How does this compare to the TPU? on IBM Claims Big Breakthrough in Deep Learning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Google on the other hand will most likely give us something ahiny in a couple of years.

    No, they fire competent people to appease SJW twitter mobs. Leadership and backbone have left the building.

  23. Re:IBM's only breakthroughs have been in marketing on IBM Claims Big Breakthrough in Deep Learning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean every z-series mainframe produced? All of them ship fully loaded with every CPU and RAM bay filled but you have to pay IBM to turn them on. Per year.

    And yet they manage to have shrinking revenue year after year. Maybe they should do an internship at Apple.

  24. Re: But... on IBM Claims Big Breakthrough in Deep Learning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is so hard about reading a RedBook?

    - Typos
    - Poor structure
    - Obsolete content
    - Misleading statements about what the thing can actually do
    - Misrepresentation or outright lies about licenses
    - Doesn't protect you from IBMbeciles making mistakes and crashing your SAN/NAS/backup appliance/etc when they "perform" the quarterly maintenance that they insist on doing themselves

  25. Re:But... on IBM Claims Big Breakthrough in Deep Learning (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Posting a reading list is like speaking italian to the waiter at Olive Garden. It reeks of despair, yellow teethness and cheese breath.