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  1. Re:Maybe in the long term on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    God speed the day. If I have to use that horrible half-scheme NaN more time I'm going to undefined.

  2. Re:VoiceOfDoom, *FUCK YOU*!! on Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women (rewire.news) · · Score: 1

    1997-era slashdot server reboot in 5 . . . 4 . . .

  3. Re:Could be even more descriptive on Microsoft's BSOD Is Getting More Descriptive With QR Codes (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    One hopes so.

  4. Re:Anything from someone who is better at it than on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's even better when you are pushing 50 and they are about 24. Owie.

  5. Re:In all fairness on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    I'm laughing because I fear I would never stop screaming.

  6. Re:I cheer when I read stories like this on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    Hey! I resemble that remark!

  7. Re:I cheer when I read stories like this on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    Contrasted with "sinedouche", in which a salesperson vacillates in a smooth curve between misleading brown-nosing and all-out scenery-chewing lies.

  8. Re:I cheer when I read stories like this on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    To "write a check (one's) ass can't cash" is poor-folks slang for making promises or boasting, then failing to deliver on same.

    I think the confusion stems from the OP's use of the possessive. I'm guessing he meant "asses".

    One could simply have said "Fucking HP, right?", and there would have been no confusion whatsoever, because fucking HP, right?

  9. Re:Sounds explosive on Elon Musk's Latest Idea: Let's Nuke Mars · · Score: 1

    Don't you know the planet's supply of Illudium Fosdick (The Shave Cream Atom) is alarmingly low? Dream on, Eager Young Space Cadet.

  10. Re:Mixture on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    Totally, this is my third account.

  11. Re:My favorite example. on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    Mod up. For the love of god MOD UP.

  12. Re:It followed a few of the plot lines, but ... on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    There you have it. He tried to follow many lines of thinking to their logical conclusions while still telling a ripping yarn. Hard to do.

  13. Re:The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug. on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    I had the exact epiphany, myself.

    Heinlein had lots of ideas, many were great. Some were silly. Having consumed most of his books as a kid, I must say, they did me no harm.

  14. Re:Rearrange the deck chairs. on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 1

    Generally followed by "Can't you just ..."

  15. Re:Python is readable on Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the search and replace got munged. Pretend there is a tab in the replace portion.

  16. Re:Python is readable on Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density · · Score: 1

    I do all my coding in vi. Generally "g/ /s///g" takes care of any white space problems, when importing folk code. I hated using curlies when I had to start using Perl/javascript/PHP, but I got used to them. It's just a mental flexibility thing. It sucks at first, but after a couple of days I have no trouble. One thing python has done for me vis. other languages is I don't nest. Generally, I have found if I have a big old stalactite of conditionals, that they can be replaced with a function call that simplifies the flow for other humans and my future self.

  17. Re:Python is readable on Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density · · Score: 1

    "talented cowboy" which quickly becomes "miserable sonovabitch" when you have to clean up after his horse.

  18. Re:Nothing To Worry About on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    http://xkcd.com/244/ ... and so on ad-infinitum.

  19. Dr. Sadeq Khurasani said it on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    I believe it.
    That settles it.

  20. Link to blog post on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:A "Foo"? on O'Reilly Giving Away Open Government As Aaron Swartz Tribute · · Score: 1

    Sorry, first sentence should have been quoted.

  22. A "Foo"? on O'Reilly Giving Away Open Government As Aaron Swartz Tribute · · Score: 1

    I’ve read many eloquent eulogies from people who knew Aaron Swartz better than I did, but he was also a Foo and contributor to Open Government.
    Have a missed something, here?

  23. Shouldn't be too hard ... on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 3, Funny

    I found one to have my potentially ugly baby.

  24. Re:Belgians drilling a hole in the ocean?? on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 2

    Oh, and some of us even have girlfriends.

    You had me right until the end. Well played!

  25. Re:Overraction on Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences · · Score: 1

    http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto I would have thought they'd gentrified by now.