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  1. Seems that they have been doing this for 6 years at least. Looks like a "standard template"... see section 8.
    http://www.sec.gov/Archives/ed...

  2. Re:That was then, this is now on Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days · · Score: 1

    And you don't get repeat customers as a consequence. Motorola should know this the best.

  3. And how it performs with existing libraries on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format · · Score: 1

    Thousands of existing software libraries support existing image formats. None of them support this new wonder format. There are perfectly usable 10+ yrs tools that work fine with image manipulation, creation, viewing, etc. that need no updates.

  4. Re:It's not just Chrome on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    There are testing techniques that don't require you to test every possible scenario, but, in lack a of simpler them, every independent code condition.

    Good testing costs as much as development; if not even more. It also requires skilled testers. So not many companies can afford that. It is just easier if you pay somebody to do it for you - be it offshore team, or a bounty.

  5. I am going to visit all of them in protest! on India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites · · Score: 1

    PDF with list is in there... let's start with how-do-you-produce-more-seminal-fluid.semenaxx. org

  6. Re:Still single-threaded, right? on Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing · · Score: 1

    I've never seen it use more than one core for rendering of complex sites or multiple tags. It might be multi-threaded, but looks like only one thread is dedicated to rendering of all tabs.

  7. Re:Palemoon on Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing · · Score: 1

    One man does better job than whole Mozilla organization. I bet Mozilla developers themselves aren't too happy with latest developments - rumor was they were making Pocket native client when it was canned by the management and replaced by 3rd party version + $$.

  8. Re:Um.. we don't see it as advancing our career on The Programmer's Path To Management · · Score: 1

    Yep, unless you're in some niche market where H1Bs don't have the skill that you got. So that's the name of the game - have unique and difficult to find skills (which you should have by that age).

    That means following latest and greatest tech is good objective when you're without experience; but later not much so.

  9. Linux developers know C/C++, Python, Perl on Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only reason to use Mono is really to get Windows developers onboard.

    But that's a long shot. Linux works because there are plenty of developers in mentioned programming languages that support it.

    Since Java isn't terribly popular in Linux, .NET has no chance.

  10. of corse not! on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Gov't lost its own records, so they hired hackers to help them find 'em.

  11. heh, pirate's only wrongdoing in MSFT eyes was... on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 1

    using Windows 7 instead of Windows 8.

  12. Re:Google updates on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 2

    So what would be if you buy a PC and then Microsoft won't sell you or let you update to any new version?

  13. Re:The profession is in decline on Electrical Engineering Employment Declines Nearly 10%, But Developers Up 12% · · Score: 1

    I remember during first dot-com bubble programmers were in high demand and many EEs shifted to programing, and ever since... I was EE myself and didn't want to do coding... but I had to eventually, and many of my coworkers are programmers with EE background. There's some work for EEs in engineering firms, but programmers are needed by pretty much everyone.

    EEs have became what mechanical engineers were before them: not obsolete, but kind of niche profession.

  14. Good testing takes more than 50% of time and res on Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding · · Score: 1

    There is a way to properly test software. But it is insanely expensive. Real mission critical software (like airborne systems) has standards for code verification that are pretty tough. For example per standard DO-178B, required is complete structural coverage analysis; object code analysis; worst case throughput analysis; stack analysis, etc.

    There's no way that volunteer programs can find funding for this or human resources to do this. Although many companies do contribute to various open source programs, the level of testing required to remove most of bugs is extremely costly. Who's going to pay for software to be nearly perfect, if it is not required of it? Truth it, pretty much nobody outside mission critical software does this kind of testing.

  15. Few ideas on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. Modern IDE with good gcc parser: Eclipse, Netbeans, 3rd party paid ones. Not Visual Studio. You want it to build call hierarchy tree for you, so that you can find methods that are unused. It will require some manual steps
    1a. if you have $, Understand for C/C++ is proprietary tool that will map a hierarchy of your code.
    2. perform structural coverage analysis of code in live action, will help map the dead code. gcov is free if you can use it.

  16. But even better Christmas gift would be on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 0

    no new Perl.

    God, what a nightmare is to try to actually understand existing code from a different coder.
    Before you blame me for being my fault, trolling, etc... How come I don't have any problem with any other language?
    How come everybody sane I know avoids it as well?

  17. Re:Country that forbids use to internet on North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation · · Score: 2

    You missed my point. They may appear that they have a decent cyber unit. But we know from their missile tests that were utter failure that is probably more than a wish than a reality.

    In US, NSA hires talented hackers/programmers, as their skills are already established. For that to work, they need all population to have access to the internet.. So how does NK does same when they forbid the internet to the masses? Even if they had prospective talent, they would not be able to recognize them.

  18. Country that forbids use to internet on North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is cyber superpower?
    I am not buying it. They could have smart people that would make talented hackers. But good luck finding them because they most likely don't even own a computer.

  19. Python is so bad .... on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 0

    Companies have to pay you $100k just so you would accept to work in it.

  20. AT&T made deal with Uber to preinstall the app on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Every AT&T android phone comes with this preinstalled.

  21. Nice research from 'evil' Co. on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Not so evil after all?

    Obviously there's benefit to Google in long term if renewables can be made cheap. But either way, it is research done on google's dime that helps public.

  22. Old hardware on the new OS on NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored · · Score: 0

    It is funny with all these new operating systems supposed to be faster on the old devices; yet less and less of these old devices can actually run them.
    These reviews claiming otherwise are pure marketing.

    OS improvements usually come with a different cost: new bloat. Hence at some point your old hardware will not work good enough with the new OS. Or whoever made the hardware has no desire to support the new OS once they have sold you the device.
    It is more obvious with Apple devices, although that can be attributed to a desire to force millions of devices becoming obsolete, so that new can be sold.

    Another truth is that some tablets with Tegra chipsets newer ran any Android well enough as CPU performance was bad, so no OS can fix that. no matter how many ROMs you try, overclocking, etc.

  23. IDE war - it is like browser war on Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) · · Score: 1, Informative

    .. and MS loses again. MS was left in dust by Netbeans and Eclipse. They do much more, and all for free. Both have strong open source community that shells out useful plugins that extend the many languages that are supported. So finally MS decided to play catch-up game.

    And there are some that still believe Visual Studio is the best. In reality VS is same as IE vs rest: IE is slowest, least compliant, least open, least extensible.

  24. now if Firefox would support Chrome extensions on Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon' · · Score: 1

    it would be exactly like Chrome :)

  25. "GNU bash with latest security fixes" on OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released · · Score: 2

    nice selling point