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  1. She was unappreciated at Google on Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO · · Score: 1

    After the reorganization once Larry took over and Marissa was left with Google Local I think the writing was on the wall and she was just looking for the right opportunity .

  2. Re:Developer rebellion? on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    Bug fixes do not take precedence over features and the two should not be mixed.

  3. Re:use your Brain cells... if you got some left on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    yeah...they miss the part where you are suppose to design tests, document what feature is being tested and build against those test and comment the crap out of your code so you can run a nice utility to generate documentation automatically for you.

  4. Re:Developer rebellion? on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    That is actually a really cool way to make the customer feel like they are in control... they can request many changes, and choose the priority for the next release....not bad.

  5. Re:Developer rebellion? on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 1

    Waterfall is the basis of all engineering....the difference is you can not use it in its classic sense in a software engineering project. Iterative is the modification you are talking about and yes...it takes smaller chunks and applies the waterfall to each...what separates basic iterative from Agile is the methodologies used to decide what belongs in the iterations.

  6. This does no explain Clovis culture. on Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Clovis culture is very European. Perhaps all Clovis people died out so there is no DNA evidence.

  7. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    No....it isn't.

  8. Re:What was the point of testing? on Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August · · Score: 1

    uhh...it sends the data back to MS during usage and crashes.....

  9. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    in C and C++ it is absolutely NOT an object. in Java and C# and other modern languages...sure, just like any other data type is an object.

  10. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    because that is soooooooooo much better than just using C++.

  11. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the capability of the language to build software, not a feature of the language(pointer usage).

    Thanks.

  12. Re:In-house staff do have advantages on General Motors To Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    perhaps he was told that he either cut the IT costs by X amount of money or outsource it all.

  13. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    it's a struct. no inheritance, no polymorphism. not a class/object.

  14. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    duh... you can use cin and cout in C++.

  15. Re:fp on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    umm...if a language is Turing complete then there is nothing that can be done in one language that can not be done in another, so no...you would not see a comparison like that.

  16. Re:sorry on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the Koreans.

  17. Re:Validates the Higgs mechanism on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    Any system would need to start with a very basic concept that generates the particles. String theory's initial conjecture made sense....the problem was that the mathematical contortions to describe the theory could not produce any predictions that were useful because we do not have the instrumentation to observe them. Furthermore no-one could produce a prediction for anything that we have confirmed by observation. At least GR could be used to predict observations made by classical physics and QM predicted all the weird behaviors that were observable very early on in the theory's life.

  18. Re:Very little changes on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    it will put constraints on GUTs since they now know a GUT will not work if it can not account for a Higgs like effect.

  19. Re:Antigravity on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    suspect it is an approximation? Everyone who knows what science is knows that it is an approximation of reality...that is part of the definition of a theory.

  20. Yeah, that sucked. on Facebook API Bug Deletes Contact Info On Phones · · Score: 1

    It happened to me. I was pissed.

  21. Re:First dissent on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    You are wrong.

  22. Re:My friend died that way. on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    tax/spend and mandate? seriously?

    14.6 trillion dollar GDP for the US....the government spends half that... but what do they spend it on? PRIVATE INDUSTRY....they are not producing anything and they are not mandating private companies produce any product (regulation is not planning)

    Stop the ignorant teabagger bullshit hyperbole.

  23. Re:Now to understand what it means on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    it is free... just like Food Stamps.....

  24. Re:Now to understand what it means on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that is MEDICAID..... Totally different plan.... totally different payer (the state for Medicaid)

    the more I read in this thread the more I find those against HCR have almost no understanding of how the old or new systems actually operated.

  25. Re:Good question on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand how pre-existing condition exclusions work.

    You had cancer 5 years ago...under old pre-existing conditions, they could deny you coverage because you are at a very high risk of relapse, costing them a lot of money with very little money put into their coffers.....

    You just got in a car accident....under old pre-existing condition rules they could technically deny you but are not likely to do so since you have little risk of costing them a lot of money in the short to mid term...HOWEVER....they can deny any coverage for the care that you need to pay for related to the car accident... usually for a period of 6 to 12 months depending on the plan....

    Under the new rules neither case above can be denied for coverage, however the law does not force insurance companies to cover current catastrophic care at the time that you sign your contract so you are still on the hook for the bills related to the car accident in case 2.