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  1. Re:Failed to launch a monkey? on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 0

    Insert obligatory Pixies reference.

  2. Re: Open the data. on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 0

    Okay, then let's wait another 10,000 years before jumping to conclusions about climate change while we gather another data set and duplicate the results.

  3. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it wrong to yell FRAUD to a HOAX? Or is that too close you an ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLE for you?

  4. disingenuous on Copyright Industries Oppose Treaty For the Blind · · Score: -1

    `Google is being disingenuous. They are not a copyright holder, and they are actually seeking an exception for themselves ("on behalf of" the blind, of course.) What makes blind people so special that they shouldn't have to pay for books and movies. Are we legally calling them invalid? Should we take away their right to vote? Seriously, blind people aren't calling for this legislation (except the ones who would vote for a tax on their neighbor to pay themselves.) They can buy or borrow their own books and movies, and they don't need Google to permit them to do it.

  5. Re:perl 5 versus ruby versus perl 6 on The Perl 6 Advent Calendar · · Score: 0

    Funny, it was things like Moose (and it's billion relatives, all trying to implement OOP in Perl), and DBIx::Class (and it trillion relatives, all trying to implement DAO in Perl) that made me finally turn away. And it was CPAN, with it's infinity of broken modules each with their dependency on an infinity of experimental modules for which the required (conflicting) version no longer exists in CPAN that made me hate Perl.

  6. Partidge in a Parrot tree on The Perl 6 Advent Calendar · · Score: 0

    The most obvious pun. What's the state of the onion like these days Larry?

  7. Re:use fixed point instead on ECMAScript Version 5 Approved · · Score: 0

    Actually, while gas prices are advertised to the tenth of the cent, the numbers are rounded up during calculation. If you buy 10 gallons at $2.499/gallon, you'll have to pay $25

  8. Re:why use scrum in the first place on Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? · · Score: 0

    If you are implementing scrum properly you'll never have to refactor, because the customer will never prioritize it. What is technical debt to them. They want new features that do as little as can possible and still work for one specific reading of the acceptance criteria written on a post-it note that was recycled 3 months (4 sprints) ago.

  9. Re:Git and Mercurial? on Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems · · Score: 0

    One problem with svn is that it has recently become abandonware. Or rather, collabnet has stopped supporting open source subversion, and does their best to prevent you from obtaining it. As a result, subversion is effectively dead on the vine. And when the major tools vendor for Subversion clients (Eclipse) is so buggy that you're bound to get a corrupt local repository on newer version of Eclipse (with subversive or subclipse) there really isn't a a good reason to use it.

  10. Re:Also held on Microsoft campus on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 0
    I was there. Not one of the apps were written for Windows Mobile. Actually, Microsoft was hoping people would use BizSpark and "Azure", what they hope will compete with VMWare & Amazon EC2, but they couldn't deliver the development tools or hosting within the 48 hours of the competition.

    Almost everyone else wrote webapps. We decided to try using Silverlight to gain the Microsoft prize money (you had to use MS tools to get the prize.) Now we're working on implementing it with Ruby on Rails and a Twitter UI. See our prototypes at http://www.backstagecasting.com/ & http://backstagecasting.qa-site.com/

    Actually, the winner wasn't an iPhone app, it was "going to be" an iPhone app, meaning that was one avenue they pitched pursuing if they developed it further. It's just a flashcard memory game for contacts from LinkedIn. A clever, simple idea with a potential market. Check it out here http://www.learnthatname.com/

  11. Bad writeup on Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems · · Score: 0

    Git and Mercurial aren't more popular than Subversion. Not by a long shot.

  12. Re:IBM on Jazz Technical Lead Erich Gamma Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Considering how Subversion is a 20 year leap forward from CVS, and it wasn't even state of the art 10 years ago, I'd say you're being shortchanged with your ClearCase marketing wrapper Eclipse plugin.

  13. Re:You will have to know tech either way on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 0

    So you're saying that the authoritarian way worked best "traditionally" (in the 1980s) but something happened subsequently to make hiring good people more productive than pushing "responsibility" downhill?

  14. Re:You will have to know tech either way on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 0

    Everyone knows there's two z's in Lazzer!

  15. Congratulations on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 0

    You're growing up. The real test is if you will find something more meaningful than a "pet rock" game to do with your time.

  16. Re:He's also right on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 0

    C is so far from the processor, it's not funny any more. Not only do compilers have macros and optimizations that completely mutate the code, but CPUs have their own virtual stack (and cache) in between that shuffles things every which way but right. And in between, you have operating systems that abstract everything from memory management to scheduling. Long gone are the days when C got anywhere near the "bare metal".

  17. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 0

    TCL is still way more popular than every variety of Lisp combined.

  18. Re:My Kingdom for a Datagrid Element! on HTML 5 As a Viable Alternative To Flash? · · Score: 0

    Are you saying "divs" (dividers) are for layout? And "b" (bold) tags? Maybe you don't know English, but what do you think the word "table" means? Is there even such a thing as tabular semantics?

  19. Re:Cue postgres fan bois on Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? · · Score: 0

    login permissions aren't ANSI SQL, socket connections aren't ANSI SQL, character sets aren't ANSI SQL. There is a lot to a database that isn't covered in the ANSI SQL spec.

  20. Since when do judges on Craigslist Shielded From Prosecution In SC · · Score: -1

    Since when do judges get to decide who can be prosecuted? The case may be unfounded, but this complete corruption of the legal system is rediculous.

  21. Re:Unfamiliar? on In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    That is entangled with the government? Actually, it's much worse everywhere else. The French television network is no doubt tied much more explicitly to the government than any in the in the USA (besides PBS). And most places (like Great Britain) really only have 1 government owned and operated broadcast system. Actually, there has been a limited amount of private television operations in Britain (only in the last 15 years), but they're are still strongly controlled by the government much more so than the FCC in America.

  22. Re:Better off not working for them... on In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Name one atheist who has ever been demonized in America, or inhibited (even dissuaded) from expressing his religious (non)belief? Not Richard Dawkins or Clarence Darrow or anyone in between.

  23. Re:Better off not working for them... on In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    The government implicitly runs most business in France. And most people in government are from a small, mostly hereditary, clique. It'll soon be much worse in America.

  24. Re:From the Release Announcement on Parrot 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, I love perl, and I love your work. But I don't like U2 anymore and I've given up on Parrot. There've been bigger fools and more vocal than me, but few of them as aware of it.

  25. Re:Parrot development goals for each major release on Parrot 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So if practical usability is targeted for 12.0, then we'll have another 6 years to wait, if everything goes well?