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  1. Running on a raspberry pi. Easy to set up and has most of the new tv shows and films. Only issue in my mind is it lists cinema rips along with the other versions. If its out on bluray, its safe to watch on kodi.

    Might get netflix again for a month when the new Stranger Things comes out.

  2. I go down the gym to work on my glutons. They are ripped!

  3. Re:Opportunity wasted on How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The irony is its called "open source" when most of the people who believe it are "closed" to most things outside their little community.

  4. Re:First selfhosting copiler EVER! on How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I can develop a .Net Core console app on my macbook, copy the bin folder over onto a PC and run it there. What more do you want?

  5. Remember when a news presenter referred to Nelson Mandela as "African American" when they just meant black?

  6. But only 2 million asked for it.

  7. Re:ISPs can hinder anything. on ISPs Could Take Down Large Parts of Bitcoin Ecosystem If They Wanted To (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People hoard BC because you can't really do anything else with it. Most shops and sites dont accept it. You can gamble but then its the casino hoarding rather than you. ;) BC is an elegant solution in search of a problem.

  8. You just take the emphasis away from doing what you do best to making money. And you are no longer in control of your own future. Crazy.

  9. Yes indeedy on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    So much so that I rolled my own aggregator.
    https://www.redfivesoftware.co...
    No point reading 10 different feeds on a subject when you can get them all in one listing and I quite like the "tag cloud" feature i created for it.

  10. What's happened to /.? on Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Been reading it for 10 years, but just recently the quality of comments has gone right down. I'd say 80% of the above comments were just trolling each other. And its like that for most stories I read recently. Wise up or this place is going the same way as Digg.

  11. Didn't you hear his xmas song with David Bowie?

  12. SC are trying to be a social networking company now and FB is trying to be an image sharing service.

  13. By the look of it, https://ardour.org/ is a full multi track recordiing studio while http://www.audacityteam.org/ is a simple wave file editor. There is no comparrison. It is like comparing Photoshop to Paint. Audacity should have given up years ago, especially considering their bar was set so low. It only ever barely worked on OSX.

       

  14. You will be saying people still use it next.

  15. I dunno. A lot of the artists would probably like a way to jazz up the sites (hideous) interface and get some proper payment/subscription options. That would push it into (virtual goods) Etsy territory.

    Also, they could rebuild the site in Wix and it couldn't be any worse than it is now.

  16. Re:"get bluetooth" not a valid response on All Three New 2017 iPhones To Feature Wireless Charging, Says Analyst (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    1 - However much you spend on wired phones, the wire will eventually fray and break.
    2 - Sound is sssssooooo much beter on wireless phones as its not relying on the charge through the phones cable to make the sound.

    I would never go back.

  17. Re:Several answers on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    C is just Assembler with training wheels on it.

  18. Re:How to do anything in 2017 on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 2

    I have been a programmer 25 years and I have never had to manage memory in my life, and nor would i want to start managing it now. I wrote my first iOS app before they implemented ARC (automatic reference counting) and i swore blind i would never write another. I think a lot of people thought the same thing and ARC appeared with the next xcode release. There are more important things in programming then wondering if you can delete an array safely.

    As parent said, JS first, C# second and thats it. You can learn JS with just a browser and a text editor. For C# you need the community edition which pretty much lets you code anything from Hello World to a website.

    C and C++ just have too much baggage associated with them.

  19. Re:The so-called 'community standards' on The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Compared to everyone else, you do.

  20. Re:Stop using "moonshot" on Facebook Hires Google 'Moonshot' Exec For R&D (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I mean it's not rocket science.

  21. Re:Best Lawsuit Ever. on Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    Stoopid. You don't measure your mining in current $, you measure it in what it will be worth in 6 month time when 1BTC=$1000000. In that respect he has lost a lot of money. ;)

  22. one platform - end to end on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    I know Visual Studio is clunky but can open source provide anything as powerful? By that i mean you can debug/step through code in the web page, the middle tier and even in managed stored procedures in the database, all from the same IDE. Not having to swap between three different applications, from three different sources. Can OS do anything similar?

  23. Re:Translation on Lucasfilm Announces Break With Star Wars Expanded Universe · · Score: 1

    Personally there was the first Star Wars film that came out when I was 7. Full stop. Even Empire and Jedi seemed a bit unnecessary to me. I do remember talk of there being 9 films at the time though.

  24. Re:When upgrades break code on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because I would love to spend my time maintaining something that is no longer supported, while my skill set slowly goes the same way as my will to live.

    You really need to badger your managers to upgrade things every couple of years or so. If you do it continually then it is not going to be as painful as jumping a couple of releases of the language in one go. Unless you do new stuff and use the latest technologies then your working practices are going to remain the same. Things move fast these days (though not that fast in the python world). To reference a language I am more familiar with, I am sure a C# application written in .Net 1 would probably still compile and run on a new machine, however, whatever it is doing, you can guarantee there are better ways of doing it these days. Probably in half the code.

  25. Re:Registered? on Twister: The Fully Decentralized P2P Microblogging Platform · · Score: 1

    I tried that but it still says "BillGatesSux" is taken.