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  1. Re:Flying cars! Woooooo! on Russian Defense Company Demos A One-Person Flying Car (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    Back in my day, we had goatse trollin'. Not this weak shit

  2. Re:Not this tripe again... on Bill Gates Has An Android Phone. Has Microsoft Changed? (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    They should try to perfect phone OS's and designs that plug into docking stations with bigger screens and/or CPU's. Then phones can start to replace PC "productivity" apps.

  3. Re:Institutional Racism on Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the most desperate refugees usually end up in communities made up of people from their own homeland with their culture and cultural values still intact, unlike slaves. You are comparing apples to oranges.

  4. Re:A witch hunt. on Department of Justice Demands Facebook Information From 'Anti-Administration Activists' (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The gov't should investigate people based on their threat risk and NOT their political leanings. If The Right only investigates The Left, and/or the The Left only investigates The Right, then our "law" is no better than Nazi law.

  5. They would truly be a "rocket man"

  6. NK already has them, but they only sell one-way tickets.

  7. Re:Quality? on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ALL the big consulting firms are over-priced and under-performing. They are masters at sweet-talking PHB's and clueless managers into deals, but suck at execution.

    Perhaps IBM's new strategy is to suck for less.

  8. Re:"America First", right..... on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has made it harder for IT "body shops" like Infosys to get H1B visas. He's given Federal reviewers operating orders to process and approve specialized and higher-salary requests above the typical "body shop" employee requests.

    Whether this changes anything of significance is too early to say, but he's the first politician to give it a try.

  9. Re:Terrible Metrics on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, how many US heads does one Indian head convert to in the metric system?

  10. Incentives my a$$ on Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach To Collect $90 Million (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Conservatives often say that huge inequality is necessary to motivate people to work hard, grow companies, and create jobs. However, golden parachutes like these do just the opposite. The "punishment" for screwing up is a luxurious quiet retirement.

  11. Gone in a puff of smoke on Google Quietly Discontinues NFC Smart Unlock Without Explanation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Cloud, where features disappear into The Fog.

  12. Re:Massive Sea Level Increases on 'Lost Continent' Rises Again With New Expedition (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    My question is, who caused the climate change that brought that about, and how can we hold them accountable?

    Considered the greatest sci-fi flick ending by some

  13. Re:Steve Jobs was wrong on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 2

    Jobs viewed software more like appliances: minimal intuitive switches and a get-it-done-and-move-on philosophy. He wouldn't market a toaster to tinkerers and hobbyist. You probably want a toaster that runs Linux, right? ;-)

  14. Before blockchain... on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    Learn from accounting where you can lose your job if money gets lost. Give each "transaction" a sequence number, and don't accept (process) new transactions until you receive the prior numbered package of the running sequence, and a byte check-sum indicates it's complete. If you (client) don't receive a good copy of the transaction after a certain amount of time, you request it again. Client requests also indicate which packet# they are responding to.

    However, that won't solve rendering bugs or human errors where the UI update command programmer assumes a screen image or layout that's not as expected. Screen refresh is similar to a reboot in that we re-set the dinner table because managing a long line of delta's without errors is a difficult task. Nature hasn't solved the problem either, and uses a reboot called death-and-rebirth to clean up mutations.

  15. Re:Let's address the elephant in the room on Internet Explorer Bug Leaks Whatever You Type In the Address Bar (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why always blame Republicans?

  16. Re:Oh fuck no [the orange guy] on Twitter Tests Doubling Character Limit For Tweets To 280 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    same as much to say, just twice the number of Characters in which to say it. Modern Inflation

    So now his tweets will be Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!

  17. Re:Oh fuck no on Twitter Tests Doubling Character Limit For Tweets To 280 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My first thought is now he'll be able to properly explain himself...

    Twitter will invent flying cars and Mr. Fusion before that happens.

  18. Re:Great Disturbance in the Force on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check the most likely cause of Slashdown:

    [_] Gravity waves
    [_] Hurricane
    [_] Russians
    [_] Trump
    [_] Some dumbass tripped over a cord

  19. Is that Earth talking about humans?

  20. Re:AGILE WORKS EVERY TIME on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    ssshhhhh, don't give the buzzword huggers & PHB's around here any ideas. I swear if they read enough articles saying cow-shaped buttplugs make coders more productive or software more future-ready, they'd go around shoving one up everyone's keester without asking. (Half the coders around here would claim they like it to just to please the boss, and the other half really would like it.)

  21. You mean something that's directly job-related? That's one thing, but often the Next Big Thing (or diff thing) you wish to learn is not part of the current co's plan. For example, if you are in an MS shop and want to learn PHP frameworks (or vise versa), most co's will get angry if you spend 2 hours a day on the other.

  22. DDoS Attacks Will Now Be Something You Only Read About In The History Books

    "Chapter 28. Civilization ended when the Mother of All DDoS Attacks took down an overly-confident company called Cloudflare..."

  23. Re:Life is Turing complete on 'Tetris' Recreated In Conway's 'Game of Life' (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see it nested a few times. Turtles allll the way down.

  24. Re:Pascal fan on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    where the idiot used "foo", "Foo", and "FOO" as different variables.

    You mean "where the fool used 'fool', 'Fool', and 'FOOL'."

  25. Re:Bug Conservation on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    It can be a lot more than 8 keystrokes. In some frameworks you have to pass "rows" around a lot, and type-centric languages make you keep stating the same type info over and over repeatedly redundantly. (AKA anti-DRY.) Often you only need to check types at certain key points, and that's what dynamic languages do best.

    And yes, perhaps such row-passy frameworks are poorly designed, but they are what they are. I didn't make them, I'm just payed to use them.