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  1. Re:Read PeopleWare! on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive? · · Score: 1

    This is the best advice in the comments.

    I can recommend other books, but start with this
    one.

    Another good book is "First, Break all the Rules" by
    Buckingham and Coffman.

    My personal word of advice: It is better to be
    uncooperative than to be a failure.

  2. Re:Jonathan Coulton aught to try this on Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off · · Score: 1

    I didn't say he was a comedian. The joke I was going for was
    that he should try producing and selling his music directly without DRM.

    Earlier /. article that might be of help.
    http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/05/22/1250241/Ask-Jonathan-Coulton-About-the-Transformation-From-Code-Monkey-to-Internet-Star

  3. Re:Yikes! on Book Review: The Economics of Software Quality · · Score: 1

    It contains software quality data that you can use to build a business case to improve the quality of your software

    If you have to "build a business case to improve the quality of your software," you are in deep shit. Don't buy the book, change jobs instead.

    Amen.

    As Deming said "Most of the costs of quality are unknown and unknowable."

  4. Jonathan Coulton aught to try this on Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off · · Score: 1

    oh wait, he did. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/

    How many others I wonder?

  5. I am not a lawyer on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    Nor do I pretend to play one on TV.

    I don't know what you have to do in most states to get a restraining order. I can site two cases involving friends
    in my state.

    1. Lunatic ex-girlfriend is calling the police reporting that my friend is repeatedly breaking into her house, stealing things, etc.
    They broke up over ten years ago. She never provides any evidence, can't say what was stolen and is incoherent in her dealings with the police. Police
    recommend he get a restraining order against her. He has to present the dozens of police incident reports to a judge showing
    a repeated pattern of her behavior including threats she made against hem. He gets the order.

    2. Ex-boyfriend files for a restraining order requiring another friend of mine to stay a minimum of 100 yards away. This would require
    her to quit her job because they both work at the same location. They both appeared before a judge. He presents nothing to show
    that she is a threat. No history of violence, No erratic behavior. No threats. Judge tells him to grow up.

  6. Re:I call bullshit on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 4, Informative

    I call bullshit on your bullshit.
    "A Minnesota man violated a restraining order obtained by his ex-girlfriend ..."
    A restraining order can stop someone from approaching, harassing, intimidating,
    threatening, etc.

    He did something to deserve that restraining order. Then he violated it.

    People vent on their ex'es all the time. Show me someone that has
    a restraining order just for that, and I'll agree to call bullshit on it.

  7. Re:There's a "right" way and LOTS of wrong ones. on Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? · · Score: 1

    "Each team is overseen by a local (stateside/canadian) lead programmer who can actually review the code properly."

    That is the key.

  8. Re:Does it end with IQ? on Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I think Carrier IQ deserves a little credit, no matter
    why they back tracked.

  9. Re:Computise? on $50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever · · Score: 1

    Stop or you'll embiggen wisnoskij.

  10. Computise? on $50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever · · Score: 1

    Is that a word?

    Perhaps "automate" would work.

  11. Re:they ignore us. on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    The goal of the revolution is simple.
    Dissolve the United States. The Federal
    Government is out of control and beyond repair.
    It doesn't matter who you vote for, the system
    is so corrupt no one can fix it.

  12. They don't evolve on Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge · · Score: 1

    The are intelligently rev'ed.

  13. Re:Give Em A Call on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    Good advice. It is Red Hat's job to sell their support.

  14. Re:That won't work on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    Using the dictionary is a nonsense argument while referring to a technical definition without providing a reference is a valid argument?
    Perhaps you can reference a psychiatric definition.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia
      "Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the implication of antipathy, contempt, prejudice, and aversion."
    I think there is direct evidence of antipathy, prejudice, and aversion.
    "He was a fag." Prejudicial slur. Similar to insults as "He was a nigger" or "She was a cunt".
    Wishing AIDS on someone seems direct evidence of antipathy.

    You allow "They can be manipulative by nature you know." as evidence of misogyny. Wonder why?

  15. Re:At Least it Wasn't Keanu Reeves... on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    woah!

  16. Re:At Least it Wasn't Keanu Reeves... on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    That's the spirit!

  17. Re:Political Correctness = Idiot on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    Hatred is not truth.

    Oh and
    woah.

  18. Re:That won't work on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    It is possible to dislike gays without being a homophobe,.

    No actually. Look up the definition of homophobe.

    And read the original post. AC seethes hatred and disgust.
    Next your going to tell me that someone who seethes hatred and disgust of
    women is not misogynistic.

    Not liking hatred does not make me PC.

  19. Re:At Least it Wasn't Keanu Reeves... on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    WOAH!

  20. Re:Keanu Reeves on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    woah...

  21. Re:That won't work on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 2

    He was a fag. Stop making it normal. It's not. No matter how hard you try.

    If there is anything more useless than a homophobe it is an anonymous coward homophobe.

    I bet he was afraid to approach a woman anyway. They can be manipulative by nature you know. .

    And a misogynist on top of it.
    Poltroon.

  22. Re:At Least it Wasn't Keanu Reeves... on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 2

    woah..

  23. Re:At Least it Wasn't Keanu Reeves... on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ok, where are my mod points.
    ROFLMFAO
    woah...

  24. SNL Skit on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    Was there ever any blow-back from the "Ollie North, The Mute Marine" skit?

  25. Somebody played too much Roller Coaster Tycoon. on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    EOM.