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  1. How the fuck is Le Pen representing an 'alt right' party?

    Shit, I hate political labelling and even I'd describe them as 'far right'. There's nothing fucking alt about it.

    You'd have a lot more credibility if you didn't pick on the label du jour and weave it into your narrative. Try letting basic facts and objective interpretation do their thing, you'd be fucking amazed how effective it is.

    Shit, Macron is probably going to win today because the French do understand Le Pen's politics and don't want them. There's a protest vote, and there's social suicide.

  2. Wait, that was ever in doubt?

  3. Of course, because there's no difference at all between writing science fiction and marine engineering.

    Shit, at a minimum you'd have to keep adding to the driveshaft as the thing melts, causing the propellers to rise out of the water. Or did you mean jet engines, because I'd large myself silly watching someone try and shift an iceberg using a source of extreme heat.

  4. But the iceberg will be taken from the polar regions with weak sunlight to the middle east which gets more heat from the sun. So until it melts it will actually be reflecting away more heat than it would without being moved.

  5. The calculation of a sphere is a reasonable estimate of any sane shape such a berg would be naturally

    You and I appear to have very different definitions of the word sane.

    Could you perhaps link to some photographs of these naturally spherical icebergs? I mean, if it's so natural and sane then they must surely outnumber all the jagged ones I normally see in pictures.

  6. Re: Explicit profanity on FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    You think saying cockholster is appropriate around most people's mothers?

    Well, most mothers have at some point been a cock holster so sure, why not?

    Why are you singling out mothers for protection from basic language anyway?

  7. Re:About the EU, not the world on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    it is likely that this will at least be solvable by throwing more money at interpreters

    Ah, about that. The EU has something of a funding crisis hitting in 2019.

  8. Re:Glad they won't be in the EU for much longer on Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    what would they say if Ireland or Norway tried to make similar demands of the UK that the UK is making of the EU

    If Ireland or Norway wants to have tariff-free trade with the UK, share intelligence information to prevent and respond to crime and security threats and share a trans-national football competition then my guess is that the UK will agree that this is a brilliant plan and we should probably make it happen.

  9. Re:We can't pay our workers but we are still solve on IT Contractors In Australia Are Not Being Paid Due To Dispute With Payroll Service (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    the definition of financial solvency means you can pay your bills

    They can have the financial liquidity and cash flows required to pay people, and still lack the processes, technology and information required to properly execute those payments.

    They're thus solvent, just fucking shit.

  10. I said 'test the code' as the way to test the fucking process.

    Now fuck off and stop sharing your ignorance.

  11. Not terribly professional if you can't differentiate testing the code against testing its functionality and outputs.

    Also fucking hopeless if you can't translate "test the code" in a code review context to mean reviewing the code and not the person that wrote it. Do you have a babysitter translating all the user requirements for you, because it sounds like you need one.

    If you want to claim to be a professional developer, show some professionalism.

  12. Conflated them by suggesting a simple teat of your code review process?

    What are you frightened of here?

  13. Re:Surface is a failure on Surface Laptop Can Be Switched To Windows 10 Pro For Free Until 2018 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Go to an indoor event and try and see it through the fucking forest of ipads being held up to photograph or video it.

    Trust me, I'd much rather people left them at home.

  14. Re: Hiring not by merit, but by Gender on Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also entirely pointless. There are great architects, business analysts, designers, developers, testers, technical writers and other non-managerial people out there of all genders. If you're only hiring men across all those roles then it's not the candidate pool that's the problem.

  15. Wasn't that the research that showed that men get an even higher boost in acceptance rate when anonymised than women do?

  16. I'm sorry, I don't see how the two are related.

    Also, do you have evidence concerning code quality and moon phase? Do Facebook? It would surprise me if there was a link, but only a little.

  17. Are you a programmer?

    Most programmers, software engineers, developers would respond to this by going, "yeah, lets test the code"

    You don't want to retain shit code, so blind reviews are an easy way to see if your current processes are good or bad, and whether shit code is being accepted from some submitters or good code being rejected from others.

    It's a trivial, simple and obvious thing to do, to the extent that going "Occams razor" demonstrates an utter lack of ownership of the collective set of code.

    I think I just answered my own question. No, you're not a professional software developer.

  18. You raise an interesting question there. How much code is accepted, by gender.

    I'll bet it's a different percentage to the rejection rates..

  19. Re:It's About Pay: Outsourcing to Insourcing on India's Infosys To Hire 10,000 American Workers After Trump Criticism (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you send the competent people in, they wow the decision makers, provide actual thought leadership, insight and competence, and win the business.

    Then you roll in the cheap nasty clowns and charge Cirque du Soleil prices for them.

  20. Well, you can, if you reduce the amount of work the system has to do.

    By restricting it to the Windows App Store they've removed all useful work from the system entirely, so it's not a surprise it'll do fuck all very quickly forever.

    It's still doing fuck all useful.

  21. Re:It's About Pay: Outsourcing to Insourcing on India's Infosys To Hire 10,000 American Workers After Trump Criticism (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Being a fan of the idea doesn't seem to garner much hatred.
    Liking the current implementation doesn't either. Just derision and/or pity.

  22. Re:It's About Pay: Outsourcing to Insourcing on India's Infosys To Hire 10,000 American Workers After Trump Criticism (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody here who would work for Infosys?

    Well, if I wanted the consultancy lifestyle and valued money over satisfaction then yes. I have skills they desperately need and they'd pay handsomely for them.

    I just don't hate myself that much yet. Maybe when I'm ready for a 3-4 year earnings burst ahead of retirement.

  23. Re:Dyson spheres are silly fanciful ideas on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You appear to be assuming we need to keep Jupiter.

  24. Re:So use what you have on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The night time load is about 1/2 the daytime

    I'd say that's still classed as "lots of energy" and it's still a fuckload more than is generated by supposedly renewable sources.

  25. You do have to suffer the drawbacks though, namely the finder file browser is a steaming turd.

    I know what's in a document before I look for it. But I'm weird, I mentally classify everything on my disk..