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  1. This is great but. on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not much use until the vast majority of users have adopted these compatible browser versions.

    Not being intentionally negative, but how long will this take in reality?

  2. Re: Reasons not to use cryptocurrency on Someone 'Accidentally' Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they'll have enough left to buy some tulips...

  3. Re:Where is the money coming from? on Uber Commits $5 Million To Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Prevention (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    $5m? So what's that? About $1 per case of Uber drivers going afoul?

  4. Re:Fuck no on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? QA write their tests against the same SRS, they need not know what the code does, they only need to know what requirements it needs to fulfil.

  5. Where do they find these editors?

    "A USB", please, I feel ashamed coming here now. A new low.

  6. Re:Does the world really need... on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    It's perfectly fine. I run gedit in emacs all the time.

  7. These are a box on top of a pole that control a camera. A well-developed easy to use and train on interface is not required.

  8. But who the fsck chooses windows for such a device?

    I'm not a "Linux is going to be the new desktop" guy. But for this type of non user device why on earth would you put a desktop OS on it?

  9. Re:An awful lot of assumptions on Roomba Inventor Launches 'Tertill', a Weed-Killing Robot For Your Garden · · Score: 1

    I agree, you'd thing a Roomba co-inventor would have a larger budget than that device reflects.

  10. Obviously you have neither!

  11. Given Betteridge's law of headlines on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not.

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        "question": "What?"
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  13. Re:An open plan office on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I second this - developers need to remove them selves from their environment and become engrossed in what they are doing.

    No headphones? That's would be business suicide, any decent developer will likely move very quickly.

    What's the most important thing for devs? IMO being surrounded by like minded devs who enjoy their work. All the fluffy stuff around the office is not going to do anything to keep good devs, we can buy our own fluffy feel good stuff we don't *need* it from our employers (although it is welcome).

    Hardware choices? That's not about keeping devs happy, it's a economic decision. Get them the best hardware you can afford if it makes their job quicker/easier/etc. There's nothing more to it..

    We have our own toys already, I don't give a hoot what hardware I use at work as long as I'm not slowed down or restricted by it. If I am, then you've failed as an business since you're costing yourself hours of waiting for each dev each week, not a smart move.

  14. Symantec, really... Symantec...

    You mean they once had trust?

    What a strange world we live in.

    And you're trying to tell me we're *not* living in a simulation?

  15. Re:In Other Words on No, We Probably Don't Live in a Computer Simulation, Says Physicist (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Billion to one that we *are not* living in a simulation.

  16. Oh not to mention, every time you place the phone down it's face down!

    Every time you drop it, it lands face down!

    How can I use the superior rear camera?

  17. But you are carrying two, they're just stuck together to make them even less useful and more cumbersome.

  18. Re:Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    "every phone plan in existence in my narrow view of what existence is"

    Do you think there may be places on this planet that you're not familiar with?

  19. Re:Native code running in the Browser? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah..... it gives exactly the same level of portability for existing native code apps as what peek and poke gives. You nailed it.

  20. Re:Native code running in the Browser? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    So you just don't like Web Assembly?

    It's not like you've got an educated opinion about it, so you just sorta hate it.. coz... ya know. lawn and stuff...

  21. Re:What about threads? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Like Posix threads?

    Yep.

  22. Re:Native code running in the Browser? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Not quite true.

    Amongst other things, Web Assembly can do multi thread support (posix style) and actual sockets.

    For anyone wanting to port existing apps/libraries to the web, this is a significant step.

  23. Re:A waste of money on New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    USB devices can be more than file systems.

    Having autorun off is not going to stop a USB device pretending to be a keyboard or mouse or whatnot.

  24. Re:Finally we will know... on Quantum Computer Learns To 'See' Trees (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    well, it does ..... and it doesn't

  25. Re:Bullshit. Ask "The Polar Ocean Challenge" on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, it's not "well understood", oh great, let's just ignore it then and say there's no problem hey?

    I can think of a lot of "problems" that are not well understood. They are problems all the same.