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  1. Re:Don't on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    When I started out learning Java nearly 8 years ago, I used IntelliJ IDEA as my IDE after doing some research into the best choice at the time. IntelliJ is certainly one of the most helpful development environments in terms of staying out of your way unless it's adding value. It can often help you overcome a few of the basic coding mistakes at first and generally makes development much more fun since you're not clambering over a pile of compile errors when you want to run your code. Eclipse is a bit more heavy-weight but on the other hand it's also free...

  2. Re:Won't Stop Crime. on Newark and the Future of Crime Fighting · · Score: 4, Funny

    For that, we have Batman.

  3. Re:elect obama on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for helping out! I'll send my CV when I get home from work.

  4. Re:elect obama on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    I personally know an IT recruiter/headhunter there who specializes in foreign recruits

    Which company does he work for? I'm currently using Hays and T2Tokyo but there aren't so many roles in my field right now (Investtment Banking IT) because of how the credit crunch has affected the majority of banks. If he would be interested in seeing my CV, let me know. Thanks!

  5. Re:Forgive my ignorance on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are plenty of useless things that aren't beautiful.

    Must.... resist... mother joke...

  6. Re:Reputable news sources on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, there are plenty of unreputable newspapers out there too...

  7. Re:I got records from @home from an ebay purchase on Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    As an aside, I hope the guy who removed the PC without checking it gets some reprimanding...

  8. Re:I got records from @home from an ebay purchase on Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    I think any company that has sensitive data should be legally required not to resell hard disks or media by themselves or as part of system. That would also fix this kind of issue...

  9. Re:I guess RBS stands for... on Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is just one machine they found. I bet there are others and they could be anywhere by now...

  10. Re:If he's REALLY Lucky, he could die conveniently on Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes and it's still being covered up today. That's why we've modded you -1. :)

  11. Re:What about VIA? on Nvidia Rumored To Be Readying X86 Chip Release · · Score: 1

    You're too nice. :)

  12. Re:Only 4 million? on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    Either way, it's a load of old bollocks as we Angles say.

  13. Re:Another USB stick has gone missing on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyway, look on the bright side. With 4m records lost and only 60m people living here, there's bound to be some overlap so less than 4m will actually be affected.

    As an alomst certain side effect, somewhere there's a very pissed off unemployed seasonal worker who's still trying to get his driving license...

  14. Re:What about VIA? on Nvidia Rumored To Be Readying X86 Chip Release · · Score: 1

    Haha, we need a new phrase. "Don't patronize the trolls". :)

  15. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    When you're finished. On time.

  16. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    when there was a more obscure way to do something, but it saved two characters of code, the PERL programmer would do it.

    If you think perl programmers are bad for that, wait 'til you see q programmers...

  17. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can only speak for investment banking but "lines per day" is not a metric which I've ever seen people actually use. Generally you are measured only one way. "Have you met your deliverables".

    There may be some architecture and best practices you have to meet in carrying out your implementation which is what this article is about I suppose. Perhaps integrating with other systems forces you to use a particular tool or language. However, in general you can do whatever you want as long as you fulfill the user and business requirements.

    That could mean perl but usually we think of that as being a fancy bash script with perhaps a bit of database interaction rather than a platform for writing server-side (or even client-side?) apps.

  18. Re:A good start. on FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel · · Score: 1

    Joebert, are you a debt-collector? It's ok, everyone's got to make a living... *cough*

  19. Re:Can a String Theorist? on Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction · · Score: 1

    Slow down there buddy, you're getting out more words that you're putting in.

  20. Something smaller! on First Public QuakeLive Footage In HD · · Score: 0, Troll

    Any chance of linking to something that we can actually finish downloading before this story drops off the bottom of the main page?

  21. Re:I did not know there a competition on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 1

    I'd much rather have the government regulating business than business regulating the government. But to each their own...

  22. Re:depressing reality check on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 1

    As depressing as it is true...

  23. Re:Spin This So Action is Taken! on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 1

    the fact that many Japanese and European cities were reduced to rubble around 60 years ago allowed them to be rebuilt with modern (for the day) construction

    I'm looking forward to super fast broadband the next time I visit New Orleans.... :)

  24. Re:Rare? on Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree. In addition, 250 systems really isn't a lot. I'm just a lay-person but it occurs to me that the easiest ones to examine via red-shift are those with a gas giant close to the sun.

  25. Re:This just in... on Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony? · · Score: 1

    It depends. If there is some technical reason for why an edit is required then maybe that's ok. Engineering the order or world events just to make some more cash doesn't really seem ethical to me.