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[00:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02No - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:20] <exec> 08└─rms doesn't sell out so much as ask his assistants what the "in" thing is right now. Like Javascript or crowdsourcing. Then finds the project that most closely matches his own opinions and endorses its use and maintenance.
[00:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:Finish it? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:29] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with putting out the call for help first though.
[00:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:35] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like you think being a toothless redneck is a good thing.
[00:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:37] <exec> 08└─Well you can eat all your food thru a straw and you save a fortune on toothpaste?
[00:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─Wesnoth has been around for over 10 years, it's probably not filled with horrible hipster code (or coders). Isn't it more likely, as has been pointed out in the first post, that they have just kept adding stuff, instead of finishing and locking code in place, and by that turning the entire project i...
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wesnoth is pretty cool... - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth (and I admit it isn't much), I gotta say that it's a pretty fun and immersive game. Too bad it's suffering, here's hoping it recovers!
[00:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:51] <exec> 08└─That was implied in the summary, I thought.
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:2, Informative) 02Great collaborator - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─Good article. He's also a prolific blogger: https://terrytao.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] Does a lot of collaborative work - article mentions he made discoveries with over thirty collaborators before getting his Fields medal. Unusual because we are given the impression genius mathematicians tend t...
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─You're a derogatory moron simpleton idiot fool retard dope cocksucker.
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─Since they're a part of the community, they should know where the precise line lies. The problem isn't so much the words themselves, it's when people using them inccorectly. For words like nigger, there's very few contexts in which it's OK for anybody to say them. Other words like fag have contexts...
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─What I find most offensive is efforts to legislate morality. It cannot be effectively done, yet so many people persist in trying to do it. Next they'll try to make it illegal to even think the bad words in one's mind, even while never giving them voice. I don't use a lot of so-called offensive words...
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─This isn't an effort to legislate morality. This is a private business that chooses not to endorse offensive language. Unless they're picking and choosing to suit themselves, I don't see a problem here. It's hard to say why they're just doing it now, it might well be that nobody had complained. Auto...
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─lots of people own their own cars, so I would expect the same when these become common.
[00:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:40] <exec> 08└─You practice with extreme manoeuvres so you don't have to die in an accident. It sort of takes the fear away from drifting, losing control and so on. The stress of real life threats are too great to do extreme manoeuvres for most people perhaps, but having the ability to do them will save your life...
[00:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:23] <exec> 08└─I bill by the hour, so not having to futz with software that doesn't really meet my needs costs me more than the price of software that doesn't require the extra efforts or that has all the features I need (implemented correctly and reliably). It also makes it cheaper for my clients.
[00:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever got fired for buying IB^H^H Microsoft.
[00:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever got fired for buying IB^H^H Microsoft. Actually, in my* company anybody buying Microsoft would be. * As in "I own it", and being the boss does have some perks (admittedly it is a very small company).
[00:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03patella.whack [3848] (Score:1) 02You want child support? I want the chip records. - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:59] <exec> 08└─You want child support? I want the chip records. This might add an interesting legal twist to cases where a woman gets pregnant while falsely maintaining to her partner that she is on birth control. Did she switch off her chip, intending to get pregnant? I wonder how the courts would weigh this agai...
[00:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course. Yet, corporations + crony governments will get in the way. Witness: FDA shuts down "democratized" genetic information companies [overlawyered.com].
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[01:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─But please call it a GNU/sellout
[01:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:39] <exec> 08└─Over the years I have been invited into many of these sorts of things. Usually I can cut it off before they even start. 'i have a great idea for a game all I need is...' Meaning you have *NO* one else in the project and all you want to do is boss me around. Go pretend to boss someone around elsewher...
[01:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─I know I'm being pedantic, But your comment is mixing mathematics with physics. Mathematics is not a science, it has absolutely no requirement to describe the physical world, real or otherwise. The application of mathematics to describe the physical world is physics. Now mathmeticians are interested...
[01:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anyone teach writing these days? - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Interesting excerpt, and then this There are some people who are just too smart, and this guy is one of them.
[01:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anyone teach writing these days? - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:04] <exec> 08└─I thought that the author, Gareth Cook, did a pretty good job of writing about math -- not the easiest topic. Looked back and found another article by him on mapping neuron connectivity, http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]...
[01:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─Did his momma name him after Mickey's? [warrenbeer.com] Well, at least you still have your Chinese fire-drills, right?
[01:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:22] <exec> 08└─You're over-thinking it. The police will send a signal, which the vehicle will sense and look for a park. Where's the big deal? Self-parking will already exist (in a more autonomous fashion than at present).
[01:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 3942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:37] <exec> 08└─Dunning-Kruger effect [wikipedia.org]. I had a boss like that, he felt that because he was running a computer shop and had been doing so for 15 years (now 18 years) that he was an expert on all things computer. He's explained to me how Linux is not used by anyone, I heard him tell a customer that Li...
[01:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, I've been in situations where my skills have saved other drivers from accidents. For instance, someone was tailgating me (so close I couldn't see the top of his hood), and some dipshit pulled out from a carpark right in front of me - it took some serious motorized gymnastics to avoid being...
[01:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:46] <exec> 08└─Aaah, the Dunning-Kruger effect in action: I'm moar awesomer than college graduates because I've got real smrts and they don't done got any brians. Not smart enough or hard working enough to be a graduate, but just smart enough to be a manager.
[01:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─Your AC here. Maybe you do not care about your freedoms being violated ...
[01:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:39] <exec> 08└─In all particular cases, I just download the video using an online service.
[01:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oswald (You opened a can of worms there) - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:26] <exec> 08└─The 1st shot wasn't the best shot. No one has subsequently demonstrated that level of rapidfire marksmanship on the first try with that weapon type. Oswald was a terrible shot. [google.com] He chose an oblique position where trees obstructed his line of vision|fire. (Clearly, there was a shooter hig...
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[02:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Amiga owners - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:18] <exec> 08└─They were rare back in the day. I can imagine that nowadays most people will say "What's an Amiga?". Seriously if Apple had managed to tap into half of the cult following Amiga had, they would have maybe even over 10% market share today.
[02:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02I miss my Amiga. - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:19] <exec> 08└─It's the only computer that I have ever owned that I actually miss and have somewhat fond feelings for. It wasn't perfect, it had it's issues but I think it might have been the last machine that I actually did enjoy working with. Programming for the Amiga was fun. Perhaps it's the memories of youth...
[02:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:29] <exec> 08└─Of course RMS is not selling out. RMS and GNU have always endorsed the idea of selling things, even software. GNU itself sells software and manuals. So long as you aren't selling things with locks on them they are fine with making a living selling stuff.
[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Selling out? - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:31] <exec> 08└─How would this be RMS selling out? I saw "is RMS selling out?" and thought "Wow - did he suddenly endorse something non-free and proprietary?" This sounds totally in keeping with RMS's long established principles.
[02:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finish it? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:41] <exec> 08└─Like TV series, sometimes it's better for things to end than to drag it out. I pretend X-Files ended after season 6.
[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Turns out it's already dead. - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─It's hosted on sourceforge.
[02:14:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 1148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, physicists already know what's going on: It's the second law of thermodynamics. Certain things can happen in principle, but have an astronomically low probability to happen, and therefore won't actually happen. There's also nothing in the equations of notion that forbids the scattered piec...
[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:Host it yourself - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─Loooooooooollhoolyshit!
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's a business - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:25] <exec> 08└─This is the problem with relying on humorless, faceless fools for hosting, like the retarded GitHub admins who removed it.
[02:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:35] <exec> 08└─Don't think anybody would argue against the notion that as a private entity they are free to toss anyone off they feel like... unless they are a government protected minority of course. Doublethink at its finest. What should be going through the mind of everyone who hosts content there or depends on...
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─This should have happened long ago. Or really somebody should have pointed out how it looks. Same goes for Gimp, it's a harmless acronym, but as a name it probably doesn't send the kind of message they intend to send.
[02:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:21] <exec> 08└─Most of us were farmers, and some of the rest were soldiers. Those folks have/had a pretty close daily connection with the physical world.
[02:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Revenue Enforcement? - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:46] <exec> 08└─Once we have driverless cars, what will the traffic police do all day? Right now they effectively act as tax collectors for the state and the insurance companies.
[02:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─Yep. My father taught me to drive when I was five, he had access to a large paved area (ramp outside the aircraft hangar where he worked). Not just driving around, but sliding on ice (when he pulled the hand brake) and many other "simulated emergency" maneuvers.
[02:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Assuming there were inhabitants... - 06Companion Star Gets Its Block Knocked Off by Pulsar - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:10] <exec> 08└─"Comedy is tragedy plus time." --Carol Burnett Apparently, 7500 years isn't enough. Arthur C. Clarke handled a situation like that pretty well. "The Star" [wikipedia.org] -- gewg_
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Irreconcilable conflict - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─...pray we do not alter it any further!
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[03:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I miss my Amiga. - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:27] <exec> 08└─So maybe Get on the net and get help with the hardware? Components are being hand built by aficionado clubs.
[03:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just got mine out.... - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:28] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the heads up. I was telling my friend about it just last night. Looking for an excuse to show it off. Fun fun fun...
[03:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OT: Amigo SUV - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:29] <exec> 08└─In the 90's Isuzu, a Japanese car manufacturer, came out with an SUV called Amigo. They launched a TV ad campaign which I bet is still studied in business schools today, because it shows how an incredibly catchy, creative ad can do practically nothing to increase sales: https://www.youtube.com
[03:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:No - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─They should crowdfund RMS some limburger cheese to help wean him off of his nasty toejam habit.
[03:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:40] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it's a habit for him at this point so much as a dependency. It might be his only source of calcium! Have some heart for fucks sake!
[03:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:43] <exec> 08└─I guess it's too soon for GNU/Realtor, then...
[03:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone teach writing these days? - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─Since I am the person who wrote the "dumbass WTF comment", I thought I should say something about it. There are some people who are currently are or have lived on this planet who are very scary intellectually, and this guy is one of them. In reading this article, he reminds me a lot of John von Neum...
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:46] <exec> 08└─> You're a derogatory moron simpleton idiot fool retard dope cocksucker. And since you are a member of all those groups it is OK for you to use those terms.
[03:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:52] <exec> 08└─> Github is not under the control of the suits and any remaining geeks are out of power. You don't get to speak for all geeks. There are tons of bigotted suits and tons of respectful geeks. Just because you are kind of an asshole geek doesn't mean the rest of us are.
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[04:13:57] <exec> 08└─Suggestions? I have several, including a bunch of A2000-type (not the square boards) peripherals that I would allow an appreciative home to have.
[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Phoenix666 writes: - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:14] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666, thanks for taking the time to be an editor, but please stop with these comments you are adding to the summaries you post. It is annoying, and worse, it is damaging to the discussion which follows. As evidence, see everybody responding to your flame bait comment about RMS selling out rath...
[04:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:33] <exec> 08└─>Ideas are a dime a dozen. People to do them? Not so much. People that do get their projects deleted or cencored because they don't worship feminist cunts: http://esr.ibiblio.org [ibiblio.org] https://bugs.debian.org [debian.org] https://pipedot.org
[04:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02In need of what developers? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:38] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly, Wesnoth prides itself on being simple. As it stands, it is more than finished. Sure, bug fixes and engine improvements are always welcome, but they aren't necessary, and at this point, I don't see why Wesnoth would need more features. You could always add more content, but t...
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So far - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─now if only we could convince the climate change fearmongers of this not likely
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anyone teach writing these days? - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:02] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy if SN posted links to all his science/tech articles automatically
[04:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I take that back - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:05] <exec> 08└─GP AC here. I take that back (for what that's worth).
[04:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Host it yourself - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:18] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Github is such a popular site they should have some responsibility to not run a dictatorship. For example, if Google were to deny service to all IPs coming from Yahoo/Apple, in a sense they have that right as they provide a commercial, private search service, but on the other han...
[04:17:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tathra [3367] 02no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:41] <exec> 08└─all drug testing should be illegal as a violation of privacy and a violation of 5th amendment rights. this prohibition nonsense needs to end.
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[05:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02looked cool, but I didn't buy - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:34] <exec> 08└─I kept looking at and thinking about buying an Amiga from '85 to '90, but never did buy. Price was too high. Most of all, I wanted whichever platform was the most popular, and that was obviously the PC. In grade school in the early 80s, it was the Apple II. I never especially liked the PC, that's ju...
[05:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Selling out? - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:49] <exec> 08└─From TFA: For its part, FSF is formally endorsing Crowd Supply as its preferred crowdfunding platform for free software and open (or "Libre") hardware projects, and it will steer developers of hardware and software projects to Crowd Supply when they are looking to fund or sell their own work (or pu...
[05:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:1) 02Communications problem - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:37] <exec> 08└─This seems to be a problem at github: Any removed repository should show the reason why. For all I know, someone got hold of the developers credentials, locked them out and committed a virus-ridden last version, but right now the bit of the internet that noticed this is just agreeing with each other...
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[06:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:59] <exec> 08└─Frankly this whole thing is entirely dishonest coming from an entity called a hub for gits.
[06:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 3505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:22] <exec> 08└─By your standards, if a person isn't involved in a disastrous accident, and he is not ticketed, for x number of years, then he is a "good driver"? Some rather similar claims might be I've never been electrocuted, so I'm a good electrician. I've never crashed a plane, so I'm a good pilot. I've never...
[06:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:23] <exec> 08└─The youngest son has proven himself to be his father's equal
[06:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:19:26] <exec> 08└─Pivot tables and pivot charts. If MS did anything right that was it. Nothing I have found matches this function in excel and I use them 20 or 30 times a day.
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[07:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Amiga owners - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─Apple originally did have a similar cult following in the Apple II community. They mishandled it with the assumption that its steadfast loyalty was to the company, and got a nasty surprise when most of the members jumped ship to IBM-PCs in the early-mid 1990s. Really a shame, too... Their IIgs could...
[07:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Host it yourself - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:59] <exec> 08└─they should have some responsibility to not run a dictatorship
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[08:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amiga owners - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:25] <exec> 08└─Very true. I remember spending my days in a lab full of Apple machines. I still have fond memories of mucking around in there. The company has really changed from it's original direction and I think has really lost something along the way. I still think they make great unified setups a la BSD but in...
[08:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crutchy [179] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:43] <exec> 08└─so much as a dependency
[08:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:47] <exec> 08└─Ok, should have been more clear. Even locks are usually OK so long as it is the owner who has the keys and not the homebuilder. So unless there is other homebuilder/HOA lock in, RMS would be ok with homes having keys if the buyer gets ALL of them. He would probably object to common tricks like deeds...
[08:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02[citation needed] - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:52] <exec> 08└─Where is the FSF news release saying this is true? I don't see any.
[08:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finish it? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:04] <exec> 08└─Instead of making new features, focus on "tuning up" existing features, code, etc. Don't change anything unless players complain of imbalance or of security breach. Sometimes software is actually "finished" or close to.
[08:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:35] <exec> 08└─They say there can be multiple parallel universes created every trillionth of a second because that's what their formula produces, but until you have observational confirmation, what is it but a bunch of future chalk dust?
[08:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:37] <exec> 08└─When is he going to explain how he thinks water could possibly maybe someday one day explode? It's in the article. It's horseshit plain and simple and many "pure math" bums have ran this and other scams for far too long. Don't defend them. They love the press enough to defend themselves when it come...
[08:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:40] <exec> 08└─Actually it isn't that cut and dry, because for at least the 40+ years I've been here in the south retard is no different than dumbass or moron, a general term for dipshits. For those that had an actual disability like Down's? You would use "slow" as in "its okay, he's a little slow" and would be us...
[08:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I work with retarded people - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:51] <exec> 08└─This may have been perfect for them! Geez.
[08:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:46] <exec> 08└─It's a private org testing for legal drugs — not the US government and not for illegal drugs. Testing positive for a legal prescription drug will mean the person can't play (and thus can't create a situation where people that wish to play would feel pressured to also use the same substances), not...
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[09:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:44] <exec> 08└─has been dead for over a decade. At one point, it was a legit alternative to Slashdot, and could have been Reddit before Reddit. It has been nothing but trolls since around 2004 or so. Shame.
[09:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Netcraft? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:45] <exec> 08└─What does Netcraft have to say about this?
[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:OT: Amigo SUV - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:15] <exec> 08└─How is this offtopic?
[09:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:34] <exec> 08└─It's not RMS, it's rms. http://geekz.co.uk [geekz.co.uk]
[09:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:[citation needed] - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:39] <exec> 08└─this is the joint press release: https://www.crowdsupply.com [crowdsupply.com]
[09:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In need of what developers? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:03] <exec> 08└─something about multiplayer and windows/osx support
[09:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:16] <exec> 08└─Entropy says the glass isn't putting the band back together. Hollywood isn't about to make a movie about it.
[09:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is a test by the supervisor... - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the reference. I also agree with you.
[09:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great collaborator - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:33] <exec> 08└─Recruitment piece for Tao. Only freak out if he attempts to become "One of the President's tech advisers". ; or if he does it defacto through major corps, like CTO of MSFT, etc. The man is a charlatan and the article is a fraud.
[09:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a business - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:53] <exec> 08└─I don't have to read the rest of your shit. The answer is "Don't Use Github" if you thing your code is worth anything. The End. I know it's not dramatic but....
[09:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 2116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:32] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhmmmmm - no I haven't excluded myself. I'm part of the driving population. I am part of your statistics. And, if we are going by statistics, I'm in the upper percentiles. And, I've placed my youngest son up there as at least my equal. Again, I suggest that you go out and OBSERVE traffic. Assumin...
[09:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:capitalism is never simple - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:13] <exec> 08└─They already do through shell companies.
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[10:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Don't buck the system - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:01] <exec> 08└─The Corporate States of America can't afford to have anyone on the air who might expose real corruption. It just can't be tolerated.
[10:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Informative) 02Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:11] <exec> 08└─I popped into this "Kuro5hin" place a few times over the years, because I kept seeing oblique mention of it here and there, and never could quite grasp why anyone would want to go there on a regular basis. It always seemed visually unattractive, incoherent and unfriendly to me. Right now what I see...
[10:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guests in some else's house - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:03] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, assholes are being discriminated against everywhere. No other kind of person faces such universal loathing everywhere across the world. But I guess it's okay to discriminate against people, as long as we don't like them. My question for you is did you understand the difference and...
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[11:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't buck the system - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:57] <exec> 08└─They spent a lot of time making sure no-one took any notes out of the initial negotiations, some folks somewhere must be furious that someone actually spoke about this in public before they'd finished railroading it through.
[11:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:09] <exec> 08└─If you have further information regarding this story
[11:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02The name might need a rethink - 06Windbot Could Float Through the Clouds of Jupiter - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─WindBots, or "persistent in-situ science explorers for gas giants,"
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[12:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is wrong with you? - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:31] <exec> 08└─You watch live TV? Nobody with a clear mind watch live TV. What is wrong with you?
[12:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kushan [5709] (Score:1) 02Re:And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:43] <exec> 08└─Can confirm this, never heard of it before.
[12:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:44] <exec> 08└─It was/is another forum site that popped up at around the time of the original Green Site, and in the late nineties there was a time when I was visiting it along with Slashdot. They had a rather different way of choosing stories to show up on their main page than we do it here, more similar to the w...
[12:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:46] <exec> 08└─God damns these days don't know shit about shits.
[12:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:The name might need a rethink - 06Windbot Could Float Through the Clouds of Jupiter - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, also, the idea of a flying robot that looks like a placeholder in a 3D environment might be cool to the "concept artist" but surely something that doesn't look like a cross between Lord Vader's ship and a rubics cube is really going to be better...
[12:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02I have a 'New Amiga' and it's a blast. - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:19] <exec> 08└─It's a 2009 model with an 800 Mhz Sam440ep chip. Basically a PowerPC 604 with no L2 cache. It just barely has enough processing oomph to play a DVD with a software decoder, to give you an idea of how much raw power that is. And it's loads of fun. It's more stable than the old Amigas - most 'Guru Med...
[12:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Learning tool - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:21] <exec> 08└─I got mine to explore the world of computer graphics. But I got the urge to develop a remotely controlled motor controller. I learned Manx Astec C, hacked out 6502 and Z8 assembler/linkers. and built a crude development system which had a "pretty printer" driver for C source code. I never did the gr...
[12:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:In need of what developers? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:06] <exec> 08└─Eternal platform churn. Memory is fuzzy but I think I was playing using SDL (not x-windows) on a linux box about a decade ago, played for many dozens of hours thru most of the quests, and just a couple years back I was playing it on an android tablet. Who knows what madness is required to port to ja...
[12:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:19] <exec> 08└─maybe 3 leagues then, normal, doping, and computer.
[12:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 2243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:21] <exec> 08└─We have tons of artificially enhanced humans playing sports, think of shoes, football safety gear like helmets, eyeglasses... What gets interesting is whole new competitions open up when you allow artificial enhancements like those poles for pole vaulters or automobiles for race car drivers. Likewis...
[12:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Hemingway - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:42] <exec> 08└─Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports
[12:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:13] <exec> 08└─You've simply pushed the question back one layer. Why do schools buy MS Office when there is a free, compatible alternative? The joy of spending Other People's Money? And teachers whine that they're perpetually underpaid... > MS has been pushing Office in schools Well sure. Every money hungry compan...
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[12:19:30] <exec> 08└─It's lucky you never have to open files with references or cross-references [documentfoundation.org].
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[13:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score:1) 02I'm comfortable with what I do. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:21] <exec> 08└─I program in PHP, and I won't apologize for it. Sure, the language has some problems, but it's fixed a lot more than it has. But I also program in Swift. And Objective-C. And C, C++, Java, Perl, and even a little bit of Python and Ruby when the situation calls for it. I use the language that best fi...
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm comfortable with what I do. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─Well, that settles it. Dan Aris has the biggest programming e-penis of us all. To paraphrase some great American poets, He can do magic; he can have anything that he desires Magic, and he knows he's the one who can put out the fires He knows darn well, when he casts his spell he will get his way Wh...
[13:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Been there done that - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds close enough to my story, only I was doing JavaEE and boring business applications. The burnout hit me like a truck, I couldn't even look at the code in the IDE without having a feeling of disgust. Thankfully web development isn't my main job so I could stop coding for a while. I didn't even...
[13:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:26] <exec> 08└─Man, this is deep stuff for early morning on the weekend. Becoming a "better programmer" can mean many different things. You think that the peeps at Cordova who come up with how HTML5/JS apps wrap up and execute cross platform aren't really sharp? You think understanding, at a Computer Science-y mat...
[13:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Netcraft? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:45] <exec> 08└─I just heard some sad news on talk radio - random worse-than-slashot discussion site kuro5hin was found dead in its Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the SN community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy its work, there's no denying its contributions to...
[13:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:In need of what developers? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:09] <exec> 08└─the bug tracker [wesnoth.org] shows quite a long list of bugs on various platforms (366 at present marked as "Bug", including a few pending "Blocker" fixes); that's quite a workload..
[13:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a business - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:58] <exec> 08└─One should use the appropriate vocabulary for the occasion.
[13:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:09] <exec> 08└─Since they are actually part of that community then it isn't a derogatory usage.
[13:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think that someone is an "asshole" merely for using certain words or not being oversensitive.
[13:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:17] <exec> 08└─For words like nigger, there's very few contexts in which it's OK for anybody to say them.
[13:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:31] <exec> 08└─It does matter, because I want to know the truth about this. If it turned out people were offended, I would indeed tell them to toughen up. GitHub can do what it wants, but it's not immune from criticism. My comment was no troll; people who criticize oversensitivity are not automatically trolls.
[13:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:19] <exec> 08└─It is possible to build a truly open source hardware
[13:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:23] <exec> 08└─Where's the big deal?
[13:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─Aaah, the Dunning-Kruger effect in action
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[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:20] <exec> 08└─What's the issue here? There's nothing wrong with dressing like a professional, in a professional setting.
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─And why not? Those guys [telegraph.co.uk] were cool.
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:23] <exec> 08└─Who are they?
[14:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Been there done that - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─Your story reminds me of The Legend of Max-P [reddit.com]. Max-P told us all that I'm currently in a state where I litterally just can't write code. At all. I get dizzy, headaches, I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor.
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─Huh? Why did you choose such awful examples? Cordova is crap. It's not something to be proud of. It's not an accomplishment. All it really is is a tool that creates a native mobile app (compiled with tools provided by somebody else!) that ties together HTML5/JS/CSS (provided by somebody else!) with...
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:37] <exec> 08└─Hell, even in America kids in high school are taught statistics!
[14:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A agreed web development is crap - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─I work have still do work in the "real" machines. I think of myself as a systems programmer today, since I have crossed the line into the "black-arts" of true bits and bytes. I wrote multi-way tree indexes with compression, encryption, intertask commutation (queues) and other "exotic" stuff, all in...
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Sounds Like Poor Choices To Me - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 2413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─I've been programming for over 35 years. I've programmed in over 25 languages in my career, from different assembly languages, to very platform/situation specific languages, to even the often disrespected PHP & JS. And you know what? I did my job no matter what language it was, and whether or not I...
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds Like Poor Choices To Me - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─This "Web developers are not real programmers" and "they don't understand just how easy their 'jobs' are" sounds a lot like sour grapes to me.
[14:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Most programmers are not engineers. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:44] <exec> 08└─Only if you can write a computer program and take full responsibility for is correct operation instead of hiding behind some bullshit disclaimer could you be considered an engineer, because engineers don't just design things; they take the fall if what they design fucks up, and this simple fact has...
[14:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most programmers are not engineers. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─Do you really think that modern airliners and elevators don't use software? Guess what: THEY DO! Bridges that move are controlled by software. Fuck, even some static bridges have software that controls their lighting and other signage. You chose some bad examples, chump!
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most programmers are not engineers. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─those examples are developed by engineers i didn't say "all" programmers. i said "most" ...chump!
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Yup, at 3 years - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─This sound very familiar. I experienced the same crap after about three years of Java, Python, and yes, web crap. This was back when the hot new thing was to have a 3-tier application, before fancy web frameworks and unit tests were commonly understood concepts. I've also had many people working for...
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, at 3 years - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:52] <exec> 08└─Honestly, nothing involving programming is really that hard. It all boils down to 1's and 0's, if-then-else's for heavens sake.
[14:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02On the schneid. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:54] <exec> 08└─When these kind of mental blocks occur, maybe it's worthwhile to look at what else is happening in your life at the time. I'm thinking about some famous baseball players who went into slumps so bad it was thought they might never play in the big leagues again. With Joey Votto, it was the death of hi...
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02That's why it's called "work" they pay you for it - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's called "work" because they have to pay someone to do it. CRUD software, web apps, mental illnesses like Android development, and so on pay the bills. With the money you make doing them, you can buy Dover books on pure math and be as deep as you want. Works for me. Not caring about what yo...
[14:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Why focus on non-issues? - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─been more attentive to issues focused on economic inequality, labor unions, and the wider economy
[14:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02whenever I see Chuck Todd - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:02] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded of a CSB. Some 10 years ago he made a bet with another TV guy, if he lost he'd shave off the goatee. He lost, the goatee stayed amid much hemming and hawing. Now every time I see Todd I think "welsher", and my opinion of him drops quite a bit.
[14:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:09] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is following the same trajectory as Kuro5hin. It started out as a legitimate alternative to Slashdot, but it has been downhill since then, while Slashdot has even managed to improve (or at least halt its decline).
[14:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score:2) 02Re:Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:11] <exec> 08└─Slashdot will be dead to me as long as they continue to run auto-playing video ads. Not only are they obnoxious, but having webpages continue to suck up bandwidth after the page loads means that I have to worry about what webpages I have open before answering my VoIP phone. If Slashdot stops the vid...
[14:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:13] <exec> 08└─I have noticed there is a bit more noise since the SN beginnings. But I don't notice it getting worse. I remember visiting k5 in the beginning and I liked /. better at that point. I then forgot about k5 until about 2011 or so and visited again. Every post was a troll post. There were no conversation...
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[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bytram [4043] (Score:2) 02Comms? - 06Windbot Could Float Through the Clouds of Jupiter - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─If the satellite is tumling around in turbulence, how will it orient an antenna to get the data back to Earth? Or is the idea that the *outer* structure can tumble, and an inner structure is, say, gyroscopically stabilized? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the article? What am I missing?
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score:2) 02Re:I miss my Amiga. - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─A few months ago I started to try and bring my old CDTV (basically an A500 in a Hifi-type case) up to speed and found amibay [amibay.com] to be a nice little trading spot for used and custom-built Amiga parts.
[14:15:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─Of course RMS is not selling out. RMS and GNU have always endorsed the idea of selling things, even software. GNU itself sells software and manuals. So long as you aren't selling things with locks on them they are fine with making a living selling stuff.
[14:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─Tho I was being a smartass, consequently you bring up some good points!
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[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─The Professionals, of course!
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─Here's some background [wikipedia.org].
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─Speculation -- the issue here is some middle manager (with no experience in R&D work) throwing their weight around. I predict a reduction in output from these R&D teams...and there will be an increase in the graffiti about management in the rest rooms. An R&D facility that I've visited over a 50 ye...
[15:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─Not this shit again. I ranted about this for ages on the Other Site. To summarize, professionalism should be about getting the job done, nothing more, nothing less. Other people's taste in clothing should have fuck all to do with that. The customers need to learn to deal with this shit. It's the 21s...
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:29] <exec> 08└─The customer pays your bills. Whoever pays your bills, when they say 'jump', you ask 'how high?'...
[15:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Funny) 02Still exist? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:31] <exec> 08└─OK I'll take the bait: Given R&D teams within HP
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:4, Insightful) 02I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─Easier solution - don't take your customers to the engineers, bring selected (and pre-warned) engineers to your customers in a controlled setting. Then your staff and customers can both be happy.
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─Easier solution - don't take your customers to the engineers, bring selected (and pre-warned) engineers to your customers in a controlled setting. Then your staff and customers can both be happy.
[15:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:36] <exec> 08└─The visiting people is a side issue. Have you worked in an office with 10K+ people? Professionalism is the fine graphite dust that allows the human gears to mesh without jamming. All it takes is for one asshate to dress down. Really down. Ride a bike to work and not change. The perception changes. L...
[15:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:3, Informative) 02Dess for the job you want to keep. - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─The only time I've been subject to a strict dress code was in my first internship, and even then it wasn't all that strict, but I kinda understand companies that want to enforce a particular corporate image. Dressing the way you want on the job is a privilege, not a a right.
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only to Enterprise Services Group - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─The article says the notices were only sent within HP Enterprise Services Group, their professional services division whose headcount largely came over with Carly Fiorina's Compaq acquisition. Not to all programmers in HP. But don't let that ruin a Register's usual "tsk, tsk, those silly Yanks" pers...
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only to Enterprise Services Group - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that in my little corner of HP, the dress code is much more relaxed. The only instructions for upcoming customer site tours we get is clean(er) desks and visible badges.
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Personally... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─If I were looking for top notch people, I wouldn't care what they were wearing. But, you can polish a turd, as is M$ business as usual.
[15:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:52] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem Perl has is its old, so just like mysql, you get all kinds of authoritative pronouncements that it doesn't have and never will have XYZ or whatever ridiculous stuff that was true in '94, but it hasn't been '94 for a little while now, and its been shipping with that since '95. See...
[15:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:54] <exec> 08└─Hahahahah, suckers actually give a fuck about programming for a living for any reason other than to eke out the minimum productivity to not get fired and actually have a life. You know, surfing, hunting, fishing, basketweaving, playing or listening to music, playing video games, going for a walk in...
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds Like Poor Choices To Me - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah - the line is: The consensus on programming forums is that web developers are the lowest tier of software developers. Web development is easy, it's not real programming, it's just CRUD frameworks and APIs doing all the real work for you
[15:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds Like Poor Choices To Me - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─"So, why have you have decided not to do this 'easy work' better than everyone currently doing it, and in the process pick up a salary which will allow you to retire in a couple of years?"
[15:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most programmers are not engineers. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a lot of "My dad makes more money than your dad. My dad is a real engineer, your dad is just a code monkey. My dad..."
[15:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Wrong neighborhood - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─God have mercy on your soul if HN or /r/programming learns you
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What else would you expect... - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:19] <exec> 08└─From a network that has the biggest Racist/Bigot preaching (hint) his crap.
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:35] <exec> 08└─There was a short glorious period, where people were posting rather long articles to k5 (fiction, deep reviews, lifehacker-style howtos, etc.), commentary was insightful, moderation was innovative, etc. Then like a meteor, the site burned out. Money was partly responsible. People who experienced the...
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─Get off my lawn.
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Comms? - 06Windbot Could Float Through the Clouds of Jupiter - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:50] <exec> 08└─I'd be shocked if they didn't communicate with an orbiter relay, like the Mars rovers.
[15:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02interesting development - 06Nanostructured Glass Can Switch Between Blocking Heat and Blocking Light - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Please keep posting interesting developments like this -- even if they don't generate any comments.
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Way to go ... - 06Nanostructured Glass Can Switch Between Blocking Heat and Blocking Light - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:59] <exec> 08└─I know it's a long way from this research to a commercially viable product but it looks very interesting and anything making buildings more energy efficient is to be welcomed.
[15:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Re:Amiga owners - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:10] <exec> 08└─I jumped from Apple ][ to an Atari ST about that time. The Ataris were comparable to the early Mac IIs. Someone in our dorm had an Apple IIgs. It seemed to work well, but was really late to market and very slow by comparison. The Amigas were faster with more features than the Atari, but about 3x the...
[15:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:14] <exec> 08└─And the most popular series of books ever is the "... For Dummies" series.
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[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─OK so why doesn't every company give each of their customers free lifetime support, blackjack, hookers, the secret of eternal youth and a 2% stake in the company? Oh, that's right, it's about balancing the needs of the company and its employees with the needs of the customer.
[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─It's pointless and uncomfortable people are less productive.
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still exist? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:38] <exec> 08└─I believe in memristors
[16:13:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─Easier solution - don't take your customers to the engineers, bring selected (and pre-warned) engineers to your customers in a controlled setting. Then your staff and customers can both be happy.
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Easier solution - don't take your customers to the engineers
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Soulless Cubicle Farms - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─Dressing the way you want on the job is a privilege, not a right.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Personally... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─If I were looking for top notch people
[16:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt, put on this tie
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Dude, this is the Services Division... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─You know, the ones that actually meet with customers most of the time? Organizations who have thousands of workers like HP need policies. Some are set at the corporate level, some at the organization level, and some at the group level, but they are needed. And, yes, fewer and smarter are better than...
[16:14:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03microtodd [1866] 02Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─Man, this is deep stuff for early morning on the weekend. Becoming a "better programmer" can mean many different things. You think that the peeps at Cordova who come up with how HTML5/JS apps wrap up and execute cross platform aren't really sharp? You think understanding, at a Computer Science-y mat...
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Sounds Like Poor Choices To Me - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─why have you have decided not to do this 'easy work' better than everyone currently doing it
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, at 3 years - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─It all boils down to 1's and 0's, if-then-else's for heavens sake.
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Wrong neighborhood - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:25] <exec> 08└─I was thinking this exactly. I've seen the same attitude all over the internet, and in fact I saw the same attitude from my classmates in school and from local professionals. The thing is... the people with these smug attitudes in reality have almost none of the skills they proclaim to be necessary....
[16:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beige [3989] (Score:1) 02The real problem here isn't PHP - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really make any sense to me that the blogger would buy all these books on programming and then not bother reading them. What's the actual problem that he is trying to fix? Burnout? If it's not a case of burnout then why worry about whether developing in language X is prestigious or not? A...
[16:14:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Don't buck the system - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─The Corporate States of America can't afford to have anyone on the air who might expose real corruption. It just can't be tolerated.
[16:14:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] 02Re:Don't buck the system - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:36] <exec> 08└─They spent a lot of time making sure no-one took any notes out of the initial negotiations, some folks somewhere must be furious that someone actually spoke about this in public before they'd finished railroading it through.
[16:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─I just got here recently, and on the whole I have nothing to complain about. It's a lot more like Slashdot was when I first registered over a decade ago. Probably even a bit better. Even before the stupid Beta stuff Slashdot was on a downward spiral. Nothing, including the quality of trolling, was i...
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─We have a pretty good crowd so far. Many of us even paid to support it. Yea, there are trolls and assholes but a. that can't be filtered and b. is something that is unavoidable. Who's to say that troll posts cant come from some of our more esteemed members?
[16:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─I popped into this "Kuro5hin" place a few times over the years, because I kept seeing oblique mention of it here and there, and never could quite grasp why anyone would want to go there on a regular basis. It always seemed visually unattractive, incoherent and unfriendly to me. Right now what I see...
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kuro5hin's forum software - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─That site uses Slash/Slashcode. As I first visited K5 after it was already in decline, that was the only interesting thing I found about the site. -- gewg_
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Re:Kuro5hin's forum software - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─K5 doesn't use Slash, it uses Scoop [scoopdev.org]. DailyKos used it for a while. Much like k5, scoop is pretty much dead these days.
[16:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Office building pricing needs to change - 06Nanostructured Glass Can Switch Between Blocking Heat and Blocking Light - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─In a market where the office building owner has to pay property tax on the cost of high tech efficiency upgrades (and interest on the loans for the cost) if the owner installs them, but tenants have to pay the higher utility costs if he doesn't then the upgrades don't make financial sense to the dec...
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[17:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─OK so why doesn't every company give each of their customers free lifetime support, blackjack, hookers, the secret of eternal youth and a 2% stake in the company?
[17:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:44] <exec> 08└─A common trick at my last employer was for employees to have a nice-ish shirt with the company logo hanging in their locker or cubicle that they could throw on in a moment's notice to instantly look professional in case customers visited.
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:53] <exec> 08└─Regardless of helping design the V2, he did design the most reliable rockets that put us on the moon. It wasn't like he was the one pushing the big red button in WWII.
[17:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dude, this is the Services Division... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:56] <exec> 08└─For many years I was a sort of on-site customer interface for HP to a big defense contractor. In that time I talked to a lot of people from their customer - i.e. DoD types. And on more than a couple of occasions they expressed to me that when they were talking contracts and money they expected to ta...
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Anecdote, ca. 1996 - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─I was contracting for a rather big medical analytics company and had my own in-house development seat for a while. The room also had seats for 2 company developers (ladies) and was detached from the remaining department, one floor above. Hardly anyone who didn't have the need to have something done...
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why it's called "work" they pay you for - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─no one wants a C programmer for anything.
[17:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Look Down Your Nose.. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:34] <exec> 08└─You can call web developers anything you want. For me, I have paid the bills and built websites for almost 20 years. In PHP/MySQL and before that in ASP (not .NET) with Access databases, one of which is 15 years old and runs like a top to this day. Javascript and HTML until the cows come home. Aroun...
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What else would you expect... - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:49] <exec> 08└─>From a network that has the biggest Racist/Bigot Who fucking cares if someone has prejudices? You remind me of those double-think, thought crime types that have shoehorned their beliefs on male dominated communities as of late.
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What else would you expect... - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─Hate-speech is not a thought crime. That's just a term you use in hopes that you can convert to victimism.
[17:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:08] <exec> 08└─> there are a disturbingly large number of occurrences of the name "Michael David Crawford" and just general weirdness. Deja Poo. [soylentnews.org] The best we can hope for is enough weight from others that he can't tip this boat over.
[17:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Phoenix666 writes: - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─Hear, hear!
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[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─Oops. Accidentally submitted my last post before finishing... Let the community decide how to discuss the article. I know you already stated that you put in an opinion to stimulate a discussion: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Though I have anoth...
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02No Apologia Here - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 3080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not an editor, I only submit articles. Those I choose to submit are those which I think Soylent might find interesting. The manner in which I do that, ie. an excerpt representative of the article in blockquote tags and a quip from me, is consistent with time-honored practice from the early days...
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Turns out it's already dead. - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─Is it? [wesnoth.org] For real? [github.com]
[17:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:So far - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:12] <exec> 08└─I think you may have meant arbitrarily large, rather than infinite. Conservation of energy is more about local conservation, that "energy" cannot teleport, and the only way for energy to become infinite would be for it to teleport from an infinite number of locations.
[17:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─> The majority is borderline retarded. Including yourself as your shallow response was so predictable that I considered pre-empting it. But then figured I'd just flame any idiot who was actually so self-righteous as to post it. The reason most of those things don't get fought is because of (a) fear...
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It's awesome that we have a choice - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─I believe you're right. However, that's not going to work for vast swathes of the world where population density drops beneath an urban threshhold. I am pretty sure an autonomous car is going to have a hard time driving on the rutted roads I grew up driving on out West, and it's probably also not go...
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[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Disgusting. - 06Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon as UN Body Issues Contracts - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─Fucking disgusting. Shameful. The human cancer has literally become a bottom-feeder to sate its gluttonous appetite for consumerism. Nothing is sacred to the human cancer. It knows no shame. It will kill its host and then die along with it.
[18:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disgusting. - 06Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon as UN Body Issues Contracts - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:24] <exec> 08└─Fucking disgusting. Shameful. The human cancer has literally become a bottom-feeder to sate its gluttonous appetite for consumerism. Nothing is sacred to the human cancer. It knows no shame. It will kill its host and then die along with it.
[18:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─And so was this guy! [wordpress.com]
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:50] <exec> 08└─But my(*) service is not jumping. Jumping is easy, and they can turn to anyone if I'm not in the mood. My service is software development, and the market is such that demand is still higher than availability. So, they can ask someone else to do the development or they can bear with my qualification...
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:58] <exec> 08└─i love it when other people project their vanity on others. what makes you comfortable must make everyone comfortable so why should anyone complain. Why should anyone be forced to work in a place with thousands of individuals, when you can work at a place with 1 individual ten thousand times
[18:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:07] <exec> 08└─No, he just made sure that thousands of slaves died during the construction of the V2s. He was a war criminal who was let of the hook by the US military. A great shame.
[18:14:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02Anecdote, ca. 1996 - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 1543 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─I was contracting for a rather big medical analytics company and had my own in-house development seat for a while. The room also had seats for 2 company developers (ladies) and was detached from the remaining department, one floor above. Hardly anyone who didn't have the need to have something done...
[18:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anecdote, ca. 1996 - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:14] <exec> 08└─The funniest one I worked at they had one rule 'no bunny slippers' I will leave it to your imagination why they had that rule. Everyone at that job pretty much dressed accordingly to their position. VPs nice business casual, sales suits/casual (depending on customer), eng shorts/jeans tshirts. Print...
[18:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 1837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is on the front page of Kuro5hin, attributed to Crawford: The screen at the center showed a badly deformed Brian Lazara, in the midst of being tortured. On day 1 of the benevolent Crawfordian rule, which began the day after he successfully solved the software problem, Crawford's minions b...
[18:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:I miss my Amiga. - 06The Amiga Turns 30—"Nobody Had Ever Designed a Personal Computer This Way' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:06] <exec> 08└─It wasn't perfect, it had it's issues
[18:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. Clueless newbs who do not understand GNU - 06Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember when I heard the first time about "wheel" without knowing what it was, except that it was somehow related to permissions. Sitting on a Linux system, of course my first instinct was to try man wheel which indeed turned up a man page. But instead of explaining what wheel is, it contai...
[18:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:21] <exec> 08└─Well, for that statement to work you need a few modifications to the experimental conditions. If friction is present, e.g., reassembling the glass isn't symmetric to shattering it...you need to totally eliminate friction and have a closed environment with totally elastic walls. (I think the elastic...
[18:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:23] <exec> 08└─Microscopically, friction is also nothing else but ordinary motion. The non-reversibility of friction is again the second law in action. If you look at the fundamental equations, everything is indeed symmetrical. Including the interactions which macroscopically we see as friction.
[18:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─If you want the explanation, read the math. The English is merely a very rough translation of what the math is saying.
[18:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:29] <exec> 08└─There is nothing more true to reality than mathematics.
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:31] <exec> 08└─While in a sense that is true, there is also nothing more false to reality than mathematics. Math is both the truest and falsest description of reality, because it's the most precise and consistent. This is why an earlier poster said that math was not a science. It's also why Einstein said: As far...
[18:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Naming … - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:27] <exec> 08└─They should rename the project "WebM for GitHub admins"
[18:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:33] <exec> 08└─they'd show it on ESPN/ESPN2 for sure. i've seen competitive lumberjacking on ESPN. i've seen competitive jump-roping on ESPN, not to mention cheerleading, strong-man competitions, and all kinds of shit. ESPN will show just about anything.
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[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:deep sea drilling/mining is a bad idea - 06Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon as UN Body Issues Contracts - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, but cutting down on consumption is hard and most people are lazy.
[19:13:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─Not this shit again. I ranted about this for ages on the Other Site. To summarize, professionalism should be about getting the job done, nothing more, nothing less. Other people's taste in clothing should have fuck all to do with that. The customers need to learn to deal with this shit. It's the 21s...
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─You need to check your grammar, or your logic...probably both. Don't worry though. When you want to be a slave there are many masters waiting for you to come through the door in your three-piece.
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─OK so why doesn't every company give each of their customers free lifetime support, blackjack, hookers, the secret of eternal youth and a 2% stake in the company?
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─I manage the programmers for one of my clients. The client's office dress code is "business casual". I tell the programmers to wear something nice enough that they wouldn't be ashamed to see it in a family portrait, but not fancy enough that it would be OK church. They get it, and they comply. As a...
[19:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dude, this is the Services Division... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─Here's the checklist: - black t-shirt - ponytail - sandals - weird laugh - lots of references to science fiction authors and movies Scoring: one point for each item on the list. If they don't have at least 4, then get them out of there - they don't know anything about software.
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Doing it wrong - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─Armed with impulsive spending habits and a sense of urgency, I went to Amazon and purchased just about every programming book not related to web development I could find. Cryptographic protocol implementations in C, Embedded Systems development, Linux Kernel Development, etc. I wanted to learn thing...
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The real problem here... - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─...is the old saying: "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value." In the industry's continual rush to hire cheap programmers, we've witnessed wave after wave of low-learning-curve languages, libraries, frameworks, and IDEs. Plenty of weeken...
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02It's About the Advertising $ - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:13] <exec> 08└─MSNBC is in the same business as Fox News. Selling ads. The largest portion of the ad revenue comes from business interests, who may behave unethically with respect to labor, consumers, or the environment. So from now on being "liberal" at MSNBC will consist of talking about police brutality, racism...
[19:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same thing - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─My impression is more "political hack" than "political analyst".
[19:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:desensitizing - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:28] <exec> 08└─The fact that we actually have a "-1 I disagree" mod option is a much needed improvement over the /. system. I don't think anybody really thinks that all those -1 posts over there are just because somebody is wrong and spouting useless BS. I've watched at times as people waste 10 or more points usin...
[19:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:37] <exec> 08└─The best we can hope for is enough weight from others that he can't tip this boat over.
[19:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:45] <exec> 08└─A handful of words about what Kuro5hin is would have been nice. We don't all know everything.
[19:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:48] <exec> 08└─Anything goes? In gaming all that means is "assisted gamers" i.e. bots competing against other bots.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─not that they'd go to jail.
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[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Oh sure? - 06The Geometry of String Theory Compactifications (I): the Basics - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─It's all perfectly clear now ;-~
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"We owe it to future generations" - 06Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon as UN Body Issues Contracts - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─I readily agree but that argument fails to convince those with more short-term interests. A few months ago the Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy, well-written story on the threats wind and solar power to coal and the electrical grid. Yes: threats. While well-written I fiund that story sickening beva...
[20:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:02] <exec> 08└─It's the 21st century.
[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:11] <exec> 08└─There was a dress code. A standard to be met. For years as a junior I met it with decent boots, black trousers with dark blue or black polo. Good enough to scrape in under the definition of smart casual. You are right. These people do not have to work with thousands of other people. In most cases th...
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a suggestion ... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Moral drops.
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─So, I guess NASA and the entire space program should be banned due to it's connection to slavery.
[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Generations - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:30] <exec> 08└─Before my generation (Jones), it was normal for people to judge the people by their clothing, or more generally their appearance, especially with respect to their professional competency. This is actually a dumb idea. One thing I'd applaud generations coming after mine for, is that they don't do tha...
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Re:Generations - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─Well said. I was hoping society had moved beyond outdated styles of dress, but apparently not; I just see this as yet another sign that we're regressing even further. It's becoming the 1950s all over again (complete with McCarthyism).
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real problem here... - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─The new shiny thing now is Java in SAP. Consultants say it can replace the mainframe. Managers are puzzled why this multimillion dollar gas guzzler cannot process millions of transactions per hour. Just another phase. Like webMethods. Sure, you could write the same thing yourself but why would you w...
[20:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:28] <exec> 08└─Come over here and do this. There is a guy on The Project who could do with this kind of intervention. Just because an enemy is helping you today that not make them any less of an enemy tomorrow.
[20:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Kuro5hin is a community website for writers - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:59] <exec> 08└─While most of us are coders some are not, for example HollyHopDrive was a journalist and ktakki is a rock musician. One of the members whose nick I dont recall is an entertainment professional who I gather had something to do with the Star Trek franchise. Another poster complained of kuro5hin's "inc...
[20:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bytram [4043] (Score:2) 02Re:Comms? - 06Windbot Could Float Through the Clouds of Jupiter - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds simple, but Jupiter is *huge*! How long would it take for a relay satellite to complete one orbit, and how much that time would it be in 'view' of the OP orbiter? It seems to me for this to be viable, one might need multiple comms relay orbiters? Alternatively, a geostationary comms orbiter m...
[20:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Office building pricing needs to change - 06Nanostructured Glass Can Switch Between Blocking Heat and Blocking Light - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:21] <exec> 08└─Not every decision has to be made in the direction of more money.
[20:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:Turns out it's already dead. - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:35] <exec> 08└─I was going to d/l and play it on windows last night... but didn't because I don't trust an *.exe from sourceforge. I did see the source and briefly considered compiling it....
[20:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:So far - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─I thought the largest employer of mathematicians was the NSA?
[20:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a business - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:34] <exec> 08└─What about: https://github.com [github.com]
[20:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:52] <exec> 08└─> I don't think that someone is an "asshole" merely for using certain words or not being oversensitive. Aren't you a clever little asshole, trying to define away what it means to be an asshole in order to avoid facing uncomfortable truths. Yay for being an ostrich!
[20:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Project should be renamed... - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:20] <exec> 08└─> Historically, "idiot" was clinical terminology That all depends on where your history starts. That particular clinical usage only began in the late 1800s, predated by well over a millennia of explicitly unflattering usage. That's on the people who tried to co-opt it for clinical usage, not on the...
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[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02linux conversion? - 06Low Cost Weather Satellite Image Receiver - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─The dongles are widespread, but it would be nice to have the Mac software procedure translated into the equivalent Linux or Windows. This is really quite an awesome piece of data that , and I say this with tongue in cheek, can be used without internet connectivity.
[21:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02xkcd - 06The Geometry of String Theory Compactifications (I): the Basics - 3112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─This series cries out for a guest lecture/poster session with xkcd in the spirit of "up goer five" I can't even begin with the top 1000 word translation as per above. The author missed all kinds of fun analogies with mapmaping where you implode 3D earth into a 2D map and its pretty awesome on a real...
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:xkcd - 06The Geometry of String Theory Compactifications (I): the Basics - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─The author missed all kinds of fun analogies with mapmaping where you implode 3D earth into a 2D map and its pretty awesome on a really small scale like the size of a city, but its basically impossible to navigate the entire earth using a flat map projection
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:xkcd - 06The Geometry of String Theory Compactifications (I): the Basics - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─If only we had experimental evidence of reaction-mass free thrusters
[21:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Something ... - 06Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon as UN Body Issues Contracts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─So, in 20-30 years I get to say "When man first exploited the depths of the sea, we awakened something"
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─the customer pays you do fulfill specific tasks for them. if and only if the task is to jump, you say "How high?" if the task is to write software to tackle a specific problem and they tell you to jump, you rightfully say "Fuck you" because that's not the job. the customer is always right, sure, but...
[21:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Dess for the job you want to keep. - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 2179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─Really? It's my “right” (choice) not to work for them and I sure exercise that choice. I've worn my share of uniforms, all of them had at least one important function directly related to a core and essential part of being able to do the job, none of them would be considered normal clothes or mis...
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Dude, this is the Services Division... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─Beards! You forgot the beards! Superpower beards! Worth five points! Seven if gray. Or faint mustaches if female <3
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real problem here... - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:35] <exec> 08└─But what about my vignette story server skeelz???
[21:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What else would you expect... - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:52] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? This article isn't about Fox News.
[21:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:Kuro5hin - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:13] <exec> 08└─I've been here since nearly the beginning, and frankly I find the quality of articles to be improving on a daily basis. There's some really interesting stuff here, whereas at the beginning there was a higher degree of articles that didn't interest me at all. The quality of the writing in the submitt...
[21:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incoherence - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:20] <exec> 08└─I did this. [soylentnews.org] It isn't too hard to tweak that to completely zero out his entire posts. But sometimes, sometimes people say something worthwhile (upmodded) in response to his bullshit and I want to read the context.
[21:16:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02And Kuro5hin is... what, exactly? - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─If you have further information regarding this story
[21:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"k5 is dying" has never been true. - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:30] <exec> 08└─Doubtlessly I myself am the reason that rusty dropped user login on the floor, as my ex-wife has been hassling my vendors for years. She has a particular hatred for kuro5hin for the most part because she felt that the time I dedicated to the service of humanity through my writing was time that I cou...
[21:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Only the copyright owner can do that - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:04] <exec> 08└─GitHub acts on notices of claimed infringement that meet the requirements set forth in OCILLA (17 USC 512), such as a notice that a particular repository contains "stolen proprietary source code". These requirements include having been sent by someone acting on the express behalf of the owner of cop...
[21:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Cigarette Hub? - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:32] <exec> 08└─That wouldn't work so well for developers who don't want to be associated with tobacco use.
[21:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Black inventors - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:42] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that they didn't try to honor the memory of famous Black inventors by promoting the term "Afro-engineered".
[21:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Treat PTSD with abreaction - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:52] <exec> 08└─PTSD can already be reversed with abreaction therapy [wikipedia.org]. Replaying the engrams, or strong memories of trauma, in a safe environment helps the sufferer extinguish the associations [wikipedia.org]. This is part of why Dianetics took off: L. Ron Hubbard put his own spin on abreaction and u...
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[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Re:linux conversion? - 06Low Cost Weather Satellite Image Receiver - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─The only Mac-specific piece of software was SoundFlower, which he was using to receive the audio output by CubicSDR and send it to WXtoIMG. CubicSDR and WXtoIMG both have Windows, OSX, and Linux ports, so it seems like the only challenge would be to figure out the sound system configuration options...
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:xkcd - 06The Geometry of String Theory Compactifications (I): the Basics - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─the problem is at school everyone only learns about Euclidean geometry, as it is useful in building "stuff" (look around your residence). The natural world (e.g. Trees, animals etc.. ) is non-Euclidean. and therefore it should not be surprise that the fundamental components off the universe are non-...
[22:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disgusting. - 06Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon as UN Body Issues Contracts - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─It's all dust. There is nothing special about humanity or nature.
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─I agree with this comment. Customers are not engineers and therefore cannot say who is less or more professional based on their daily activities, because the customer will see the engineers only once or twice. All they can see is the outside, the skin they wear over their human skin. If the outer sk...
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Generations - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─+1, Smart
[22:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:18] <exec> 08└─Starting from scratch you're probably better off with Scala or Clojure if you want to do functional.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-realization as a career goal - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:19] <exec> 08└─Starting from scratch you're probably better off with Scala or Clojure if you want to do functional
[22:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why focus on non-issues? - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:54] <exec> 08└─Economic equality is lower than it has ever been.
[22:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FOX covered the TPP quite a bit.. - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:03] <exec> 08└─Sound like angry Liberials on the loose.. FOX news covered the TPP quite a bit for days.. get your fact straight.
[22:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:desensitizing - 06Kuro5hin is Dying - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:20] <exec> 08└─It's even better than that: the Disagree mod is -0 unless I've missed a change :) and Funny is +1 as it ought to be IMHO. I think a lot of people here realize that everybody else are perfectly able to write both things one agrees a lot with or finds interesting or insightful or funny as well as not,...
[22:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Derogatory trend - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:26] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a word that is inherently "bad." Whether they meant it in a "derogatory" way depends on their intent.
[22:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Derogatory trend - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:27] <exec> 08└─But that's still subjective. Furthermore, even a supermajority use it in a way that people deem derogatory, it's still possible to use it without that intent.
[22:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:38] <exec> 08└─Aren't you a clever little asshole, trying to define away what it means to be an asshole in order to avoid facing uncomfortable truths. Funny how it can be so easily turned against you. As far as I'm aware, there's no scientific and objective definition of "asshole" in this context. I was merely giv...
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[23:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02As smart as a dog - 06Robotics and the Law: When Software Can Harm You - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:18] <exec> 08└─an AI iteration that is only as smart as a dog, then the dog's owner pays if it bites.
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:As smart as a dog - 06Robotics and the Law: When Software Can Harm You - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:19] <exec> 08└─Virtually all software is distributed with a disclaimer denying any warranty or responsibility for outcomes achieved with the software. What you're saying is, if you have pieces of software that affect a lot of people's lives in a way that they rely on, those disclaimers probably need to be invalida...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02ugh - 06Something Different - Space Photos of the Week from Wired - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─I have grabbed an image URL for every URL above. I was going to post it in a comment but I think I will edit it instead.
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Takyon - please don't! - 06Something Different - Space Photos of the Week from Wired - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:39] <exec> 08└─janrinok posting: Don't edit the images into the story - not everyone has unlimited broadband downloads. Many have caps and will not thank you for wasting it just to read to see the comments!
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Huh? - 06Something Different - Space Photos of the Week from Wired - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:41] <exec> 08└─Lets throw 250 links into an article. How about just linking to a page that has all the photos.
[23:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06Something Different - Space Photos of the Week from Wired - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─Probably because the WiReD source is even worse than this way of presenting it. Now that I have added direct links to the images, they are all *on* one page.
[23:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:xkcd - 06The Geometry of String Theory Compactifications (I): the Basics - 4064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:54] <exec> 08└─I'll give it a shot. Okay, so classical physics takes place in Euclidean space. It has up/down, left/right, and forward/backwards. Special relativity takes place in Minkovsky space. It has up/down, left/right, and forwards/backwards plus earlier/later. The notion of distance in Minkovsky space is fi...
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the issue here? - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─To summarize, professionalism should be about getting the job done, nothing more, nothing less. Other people's taste in clothing should have fuck all to do with that.
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally... - 06HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:04] <exec> 08└─No, there are multiple standards. When someone we disagree with runs cubicle farms, its slavery. When we do it, its for the freedoms. It does not matter who "WE" is.
[23:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most programmers are not engineers. - 06Self-Hating Software Professionals? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:45] <exec> 08└─its exactly like that, except that the code monkey is in many cases claiming to be an engineer too
[23:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Claims that Media Matters can't count - 06MSNBC Cans the Only Cable TV Host Who Extensively Covered TPP - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:21] <exec> 08└─It's should be easy enough to prove that you are right and they are wrong. Just supply the links. -- gewg_
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─That's genius! I never considered that!
[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:59] <exec> 08└─The owners of trains and airplanes see it as a business deal.
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