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Comment Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... (Score 3, Interesting) 109

It's also a way to potentially slow down bug solving. You write the patch and just before you hit submit, you realize "Oh wait, I could get paid for this" so you create a $1 bribe for said bug, wait until it have some dollars more, then submit and cash out.

It might even lead to more bugs appearing in the software. If there's some 1000 bugs you know because you added some willfully sloppy code, there's obviously money to be made.

Want more features? Well think of it like DLC. Oh they're ready all right but I'm waiting for the bribe request.

Comment Re:Can't do without excellent coders (Score 1, Insightful) 453

"the charming ideas guy" is a derogatory term in my book. It represents the hopeless idiot that have his idea of the new facebook/WoW/sliced bread and looks for someone to work for free to help him make it.

The cooperation will last approximately a week because the idea guys doesn't have a clue about any technical detail or the process required to fulfil a fraction of his ideas.

And there's like a billion of these morons.

What drives tech progress is competence and ideas.

Comment Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... (Score 5, Funny) 479

Hydrogen gas is quite safe, if a tank is just punctured, it will remove itself harmlessly from the vicinity.
If the tank is ruptured and the gas set on fire, you might set a tree overhang on fire, but the car will avoid most of the damage. Unlike gas that pools under the car in a manner perfect for human BBQ.

Comment Re:good! (Score 0) 734

Given their criminal abuse of the written word that sounds that sounds like a reasonable punishment.
I mean for fucks flying sake, we have Swype and full phone keyboards, STT and probably thought reading touchtyping too, and they still use deprecated SMS shorthand.

No wonder the other girl killed herself if that's how their messages looked like.

Comment Re:this is excellent news about generating power. (Score 3, Insightful) 232

The problem with the ITER approach is that the commercial reactor types based on it will cost too much to compete with traditional nuclear and coal. As It's based on a GIGANTIC no-financial-holds-barred approach.

The smaller approaches like LPP, General fusion, TriAlpha and whatever they're called nowdays that have shoestring to moderate budget will likely not only succeed to produce viable fusion energy sooner, they'll do so much cheaper too.

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