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Comment Re:Who would have thought (Score 1) 194

by macson_g on Friday September 12, 2014 @03:55AM (#47887527) Attached to: The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada

LOT pilots don't lack any skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Who would have thought (Score 1) 194

by macson_g on Friday September 12, 2014 @03:51AM (#47887517) Attached to: The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada

I don't think anyone was consulting the construction of the plant with local population.

Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 368

by macson_g on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @03:15AM (#47869401) Attached to: Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+

Makes perfect sense. The Minecraft's UI should integrate with Metro seamlessly.

Comment Re:Oh god so what? (Score 1) 193

by macson_g on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @09:22AM (#47711645) Attached to: C++14 Is Set In Stone

Good luck with your typedefs: template<typename Range> double mean(const Range& range) { double sum = 0.0; int count = 0; for(auto& v : range) { sum += v; ++count; } return sum/count; }

Comment Slashdotters, do not disappoint me! (Score 1) 207

by macson_g on Thursday August 14, 2014 @09:30AM (#47670029) Attached to: Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization"

Comments about H1Bs in 3... 2... 1...

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 406

by macson_g on Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:15AM (#47621933) Attached to: Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway

Or more importantly: drunk texting!

Comment Hire some of the folks fired by MS! (Score 2) 59

by macson_g on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @09:08AM (#47613207) Attached to: Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company

Wonder if this is a coincidence that they are doing it now, when MS is laying off quite a lot of ppl in Finland. They could grab some of the workforce, possibly even some of the original Trolls who ended up being Nokia employees.

Comment Re:its why devs cringe. (Score 1) 180

by macson_g on Friday August 01, 2014 @03:44AM (#47579781) Attached to: PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification

Want static typing? Use Cython.

Comment Re:Old dreams (Score 1) 108

by macson_g on Monday July 21, 2014 @10:11AM (#47500253) Attached to: A Look At NASA's Orion Project

I too regret that such a cool name is wasted for slightly enlarged Apollo CM, which looks outdated even in comparison to SpaceX's Dragon.

Comment Re:All IS Lost (Score 1) 75

by macson_g on Friday June 27, 2014 @04:08AM (#47330937) Attached to: NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test

More like 3000 years. It took us 1000 years to recover from the collapse of Roman Empire.

Comment Geography isn't too good either (Score 1) 688

by macson_g on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:48AM (#47063903) Attached to: Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards

Mexico is in South America, right?

Comment Re:But the real question is.. (Score 1) 315

by macson_g on Friday May 16, 2014 @07:57AM (#47016297) Attached to: You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene

+1 Funny

Comment The Second Moon Race? (Score 1) 313

by macson_g on Monday April 14, 2014 @03:06AM (#46744827) Attached to: Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base

With the CWII (Cold War 2) approaching, we may as well see a second moon race.

Comment "some weakness" (Score -1, Offtopic) 465

by macson_g on Friday February 28, 2014 @09:55AM (#46366859) Attached to: MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection

Wonder how many of these "weaknesses" were a result of implementing SSH in PHP and other coding frolics.

Comment Re:Flying pigs (Score 1) 374

by macson_g on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:25AM (#46343413) Attached to: Report: Space Elevators Are Feasible

What do you think pyramids are foundations for?

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