I signed up for Google Wave and could never really figure out what it was for. Pretty much like the majority of everyone else.

If I look at job openings in my market, Tulsa, there are as many Java jobs as C# and Python put together. Only a handful of C/C++ jobs--I say this as a 25+ year C++ developer. I would say that if demand means anything, Java is far from dead.

Is it your your responsibility to do management's job for them? It's their job to have enough people to the job and to cover for you when you go on vacation or get ill. It's their job to read the writing on the wall and to consider that at your age you might want to retire or God forbid, you could get a chronic illness. I wouldn't give any more than a 3 month notice.

You should try drinking coffee and keep your day job. You're not even close.

Well, it's not 1997 and pretty sure we don't have to worry about the memory footprint of a 45 MB music player.

Aggressively tolerant maybe like Apple... Who is letting go of their diversity officer, who is a minority, because she said not just diversity of skin color and gender is important, but also diversity of ideas.

I certainly hope you're right.

Odd, but yours is the only comment. I posted the same thing at S/N and got a ton of responses. Is slashdot dying?

Again, it's giving me wingnut sites from both wings. I'd far rather get it from mainstream sites that have proven their validity over time so I didn't have to check Snopes or Politifact.

I always referred to the earlier engine as "Infosuck" but damn, Google's getting bad. When I open Google News in Firefox on my tablet, I get a blank page unless I click "request desktop site" and then it still goes nuts. But then, it might be my crappy tablet that I'll probably write about.

The answer is Google broke Google. I've been getting served a misandrist site from there, Breitbart (famous for its fake news) and wingnut sites from both wings. Did Sergey retire or something?

Not until I was at S/N earlier and someone journaled about it. Lately I never visit /.'s front page, just friends' journals. The comments on the main page have just gotten too damned retarded.

Slashdot seems to not be for smart people any more. To misquote 2001: "My God! It's full of morons!"

IIRC it was 3. I hate the new KDE but it will have to do.

...and the old KDE.

Try Soylent News, split from /. a few years ago. It's much like /. used to be.

Any more I only come here to read journals.