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Comment Our ancestors already toll us how (Score 1) 273

We have good and bad examples from our ancestors: Look at the caves with rudimentary drawings, * A person + plus a tiger + next drawing tiger eating person = be careful with tigers. * many people looking at an eclipse, next people draw big round empty eyes with hands extend (searching) == don't look at the eclipse or you will get blinded. * Bad examples: something complicated like stone hedge and Pyramids = What the fuck is that? Use simple drawings of things likely to exist in 10k years, Animals, People stones, and death.

Comment Don't blame twitter.. Blame Trump Sr. (Score 1) 270

This was expected to happen after Trump Sr. Signed an "executive order to limit internet companies" https://www.bbc.com/news/techn.... What it means, is companies are liable for content posted on their site; They are not liable for removing content, So better safe (delete) than sorry. Expect more of these in other social networks.

Comment Re: App store only and finder pro only $19.99 (Score 2) 217

Agreed, AMD is kicking intel's behind, and they have 8 core, 16 thread mobile processors. A lot of high-end MacBook Pro customers need high-performance machines, Is either video content creators or lately FANG style developers. If Apple's new offering is underwhelming, it should be straightforward for these 2 segments to switch for a PC.

Comment Re:What's the plan when all the coins are mined? (Score 1) 48

The last Bitcoin is estimated to be mined in 2140, Plenty of time before that, The most likely scenario is that we will have moved on to a different "coin" much before that. The plan is as time goes most income will be generated from "transaction fees" much like Credit Card fees.

Comment Re:They want WSL to move people from Linux / MAC? (Score 1) 117

I have been using Windows a lot more lately. I have been almost exclusively for the last 12 years, Mac and Linux. The main Reason is Gaming; Windows is still the only game in town, Surprisingly Windows 10 is not that bad, Of source first thing I installed was cygwin.

Comment Re:"a challenge" (Score 2) 118

As some who has been on many interviews on the recruiting side. I have seen many of my co-workers trying to make the applicant fail. Somehow they want to be smarter. In every case, we did need the talent and had serious trouble hiring. But the panel keep rejecting for the most minute errors. Typical having a dude asks you for a programming question, of course, he already has a solution path in his/her mind and almost anything you come up with will be deemed subpar in other occasions we give 2 hours to write an application on-site. I tried writing the same at home something I could feel good presenting more than 2 hours. Interviewing is hard.

Comment Re:Wrong diagnosis (Score 1) 118

"there were "computer" courses on touch typing". I wish schools still had those. Learning how to touch type correctly using all your hand fingers requires proper training and lots of practice. Is such a shame that most new grads have no bad habits typing. I'm 46. I started programming when I was 12 years old on a Commodore 16. Commodore and Atari ST were readily available and cheap; Kids with more money learned in Apples II. At 15. I switched to a "real" computer 8080 with 640mb ram and 500mb HDD.

Comment Mission Critical ... Red Hat... LOL.. (Score 3, Insightful) 232

Why? Red Hat has been the one distro that spearheaded Linux adoption in the enterprise. It's stable has very long support life cycle and if you do not want to pay licensing you can (and many startups do) use Centos.
I hear people complaining about rpm/yum. Guess what. Many of us have extensive experience with it and have no problems with it. Creating repo cache is fairly easy and allows you to have a total control of what is deployed to your server. And yes I do like dpkg and apt-get. They are very nice tools.
The main reason I see ubuntu getting traction is because of RedHat making RHEL not available for download and because developers got their first steps in ubuntu. because "it's easier" and has a nicer "desktop".
I think RedHat needs to backpedal in Fedora/RHEL and go back to a single distro. Something like *Desktop/Developer edition (RHDE) and *Enterprise Edition (RHEL) and build a nice and focused distro with all the common repos already enabled in RHDE. So that newbies can have a better experience. Developers need to easily get running thing need on a fresh build of (RHDE). Something like this: yum install passenger-puppet-master (and bam!) yum install maven
yum install django
yum install passenger-rails-app
yum install saltstack
yum install eclipse-openjdk-stack
Just a few samples but you get the idea. Make it easy for the developer and they will come.

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