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Comment Re:Jeff Goldblum (Score 1) 368

Unless the insect that has a mutated gen isn't reproducing and isn't stimulated or motivated to reproduce anymore.

I suggest we play insect-porn on GM-crop fields. So, if there would be any resistant insect.. We'll, he'd be fapping foreveralone, becoming overweight and dieing of diabetes because of excessive plentyfulness.

Comment Re:Jeff Goldblum (Score 2) 368

Many if not most GM plants are rendered sterile so that you are forced to purchase new seeds

And now I went on to believe that it was to avoid contamination and halt unforseen outcomes. I don't know how to find back this story of modified crops which contaminated the surrounding fields by pollination and they had a situation going on.

Guess I'm still from the generation where "chaos theory" was theoretical and implications of genetic engineering were investigated in SciFi making people cautious about uncertain outcomes compared to the current one where everything is conspiracy or for economical gains.

Comment one word: consistency (Score 5, Informative) 614

I'm developing on both Android and IPhone; started out on Android and now have extended my repetoire to IPhone.

The advantage but also disadvantage with Android is that it's very open-ended. Often you want to get a specific thing done and you end up alot of time bending the API to your will. (Oh tabview, why art though so...) Or bump into the limitations of your architecture and need to rework some things to get it running.(why does it crash on device x when I have two nested frameviews to have this design? Why doesn't it scale well on device y?)

The IPhone API takes more knowledge (how does that delegate call again and what object is stored where and how do I get a refernce to this?) but it's consistent. And the look is consistent. (which shaves up alot of time thinking about the GUI when trying to implement it.)

I'm an avid Android lover but I can appreciate the IPhone API as well.

Comment Re:Develop ? (Score 1) 433

> > > which encourages bacteria to develop new ways of overcoming them.

> > which encourages bacteria to **evolve** new ways of overcoming them.

> which encourages god to design new ways for bacteria of overcoming them.

Which kills the weaklings and singles out the resistants to bread and progressively switch over the population (instead of allowing resistent genes to delude)

Comment Re:Refactor... (Score 5, Informative) 203

Application design (have someone think about everything in broad lines, set out a main architecture-model in ADVANCE.)

Iterative design.

A good project manager prioritizing and communicating current development shielding programmer from clients (who during the "waiting time", are fantasizing changes).

In contrast, in debugging and QA, free way between the client and the developer (more efficient and gives more motivation to the dev as to slave for )

Realistic expectations: don't get your devs running around doing "quick" jobs left and right while they're trying to keep a tight schedule.

Keep everybody current: short standup meeting in the morning

Motivate communication; devs tend to get absorbed in their coding-problem (nd prioritize being "productive") but forget to be a team

The right personality on the right segment of a project: developers have their strengths and their weaknesses.

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Comment Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain (Score 1) 94

While you battled with your 7-figures about a single world, I registered every other word in the dictionary and created new niches of porn.

You should check out our wildest newly added categories: categories

(while joking, that list does sound like it could be made into a porno.)

Government

Submission + - White house officially states: "We don't know ET" (whitehouse.gov) 1

ZeroExistenZ writes: The white house officially answered the question "Do we know ET?" following a petition. Phil Larson kindly points out what we already, dissapointedly, suspected.

The petition was motivated out of a white house committment, "We the people", to answer any petition within 30 days counting 5,000 signatures

Comment Re:Cavemen are not dumb. (Score 1, Interesting) 87

They were just as smart if not smarter then us today. The key difference was they didn't discover a lot of technology we take advantage of.

That "discovery" is part of our historic background and social evolution. We have have rediscovered the knowledge stored in the East (they transcribed the Greek wisdom and had mathematics and astronomy) with the crusades giving us "Enlightenment" and later making knowledge accessible. The desire to make knowledge easily accessible produced the bookpress. Without the ability to write, all that had no purpose or maybe some people going around singing about.

Also, don't judge a fish's intelligence by its ability to mount a mountain; Cavemen knew how to operate in a world that we cannot even phantom, not by choice but by necessity. But we operate in a world a cavemen wouldn't be able to comprehend either, and we use our tools by necessity to come to a simular result (we live, eat and play).

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