Comment Re:wait, what? (Score 0) 45
If there is a vetted source you would have preferred to have been posted, if I were you I would have just done that in my comment instead of posting about the absence of said vetted source.
Comment Re:A 'sect of the intelligentsia' (Score 1) 45
LOL, sorry. Had been up quite awhile working on my first Python programming stuff. I was pretty delirious. I can't remember where the hell I even heard about this prank. Oh it was on tumblr.
Comment FUCK (Score 1) 1
Can you please remove the apostrophe from Pranksters before publishing? Thanks.
Submission + - German Prankster's Clown Google Nest at re:publica 2014 (youtube.com) 1
phmadore writes: Some very clever German Pranksters managed to get one over on a sect of the intelligentsia just the other day. In this 30 minute presentation, Paul von Ribbeck and Gloria Spindle straight-face four new (somewhat credible-sounding) Google products making up the "Google Nest:" Google Trust, Google Hug, Google Bee, and Google Bye. "The way we're seeing it is bad we can't really guarantee that we protect your information but we can do our very best to protect you," says Spindle about eight minutes in. Google is reportedly rather pissed about the whole affair. For me, the discussion-worthy items here are: data insurance and the value of data.
Comment Voice of the Hurd (Score 1) 394
Whole time I read this I could hear Stallman's voice. This might be why I skimmed through the second half.
It's not that I don't like him or support him, it's that I think his insistence on "GNU/Linux" as a mouthful whenever referring to Linux is childish and ridiculous and, more to the point, egotistical/annoying.
It's not that I don't like him or support him, it's that I think his insistence on "GNU/Linux" as a mouthful whenever referring to Linux is childish and ridiculous and, more to the point, egotistical/annoying.
Comment Re:Git? (Score 1) 141
It's fast for the developer, is my understanding of Python.
Comment LOL @ article (Score 2) 141
In 1996 Linux Torvalds joined Transmeta, a California-based startup that was designing an energy-saving CPU. He continued to oversee kernel development for Linux, and in 2003 left Transmeta to focus exclusively on the Linux kernel as a Fellow at The Linux Foundation (known at the time as Open Source Development Labs) and today remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.
https://drive.google.com/file/...
The man has been renamed after his own Frankenstein.
https://drive.google.com/file/...
The man has been renamed after his own Frankenstein.
Journal Journal: Python
So, for a little while I struggled trying to learn C++, but then I realized that really there is nothing I want to presently do which I could not do in Python. This realization does not happen on its own, you can imagine, but came with some research. The research also finds that actually it will be a lot easier to learn C++ and Perl after Python, which is a much easier entry language. So I've begun. I have this idea for a program which I've put on Google Code, with some extremely rudimentary
Comment Re:Git? (Score 1) 141
I would say Git is virtually indispensable in development, or at least some form of version control, at this point.
Submission + - Intel Rolling Out 800Gbps Cables This Year (arstechnica.com)
phmadore writes: 10Gbps cables are what are commonly used in large server centers today, but very soon, according to Ars, 800Gbps cables will be available from Intel.
Comment Stereotyping (Score 2) 137
Seems like it will be based too much on stereotypes. When I was 16, I typed in proper case (I wanted most of all to be a writer, and I used every opportunity to improve my grammar and typing), used big words in context, and did not easily use emoticons.
I suppose over time they could develop something keener, but if you're going to base it on the mean of all people in a certain age bracket, there will be enough exceptions to render the most useful applications of the software irrelevant.
I suppose over time they could develop something keener, but if you're going to base it on the mean of all people in a certain age bracket, there will be enough exceptions to render the most useful applications of the software irrelevant.
Comment Re:Psychopathy? (Score 1) 293
Good points all around.
Comment Re:Psychopathy? (Score 1) 293
Well, would you consider someone at the coffee shop who jumped into group discussions with bad intentions to be a problem? Some of the arguments that get started, IRL, would lead to physical altercations. I think this is why it's gradually being taken more seriously.
Myself, I've never thought it could, in any way, be seen as positive to intentionally and willfully waste others' time. I think that sans trolls the number of people who don't want to partake in online conversations would be lower than 41%.
Myself, I've never thought it could, in any way, be seen as positive to intentionally and willfully waste others' time. I think that sans trolls the number of people who don't want to partake in online conversations would be lower than 41%.
Comment Re:Can't They End Run? (Score 1) 387
Exactly. Why do they have a problem letting others sell their cars? They are one of the few manufacturers who demand this sort of control over their sales.
Submission + - Microsoft Rumored to Integrate Android Apps
phmadore writes: Windows Phone has been struggling for market share, largely due to a serious lack of developers willing to invest their time in what one might consider a niche market. Statistically speaking, Android has more than 1.1M apps to Windows Phone's pitiful 200,000+. Well, according to unnamed sources informing the Verge , Microsoft may soon integrate/allow Android applications into both Windows and Windows Phone. The irony is so thick here you can cut it with a million dollar bill.
