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Comment Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... (Score 1) 1128

I think it's pretty moot which republican is voted to office. If it's Romney or Huckabee, the oil industry and military contractors will continue to run the country, having built up favors with both during their campaigns. If it's Palin, the oil industry and military contractors will continue to run the country without her knowledge or consent.

Not if Ron Paul gets voted in as president

Comment Windows (Score 1) 413

"To block botnet-infected computers from connecting to the Internet. Under the proposal, PCs would be issued a 'health certificate' that showed whether the system was fully patched, that it was running security software and a firewall, and that it was malware-free. Machines with deficiencies would require patching or an antivirus update, while bot-infected PCs might be barred from the Internet."

I'm sure the machine will have to run windows to get the health certificate.

Comment Re:Experience is a Gift... (Score 1) 602

in defense of the 20-something morons who have never seen a project managed competently, considering that in software development around 60-70% of the software projects are completely failed projects that'll never see the light of day, most of them never will see a competently managed project. ever. But yes, they should be asking themselves if it could be done better. I know I did; I got fed up and quit; no upward mobility, everyday was an exercise in futility, etc etc. fuck that shit.

My own experience on software projects consists of projects where "design" is using lots of code generation and randomly throwing in design patterns everywhere and then wondering why the result sucks; and "time management" -- here's one of my favorites, "you don't have time to think, you just code."

Cube farms don't help.

well, I'm glad I gave all that up, I don't miss it at all. I'm going back to school to finish up a bachelors in math (I also have a bachelors in CS) and then onto grad school for either math or statistics (still need to decide). If I ever decide to program again professionally, it will probably mean that I'm working for myself.

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