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Comment Re:Many Factors (Score 1) 240

What you are missing is that our children are worth more than we were. The equation is simple enough - longer lives, less risk and fewer births makes each of our children very precious. Healthcare industry fatcats making shit up? Would you be talking about dentists fixing buckteeth? ADHD is real enough, but before we put up with it or beat the kid or put him in a special class for specially fucked up kids but those are not options for an only child today.

Comment Re:I disagree. (Score 1) 171

/.ers offering parenting wisdom? If you introduce your child to cleaning he will keep your house and those around it clean forever. True for how many children? Mine clean up only in minecraft. I love playing sport but my efforts to get my kids to enjoy sport have come to nothing.

Comment Re:Assange condemns greed? (Score 1) 944

This is about our parents, our grandparents, and our future. Our grandparents and parents because their retirement disappeared when bankers toying with other peoples money failed.

The problem is caused by our retirement plans. Here we are buying scarce resources with our excess cash and building grand homes that nobody needs so that people yet to be born have to buy it all from us later when we are no longer able to work but can still breath. Money can't buy much fun when you are nearly dead so why let ourselves do this wasteful hoarding? It's time for a retirement plan prohibition, for the common good.

The average ./er is mid forties so having grandparents is scarce than being them here.

Comment how old is a second grader? (Score 1) 430

We are talking about US children and not a road building machine? Tell those 7 and 8 year kids that programming is making those games they play on their xboxes and that it can take many lifetimes of programming to make a few minutes of fun something that many programmers don't have that much of. I have an 8 year old and I haven't tried to explain programming to him but I think that if I show him how to assign a keyboard macro in Starcraft he will get the idea.

Comment Stupid Law (Score 1) 329

It's a stupid law - probably got NZ a gold star with the US state department and expected to save some international bandwidth making state owned Telecom more profitable. The result will be risk aversive homes, libraries and schools without internet.

Comment Re:Password (Score 2) 289

To me it shows a great lack of discretion by the Guardian or at least David Leigh.

I agree. The Guardian is one of my favourite publications but they shouldn't be claiming that their publishing the password was reasonable as they are doing. They undeniably and stupidly broke half the security making it likely that they are dumb enough to be the source of the file leak as well.

Comment Re:Stay Put (Score 1) 772

I have another 5 years left in the field and I'm aware of it....

If you're any good, you probably have another ten at least. Age-out in dev doesn't really start until 45, and isn't enforced with too much vigor until 55. After that, it'll totally depend on how many months ago your HR people finished college...

I've noticed this to be true. It's due to a shortcoming of managers that needs to illuminated. A manager being a particularly social status orientated animal prefers underlings that confer lasting status benefits so you being older will feel pretty wrong to a manager even if your skills are right. Employing somebody is a bit like making friends. It's a dangerous manager that fires people that get the job done just because they are old though.

Comment Re:Much better anyway (Score 1) 303

Postgres easier really? Maybe I should try it again but I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be easier or better or faster this time either. If my application works then I don't switch out the database just for fun, if it doesn't work then a database switch might break it more so the only time I will shop around is when I'm starting a project.

It's easy to understand why MySQL is more popular - MySQL was popular first and easy to setup from the start. The developers were open and responsive. I've been using it since 97 and it's performed well with everything I've done with it. I haven't needed transactions.

Postgres has however always been more popular on /. and I can only attribute that to US vs Europe. If half the effort Postgres proponents have spent bashing MySQL on /. over the years had gone into improving the Postgres manual then setting up Postgres might be easy too. Have you compared the manuals? The Postgres website is defensive. I don't like Oracle though so I would like it if I preferred Postgres.

Comment Re:Why the hype? (Score 1) 126

There isn't much hype, that is a difference. Attention has shifted to phones. Desktop PCs and the parts that go in them are worthless because they confer almost no social status on their owners, unless the owner is a teenage boy.

Before the battle was about performance, now it's heat, price and performance because every household has a couple of computers per person and the cost of a cpu is much lower.

Comment Re:Ummm...what? (Score 1) 107

..form a festering cess-pit of useless apps

But this is true of every platform I've ever installed, lots of crap but lots of useful software. The Market brings together the people making the software with the people using the software the right way, something the community couldn't figure out for itself after the dotcom bubble and spam messed with it's vision and morals.

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