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Comment Cause and effect? (Score 5, Insightful) 557

What if we turn this around and consider that maybe those who apply for jobs to screen the internet already have an unhealthy fascination with weird and/or illegal content? Maybe the post-contract counseling only reveals all the issues they harbored prior to starting the work?

I'm not saying this is the case, but it's a possibility...

Comment Programmer's display (Score 2, Interesting) 60

I wasn't aware of this company or its technology. But to me this is something that programmers would really enjoy (and other workers stuck in front of an LCD for 8+ hours a day). They need to get the size and resolution much higher up though. I'd pay north of $900 for something like this but in a 23" format with a resolution of 1920x1200 or higher.

Comment LoC == MHz (Score 4, Informative) 395

Lines of Code is as good an estimate of a programmer's skill as MHz is a good estimate of a CPU speed.

Here where I work we have two Russian guys working on the back end of our system. I doubt those guys produce more than 10,000 lines of code per year. Yet their code just works. And it is infinitely scalable, super flexible and plain just works.

When you find a "bug" in their code you better have your shit together because 9.99 times out of ten it's a problem on your side not their. It's also perfectly flexible. Any time I need to use their code and come to them and tell them about the mountain of code I have to write they always say (with a thick Russian accent): "Bob, do not do that. You don't need. You just have to implement this one interface and instantiate this thing here and you can use our stuff and it will do what you need. Actually it's even simpler, you just need to post that message here and the system will do everything!"

Nobody, counts their lines of code. Their shit just works and is great. It's the backbone of our product and the competitive advantage we have in our vertical field.

The old adage goes that 20% of the code provides 80% of the functionality. Those Russian guys wrote THAT 20% for us.

Comment 1.8M Euro? (Score 1) 132

That's a joke for funding. A project as ambitious as this cannot get much accomplished with a couple of million eurobucks. Ten times that amount would have been respectable. 1.8 million is money than it takes to open a fast food franchise joint in some cities.
Idle

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."
Science

LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts 305

The LHC has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, weighing in at over one trillion electron volts. "Until now the LHC had been operating at a relatively low energy of 450 billion electron volts. On Sunday, engineers increased the energy of this 'pilot beam,' reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT. The previous record of 0.98 trillion electron volts has been held by the Tevatron accelerator since 2001. The LHC is eventually expected to operate at some seven trillion electron volts."

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