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Comment Re:News Organizations (Score 2) 57

What, you thought MSNBC was level, objective, and centered? They're every bit as much a mouthpiece for the left as Fox is for the right. The rest of the media leans left as well. There is no objective journalism anymore, it's all out propaganda war. Oh, and you forgot to spell it "faux".

With the idealogical drift in the US, MSNBC is considered "left", but in worldwide terms I think "center-left" would be more accurate. For the actual left, try Democracy Now. .. but we'll accept "MSNBC is a mouthpiece for the Dems" as a correct answer. Thanks fer playin!

Comment Re:Meanwhile in realityland... (Score 1) 197

No, youtube does not do massive copyright theft. Some people using youtube violate copyright law. There is a difference.

I"M sorry, but you just sound like a whiny douche the is angry because they can no longer abuse a free service to sell their music.

The music is given away free. What YouTube has done is undermine the market for downloaded/streaming music. Of course, they aren't the ones violating copyright, but they aren't enforcing it at all either. If I were an artist who did not want my work distributed on YT or any of a million streaming sites, I would have to spend a lot of time sending takedown notices, probably all my time.

The industry has been screwing over the artists for many years. Now it's just a slightly different industry.

Comment Meanwhile in realityland... (Score 0) 197

YouTube continues the massive copyright theft on a daily basis. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but every other day John Q Fanboy uploads his entire collection to YT. Then all of us "fans" get to stream our favorite albums for free, yay. :-| Are the artists getting paid? (crickets) But.. they're famous musicians therefore they must be rich already, right?

So I get to stream XTC just like it was 1983...

Somewhere "don't be evil" went out the window. This is different from Spotify how?

Comment Re:Can't Tell Them Apart (Score 1) 466

that does not work. I tried, many MANY times.

I have open source code (about 13k lines of c/c++ for embedded platform) and I happen to interview 'badly' when I am put on the spot and asked to code up something in 15 minutes while someone watches me. that's not how I work and I fail horribly at THAT style of interview.

Yes, this sucks to be sure. I have developed a level of comfort with "public perfomance" in different areas, e.g. musical and otherwise. Doing this sort of thing might be very useful to you. See also: Toastmasters or some public speaking thing. ... but if you liked those things already, you would be in sales. Ha.

Alternatively, leverage your personal network as much as possible. Study for interviews and express a knowledge of the company's business and technical area(s). Also, practice coding in front of a whiteboard, with people watching you, naked, on the subway. It may seem like a waste of time, but in your case it will likely help. .. and oh, the naked on the subway part may vary depending on local ordinances.

Comment Ob. Slightly Scientific Comment... (Score 4, Informative) 93

Years ago (not saying how many!) I worked with a university program specializing in autonomous underwater vehicles. Their designs made the submersibles nominally buoyant so that when they lost power they would eventually surface. For deep sea applications I'm sure it's more difficult.. If it were crushed, then I imagine all bets are off.

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