Comment Oo-er, matron! (Score 2) 211
Population is provided by "Otto fuel II" which is a hot expanding gas
It's caused by something expanding, but it's not a gas. At least mine isn't.
Comment Re:Pedantic, but... (Score 1) 169
In which case the snippet you quoted becomes "I make up I speak for everyone when I say".
If that improves your comprehension it must be pretty poor to begin with.
Comment Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? (Score 1) 497
Nice, but in the real world you often don't have the luxury of waiting that long.
Made-In-Nigeria Smart Cards To Extend Financial Services To the Poor 40
jfruh (300774) writes "A new factory producing smart cards opened in Lagos this week, promising to open up access to financial services to many poor Africans and other inhabitants of the Global South. The cards can be used by people without traditional bank accounts to access the worldwide credit card and smart phone infrastructure." From the article: Preliminary estimates indicate that there are currently about 150 million active SIM cards, 110 million biometric ID cards and 15 million credit and debit cards in Nigeria, [Nigerian president Goodluck] Jonathan said. As more financial-inclusion schemes, requiring more bank cards, are rolled out and different Nigerian states implement ID projects, the numbers of smart cards in use are expected to experience double-digit growth, he said.
Comment Beam me up (Score 2) 673
Snot is a noun. The adjective is snotty.
Comment Re:Suitable Penalties Need To Be Given (Score 1) 247
wreckless management
I prefer it to the alternative.
Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" 180
sarahnaomi writes On Wednesday, prosecutors in the Silk Road trial began to lay out the wealth of evidence found on the laptop taken from accused kingpin Ross Ulbricht in a San Francisco library in October 2013. The evidence presented by prosecutor Timothy Howard was the most comprehensive and damning thus far, including more than a thousand pages of chats between the site's pseudonymous operator Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road administrators. Also entered into evidence was a journal that dates back to at least 2010 describing the creation and operation of the site. FBI computer scientist Thomas Kiernan, the second witness in the trial, testified about the day Ulbricht was arrested and the evidence gathered from his laptop.
Science By Democracy Doesn't Work 497
StartsWithABang writes The US Senate just voted on whether climate change is a hoax, knowing full well that debates or votes don't change what is or isn't scientifically true or valid. Nevertheless, debates have always been a thing in science, and they do have their place: in raising what points would be needed to validate, robustly confirm or refute competing explanations, theories or ideas. The greatest scientific debate in all of history — along with its conclusions — illustrates exactly this.
Comment Re:Obviously. (Score 1) 302
Bluntly, this stuff is a great deal easier than C.
That doesn't make it a subset of C. For some reasons, C programmers tend to take the reasonable claim of "could learn
Comment Re:seriously guys? (Score 1) 570
One year starting from when?
If they mean "within one year of event X" then there's a perfectly clear phrase for that. Why not use it?
Comment CSS (Score 0) 184
Can they do CSS properly at 4chan?
Comment Re:too expensive (Score 1) 229
I was looking at this.
Gender and Tenure Diversity In GitHub Teams Relate To Higher Productivity 106
New submitter Bogdan Vasilescu writes: Diversity in teams is a double-edged sword. Increased team diversity results in more varied backgrounds and ideas, providing the team with access to broader information, enhanced creativity, adaptability, and problem solving skills. However, due to greater perceived differences in values, norms, and communication styles in more diverse teams, members become more likely to engage in stereotyping, cliquishness, and conflict.
In a recent study, researchers from University of California, Davis and Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands have analyzed the effects of gender and tenure diversity on productivity and turnover for more than 23,000 open-source projects on GitHub. Using regression modeling, they showed that after controlling for team size and other confounds (such as a project's age, development model, or amount of social activity), both gender and tenure diversity are positive and significant predictors of productivity, together explaining a small but significant fraction of the data variability. On an economic and societal scale, these findings suggest that added investments in educational and professional training efforts and outreach for female programmers will likely result in added overall value.
The paper describing the results (preprint PDF here) will be presented at the prestigious ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in Seoul, South Korea, in April 2015.
In a recent study, researchers from University of California, Davis and Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands have analyzed the effects of gender and tenure diversity on productivity and turnover for more than 23,000 open-source projects on GitHub. Using regression modeling, they showed that after controlling for team size and other confounds (such as a project's age, development model, or amount of social activity), both gender and tenure diversity are positive and significant predictors of productivity, together explaining a small but significant fraction of the data variability. On an economic and societal scale, these findings suggest that added investments in educational and professional training efforts and outreach for female programmers will likely result in added overall value.
The paper describing the results (preprint PDF here) will be presented at the prestigious ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in Seoul, South Korea, in April 2015.
Comment Re:I reckon (Score 1) 290
Another example of trying to impose a technical solution on a human problem.
You're supposed to shout "Candygram".
The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" 197
BarbaraHudson writes: The Independent lists the most popular passwords for 2014, and once again, "123456" tops the list, followed by "password" and "12345" at #3 (lots of Spaceballs fans out there?) . "qwerty" still makes the list, but there are some new entries in the top 25, including "superman", "batman", and "696969". The passwords used were mostly from North American and Western European leaks.
