Comment Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole (Score 1) 77
Astronomer: "Scalpel..."
*slurp*
Astronomer: "crap... another one please..."
Comment Re:Learn C and Python (Score 4, Informative) 997
Python is absolutely unusable on real world projects (any project where you aren't the sole developer) due to that indentation crap.
Would you mind repeating that? I don't think the guys developing the following projects heard you:
I could go on... but you get the point.
If your software team is having problems with the significance of white spaces in Python, my bet would be that, no offense, the team was to blame.
The trick is to coordinate the "white space rules" between members of the team. If it can't pull that one off, I wouldn't trust them to write code for a production system anyways.
Comment Re:working for ms? (Score 1) 604
hosted vs. stand-alone
Yeah, I'm sure a hosted Operating System would totally rock!
Submission + - Photosynth team does it again (istartedsomething.com)
STFS writes: istartedsomething.com has a story about the most recent achievements of the team who brought us Photosynth.
This time around they've added some nifty features like orbits, panoramas and optimized transitions between views using path planning to avoid "unsatisfying transitions". All I want to know is when can I get one for my photo collection?
This time around they've added some nifty features like orbits, panoramas and optimized transitions between views using path planning to avoid "unsatisfying transitions". All I want to know is when can I get one for my photo collection?
Would You Hire a Former Black Hat? 290
Mark Zenson asks: "Understanding the mindset of a hacker and the likes of one may be useful to counter security attacks, but apparently companies still object to hiring former, or even reformed, black hats."
The article asks this question of several executives in the industry and for various reasons, many of them were skeptical to the idea of hiring such people. Would you give black hats a second chance if you were in their position?
