Comment Re:Missed the point (Score 1) 224
now now, there there
Comment Re:Let the best programmer win (Score 1) 246
I, for one, feel that the human race has far better things it could be doing with its time instead of obsessing over increasing some numerical values to the detriment of other numerical values.
like watching the bold and the beautiful
Comment Re:Tax every trade (Score 1) 246
and then what? You make it sound like trading is evil.
Comment Re:Pretty damn good article (Score 1) 246
volatility has declined since electronic trading. Electronic trading made HFT feasible, and volatility further declined.
Comment Re:Bullshit Made Up Language (Score 1) 512
congrats, your site has been slashdotted
Comment Re:Duffs Device is clever - its not elegant (Score 1) 373
I don't think that's what he meant. I think he says that anybody who manages to add complexity to something simple and straightforward (a project that would only take a week to do) by adding "beautiful" layers that provide abstractions for the sake of abstraction, should be shot. Personally, I would happily set fire to the remains after the firing squad had its turn.
Comment Re:It's okay to be tired of programming (Score 1) 306
Probably the best advise I've seen. I'll try it myself.
Comment Re:reduce the amount (Score 1) 983
the friend can surely find 90% of his lost stuff, but it will take him a lot of time to download it again. Also, if he's like me, he can't remember half of what he had.
Then there's his wife who's screaming at him about the loss of the "home videos" (no honey, they're really gone, they're not at somebody else's computer now)
Yeah, I guess the price of an extra 20TB raid array doesn't seem so high now anymore...
Comment Re:Regulation of currency (Score 1) 240
7 out! Line away!
Comment Re:Fond memories (Score 1) 195
I'll bite. What joke address was it?
Comment Re:PFsense (Score 4, Informative) 264
I second that. PFSense is rock solid and comes with a lot of features. Dual wan, vpn, you name it.
Just as lazy... also got mine from applianceshop.eu.
Comment Re:"Social engineering" (Score 1) 448
Seems to me Mr Hiroshima was given some time. Why not give godaddy and the fbi a call? See if they can set up a trap for the hacker?
Comment Re:Full pardon, and here is why. (Score 1) 822
And a statue of him right next to lady liberty.
Comment Re:'robot' (Score 3, Informative) 318
ever had sex with your iPhone?
There's your answer
What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual 96
nbauman writes "This summer, NASA's Lunar Science Forum became the largest scientific gathering to embrace the new world of cyber meetings. The experience drew mixed reviews, according to a report in Science magazine. Mihály Horányi, who has been a regular, sat down at his computer at 1:45 p.m. on the first day of the conference and began talking into a webcam perched above the screen. 'Last year it was a performance. This year it meant staring at myself, being annoyed that I kept leaning in and out of the picture, and thinking, "Boy, am I getting old."' He and other participants say the virtual conference was a pale imitation of the real thing. At previous forums, 'You see your friends, you ask about their kids, and then the discussion flows into the science.' He participated much less this year, 2 hours a day. In addition to the physical challenge of sitting at one's computer for hours on end, participants say that their day jobs competed for their attention. 150 to 200 people "attended" at any one time. Even without distractions, the quality of the interaction was much lower than in person. 'I received a handful of short comments [from my talk] and had maybe one e-mail exchange,' Horányi recalls. One scientist who didn't present this year—and who listened to only one talk after the fact—said that he much prefers an in-person meeting because 'you get a much better sense of how the audience is reacting to what you're saying, especially any negative feedback.'"
