Most users who need to be admins are software engineers
Or want to configure a new printer.
Or disable/enable a wireless adapter.
Or defrag their hard disk.
I admit I haven't actually read TFA, but were these "CS professors" who left for Uber, or were they "researchers" as the summary says? Yes, tenured professors do indeed get good pay and extremely good job security, but "researchers" at universities usually are not tenured professors, they're postdocs, or maybe untenured professors. Postdocs aren't paid shit, by most accounts, and it's extremely hard to get one of these coveted tenured CS professor jobs. So if these people were a bunch of PhD students, it doesn't sound like they necessarily made a bad choice.
it's called poaching when you do it from a competitor in business.
why an university is a business then, so that it's considered poaching? I think the case tells more about CMU than about uber.
companies do this all the time. that's what an university is for anyways.
or at least it sometimes jumps you into an android apk installation page.
also the ads on the mobile make the mobile slashdot site pretty much unusable. they're so bad. they not only take the whole screens worth every few articles but also run some javascript that makes the browser crawl and jerk. in addition some of the ads are friggin videos.
As stated at the end of the summary, old submissions are visible in the firehose. They're ordered by time, most recent first. If you scroll back through the past several days, you'll find a bunch of SourceForge-related submissions still alive and well.
for the amount of work done in greece at the moment it is a paradise.
not for long of course. or maybe. who knows, they've been dodging the bill for quite some time. if they weren't in eu they would have forefeited the debts already through some revolution or another.
they don't need it to. as long as they can say they did the worlds first of X, they'll do it, even if they don't roll it out even.
you see, that's enough for getting a triple phd in china. even if you just rolled some off the shelf open source software and hacked it into it.
btw all atm's in asia are buggy. there's something buggy about the ui in every single one, like ok button not being ok on the keypad, the languge selection only affecting some screens or some shit like that. that is when they're not crashed into the windows os running them.
Thats funny you think it makes the slightest bit of difference what the law says.
The main purpose of the law is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something, including the government!
well.. globally civil liberties have never been stronger.
in USA they were maybe stronger just for a little while in the '90s, provided that you weren't black - and don't talk about civil liberties in '60s and talk even less about them in early 1900's. like, could you imagine blackwater operating domestically? that's what you fuckers had essentially.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.