Comment How about getting Facebook off my phone? (Score 2) 113
My Android phone came with the Facebook app preinstalled and requires rooting to uninstall. At this point I'd be much more interesred in a phone incapable of running Facebook.
Comment Re:php is bad for the environment (Score 1) 752
Not to mention clients. 20K servers is nothing compared to the millions of clients who should be running Flashblock.
FTFY.
FTFY.
Comment Re:WTF? No more CSS? (Score 1) 124
I'm a little out of practice with CSS so I may be missing something obvious, but is there some reason you can't do something like align: center, padding-left:10px to create the same effect as center+10px?
Comment weareborg tag (Score 1) 131
This is tagged weareborg. We are borg who are mainlining warez and will add the Jonas Brothers' catchy distinctiveness to our own.
(There's a cyborg/Michael Jackson plastic-surgery obsession joke somewhere in here, but I'll leave it to cleverer posters to hash out.)
Submission + - Fake Tauntaun sleeping bag may soon be real (laweekly.com)
garnetlion writes: "Think Geek's PR guy tells LA weekly that if LucasFilm will grant them the rights, their April Fools Tauntaun sleeping bag will actually be manufactured. Here's hoping they offer it in adult sizes."
Comment The middle of the night (Score 1) 508
All my best coding takes place in the middle of the night. It's quiet and everybody else is too busy sleeping to distract me.
Unfortunately, the times when I'm really tearing it up are usually the same times that I have to be awake and alert in 3 hours or less.
Comment Actually it takes a full 15, 16 hours (Score 1) 1385
You realize there's a good 300 miles of California north of the bay area, right?
Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 546
the US, and since they're still in the horse and buggy era when it comes to measuring systems and since they outnumber us ten to one
Here in the US we say we outnumber you twelve to 1 one and a fifth.
Comment Re:That's simple? Here's _simple_! (Score 1) 530
A3: Because you're about to go on an away mission with a bunch of main cast members and get killed.
Comment Re:I didn't know Feinstein was a Republican.... (Score 1) 873
Well, she's in office now. Fortunately it's easy to contact her.
Comment Re:No Shit. (Score 1) 431
Yeah, but then you're running Java.
Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 3, Funny) 176
if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere...
FYI, one generally doesn't piss out their asshole.
Submission + - Computer Science Or Economics? (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt is running an interesting (and lively) debate over whether it makes more sense to study computer science or economics these days. Apparently more students are drifting away from computer science towards economics. This may not be that surprising, given the vast fortunes being made on Wall Street as well as the success of some mass market economics books. At the same time, there are definite concerns about the future job prospects for someone with a CS degree. Also, part of the discussion is whether it's easier to pick up the basics of one of these on the side while studying the other. So, which is better to study: computer science or economics?
Submission + - Seen any roundabout dogs lately? (zmolklife.com)
Limeing writes: "Outside Sweden, roundabout dogs is a pretty unknown phenomenon. To bad because they're a whole lot of fun. For you who doesn't know what I'm talking about this is what a roundabout dog is.
Definition of roundabout dog: "Non-professionally produced sculptural art in the form of a dog or other animal made from any material which, often concealed by the darkness of the night, is placed in a public place, preferably in a roundabout.""
Definition of roundabout dog: "Non-professionally produced sculptural art in the form of a dog or other animal made from any material which, often concealed by the darkness of the night, is placed in a public place, preferably in a roundabout.""
Submission + - Becoming a globetrotting IT NONPROFIT consultant
jongleur_kit writes: I am a successful IT consultant in the government sector — I got my master's degree in computer science a few years ago with a high GPA, I make good money for my sector, I'm moving up to middle management. However, as I progress through my early thirties, I find myself more and more intrigued by the wider world. I'm reading _The Economist_ and _Foreign Affairs_, I'm becoming a junkie for any news source (blogs, mostly) that track efforts to help the developing world. I'm not ready to leave the corporate world just yet, and I know I will never have the specialized expertise to head up efforts in multinational humanitarian development. But what I _would_ like to do is develop the skill set and experience that will allow me to quit my mundane job at 40 (say) and jump into the aid sector. I have romantic thoughts about helping operate (from a tech. or project management standpoint) a program to improve farming methods in Thailand, bring laptops to Senegal, build a reliable voting system in Guatemala. I want to travel and do good, and in ten years I'll have enough saved up to take a pay cut to do it. But I don't know _how_.
Are my goals far-fetched? Am I too old (I'm 32) to work toward this? Do any of you provide this kind of operational support (to the WHO/Doctors Without Borders/Unicef, etc.), and what advice would you give someone looking to get into this area? What is the roadmap?
Are my goals far-fetched? Am I too old (I'm 32) to work toward this? Do any of you provide this kind of operational support (to the WHO/Doctors Without Borders/Unicef, etc.), and what advice would you give someone looking to get into this area? What is the roadmap?
