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Comment Re: Fricking finally. (Score 1) 307

I do not think so.
I think that the big sites are ALL ready for IPv6. Netflix, Walmart, Amazon, etc are all ready.
So, if several of these large ISPs decide to go IPv6 only, they MIGHT lose a few customers, but I suspect not many. In fact, if they announce this together and give others 1 year to get their act together, we would likely see a change on all sites/ISPs.

Comment Re:Does Ultima Online help with burnout? (Score 1) 75

For me, what helps is messing around with "side projects" that are not perhaps officially sanctioned, but are tangentially related to my job. You'll want to be careful with these, some bosses may not appreciate it, but perhaps it's not programming that's the problem but the company you're working for...

So for example, hacking into our software to expose security flaws. Spent a day screwing around and turning a "theoretical" problem into a real one and upping the priority of security in general.

Reading up on SQL... on a paper book, out in the sun by a pool.

Setting up a testing framework and getting coverage up from 0%. (Sad I know)

Refactoring code that just bugs me.

Learning about password cracking and *ahem* verifying the suitability of our hashing algorithm.

Playing with VMs and setting up a proper dev environment.

Googling around for hacks and cracks for our stuff.

Okay so most of these are perfectly normal software development tasks, but the trick is, I didn't get permission to do them. They're far enough away from my usual work that I can switch over to them instead when I'm tired of the long haul project that never seems to end.

It's not making a NES emulator on my spare time or anything, but taking breaks and switching around can keep you from total burnout.

Comment Re:What happened to the scientific method? (Score 2) 278

Actually, science came about after the world was determined to be round, and science has always been against witchcraft.
It was conservative religious nut jobs that push concepts of flat earth and witchcraft.

Scientific method came about in 17th century.

But hey, do not let facts get in your conservative religious nut job approach.

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