Anything less than 100% back catalog "so fails to satisfy"? I'm not even going to use that three-letter acronym. Childish.

Make eye contact with the interviewers, but then they might notice your crows feet, which could be the real problem.

It reinforces that it's a slow news day at Slashdot.

I found age discrimination 2008-2011 but not now. I expect it will return after the next stock market or dot-com 2.0 crash.

But I'm not in Silicon Valley.

Redneck haircut

A compact 16TB cube:

• Qty 1 of $99.99 Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 ProBox 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure with USB 3.0 & eSATA
• Qty 4 of $164.99 WD Green WD40EZRX 4TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Bulk Bare Drive

Total: $759.95

Then for the last 4TB, throw on a $149.99 Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive STCA4000100 Black

Slashdot title is misleading, so had to RTFA to find out

Data Science is not "dead", but I've blogged my response: The End of Data Science as We Know It

The author of that Economist piece not only lacks understanding of Montessori, he has, as far as I can tell from Google searches, invented the term "Montessori Management." He gives no evidence or citation that open floor plans come from Montessori rather than the generally accepted Henry Ford factories and subsequent secretarial pools. See also the critical reader comments to that Economist story.

In the interests of balance, if you work in an open plan office that's her fault.

On the contrary, the open floor plan has its roots in the 20th century philosophy of Modernism combined with a focus on industrial efficiency by early 20th century industrialists. Maria Montessori, in contrast, adapted traditional values to the modern era. The multiple ages grouped together doing work simulates the traditional large family (plus cousins). One of the problems she was addressing was the dual-working-parents leaving their children to play in the stairwells of apartment buildings. And, really, what is the alternative for a preschool? Walls, offices, and cubicles? The need for adult supervision in a preschool dictates the open floor plan there, Montessori or not.

Blame Henry Ford instead.

Dr. Maria Montessori, who before becoming a doctor and then an educator, was an engineering major and loved the math portion of it. Thus in her method that she devised 100 years ago, five-year-olds learn the 3D-geometric equivalent of binomials and trinomials from high school algebra.

Spark runs programs 100x faster than Apache Hadoop MapReduce in memory

And Tachyon, another component of Matei's Berkeley Data Analytics Stack, boosts Spark another factor of 2-8x by sidestepping JVM garbage collection issues.

To extend an idea oft-expressed here on Slashdot, Microsoft, from its profit perspective, would be wise to give Windows away for free and then three years after a particular release, start charging for security updates.

Yes, the company offering free service if you pay a one-time fee for the hookup (a fairly reasonable one, at that) is totally making the digital divide worse. Clearly.

And the free service is 5mbps, more than fast enough for Khan Academy and Coursera.

It's as if Google realized in advance that the lunatics would scream "digital divide" because they were charging -- at a dirt cheap price -- for a superlative Internet service, so they tried to head that criticism off at the pass by offering a lower-speed free service.

But still the lunatics scream "digital divide". And Slashdot editors gave them a platform.

I agree with you, but I said "should" not "would".