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Comment What happened here? (Score 5, Insightful) 253

I was in this thread to see comments about being a Hollywood science consultant, yet I can see are "I like tBBT", and "I don't", interspersed with the occasional "What do you know" and "You're obviously a moron".

Have all the slashdot accounts been hacked by some preschoolers?

Comment Re:These are NOT... (Score 1) 325

Episode VII is the movie they should have made years ago. Instead, we got the godawful prequels and now all the original cast is a hundred years old and will be lucky to get through filming without needing paramedics standing by at all times.

Well, by that theory, "Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull" would have been bad, long overdue and needed paramedics nearby and... oh, I take your point.

Comment Follow William Pitt (The elder) (Score 1) 125

I think he said "Being responsible, I will direct: and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct".

If the new guy thinks you're looking over his shoulder all the time, he'll (rightly) think you don't trust him. And you're either fully trusted or you're not. If I was hired into a position and had the boss checking on me all the time, I think I'd walk. (Well, maybe not - I have bills to pay - but I'd be annoyed).

And as someone else else, if you hire the right guy, you've got no problems.

Sounds like you may be regretting the decision to move to the boardroom? Anyhow, good luck with it...

Comment Re:Youtube's pretty good, though. (Score 1) 100

My 14-year-old son found an old Rubik's cube and tought himself to solve it using youtube videos in about a week.

Hate to say it,,, but isn't that cheating? Sort of like saying "I won at monopoly, and had access to the bank's money". Yeah, ok, I couldn't think of a videogame reference quick enough. Sue me.

Comment Does anyone multitask? (Score 1) 21

Don't we call do one thing at a time, then flip back and forth between that top-of-stack task and the others in the list? Example: I'm tap-tap-tapping here but two feet to the left is a program I've been working on, still in my memory. But I can't program that and type this at the same time.

Or maybe I already have alzheimers....

Comment Re:no evidence for that statement (Score 1) 173

"There are plenty of good cops out there, ..."

I have heard of no evidence for there being ANY good cops. If there were any, it would be in the news that instead of various projects uncovering criminal behavior, it would be the cops, themselves, and it never seems to happen. There are cops who are murderers, rapists, thieves, and just plain thugs, and the rest of them are guilty of covering for the criminals. What happened to the NYPD officers who gang sodomized that Jamaican? The POLICE OFFICERS UNION pressured the city not to throw the SOBs in jail.

Nonsense. Bad news sells papers. "Cops beat defenceless grandmother" will get a lot more people buying newspapers, than "Cops help little old lady cross busy street safely". There are good cops and there are bad cops. The good cops outnumber the bad ones - vastly, I trust, as the selection process will help in that respect.

Comment Ridiculous stuff (Score 1) 183

TFA has headings such as "To bug-fix or not to bug-fix"... I get the impression someone wanted to write something about ethics and IT, and got some people in the pub to come up with some ideas.

We'll probably see the items used under a different heading ('Professionalism ... to bug-fix or not to bug-fix') next week.

Comment Re:It's not an entitlement (Score 1) 341

it's a scientific fact that people decline rapidly when they hit 50. ....

I'm 54, you inconsiderate clod!

BTW, citation needed. I love these scientific facts that everyone knows. Well, everyone except me. But then I'm over 50 so it's no wonder...

Comment Analyst/Programmers ... (Score 1) 226

Anyone else remember a day when this function was split? Back in the early days, we had Systems Analysts, kept in a separate room to the programmers.

DevOps,,. we've seen this sort of thing before. End result is that we get less specialists, and things become harder to fix when they break. But, multi-skilled people are the way things are going. And have been since ... well, Michaelangelo was a sculptor who was asked to paint. And I have some of his sonnets, somewhere.

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