Comment: I prefer a shorter life without some fat guys junk (Score 2, Funny) 191
waiving around in front of me. It's not the quantity of life but quality that matters.
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Comment: Soon to be replaced with the infinite loop (Score 1) 155
Where passengers can spin around the universe until the end of time.
Comment: FIrst phrase translated from Yucatec Maya (Score 4, Funny) 60
"Why did Microsoft take away the start menu in Windows 8? Metro is worse than bat shit."
Comment: Common misconception about class action suits (Score 5, Insightful) 114
It's a common refrain to say that nobody benefits from class action suits except the lawyers. While that may be true for the class litigants themselves it is entirely untrue for the public at large. The purpose of large punitive rewards is to penalize corporate misbehavior and in turn incentivize good behavior. By that measure we all benefit from these suits.
Comment: Second Linus Law: Curse the bugs out (Score 3, Funny) 95
Maybe Linus isn't cursing at the developers with enough frequency or intensity?
Comment: I'm more upset they destroyed thinkpad keyboard (Score 1) 266
Bring back the old-style Thinkpad keyboards and all will be forgiven.
Comment: How to lose friends and infuriate people (Score 1) 131
In twelve easy steps!
Comment: I'm a strong believer in good deadbolts (Score 3, Insightful) 220
Yet I want you to give me a copy of the key and trust that it wont fall into the wrong hands or be used illegally against me. See how stupid that sounds Obama?
Comment: But can you patent the software that gens patents? (Score 2) 85
And so on? Such recursion might cause the patent office to explode.
Comment: Tesla will go supernova (Score 1) 257
There will be a surge and resulting peak in demand for their expensive cars and then demand will fall off a cliff and the company will eventually disappear. Maybe then we'll finally stop seeing the endless supply of pump and dump stock articles that appear on /., esp positive-spin articles like this one that magically appear whenever there is negative news about the company.
Comment: The 90/10 law was discovered years ago (Score 3, Insightful) 411
90% of the time is spent executing 10% of the code. But when something goes wrong you want that other 90% of the code to be there so that you don't l lose 100% of your work :)
Comment: Proof that there's too much money in the world (Score 4, Insightful) 148
From the aritcle:
"One investor said she spent HK$1.3 million in swap options for the virtual currency last September. She said salespersons had told her she would recoup her investment in four months and make around 200-300 percent profit in one year."
How does someone this stupid get hold of that much money?
"One investor said she spent HK$1.3 million in swap options for the virtual currency last September. She said salespersons had told her she would recoup her investment in four months and make around 200-300 percent profit in one year."
How does someone this stupid get hold of that much money?
Comment: So in other words, the fat woman is full of shit? (Score 1) 378
Couldn't resist :)
Comment: Samsung rumored to drop 810 due to overheating (Score 2) 85
Comment: Further details about month-to-month performance (Score -1, Flamebait) 271
The study also revealed that female-run companies experience a recurring dip in relative performance that happens once per month with a duration of approximately 3-5 days. Researchers are actively working on finding the source of this blip in the data.
