Comment: Re:My Ex (Score 2) 233
Hopefully she is green. Bonus points if she's little. Future martians should be this size and colour.
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Comment: Re:So why is Uber is in difficulty? (Score 1) 50
Absolutely right. Seoul has very cheap taxis compared to other developed capitals and they are really everywhere. There is much less need for Uber there.
Comment: Re:License? (Score 2) 307
I've seen the Blue Screen of Death on ATMs, Point of Sale terminals, Taxi Passenger TV Screens, Airport Screens and others. It's all out there and failing like it's supposed to. :)
Comment: Re: Web Searches For These Suck (Score 1) 127
You should try Q and K..
http://kx.com/software-downloa...
Comment: Re:Backfire (Score 1) 105
My favourite cab app at the moment is Kabbee. You enter your start and end points and a handful of taxi companies give you automated quotes. In terms of price: Black Cab > Addison Lee > Uber > Kabbee.
+ - Employees who stay more than 2 years paid 50% less->
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fleebait (1432569) writes "According to Forbes:
The worst kept secret is that employees are making less on average every year. There are millions of reasons for this, but we’re going to focus on one that we can control. Staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is going to make you earn less over your lifetime by about 50% or more."
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The worst kept secret is that employees are making less on average every year. There are millions of reasons for this, but we’re going to focus on one that we can control. Staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is going to make you earn less over your lifetime by about 50% or more."
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+ - Ask Slashdot: What's the best rapid development language to learn today? 2
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An anonymous reader writes "Many years ago, I was a coder—but I went through my computer science major when they were being taught in Lisp and C. These days I work in other areas, but often need to code up quick data processing solutions or interstitial applications. Doing this in C now feels archaic and overly difficult and text-based. Most of the time I now end up doing things in either Unix shell scripting (bash and grep/sed/awk/bc/etc.) or PHP. But these are showing significant age as well.
I'm no longer the young hotshot that I once was—I don't think that I could pick up an entire language in a couple of hours with just a cursory reference work—yet I see lots of languages out there now that are much more popular and claim to offer various and sundry benefits.
I'm not looking to start a new career as a programmer—I already have a career—but I'd like to update my applied coding skills to take advantage of the best that software development now has to offer.
Ideally, I'd like to learn a language that has web relevance, mobile relevance, GUI desktop applications relevance, and also that can be integrated into command-line workflows for data processing—a language that is interpreted rather than compiled, or at least that enables rapid, quick-and-dirty development, since I'm not developing codebases for clients or for the general software marketplace, but rather as one-off tools to solve a wide variety of problems, from processing large CSV dumps from databases in various ways to creating mobile applications to support field workers in one-off projects (i.e. not long-term applications that will be used for operations indefinitely, but quick solutions to a particular one-time field data collection need).
I'm tired of doing these things in bash or as web apps using PHP and responsive CSS, because I know they can be done better using more current best-of-breed technologies. Unfortunately, I'm also severely strapped for time—I'm not officially a coder or anything near it; I just need to code to get my real stuff done and can't afford to spend much time researching/studying multiple alternatives. I need the time that I invest in this learning to count.
Others have recommended Python, Lua, Javascript+Node, and Ruby, but I thought I'd ask the Slashdot crowd: If you had to recommend just one language for rapid tool development (not for the development of software products as such—a language/platform to produce means, not ends) with the best balance of convenience, performance, and platform coverage (Windows, Mac, Unix, Web, Mobile, etc.) what would you recommend, and why?"
I'm no longer the young hotshot that I once was—I don't think that I could pick up an entire language in a couple of hours with just a cursory reference work—yet I see lots of languages out there now that are much more popular and claim to offer various and sundry benefits.
I'm not looking to start a new career as a programmer—I already have a career—but I'd like to update my applied coding skills to take advantage of the best that software development now has to offer.
Ideally, I'd like to learn a language that has web relevance, mobile relevance, GUI desktop applications relevance, and also that can be integrated into command-line workflows for data processing—a language that is interpreted rather than compiled, or at least that enables rapid, quick-and-dirty development, since I'm not developing codebases for clients or for the general software marketplace, but rather as one-off tools to solve a wide variety of problems, from processing large CSV dumps from databases in various ways to creating mobile applications to support field workers in one-off projects (i.e. not long-term applications that will be used for operations indefinitely, but quick solutions to a particular one-time field data collection need).
I'm tired of doing these things in bash or as web apps using PHP and responsive CSS, because I know they can be done better using more current best-of-breed technologies. Unfortunately, I'm also severely strapped for time—I'm not officially a coder or anything near it; I just need to code to get my real stuff done and can't afford to spend much time researching/studying multiple alternatives. I need the time that I invest in this learning to count.
Others have recommended Python, Lua, Javascript+Node, and Ruby, but I thought I'd ask the Slashdot crowd: If you had to recommend just one language for rapid tool development (not for the development of software products as such—a language/platform to produce means, not ends) with the best balance of convenience, performance, and platform coverage (Windows, Mac, Unix, Web, Mobile, etc.) what would you recommend, and why?"
Comment: Re:Scottish Advice (Score 1) 259
Coverage can be checked here:
http://www.cable.co.uk/guides/...
All of the major universities have coverage except St. Andrews, which is really remote.
Comment: Nuh-uh! (Score 1) 125
2) The fuckups...They're better suited for desktop support roles or development.
Oh no you don't! Don't send those fuckups over here to development either.
Comment: Re:Does it make Minecraft run faster? (Score 1) 302
All of these things appear to reflect an uninformed poster.
Comment: Re: Mischaracterization of problem (Score 1) 231
Will there be hot grits?
Comment: Re:Firrrst post the noo (Score 1) 286
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dintech
(#46376149)
Attached to: Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast
According to the Financial Times
If [an Independent Scotland's] geographic share of UK oil and gas output is taken into account, Scotland’s GDP per head is bigger than that of France. Even excluding the North Sea’s hydrocarbon bounty, per capita GDP is higher than that of Italy.
So your saying a western European economy of this size would not have been part of the EU when countries like Slovenia, Latvia, Malta are welcome? That's delusional.
Comment: Re:Firrrst post the noo (Score 4, Insightful) 286
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dintech
(#46376063)
Attached to: Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast
And to all you Americans, the 4th of July is something we Scots would like to celebrate with you. We think having our own political system is important too.
Comment: Re:Firrrst post the noo (Score 0) 286
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dintech
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Attached to: Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast
As for english opinion on independence, you don't get a say because that is not how it works globally. Read the news and educate yourself chappy.
As for Labour government, you would have voted for it all by yourself
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I'm Scottish but have lived in London and have done for 10 years so I can't vote either. I think the only way you will see sensible change in England is when an independent Scotland performs much better. Or maybe the McCrone Report is too scary.
As for Labour government, you would have voted for it all by yourself
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I'm Scottish but have lived in London and have done for 10 years so I can't vote either. I think the only way you will see sensible change in England is when an independent Scotland performs much better. Or maybe the McCrone Report is too scary.
Comment: Re:Firrrst post the noo (Score 0) 286
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dintech
(#46375767)
Attached to: Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast
Why don't you read your own fucking national news you total waste of space. The english don't get a say because it is not the global norm for the non-separating part to get a say. Use some common sense.
