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Comment: I have no trouble believing this (Score 4, Insightful) 164

by gaudior (#43483611) Attached to: LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers
LinkedIn has always seemed shady to me. I joined a few years ago, and got inundated with requests from people who seemed to do nothing with their time but offer to show me how to accumulate linked-in followers. My ex and I were simultaneously suggested to each other as contacts, probably because we still share some friends in common. Neither of us requested anything. I think the whole thing is just another social-media wank-fest, like twitter or google+.

Comment: Re:With all that's going on... (Score 3, Insightful) 522

by gaudior (#42972967) Attached to: Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online
As a life-long citizen of Illinois, I've reached the point of saturation with the asshattery that goes on in Springfield and the true ruling city of the state, Chicago. This kind of thing simply doesn't register any attention anymore. We are numb, beaten into submission.

+ - New RepRapPro Tricolour Mendel 3D printer announced->

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An anonymous reader writes "RepRapPro today announced the launch of their Tricolour Mendel 3D printer kits.
The Tricolour Mendel will print in three colours or with three materials ... and all for under $1000.
All in all -in terms of performance and price- we think that this is just about the best multi colour 3D printer on the market.
Find out details at http://reprappro.com/Special_Blog?cmd=post&id=20"

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+ - SPAM: Scientists create automated 'time machine' to reconstruct ancient languages

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vividtimes
vividtimes writes "Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of painstaking work. Now, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created an automated “time machine,” of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages."
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+ - Ada 2012 Language Approved as Standard by ISO->

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hypnosec writes "The Ada Resource Association (ARA) announced that the Ada 2012 programming language has been approved and published as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Announcing the development, ARA and Ada-Europe said that the new version brings with it the concept of contract-based programming, Concurrency and Multicore Support, Increased Expressiveness and Container Enhancements. Under the contract-based programming, developers will have the “ability to specify preconditions and postconditions for subprograms, and invariants for private (encapsulated) types.”"
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+ - Real world code sucks->

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An anonymous reader writes "There is a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer science to a job as a real-world software developer. The conflict lies in the fact that, whereas nearly every sample program in every textbook is a perfect and well-thought-out specimen, virtually no software out in the wild is, and this is rarely acknowledged.
To be precise: a tremendous amount of source code written for real applications is not merely less perfect than the simple examples seen in school — it’s outright terrible by any number of measures.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/21/financial_software_disasters/

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