Comment: Scientists did not create the web (Score 1) 28
"Scientists created the web"
No—_engineers_ created the web.
Comment: Re:Why doesn't Linux use sub-pixel rendering on te (Score 1) 169
Thanks. That's helpful.
Comment: Why doesn't Linux use sub-pixel rendering on text? (Score 1) 169
The screen shots from https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Tour show that this interface is not using sub-pixel font rendering. I have noticed this on most if not all other Linux-type screen shots. Apparently the favored font rendering method on Linux is the old-fashioned "treat every pixel as some shade between the font color and the background color". The characters so rendered are substantially less well-formed and harder to read. And this surely isn't a matter of intellectual property: https://www.grc.com/cleartype.htm.
Comment: Woohoo! Multiple windows side by side! (Score 1) 800
"It'll also be possible to have multiple windows from a single app so that, for example, two browser windows can be opened side-by-side."
WFT? Is this for real? Was this not possible before? Surely the implication of this statement that this was not possible before is wrong.
Comment: YABL (Score 1) 404
YABL. Come on, people, really?
Unsafe arrays.
Forced-indexing into arrays.
Not interested.
Comment: Re:Lots of great new stuff! (Score 1) 81
This is the best comment on this entire page. LOL.
SpaceX: Lessons Learned Developing Software For Space Vehicles 160
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timothy
from the no-one-can-hear-you-bleep-in-space dept.
from the no-one-can-hear-you-bleep-in-space dept.
jrepin writes "On day two of the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference, Robert Rose of SpaceX spoke about the 'Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles.' In his talk, he discussed how SpaceX develops its Linux-based software for a wide variety of tasks needed to put spacecraft into orbit—and eventually beyond. Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX, he said, on everything from desktops to spacecraft."
Comment: Delete your cookies (Score 1) 333
It's my understanding that tracking is done by cookies. I delete all cookies 2-3 times a day, and always after logging out of Google (which I rarely log in to) and Facebook. The only downside is that I have to log in to again to certain sites but that is easy because of OS X's built-in password manager.
Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers 312
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samzenpus
from the looking-good dept.
from the looking-good dept.
First time accepted submitter oxidus60659 writes "I currently work as a programmer for a small business. They have provided me with a laptop and a 27" BenQ monitor on a Neo-Flex stand. The problem is that my main screen is the tiny laptop right in front of me. The 27" monitor is on the left at a very different height position. I want to put the 27" monitor directly above my laptop so I'm looking up rather than to the left for all my coding on the bigger monitor. The stand does not have a high enough setting to accommodate this. What would be a good stand that can mount to a desk high enough to be above a laptop? What kind of monitor setup do you use when programming?"
Comment: But Al Gore invented coding (Score 1) 384
Al Gore may be a politician, but after all, he did invent coding.
Comment: US tramples property rights again (Score 1) 196
The United States government tramples property rights yet again. Slashdotters love it.
Comment: Microsoft Office as "productivity software" LOL (Score 1) 188
Calling Microsoft Office "productivity software" is hilarious. I know we've all spent hours trying to do the simplest things with Office. I recently spent nine hours including querying a forum and Googling trying to figure out how to get Word to number equations. Nine hours, and all I got was a clumsy work-around. And I know this is the "right answer" and that I didn't miss something.
Comment: Strong typing (Score 2) 457
by
iliketrash
(#42561659)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity?
Strong typing. LOL
Comment: Awesome post (Score 3, Insightful) 117
OK--this is probably the stupidest and worst-informed
Is Technology Eroding Employment? 544
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timothy
from the ban-farm-equipment-ask-me-why dept.
from the ban-farm-equipment-ask-me-why dept.
First time accepted submitter Idontpostmuch writes "The idea that technology cannot cause unemployment has long been taken as a simple fact of economics. Lately, some economists have been changing their tune. MIT research scientist Andrew Mcaffee writes, 'As computers and robots get more and more powerful while simultaneously getting cheaper and more widespread this phenomenon spreads, to the point where economically rational employers prefer buying more technology over hiring more workers. In other words, they prefer capital over labor. This preference affects both wages and job volumes. And the situation will only accelerate as robots and computers learn to do more and more, and to take over jobs that we currently think of not as "routine," but as requiring a lot of skill and/or education.'" Note: Certainly not all economists agree "that technology cannot cause unemployment," especially in the short term. From a certain perspective, displacing labor is a, if not the, central advantage of technology in general.