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Comment: In related news, (Score 1) 64

by melted (#42446043) Attached to: Russian Space Industry To Receive $69 Billion Through 2020

The number of orders at Lamborghini and Ferrari has just doubled for the next few years. Keep in mind that at least half (if not two thirds) of this money will inevitably be stolen. That's just how "business" is done over there. IRS would have a field day discovering the discrepancies between what folks officially make, and what they actually spend.

Comment: "Defensively" is such a load of horseshit (Score 1, Insightful) 136

by melted (#42252273) Attached to: Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+

You know where else I have heard about using patents "defensively"? At Microsoft, circa 2001-2002 when I worked there. It was all about using them "defensively" back then. Then Microsoft had found itself struggling in a number of markets and started suing people left and right to extract royalties. Google will do the exact same thing a few years down the road, for the same reason.

Comment: Re:"I don't have a computer science degree" (Score 1) 630

by melted (#41319359) Attached to: Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore?

I wasn't ironic at all. I know a ton of people who do benefit handsomely from their computer science degrees. Heck, I'm one of them. I know of only a handful of guys who got lucky and got anywhere in this business without a degree. There are exceptions to any rule, but this particular one seems to put the probability mass on the side of getting a degree if you want to work in software. :-)

Comment: "I don't have a computer science degree" (Score 4, Insightful) 630

by melted (#41309515) Attached to: Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore?

>> "I don't have a computer science degree"

Found this sentence and did not read the article. The guy lucked out by being in the right place at the right time, and now he's spouting his confirmation bias to anyone who would listen. I'm also pretty sure he doesn't know what "confirmation bias" is. :-)

Comment: I might be a hardass, but (Score 1) 729

by melted (#41216977) Attached to: Do We Need a Longer School Year?

I might be a hardass, but my kid does math homework even in the summer. An hour in the morning, an hour in the evening as a prerequisite to doing all the "fun" stuff, like computer games, watching cartoons and so on. He doesn't seem to mind too much. That's in addition to private math teacher that he goes to twice a week year round.

"If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_

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