Comment: Re:Greedy Upper Management. (Score 4, Interesting) 617
You have a point. But this is goes deeper. It's about keeping salaries down, and IT salaries have been stagnated. So it's working...
Comment: Re:Android (Score 1, Redundant) 351
Freaking joke of a language? It's the number 1 or 2 language in use today (along with C) if you consult language ranking sources... The reason it stood still for a few years is due to Sun going under. But we can't complain. Sun created Java and languages directly inspired by it (such as C#) owe a lot to them.
Comment: Re:Software Apocolypse... (Score 4, Funny) 351
If Oracle wins the suit, this project will be liable for damages to Google :)
A brave new world indeed!
Comment: "Useful twitter?" (Score 1) 50
Sorry, but this is the most awful example I've heard of how Twiter can be a useful "service"... What's the moral of the story? She didn't have to send the text multiple times? Or that she didn't get billed for multiple texts? She could always call or text directly...
Comment: Forgetting Intel tactics? (Score 5, Informative) 497
Let's not forget the underhanded tactics that Intel used. They were forced to pay a minimal $1bn to AMD for it. I always thought its too small an amount for losing their position as leaders in the CPU market. And now look how things turned out...
Comment: Re:Yiobe's bogus metrics (Score 1) 356
From my experience (Lead dev, London, Finance, JVM) I'm hearing of more and more projects being done in Scala and Java than any of these other languages...
Comment: Re:At least Scala is dead (Score 1) 356
I'm very surprised... But it's just Tiobe, which uses a brute-force "page-count" approach. Scala is becoming more and more relevant. Lots of projects in major banks are being done in Scala, some would say "eating" Java's lunch. But in my opinion, these two language can co-exist very harmoniously...
Comment: Re:Android has many problems (Score 1) 614
How did you get first post with such a long verbiage? ;D
Comment: So... what? (Score 1) 210
You can get petaflops with a fraction of 12,000's x86 price, just use GPUs...
Comment: Re:This should be illegal (Score 1) 171
I don't feel as if a stand is being made. It's just a stalemate / horrible situation. And there is nothing I feel I can do about it...
Comment: Re:This should be illegal (Score 3, Insightful) 171
This crap is precisely the reason me and my peers don't vote.
Comment: Re:Look the other way (Score 1) 438
Captain Nathan Bridger of the SeaQuest DSV, is that you, sir?
Comment: hackers (Score 5, Insightful) 378
It was the 1960's hackers in MIT that made programming cool.
+ - Faith-based highways in Texas->
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An anonymous reader writes "Rick Perry and Phil Graham have appointed a lobbyist, Phil Wilson, to head the Texas highway department. Wilson has no engineering background whatsoever, he just knew the right people. (The prior P.E. requirement for this job had to be removed so he could be appointed.) His salary will be double that of the last head of the department, an engineer. Yes, a national search for the best candidate was conducted at a cost of $57,000 and Wilson was the winner!
It looks as though Perry and Phil Graham's man had the inside track to head the highway department. No, no promotion from within, no engineering background whatsoever, he just knew the right people. Welcome to the world of faith-based highways...
Wilson's salary will be double that of the recent head of the department. A national search for the best candidate was conducted at a cost of $57,000 and Wilson was the winner!"
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It looks as though Perry and Phil Graham's man had the inside track to head the highway department. No, no promotion from within, no engineering background whatsoever, he just knew the right people. Welcome to the world of faith-based highways...
Wilson's salary will be double that of the recent head of the department. A national search for the best candidate was conducted at a cost of $57,000 and Wilson was the winner!"
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+ - Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment?
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relyte writes "In the spirit of the recent poll--where many people recommended ergonomic upgrades--what's the best way to get a comfortable, efficient work environment? I'm just starting my career in software development, and I already know I want a great chair, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc. What should I get, and am I missing any categories?"