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Comment: Cornal Mass Ejection - BBQ Aftermath (Score 1) 151

by rla3rd on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:42AM (#47889017) Attached to: To prepare for a coronal mass ejection, I ...

I envision a cornal mass ejection to imply having consumed massive quantities of beer and eaten mass quantities of corn while shooting off my guns all night long at a barbeque. Come the next day I'd need lots of TP for the corn shits and water to nurse the hangover.

Comment: Re:I am not colorblind (Score 1) 267

by rla3rd on Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:56PM (#47627763) Attached to: My degree of colorblindness:

Hate to tell you. The need for reading glasses starts in your 40s. Ask any one of us old geezers. Just wait until that part of your vision starts to go to hell as well.

Comment: Re:missing from the list (Score 1) 285

by rla3rd on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @02:15PM (#47409331) Attached to: The World's Best Living Programmers

oops, missed James Gosling as well

Comment: missing from the list (Score 1) 285

by rla3rd on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @02:14PM (#47409321) Attached to: The World's Best Living Programmers

In no particular order

Steven Bourne
Larry Wall
Guido van Rossum
Yukihiro Matsumoto
John Chambers

Comment: Using SWIFT in a contract with the US Navy... (Score 0) 636

by rla3rd on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:53PM (#47151315) Attached to: Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift

Do you get Swift Boating? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Comment: Terminology (Score 3, Informative) 303

by rla3rd on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @09:16AM (#46878401) Attached to: SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged'

I used to work as a trader for a major wall street firm. Slight correction in the terminology. If you are bidding the stock you are a buyer, If you are offering the stock you are a seller, regardless if the price you want to buy/sell at is on the bid or ask. If the bid/ask is $1.00/$1.01 and you offer $1.01, you are offering to sell at $1.01, and become part of the offered volume at $1.01. I know, I know, I sound like a bit of a prick pointing out the nuances. But you'd be in for a world of trouble in a pit or on a phone order offering a ton of stock if you were a buyer.

Comment: I can live without all of it (Score 1) 531

by rla3rd on Sunday March 02, 2014 @01:20PM (#46382457) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without?

Things I can't live without: Air, Food, Water, Shelter

Comment: Re:Why is "forgetting" such a problem apparently? (Score 1) 381

by rla3rd on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:23AM (#45897781) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia?

There once was a man from Peru, who fell asleep in his canoe....

2014

2013

Comment: Howard Deanonymizes (Score 1) 151

by rla3rd on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:45AM (#45660501) Attached to: Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters

At first glance this immediately came to mind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwODbl3muE

Comment: VR Tenga! (Score 1) 318

by rla3rd on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:16AM (#45514047) Attached to: On the subject of robots ...

http://www.ibtimes.com/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-sex-simulator-developer-combines-oculus-rift-headset-tenga-novint-falcon

Comment: Re:XBL? (Score 1) 138

by rla3rd on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @07:37AM (#43460075) Attached to: The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0

XBL stands for XML Binding Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBL

XBRL stands for Extensible Business Reporting Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL
http://www.xbrl.org/

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