Good fucking job slashdot, could you seriously get any worse? YES.

Linking to Gawker? After all the negative stories here about their thieving? Lack of ethics? And holy fuck what an abomination of web design?

Does anyone at slashdot really care at all anymore? It's been fashionable to say the site has been getting worse, since, say the second(?) wipe of UIDs. But seriously guys and girls this site is as relevant as the tech section on cnn. I keep coming back, in the hopes that someone, anyone, will start caring again and work on making slashdot worth something, but every time I do it is like expecting Lucas to not fucking rape our childhood dreams again for some more cash.

You guys should seriously be ashamed of yourselves.

No, it goes far deeper than that. Apple picked up Jordan Hubbard who was basically the only reason FreeBSD existed for a while there thanks to his efforts. They've added more BSD background peoples since.

You are doing it wrong if you want to use MS SQL server on dynamic virtual servers.

There are far better SQL and NoSQL solutions for such instances, not everything is a hammer.

A factory is nothing like a world class data center when it comes to building materials, cooling, power, networking, interior.

One billion seems high, but this is probably the cost for both centers and everything else. World class data centers are expensive to put up with a per foot charge that would terrify most people, why do you think so few companies actually build their own?

A large proportion of the cash has been In London, where an estimated £200 million so far has been spent on the cameras. This suggests that each crime has cost £20,000 to detect.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6082530/1000-CCTV-cameras-to-solve-just-one-crime-Met-Police-admits.html (1.5 years ago)

If you would do a little research before opening your mouth, you would see what their value is.

HINT: Integration.

As I said earlier in this thread... if you don't know what dropbox is, you are way behind the leading curve.

This can be good or bad depending on how you are ;).

No, if you didn't know what dropbox is, it essentially means you are moving on a slower plane of technological adoption.

Sorry, but dropbox is known through the valley and every other hot spot of tech startups.

Let's continue this out even further. What if consciousness is an emergent property of a heavily quantum entangled system (ie our brain). What happens when the forces bound into our xyzt plane of existence are rendered useless to the continuation of your life, your soul, but leaves the entanglements in dimensions 5-11 proposed by m-theory?

Things gonna' get messy 'round here!

^ this a hundred times.

I have tons of trouble convincing my friends out of country that the US isn't the one portrayed on television and there are very, very, distinct differences in culture even only a few hundred miles apart. Some parts of the country actively HATE other parts and where it not for our central government would have nothing to do with each other.

I'm out in California after much time in the East and would completely love it if California where to leave the union. Those americans are crazy!

Make the data type as precise as possible.

Now, try to make it more precise.

Indexes are like friends, you can have too many.

Don't do * querys.

If user MYSQL do everything in a view.

What's troubling to me about this article is it reads like this guy hasn't been paying attention for quite a while.

Squid is his use case to beat? Has he been in any high performance app stack in the past five years?

Squid... really?

I'd imagine it was a job that required changing part of a prolog gui environment... right?

All the experiences and memories you had of playing the game.

Even physical goods are temporary.