As someone who often does the hiring, I agree with you (at least in our case). We consider what to pay a developer and if a recruiter is used then that fee is an entirely peripheral issue. I've never been witness to a person summing the two in order to fit a budget. Maybe that happens in some much larger companies that are trying to quantify everything, but it would be new to me.

It's been fairly day-to-day in embedded development if you count SIMD, but as to the future I'd agree it's more on the way out for common development than the way in.

Seriously, his long post crashed my RSS app (OSX NewsBar). I've seen this once before. It won't refresh Slashdot again until the article falls out of range.

Can we work systemd into the discussion?

Reminds me of a character in a Douglas Adams novel who contemplated suing the CIA until a lawyer friend of his advised him that would be like "attacking a lunatic asylum with a banana".

...or Ford patents the steering wheel.

I think it's laughable how many people believe their politics are based on scientific fact these days. Sure - on a specifically scientific issue like this you may take the side of scientists. But you can't even have a position on something as quantifiable as economics without first defining what the objectives should be. That requires your whole sense of what is morally/ethically right and wrong. That sense you pulled out of your ass or learned from someone who pulled it out of their ass. Your politics are ultimately no more or less "scientific" than someone who believes they got theirs from a mystical being.

I want full video slashdot - find out how pretty you all are...

+1 funny for "fake tan retards"

If you keep your perspective on what FB is, a superficial and very public cyber-hangout, then I think it's kind of fun to mess around on there. But then - I don't really care if someone figures out how to target an ad at me...

It makes sense. Don't think "significant" like "important". Think "significant" as opposed to "insignificant".

I've programmed over 30 years professionally. If there's every been an occasion, (on at least a medium sized project), where the choice of programming language wasn't pretty much dictated by some kind of requirements - I can't remember it.

Thank you. It's refreshing when someone bashes both sides in this pathologically two-sided society of ours.

I don't think there are other reasons to consider CO2 a pollutant.

You could emulate it with an ARM or something. 'Course I guess a substitution here and a subsitution there and pretty soon you may as well just play with a software emulator...