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Comment Job Diva is the worst........also lay off Detroit (Score 2) 227

Job Diva is the WORST of all. Hell they don't even hide that they use a harvester. Just Google them and there are numerous tales of their horrific nonstop spam. I get Detroit (which is a fine city IMHO), Fort Wayne, Billings and every other place I'd never move. Bravo to these guys for finally doing something, I'm signing up now.

Submission + - Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not as Great as You Think

An anonymous reader writes: Software engineers suffer from a problem that most other industries wish they had: too much demand. There's a great story at the Atlantic entitled Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Might Think). This is a problem that many engineers deal with: place your resume on a job board and proceed to be spammed multiple times per day for jobs in places that you would never go to (URGENT REQUIREMENT IN DETROIT!!!!!, etc). Google "recruiter spam" and there are many tales of engineers being overwhelmed by this. One engineer, fed up by a lack of a recruiting spam blackhole, set up NoRecruitingSpam.com with directions on how to stop this modern tech scourge. How many of you slashdotters have been the victim of recruiting spam?

Comment Re:What a nightmare (Score 1) 332

Wish I could mod you up. I agree with your assessment that the 2 movies were good movies IFF they changed the names of the characters and the Title of the movie. So make it Star Ship Battles - "The Search for MORE Money" starring Capt Krush, First Officer Shock, etc. and it would have been a playful, satirical bash of Star Trek much like Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, etc.

Instead we have a "Star Trek" universe that JJ has TOTALLY F*&*ed up where people can use the transporter to get anywhere in the galaxy, super-magically powerful "Red Matter", lame plots and passable acting etc. etc.

You don't NEED star ships anymore because of the awesome transporter. Additionally, if someone with a spaceship DOES come at us we'll just transport photon torpedoes, nuclear warheads etc right into the oncoming ship and watch it explode like some massive firework. Hell we could keep asteroids from hitting the planet by using the same transporter technique.

So the next movie will be what??? Save (insert member of the main characters), Save the Whales (pick your species), Find God at the center of the Galaxy, or some other Star Trek movie because no one can come up with something original (that fits within the Star Trek Universe).

Here's the plot for any new movies with the Star Trek name...
Uh Oh... Something's happening with So and So on Planet Z where God is...
Ok, send 2 dozen Space Marines (via transporter) to Planet Z.
Check it out, kill what needs to be dealt with, save So and So, and say hi to God.
End of Movie.

Even WORSE, now JJ is going to F*&* up the Star Wars franchise. Granted I don't know if JJ can do worse than Old George did with E1 through E3, but I'm not wasting money to see it in the theaters.

Just Sad. I think Yogurt said it best when describing the sequel to Space Balls 2 "The search for more money".

Comment Perl: TMTOWTDI (Score 5, Insightful) 729

I used to think that Perl's feature of "There's More Than One Way To Do It" was great until I had to start modifying and maintaining the code of other developers, (several over the years). 20+ years I've been with Perl and I gotta say that through the years this has probably caused me more frustration than anything. Python, comparatively speaking, is a dominatrix and I'm starting to enjoy "There's Only One Way To Do It".

Comment Crybaby tactics.... (Score 1) 338

warned the (Democrat-led) FCC to not do anything that a future Republican led FCC would dislike

Part of being the party in power is that you get to do shit that the other party doesn't like. You seriously think when Republicans were in power that they would have done the same? I think not......

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