Comment Re:Constitutionally Protected Don't Tread On Me (Score 1) 55
Hahaha! Wish I had mod points.
Comment As an American (Score 1) 40
I thank God every day that such a thing could never happen here.
Comment Irrelevant (Score 1) 219
It's irrelevant whether or not the tech giants are listening to our calls. The real problem is it's up to them, not us.
Comment Re:Stuff like this makes even believers go "hmm" (Score 1) 65
I'm sure there are a few of us old-timers around. As the focus of the site has shifted over time, I don't visit as often, but I still drop in 2 or 3 times a week.
Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 102
It's like they're trying to make me hate them even more.
Comment Re:Yeah.... no (Score 1) 597
My main home PC has been Linux forever (Mint for some years now, Slack before that). I keep an install of Windows 7 around for two things I can't live without, TurboTax and Orbiter. But honestly I don't fire it up that often these days.
Comment Yeah.... no (Score 1) 597
This old fart is fucking done with this bullshit.
Comment Send Your Name to the Sun - There's still time! (Score 1) 121
Submit your name and it will be included in a memory card that will fly aboard Parker Solar Probe spacecraft.
Submissions will be accepted through April 27, 2018.
http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl...
Comment NOPE (Score 1) 302
Nope nope nopity nope nope.
Comment Re:Why I like Firefox: Extensions (Add-ons) (Score 1) 319
Nooooooooooooo!!!!! Classic Theme Restorer is the only that keeps Firefox usable. Dammit!
Submission + - First color images produced by an electron microscope (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Imagine spending your whole life seeing the world in black and white, and then seeing a vase of roses in full color for the first time. That’s kind of what it was like for the scientists who have taken the first multicolor images of cells using an electron microscope. Electron microscopes can magnify an object up to 10 million times, allowing researchers to peer into the inner workings of, say, a cell or a fly’s eye, but until now they’ve only been able to see in black and white. The new advance—15 years in the making—uses three different kinds of rare earth metals called lanthanides (think top row of that extra block below the periodic table) layered one-by-one over cells on a microscope slide. The microscope detects when each metal loses electrons and records each unique loss as an artificial color.
Comment Re:A short list (Score 1) 178
Oh, and as others have mentioned:
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - maybe hold off on this one for a while, but do read it
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/...
Comment A short list (Score 2) 178
Software development can be a grind. Perspective is valuable.
Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming
http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.h...
Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line
http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/...
Vernor Vinge, True Names
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment That's it, Microsoft. You need help. (Score 1) 564
Your codependency has gotten completely out of hand.
Comment Yeah (Score 2, Funny) 226
I've been a little worried about the Unicode Consortium ever since 'PILE OF POO' (U+1F4A9) received its own codepoint. Don't know what's going on with those folks, but it doesn't seem healthy. Given that Unicode is an important and widely used standard, it seems like perhaps they should take their work a little more seriously. Or have they already 'JUMP THE SHARK'ed?
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