I too saw that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's a possibility. I'm a 53yr old C/UNIX dude and work with a bunch of VMS/COBOL developers. So some weed will get smoked.

office was re-modeled.
no one has a permanent desk anymore. Its all shared corroborative spaces now. Only enough shared desks for 3/4 of the staff at any one time. Have to book a spot on an app to come in. Then clean out everything at the end of the day so it can be wiped down overnight. They gave us lockers, just like being in high school. Additionally onsite parking has tripled in price. (office is not public transport friendly).
Almost seems like they don't want us to come back.

" cargo-cult programming - people who copy/paste snippets from various sources and Frankenstein a monster of code together from parts from GitHub and Sourceforge, with glue they asked and/or cribbed from Stack Exchange. Understanding what that code does not required"

This should be a Wikipedia topic.
Brilliant. And so correct.
Can I please borrow this quote.

everyone knows the answer is 42

Didn't Samsung just do that to Apple ? Made it look familiar, like an iPhone, but underneath its a sh1t load better :-)

I never click on adds, so can I disable them ? I know that sites get dollars from clicks but what if I never click an add ?
Sure I may click on a comment link if I'm reading a story but I'd probably never click on a /. add.
Given I'd never click, am I not saving /. bandwidth costs ?
Ok, not me, but as a collective. all of us that don't click, and on all other sites, must as a collective to that site. add up to some bandwidth savings.
Anyone that responds with a 'unconscious telepathic imprint' of me seeing response the add can go away.
I already know that stuff is cheaper to buy over seas, and yes i may or may not do that already.
Point is, I know what I need, and I'll google for anything else. Adds don't prompt me, and if they did (which they don't cause of adblock) I'll Google it for an honest opinion.

"If NASDAQ acknowledged receiving the order but didn't confirm that the order was placed, it's entirely possible that the right thing to do was send the order again under the assumption that it didn't get filled."

Exactly, you resend with a poss resend flag on the fix message

http://fixprotocol.org/FIXimate3.0/en/FIX.4.2/tag97.html

my guess is an algo went out of control at the swiss bank.

(disclaimer, I work with FIX messaging as a day job and I used to worked for a company that is now part of OMX-NASDAQ)

read this a few mins before reading /.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australia-in-battle-to-host-25b-telescope-20120216-1takw.html

this should be high priority.

we are bickering about a useless crap, but seriously, this one thin would be cool to have,

off topic, but love this movie , The Dish, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/ , especially the US anthem scene, sorry guys if you haven't seen it, no offence meant, just funny for us backward Australian citizens

For the record: I really thought that champagne cooler was empty.

In 1997, right after Chips n' Dips had faded away, to be replaced by the enigmatically named http:///..org, all of us free software nerds hung on its every story, comment and poll like it was carved on tablet and flung from a burning bush. A year later I had started at hardware maker VA Research and /. was falling down for lack of machinery, so we rummaged through our returns piles and sent Rob and Jeff some 2u servers to help out. That was for me the beginning of some of the most important friendships in my adult life.

Its hard to explain how important Slashdot was to all of us 10 years ago. Indeed, without it it would be hard to imagine HN, Reddit, Digg, Fark or any of a thousand lesser sites. The editorial perspective of Rob and the other editors of /. is what kept people coming back and for a long time that perspective was Rob's, then Rob and Jeff and a bunch of us (some, like Timothy and samzenpus, still around!), but then Jeff left, now Rob. In some way I see this as a passing of an era in free software.

Throughout, while some have left for those greener shores, slashdot abided even while buffeted by the markets and the de/evolving internet news world, and it has remained a default tab in my and many others' browsers.

I didn't mean this post to be about Slashdot though, but about my friend Rob. I'll only say that while the site will be the lessor for you leaving, I firmly believe that computer science will gain my. While this note reads like an epitaph or the last pages of a book, it is really no more than a thank you note from me and many I know to your for your decade+ of work on the site. So...

Thanks.

Sorry, but Theora is still not as high quality as later codecs. That hasn't changed. But I was very happy to fund this work out of my group.

Hey, the fellows in netops asked me to clarify for you folks here's the story:

1e100.net is a Google-owned domain name used to identify the servers in our network. Following standard industry practice, we make sure each IP address has a corresponding hostname. Starting in October 2009, we started using a single domain name to identify our servers across all Google products, rather than use different product domains such as youtube.com, blogger.com, and google.com. We did this for two reasons: first, to keep things simpler, and second, to proactively improve security by protecting against potential threats such as cross-site scripting attacks. Most typical Internet users will never see 1e100.net, but we picked we picked a Googley name for it just in case (1e100 is scientific notation for 1 googol).

So there you go!