gsanson - Slashdot User

Comment What a bunch of bull pucky... (Score 1) 538

by gsanson on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @09:55PM (#26054513) Attached to: Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers

What the hell are you all talking about? I have yet to find a "good" programmer. I've been doing software development for over 20 years and I can tell you most are either so full of themselves or can't communicate with any other living soul.
I write software only because it's easy for me whereas most all others I have to work/deal with struggle to make a reasonable recursive function let alone understand business or scientific logic. It is generally a piece of cake for me but then again I have an education in engineering AND computer science.
There is something to say for motivation, or lack there of, by management. They don't want to rock the boat so they let the mediocre stay in the mix and bring the entire quality down.

Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released 148

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 17, 2008 @01:55PM from the smaller-better-deal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today Mozilla released development builds of its next mobile browser, Fennec 1.0 Alpha 1. 'The last eight milestones were building up to getting a stable browser with an easy to use interface. We really want to get Fennec in front of as many people as possible and get feedback.' To that end, Fennec has been made available for the desktop on Windows, Mac and Linux."

Flower Robots For Your Home 119

Posted by timothy on Friday October 17, 2008 @03:00AM from the pretty-high-on-maslow's-hierarchy dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Flower robots are not new, and some have already been developed in the US. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price."

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