Comment Re:Yes, but no.. (Score 1) 116

by pulu on Sunday June 01, 2025 @08:29PM (#65421209) Attached to: Will 'Vibe Coding' Transform Programming?

I think this is the thing. I've worked at so many places that tried to outsource, and failed miserably. Then for a short time (I couldn't handle the stress tbh) I worked with a set of serial startup ninjas, like the guys that take your two person company to a series a and leave. Fucking amazing people, but the "outsourcing" guy was a genius. In that he could take 30-50 really shit developers and their 5 barely less than shit managers and get them to produce, like new features in a day produce. But I remember the way he'd talk to them (these guys were all on the other side of the planet so they could work features at night that the product people came up with during the day)... THAT GUY will vibe his way to great success. Like 1 guy in a 25 year career who pulled off outsourcing. Really sucks for the 30-50 shit dudes, because you know some of them didn't stay that way. How will they learn now? Also, he (and the rest of those startup ninjas) were really smart cause they always left at series A wayyy before maintainability of "two features a day" caused heartache, lol.

Comment Re:Why did they think it's worth it? (Score 1) 12

by pulu on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @08:08PM (#65357629) Attached to: OpenAI Reaches Agreement To Buy Startup Windsurf For $3 Billion

Cisco used to do a ton of acquisitions like this, ones that look pointless, but serve some function. And the function is to get pre-screened engineers,

That's what I was thinking too. When the money gets crazy it's not just getting a couple of rock stars, if you get a couple of rock star teams that are already running well together and can infuse a bunch of culture into the bigger org, it can make a huge difference to a company... but why can't their robots do it, lol

Comment Re:More details on what it was (Score 1) 85

by pulu on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:39AM (#63246555) Attached to: Missing Radioactive Capsule Sparks Urgent Health Alert In Western Australia

Thanks for the detail on what it was possibly used for, even if the element wasn't exact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is the final answer that can let me rest my brain tonight after reading that article in the morning and wondering all day why a mine has a little piece of radioactive material.

Comment start with political spam sms (Score 1) 37

by pulu on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:23PM (#63151234) Attached to: Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General

95% of my spam is because I was foolish enough to leave my mobile number in a political donation in 2012. I'm sure congress will GLADLY remove all those political exemptions, right? RIGHT?

Comment Re:What a mistake (Score 1) 514

by pulu on Saturday July 03, 2010 @05:14PM (#32788142) Attached to: Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power

The article didn't make it clear... The largest loan was to the spanish company to build a solar plant in AZ, that is in fact thermal solar and it will be the largest trial of hot sodium storage so it can produce after dark until the end of the normal daily peak around here. Obviously the local press has a bit better coverage of the details: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/07/03/20100703biz-abengoa0704-ONL.html As to your main contention, each style of solar has it's place, reducing demand from the grid will be less efficient but won't require expansion of transmission infrastructure, especially if it can be done during the peak demand times.

The Grown-Up Video Game 152

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @11:29PM from the getajob-hero dept.

Phaethon360 writes "Now, more than ever, we're seeing many Mature ratings (M+, 17+, 18) being distributed by various national media regulators. But that isn't the only indicator for a game's intended audience. It doesn't take a thousand swear words, scantily clad women or gratuitous violence to differentiate a ten-year-old's game from a twenty-year-old's. The spectrum of human emotions encompasses a wider palette than just revenge, fear, and loss, but the games that shy away from these are frequently mistaken as being for a younger audience. From the article: 'The human experience is one that is made up of great hardship, pain, loss, death, and a multitude of experiences seemingly designed to destroy a person. However, that same experience is also filled with joy, love, laughter, family and friends. ... These so-called “grown-up” games need not be relegated to the category of niche gaming. In fact, at times we find that these video games are capable of reaching mass popularity among the gaming community. It is here that we find one of our generation’s outlets for the expression of conflict.'"

Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @12:26AM from the one-man's-readable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

Ancient Ecosystem Found In Ice Pocket 49

Posted by timothy on Friday April 17, 2009 @09:21AM from the so-it's-not-a-traditional-honeymoon-suite dept.

ApharmdB writes "Beneath a glacier in Antarctica, scientists have discovered a community of microbes growing in frigid pools of salty water. It's a particularly tough environment, with no light, no oxygen, and extremely cold temperatures. But the microbes appear to live — and thrive — off a combination of iron and sulfur, according to a new study. The result of that strange metabolism is a brilliant red streak of cascading ice called Blood Falls."

Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should 685

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @07:57PM from the light-it-up dept.

TaeKwonDood writes "LEDs don't beat CFLs in the home yet, but it's not simply because PG&E is getting rich making people feel like they are helping the environment buying CFLs made in China that are shipped to the US using a lot more fossil fuels than they save. It's a problem of indication versus illumination. However, some new discoveries are going to change all that."

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eBay Bans Google Payments 591

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 06, 2006 @07:50PM from the credit-no-good-here dept.

whoever57 writes "eBay has added Google Checkout to the list of payment options banned on eBay. A recent update to the Accepted Payments Policy includes Google Checkout (click on 'Show' next to 'Some Examples' to reveal the list). More comments on this action can be found at the eBay Strategies Blog."

Comment Re:Or LVM!?!?!?! (Score 1) 236

by pulu on Wednesday August 17, 2005 @01:25PM (#13340700) Attached to: Booting an x86 Virtual Machine from an iPod

Knoppix seems to have decided to drop the rescue side of their mission for the demo/toy side. Fair enough. Seems like that's where they get the press/money.

I've switched to Kanotix, one of the live cd's that still seems to be interested in the rescue side.

The other option is to use the bootcd packages in debian/ubuntu and make custom rescue cds that directly match the machine that will be rescued. Bit more of a pain but much more handy when the people nearest that machine don't know enough to set up even the networking on their own.