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Comment Re:God is just (Score 1) 494

You get what you pay for. You earn what you get, one way or another.

If you marry someone much prettier, you will have a live of submission. If you take a job paid too much, they won't let you forget it. If you lie or cheat, you will get-in over your head. There is always justice. If you come from segregation, your world view might need an adjustment.

Correction, you earn what you negotiate.

Comment Re:Fork? (Score 1) 156

Disclosure - I work for Oracle. If you think support is 13 levels removed from development, you haven't worked at a software company. As we speak, I'm sitting in a conference room with no fewer than 4 product managers. I've worked personally with developers for a variety of our products. And we're a BIG company. When I was working support at a startup, I could walk over to the dev area and physically bully them into helping me troubleshoot when it was necessary. Oracle is very good about making sure that development is well aware of how the products are used in the field and what the issues are; getting involved in support is only a part of that.

Comment Re:Business Intelligence (Score 1) 180

Disclosure - I work for Oracle, though not for the OBIEE team. The people I know that work with OBIEE repeatedly claim the best scaling BI architecture in the industry. They even went so far as to describe in fairly deep detail the specific technical reasons for it, which I believe added up to being able to horizontally scale the software components to meet your specific performance needs.

Comment What happened with CD Baby and Snocap (Score 4, Interesting) 93

When not on Slashdot, I'm the owner of CD Baby, which was the largest provider of music to Snocap.

Snocap had everything going for them, and could have probably succeeded, but their execution was so bad that it was unbearable.

Check out my What happened with CD Baby and Snocap article, and especially the comments below it, with all these musicians so frustrated that Snocap won't reply to anybody's emails.

The most brilliant idea, with bad execution, is worth nothing.

Comment Not insightful (Score 2, Insightful) 670

Throwing more money at it isn't necessarily the fix needed. Some places with relatively high spending per child have the crappiest schools.

Don't rate this insightful. It's a logical fallacy.

"Some schools with lots of resources are badly managed. Therefore, spending money to create better schools a bad idea."

The truth is that most schools with lots of funding produce students with higher GPA's. In general, more funding is a good thing.

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Journal Journal: ~scream~ if you have bone to pick, pick it now 9

Cause I might just not be around to listen to you much longer. Surely there are other blogs, and I can get news faster from Fark. Even the cool Linux element is gone here.

/. seems to have devolved into two groups, the wise people who know how to have a good argument/discussion and the idiots that are kiss-my-ass karma whores.
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Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of Free Will 867

pragueexpat writes "Do we have free will? Possibly not, according to an article in the new issue of the Economist. Entitled 'Free to choose?', the piece examines new discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and psychology that may be forcing us to re-examine the concept of free will. The specifically cite a man with paedophilic tendencies who was cured when his brain tumor was removed. 'Who then was the child abuser?', they ask. The predictable conclusion of this train of thought, of course, leads us to efforts by Britain: 'At the moment, the criminal law--in the West, at least--is based on the idea that the criminal exercised a choice: no choice, no criminal. The British government, though, is seeking to change the law in order to lock up people with personality disorders that are thought to make them likely to commit crimes, before any crime is committed.'"
Java

Submission + - Do you tell a job candidate how they flubbed it?

skelter writes: I have been lamenting with friends in the industry about interviewing woes and the candidates that we find. Consider a hypothetical job candidate comes in after some how making it through screening. In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, usher them out and say nothing? Play with them on the whiteboard the way your cat plays with injured mice? Should you leave them as their own warning to others? Is there any obligation to guide them to gaining real experience? Can you give them any advice or is it all liability?

Review: Nerdcore Hip-Hop Compilation CD Project 194

'Nerdcore' is a tricky thing to nail down. Some of it is simply novelty niche tracks with cheesy lyrics, and gimmicky derivative music. Some of it is inspired by trip-hop, others from 80s hip hop or 90s gangsta. A lot of it is really bad. And some of it is actually really good. Witty, sharp lyrics. Entertaining beats and excellent production value. You can hear all of these things on Rhyme Torrents Nerdcore Compilation. Read on for my review.

Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers 335

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Not eight days after Apple's new New York flagship store was unveiled, Stevie Jobs' fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained. Close-up picture included to the source story as well."

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