Comment Speed of Light (Score 1) 96
Comment Innovation! Except... (Score 1) 132
It would either warn you or delay sending of the message when queueing/sending.
1 Chili: Message seems it might be offensive.
2 Chilis: Message is probably offensive.
3 Chilis: Message is on fire!
Comment Re:It's NOT a Fake (Score 1) 165
The people mentioned ARE licensed amateur radio operators: Elaine Ou, KM6NCF; Rodolfo Novak, VE3NAK.
Comment Hey McFly... (Score 1) 187
Comment We will soon find out (Score 2) 365
Comment Why is this a thing? (Score 1, Interesting) 115
Comment Common Knowledge (Score 5, Insightful) 185
Comment Fake News (Score 1) 370
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report was funded by the Barr Foundation and the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization."
https://www.mapc.org/farechoic...
Comment Bad SSL Certs? (Score 1) 69
Symantec Mis-issuing 30,000 SSL Certificates
Just sayin'...
Comment No one wants to see a Winamp Four-skin! (Score 1) 332
Winamp is installed standard on every Windows machine I use. Winamp v5.666, the Final Nullsoft Release, without the Media Library. This version has ALL of the AOL bundled streaming junk removed, as well as any mention even of AOL. No 'Modern' skins, just good old Winamp 2. Works perfectly for me.
Comment Re:aren't we missing the real issue here ? (Score 1) 79
It's not, and they don't. This is purely for the teachers interested in presenting CS50 AP to their students - that is all.
Comment Free is free (Score 1) 137
FB shouldn't be held accountable to this ruling - there's no such thing as 'differential pricing' when there's no price at all. If you get what you pay for, be thankful you get *something* when you're paying nothing.
Free is free, take it or leave it, no one's forcing anyone. And government be damned if they try to tell me I can't give something away for free if I choose to.
Comment April Fools! (Score 1) 723
Just look at when they announced these numbers!
"Ahhhh, hahaha, GOTCHA!" -Obama
Comment Re:Java won't die. (Score 1) 577
If you just look at languages that either have enthusiastic big money backers or importance due to legacy, you are generally limited to C/C++, C#, and Java. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Google, Oracle, Facebook, or even Amazon don't put an effort behind a language like ruby, which is at least one reason it's more niche. And if you look at what's out there, most of those companies are wedded for one reason or another to one of the languages already in broad use.
Now, if Google ever made a serious effort to push go, perhaps it would gain traction in a serious enterprise kind of way. Likewise, if Facebook were to ever decide to push a language, they might have the clout.
You may be surprised if you actually looked it up at how much Google and YouTube use Python. Here, let me do that for you: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/. Facebook is built on PHP, a language designed to solve the same types as Ruby. Other than Oracle and IBM, none of those companies make much if any use of Java as a core language for any of their products.