torroid - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Anthropometrics (Score 1) 819

by torroid on Monday September 08, 2014 @12:28PM (#47853397) Attached to: 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room

It's called entitlement.

by torroid on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @12:27PM (#44051085) Attached to: Have We Hit Peak HFT?

Transaction taxes are not currency controls.

by torroid on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @05:54PM (#43530251) Attached to: Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence

Coming up with untested but testable hypothesis is how you get them tested.

by torroid on Friday April 12, 2013 @12:34PM (#43433245) Attached to: North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official

But so is war.

by torroid on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @01:50PM (#42605961) Attached to: <em>Doom 3</em> Source Code: Beautiful

You don't need to post source or comment on it to start a lawsuit. You just need to mention Oracle.

by torroid on Saturday December 22, 2012 @01:26PM (#42370039) Attached to: Real World Code Sucks

True but I haven't seen much academic example code that has plenty of logging in them.

Amen. Logging well is an un-taught art.

by torroid on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @11:04PM (#27145077) Attached to: Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award

No, Brian Greene is reliable. He's been knitting furiously since the beginning of the universe, and isn't likely to quit anytime soon.

Quantum mechanics suffers from being far more difficult to understand than a tiny man controlling reality.

It's turtles all the way down.