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byH0p313ss
7 @07:41AM
(#54824701)
Attached to: Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker
Time to grow a pair guys and join the 21st century.
Wow. What a Sexist thing to say...
Try harder
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byH0p313ss
7 @09:01PM
(#54822859)
Attached to: Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker
The best thing about this is the whiny men complaining.
Time to grow a pair guys and join the 21st century.
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byH0p313ss
7 @01:14PM
(#54603969)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language?
People who complain that you can't build large scale systems without a compiler likely over-rely on the latter and are slaves to IDEs. If you write good unit tests and enforce Test Driven Development, the compiler becomes un-necessary and gets in the way.
Says the guy that never worked on a project with 100+ classes and 100k+ lines of code...
Yup... and that's a small project. It's been a long time since I worked on any project smaller than a million lines of code.
I'm sure there's some people who can manage millions of lines of code spread across tens of thousands of files with vi, but it sure ain't me.
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byH0p313ss
017 @11:29PM
(#54482013)
Attached to: Windows Switch To Git Almost Complete: 8,500 Commits and 1,760 Builds Each Day
Review system could easily cover multiple pushes per review, the git based one we use certainly can and it's not terribly sophisticated otherwise.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @02:48PM
(#54325969)
Attached to: Some Of The Pentagon's Critical Infrastructure Still Runs Windows 95 And 98
This administration couldn't deliver a pizza give a GPS and a limousine service.
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byH0p313ss
17 @09:57AM
(#54248639)
Attached to: 'Breakthrough' LI-RAM Material Can Store Data With Light
Neural nets perform well when the input data is large enough to be statistically valid. I suspect that the reason we've seen recent advances in the, otherwise well understood, area of neural nets is cheap commodity hardware has made it trivial to build faster cluster computers with *large nerdy number* of RAM.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that building massive networks of inter-connected neural nets is the next stage.
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byH0p313ss
17 @09:50AM
(#54248603)
Attached to: Microsoft's Rumored CloudBook Could Be Your Next Cheap Computer
Shots fired
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byH0p313ss
2017 @01:35PM
(#54001131)
Attached to: Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista
Do you really think it's not the same code at the supported windows 7 build?
It's simply not tested on Vista anymore, and therefore not guaranteed to work.
But seriously, who gives a crap about Vista in 2017, it was largely disliked even when it was the new hotness and that was four major releases back, 2006... man I feel old. That was a decade ago and I was almost over the hill even then.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @01:31PM
(#54001103)
Attached to: Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista
That's probably the single most relevant fact, thanks. .
That and the testing cost.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @11:17AM
(#54000047)
Attached to: Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista
I kind of love that Microsoft's expiry notice basically says if you're still running Vista you should probably buy a new computer.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @11:11AM
(#53999997)
Attached to: Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista
Sometimes dropping support is not because it won't work, but because the cost/benefit ratio of testing to guarantee it will work is not worth the effort.
Pertinent facts:
Vista represents less than 1% of the market, we're talking 3 to 4 times less than linux
Vista exited mainstream support FIVE YEARS AGO
Vista extended support expires this week
At some point you just stop beating the dead horse.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @11:24AM
(#53953997)
Attached to: Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls
Here's a good example of what they're doing: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...
Supressing fake news, so that's good. (Was Adams always a douchenozzle or was that a recent development?)
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byH0p313ss
2017 @11:22AM
(#53953977)
Attached to: Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls
. . . . more users to Gab, where the only filters on what you see, are the ones **you** set on your own account
The average celebrity has an order of magnitude more twitter followers than Gab has users.(Heck, even a spoof account does ) As much as I'd like there to be an alternative, a service with 0.04% the users doesn't feel like a challenger.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @12:13PM
(#53819629)
Attached to: 'Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones'
The lesson to learn here was that you don't let idiots in ivory towers with ZERO connection to actual work run your economy. Sadly, nobody bothered to learn it.
I love how stating the obvious also counts as casting shade in 2017.
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byH0p313ss
2017 @12:10PM
(#53819609)
Attached to: If You Owned a PC With a DVD Drive You Might Be Able To Claim $10
Unfortunately I was a Canadian living in Canada between April 1st 2003 and December 31st 2008 and not eligible.
Fortunately I remain a Canadian in Canada in 2017 and may survive to 2020.
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