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Comment Scripted, it sure seems like it (Score 1) 110

With that summary it looks like a Monday after school special.

The story they told was one of deceit, exploitation, incompetence, and hope, and one fuelled by gamers' desperation to participate in an industry that has stoked their imagination, lifted their mood and forged friendships since childhood.

Comment Re:Journalists should learn to code imo (Score 1) 250

You could say CNN supports the left as they are left of FOX, but I cannot even listen to half of what they put out. I don't mind a republican voice on the show to give some perspective, but they bring on some of the most biased GOP members who rant for 5 or 10 minutes straight in the name of "fairness".

If they were being fair, they would call people on their BS, but if they did no one would come on their show. They just let them speak and it is just garbage, why am I going to listen to that?

Comment Re:Partners split (Score 2) 216

From what I understand, his ex did some pretty bad things, like moving to another state in the middle of the night and taking all their money and declaring all their assets to be in her name. Her selling the shares to this company was just another way to say "screw you".

The company that bought his ex-wife's share just wants to take full control of everything and just kick Dave out without paying him a cent, basically treating him like his ex-wife did. He has been pretty successful in court, but it is additional costs to keep the court cases going and his NEW partners may not ever pay him back for the damages that he incurred in this whole mess.

Comment Re:I wouldn't worry about it (Score 3, Informative) 263

I think he is pointing out, the weakness of recruiting. He got lucky to get a question he had time to think about and give an appropriate answer. Depending upon whether you have encountered a problem previously, most people cannot come up with a good solution at the snap of their fingers.

I also think that this is a serious problem, people want good answer immediately, like everyone has the same experiences as them and should be able to give them the same answer or process. I like to take my time and understand the problem I am trying to address and usually the first solution I come up with works, but it is not the best, but gets me along the lines towards that better answer.

If this were not true, why do this big companies keep shoveling S**T out the door so often? Management is part of the problem, but so is the whole hiring process. We don't really know how to ID good developers any more than we know to whether someone is going to be a good basketball player or football star.

Comment Accept is no longer Necessary (Score 0) 154

I don't think retro-actively changing the "Terms of Use" for inactive accounts is going to work. You would have to have to get accounts, which have not logged in, to agree to New Terms of Use. Of course it is the courts that will have to go about smacking them, the limitations of being able to do business anywhere.

Comment Re:Viewpoint by a law professor ... (Score 1) 211

Extradition prevents the US from adding new charges, so we he goes, we will know exactly they are going to try him for.

Consider he locked himself up in an embassy, for what 7 to 8 years, seems like he punished himself. I don't think the US is going to charge him with anything else, another 5 years seems like a lot. If he is truly smart, he cuts a deal and give the US government information about the Trump campaign or Wikileaks, and the worse that might happen is that he sent back to Sweden for rape charges, if he stays in the US, he would be monitored or just keep from an internet connection and that would probably just break him.

Comment Athlete's what? (Score 1) 375

I figured that the parents would be smart enough to realize that the school you get into does not help your future career. They already have all these advantages, is going to Stanford really going to open more doors than being the child of someone of wealth or a star?

If they wanted too, they could get their kids the best teachers or coaches who could excel in either education or sports; to cheat like this? They set a horrible standard of privilege for their children to follow.

Comment Re:Anti-vax sells! (Score 1) 324

This,

More than anything else, these conspiracy theorists want to believe that they are special. Only THEY have access to some secret knowledge or insight into something that other people don't. That is why people want to believe in a conspiracy, life would be just too hard for them if they accepted the fact that they just don't know what is going on.

Comment The Results (Score 4, Insightful) 694

It did not reduce unemployment, but it reduced the stress of that situation for people. That social impact of that cannot be ignored. In addition, this was only 2,000 random people out of 400,000. That is not enough to determine the economic impact on any sort of measurable scale.

This experiment it is a starting point, not a failure.

Comment Re:Disappointed (Score 2) 29

I used a free version to get comfortable with the product and figure it out. Once I understood what I could and could not do, I wanted to commit to using the product in production. I ended up upgrading to an Enterprise license after about 1 year.

If you are not offering a free product, you are just asking me to do pay for everything to test a product. My time is not free either, and you asking for me and my company to commit to an unknown product. You can offer it for free while we try to see if we can get it work.

Comment Monitoring (Score 4, Insightful) 92

I was our company's monitoring department and was checking systems and applications and it fits this question quite well, and you know what, IT SUCKS!

Between management that does not give two f**ks, developers who don't understand infrastructure and systems administrators who cannot manage applications, no one wants to be on the hook for anything. Just TRYING to get them fix issues without pointing a finger is a nightmare. It is like being the IRS, you never get a call from them saying you did a good job.

Everyone is afraid of looking bad because management, which does not understand IT or process, falls to politics to address issues and everyone else is afraid to make a move that make get them into trouble.

DevOps and Agile crap, will not fix broken management.

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