Comment NASA is Making Sacrifices! (Score 2) 28
I am sure that NASA has plenty of virgins available for sacrifice.
Comment Very old (Score 1) 163
It appears to me that Cobol and Fortran are still hanging in there.
Comment Fine amount is wrong (Score 0) 123
Unlikely he was fined $155 USD. More likely €150 EUR.
Comment Ads? (Score 1) 72
There are ads on websites?
Who knew?
I never see any.
Comment We are spending less (Score 1) 92
We have a spreadsheet with ongoing subscriptions.
Sporadically, we analyze all of them and make keep/change/drop decisions.
Did this recently with TV streaming and decided to drop Hulu+Live which was $100/month.
We added Disney+ separately.
Total annual savings has been $800.
Comment It is always "next" year (Score 1) 107
Comment Everywhere (Score 1, Troll) 108
I real technical articles in journals.
It is really bad there. Abstracts at the grade 23 level.
It is all because academia values turbidity.
Comment Too Long, Did Not Read (Score 1) 212
Needs to shorter
Comment two doomed companies merging (Score 1) 41
Is there any place left in the market for these two?
Probably not.
Comment E-waste? (Score 1) 54
E-waste vs burnt coal waste?
Not even a contest.
Comment Oldest first for me (Score 1) 78
I have Apple mail display oldest first (i.e., at the top).
But, then, I only have 6 messages in my inbox as I am a zero guy.
Comment Ugh (Score 2) 83
"There are less people in the office every day"
FEWER
Comment BASIC was for kids (Score 1) 107
My language progression was:
FORTRAN (1965)
assembler (3 different machines: Poseidon guidance compter, SCC 660, RAC-32)
COBOL
ALGOL
LISP
and then BASIC. My reaction to BASIC was: too simple, too limiting.
Comment I do not understand the commotion (Score 1) 182
I don't understand all the "ink" devoted to this. I don't know anyone who does not own an iPhone.
Comment better explanation (Score 4, Informative) 59
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