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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @05:39PM (#10700241)
Bring back Brendan Eich ?
Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:43PM (#10658161)
Mozilla pull in over $300 million in revenue.

Perhaps they shouldn't be spending $40 million in branding and marketing expenses!

Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:29PM (#10570740)
What do they want? Here you go.

This is the first (and only?) interview ever given to a Western journalist.

https://www.facebook.com/JuergenTodenhoefer/videos/101527236...

Re:Why ISIS Attacked Paris on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:23PM (#10570708)
NO NO NO

Let's end the myth that Western foreign policy is (solely) to blame.

What about Islamic terrorists killing people in Southern Thailand? Is there something wrong with their foreign policy?

What about Islamic terrorists killing Filipinos for the past 20-30 years? Have Christians been oppressing Muslims over there?

What about the recent clashes between Muslims and Buddhist monks in Burma? What did the monks do wrong?

Radical Islam is a GLOBAL jihad movement.

Re:The Other France on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:39PM (#10566913)
Social and economic deprivation is not the root cause, otherwise explain why educated students, doctors and engineers are joining IS?
Re:Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made ... on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:59PM (#10461478)
Perhaps Dave can shine a light on a path forward for Elizabeth, by introducing her to his friends in Indonesia.
Re:8TB in 2.5“ SSD on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:06PM (#10440264)
I can't remember where I read it, but I saw a comment that said Samsung is leading the way with its "3D NAND" technology and they are pushing a lot of consumer products into the pipeline, which is why there has been a recent fall in 1TB SSD prices.

Makes you wonder if online cloud backup services are going to have a tough time in the future...

Re:Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:33PM (#10434002)
Has Google released any numbers regarding the age composition of their workforce? They have for race and gender.
Re:Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:30PM (#10433973)
Yes, but these are the marquee hires.
Re:Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:04PM (#10432982)
What does Google do with developers who are 40 or 50?

What does age diversity look like at Google for engineering staff?

Sooner or later this issue is going to come to a head when all the 20-30-something year old Javascript hackers grow older...

Re:Mozilla asks Google engineer to not use .bro extension due to “gend... on Sunday October 11, 2015 @06:11PM (#10371303)
The title of that post does not reflect the true nature of the discussion.
Re:Russian cruise missiles fly over Iran and Iraq to hit targets in Sy... on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:22PM (#10347391)
More info:

http://eng.syria.mil.ru/

Also:

"#Kartapolov: to provide security for civil population, the flight corridor for cruise missiles was planned over uninhabited areas"

https://twitter.com/mod_russia/status/651798319392497664

"#SYRIA #Kartapolov: 26 launches of #KaliberNK cruise missiles were performed against #ISIS ground targets in #RAQQAH, #IDLIB, #ALEPPO"

https://twitter.com/mod_russia/status/651798217848422400

Re:Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:39PM (#10342923)
Whereas Go has gone the other route and jettisoned everything. Not having a ternary operator is a real pain.

One thing Go does well is provide the gofmt tool. There is only one way to format code properly.

Does Perl 6 have something like this?

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