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Re:Cards Against Humanity Saves America on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:26PM (#15708477)
No, they're protesting the ridiculousness of the wall by delaying it's construction indefinitely.
Re:Google forked Swift on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:56PM (#15701557)
Why fork it then? Why just not use the existing process?
FIFY:

"Former Equifax CEO says 'There is only one infosec person in our company'"

Please just write native apps, and quit trying to cut corners. Geez.
Re:No evidence to back idea of learning styles on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:10PM (#13882160)
Total anecdote, but I absolutely learn better when graphs/charts/drawings/illustrations are part of the instructional material.
Re:Show HN: WikiRoulette – Randomly browse Wikipedia on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:57PM (#12568525)
Throw this in your favorites, and have fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Re:Keybase on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:48AM (#12519579)
Also, I have 4 invites if anyone wants one.
Re:Keybase on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:46AM (#12519573)
facepalm
Why does she have to pay the legal fees incurred by the defendants because she tried to extort money? Is that what you're asking? She has to pay because she lost, and they weren't doing anything wrong.
The $229k was simply the Jude's guess at the cost. The firm stated it was 865k.
Re:The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:49AM (#8656523)
There is no shortage of computer programmers. There is a distinct shortage of _good_ programmers.
Re:A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf] on Sunday November 16, 2014 @08:46PM (#8616434)
I can verify that I am not a little square.
Yeah, that ones a bit of overkill. I just want one that notifies me via my phone that it's done washing, and reminds me when I've forgotten it and there's clothes rotting in the basin.
Re:Oculus Refund. on Friday March 28, 2014 @12:24AM (#7485343)
I'm so confused about this whole thing -- Supporting Oculus in Kickstarter did not entitle those people to any equity in the company, they received exactly the level of reward that they chose. Why would they think that?
Re:Sneakernet: 99% offline file sharing network on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @07:11PM (#1437353)
The implementation idea is much like FIDOnet, but with flash drives rather than modems. nice.