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Good, more job security for the real programmers among us.
I wish. I am one of the 8000 "effected employees" of the SAP restructuring. They wiped out the entire office of developers where I am, because they didn't want micro-sites. That was the entire team that supported one of the products that was generating 9 figure revenue for the company.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Time to ground a GmbH with your co-workers and sell your time twice the internal price to continue maintaining the product. 
And yes, I know people that made the movement. Not as a GmbH but an external contractor / consulting service.
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That would be lovely, there's a note in the documentation though that says you have to wait 2 years for any of that. And I am in the USA.
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I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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That sounds like a non-compete and they just got majorly axed?
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If they cut you out and nobody works on it anymore... is it competition at all?
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Using the generic architecture you saw at a conference for your company's unique business needs is a surefire way to waste money and time. But it worked in PowerPoint!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But it worked in PowerPoint!
Similar to "But it worked in my simulation"
That's what the senior CAD Constructor told me in an old project of mine... the main point is, he forgot to draw the 800mm long gripper of the robot unit.
3 full row of elements in those lines had to be moved back around 350mm so I could manage to get and drop the product inside them... costs over 100k€ and almost 2 weeks delay only due to his haughtiness.
Priceless to see when he had to explain the reasons to the end customer
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Microsoft’s security overhaul and goals are now linked to leadership compensation. Fool me once, etc.
“We will instill accountability by basing part of the compensation of the company’s Senior Leadership Team on our progress in meeting our security plans and milestones.” <-- the Windows VP may end up paying the company for their continuing employment
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The verge wrote: Microsoft’s security overhaul and goals are now linked to leadership compensation.
yeah, right.
I will believe it, when I see it. And even then... I will still doubt about it.
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CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Security is the path least travelled
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Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions. Let the aliens get all the 'authoritative, but wrong' answers about us
It should keep them from coming to investigate
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It should keep them from coming to investigate
ISTR a short story about aliens who picked up one of the Voyager probes, discovered the naked sketches of humans on the data disk, and sent an armada to destroy those perverted creatures who dare expose their bodies to the Universe. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Bad enough they want Skynet here, now they're suggesting SkyNetToGo?
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I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Quote: Microsoft on Friday provided a peek at a comprehensive framework that aims to sort out the Domain Name System (DNS) mess so that it’s better locked down inside Windows networks.
Ars Technica [^]
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All your URL are belong to us!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A new report shows that CISOs find it difficult to communicate threats to the C-suite, which is leaving gaps in the organization’s understanding of cyberrisk. Suddenly, our current situation makes more sense
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where is that vocabulary "management <> nerd <> management" when you need it?
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Standardizing review terms avoids miscommunications. todo: Add to-do statement here
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Think of it as Hungarian notation for code review comments.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Shouldn't you just be able to read the comments, kinda like the idea that code should be self documenting? (Which I do not ascribe to in all cases.)
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In my student days (long ago), I was an intern in a company that was in the process of replacing their medium level (slightly below K&R C) system implementation language with a (proprietary) higher level systems language. The senior developers were eager to adopt it, for one primary reason: It was self documenting, so there was no need to waste time on writing comments.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Just as the initial influx of do-everything large language models (LLMs) have been advancing along with smaller and more specialized AI constructs, the same could happen to Microsoft's coding-specific GitHub Copilot. Coming soon: a Copilot for writing Copilots
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And it began to learn exponentally... 
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I can’t see a post about Rust or C++ without comments about Rust replacing C++ If it ain't broke, don't replace it
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