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EFF experts find only a handful of apps that meet basic security standards. Chat apps not secure? I am agog. (Oh, and Bob says, 'Hi')
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Google today introduced a new tool for testing network traffic security called Nogotofail. The company has released it as an open source project available on GitHub, meaning anyone can use it, contribute new features, provide support for more platforms, and do anything else with the end goal of helping to improve the security of the Internet. "Is it safe?"
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With Dynomite, Netflix claims it can cut down on performance issues and better handle traffic spikes. Will Jimmy Walker get royalties? (Wait, is Jimmy Walker still alive?)
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Microsoft and Dropbox have announced a public partnership, which will be mutually beneficial for both companies and very beneficial for their shared customers. If only they had a cloud file storage system of their own
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So Microsoft will send Office with a Dropbox for easy disposal - ingenious!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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why your code is so hard to understand[^] - a short article on the whys and wherefores of readable maintainable code.
Quote: In the end it boils down to this: as a programmer your goal is to construct the simplest possible semantic model that would solve your problem. Translate that semantic model as closely as possible into a syntactic model (code) and provide as many clues as possible so that whomever* looks at your code after you can re-create the same semantic model you originally had in mind.
*Pro tip - this will be you but older and more tired.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: simplest possible semantic model
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: provide as many clues as possible
Ah, good, no Linq. 
P.S. Understanding is in the eye of the beholder. 
modified 4-Nov-14 23:21pm.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Ah, good, no Linq
Personally, I think Linq can make the code much more understandable.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Then you must not be an old dog.
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Actually, been doing programming for 30+ years. So, yeah, an old dog.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Ah, good, no Linq.
I'm happy with it; sorted a list today containing Tuple<int, string>, with the string containing a "X (Y)", sorted on Y (asc), ThenBy X (asc).
Tucked away in a single method - feel free to replace the black box with your own bubblesort/quicksort 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Wise words, indeed. Thanks for the link!
/ravi
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: whomever looks at your code
Aaargh! 
Someone needs a visit from "Grandma Nasty".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yup - it was a direct quote from the article. A [sic] would be appropriate.
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"My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct" “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
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Neat!...I've always jokingly maintained that there is no such thing as time...it's cool to see that it changes with gravity.
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Unless it run by Stardate, it can be canned with the metric system. 
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Quote: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
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A "non-subjective" viewpoint on time...is that time, as seen from the outside?
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You're just not thinking fourth-dimensionally!
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Time varies with gravity? I think there was a Swiss patent clerk who has prior art on that idea.
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But he had not enough gravity to change the time - one stone creates to little of it.
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He got some relatives to help.
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Fat lot of good it did to him.
He didn't have the sense to patent the idea despite working at the Patent Office!
PS. The scientist (Leo Szilard) who thought of the chain reaction did take out a patent on it. It was pretty much confiscated by the British government during World War II.
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