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Its a bit generous describing Windows 3.0 as an O/S.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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O/S: Something the printer drivers are written for 
(Which of course means that my favourite OS of all time is WordPervert) 
TTFN - Kent
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Now that we’ve looked at a bunch of myths about when finalizers are required to run, let’s consider when they are required to not run. Electric Boogaloo, the sequel
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For anyone who uses .NET as their tool of choice, I would highly recommend subscribing to Eric Lippert's blog. It's one of the best that relates to .NET. I've been reading his blogs for quite some time now and they are always interesting and useful.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I'd like to second Dominic's recommendation of Eric's Blog: I think he's among the gurus' gurus in .NET, and writes with exceptional depth and clarity.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Researchers digging in Kenya say they've found the oldest stone tools ever discovered, at 3.3 million years old — pushing the record back by around 700,000 years. Of course, the MicroHard Skull Whumper 1.0 Beta (Express Edition) wasn't without its bugs
And the Apple iWhacker was much superior (as _everyone_ knows)
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Yes, the Information are very closely related!
modified 22-May-15 2:48am.
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Do you maintain open source projects? Do you want to have a better way to support your users? You'll never guess what it's for
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Can't you just hear all the [country starting with the letter I] devs signing up?
Marc
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Just noticed this after I signed up.
We currently support only ruby/rails projects that depend on Gemfile, or gemspec files.
Marc
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Der? They keep that fairly hidden - or at least I didn't notice that either. bleh, indeed.
TTFN - Kent
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It's impressive how much the enterprise technology landscape has changed in just a year. While some priorities remain unchanged, important new players have emerged that business and IT leaders must consider in their plans this year. Coming soon: the 2015 edition
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You don’t design your engineering culture by writing blog posts, or printing posters, it’s shaped by the people you hire and the things they do, and the traits you reward and celebrate. "Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"
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Quite a good article that.
I would only add that exceptional people know that "good enough" is never good enough.
Of course, the article doesn't address the elephant in the room - where do we find these exceptional people and how do we sneak them past the HR bouncers? (Any thoughts?)
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Execeptionally pretentious drivel.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft has recently released Windows 10 build 10122 to 'fast ring' Insiders, and while this build is more of a step towards stability improvements, there are new features that have been added to Microsoft Edge as well, that are really worth testing unless you happen to use AMD GPUs. Better late than never
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Doesn't a snail make IE look like a snail? 
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Google may be the next big company to take on the internet of things, giving it an entry into the world of connected everyday objects. Isn't that kind of what Android is for?
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If google just stuck to providing a search engine I would have no trouble but having google spyware scripts on just about every page on the internet puts me off google but by the time you are running Android or any Google type of O/S then you may as well get chipped and pinned by google.
We have institions to stop players becoming a monoply but they are all blind to Google
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"Five Eyes" intelligence agencies built tools to spot Google, Samsung app protocols. That's it: I'm switching back to two cans and some string
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Samsung make some great hardware but the TV's they make are the worse in the world when it comes to spying.
The Samsung 12.2 Note Pro is a cool bit of kit but it's a remote terminal for samsung because you have to "Root" the device to install software to make sure it's not calling home and that voids the gurantee.
Block Samsung TV's from calling home in the routers firewall and the TV won't work with BBC Player or ITV-Player so they have you by the balls.
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'Suggested Tiles' to appear in beta next week; all users to see ads by default. And the once-proud beast continues its decline
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Just what the internet needs. More ways for companies to annoy their way onto my (eternal*) boycott list.
I don't know what could replace ads as an internet funding model; but the core concept, that shoving an distraction/interruption in my face will have a beneficial result is totally wrong. There's zero upside for a company trying to shove a banner/etc into my face. The four primary cases are:
0) The ad provider/hosting site have done something in the past to enrage me and resulted in one or more additional rules being added to my (entirely self written) set of content blocking (ABP is not just ads/etc) rules. In this case the advertiser's just wasting its money.
1) The ad is sufficiently non-intrusive I don't notice it.
2) The ad is sufficiently annoying that I update my content blocker to make it go away. Broadly speaking this means making noise or putting itself between me and what I was at the site to do.
3) 2, and it went above and beyond to the extent that the site being advertised has earned a spot on my permanent boycott list. Ads that make sound and either don't have an STEU button or that start making noise when not visible (either outside the part of the page currently visible, or in a background tab) and those that are stalking me end up in this group.
ProTips:
A) If I was looking at something with the intend to buy it, and you were the best offer I will remember that long enough to complete the transaction (stalker ads pushing a single purchase product from the site I bought it from are an extra level of fail beyond the normal). Stalking me mid-research is a good way to reduce the number of candidate products/vendors by one however.
B) If I didn't like what I saw the first time, no amount of harassment is going to change the fact.
C) If I was researching something for someone else, or just to see what was on the market; the stacker ad never had a chance of relevance to me, but will still likely earn a slot on my boycott list.
- theoretically a company could do something to convince me to remove them from it; it's never happened yet. Probably because once someone gets on the list I go out of my way to avoid any awareness of them in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I always knew Firefox was in bed with Google because typing about:config into the URL bar and then searching for "Google" Pulled up about twenty links, it's not free, it cost Google about $50m a year that they pay to Firefox.
What i won't put up with is Firefox on android devices because Firefox sends out DLNA requests to TV's on your network and then gets to read the TV's serial number that is returned as XML.
BIG NO NO FIREFOX what do you think you are playing at?
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What is your favorite food? What was your first teacher’s name? What’s the name of your first pet? Do those questions sound familiar to you? If they do, it’s probably because you either have really boring and repetitive conversations or you’ve answered them as security questions when you signed up for a new account somewhere. They’re meant to provide an extra layer of security, but according to a new study by Google’s security team, they aren’t all that secure.
You mean you know what my dogs name is!? 
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