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Oh goody, there are almost as many code repositories as there are text editors...
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Turns out, men's superb mathematical abilities might be all in their heads It just doesn't add up
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What's scary is that I already know I'm weak in math-fu. 
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Sounds like it's all imaginary to me!
Marc
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Rotate 90 degrees and try again.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I took the sin of that. Got to one. Rotated once. Came to same answer. 
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My wife is so much better at math than I.
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I double-checked the data for that study; it doesn't add up.
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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Unless you think using your feet, it would indeed be in your head. And yes, it helps if you think that you are capable of something. Helps more if you indeed are.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It may be hackers and cyber criminals that are in the front of most people's minds when thinking of security, but a worrying number of attacks come from organization insiders. Look to your right. Look to your left. If you don't see a hacker, you might be the hacker
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FFS, they're writing an article for developers/IT pro's and don't think we don't understand statistics well enough to know how averages (assuming they mean an arithmetic mean) is distorted by outliers.
So of 1000 companies, 1 may be Sony and get 3800 attacks, so the average is...
I expect this crap from the mainstream press, but please don't assume your target audience is innumerate in this audience.
(Targetted at WinBeta, not Kent - I know, its a slow news day)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Now that we know about the Java 9 shipment schedule, Alex Zhitnitsky goes through the features that are considered top notch in the upcoming release. Prepare for jshell, microbenchmarks and the G1 garbage collector. "Science won't change you. Looks like I can't change you"
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Yea, because REPL's are so state of the art. I mean seriously, we had to use punched cards not that long ago.
(Seriously, Self and Smalltalk went far beyond this in the 80's, why are we still catching up? See, for example Self[^]).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Let’s talk about how this role can become a crutch for companies and why you might want to avoid it. I thought it was an HR violation to pile up programmers?
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Only if you're a woman programmer in D cup. 
[edit]Come now, Kent, you were thinking it, but couldn't say it, right? [/edit]
Marc
modified 24-Jun-15 21:09pm.
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 I was, yes. But I've had a few complaints about me "being too blue", so I forced myself to not use it.
TTFN - Kent
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They did exist once, before 1970.
That was because the programming milieu was so much simpler then.
You wrote your Fortan, COBOL or assembler program against a file system which gave you three options: sequential files, indexed (keyed, random, direct or whatever you wanted to call it) files and indexed-sequential files.
Your programs ran in batch mode.
Oh, and your program didn't leak memory because your programming language didn't allow you to do in your program what the compiler should have done.
Life was simple then.
That is why a billion lines of COBOL code live on and will live forever.
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Internet companies make billions of dollars by capturing one of the world’s most precious commodities: your attention. "Query: This "meatbag" is an incoherent babble of useless information. Can I shoot him?"
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But figuring out what you want to read, watch, and see is harder than it looks.
What's really scary is the idea that millions of idiots social media users dictate what I end up seeing on the Internet, in department stores, etc. I suppose this explains why I may visit FB once a month and avoid the zombie infested malls and department stores like, well, the plague that they are.
The sad (or not) truth is, what captures my attention is almost always different than what I notice captures other people's attention. I look at things like sunsets and clouds and the moon in conjunction with Jupiter and Venus, and flowers and the fauns nibbling the stinging nettle in the yard.
Most other people where I live, I see on my walks with my girlfriend that they have their heads bent over little glowing screens in a Leary-ian "tune in, turn on, drop out" crouch that makes chiropractors see dollar signs. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: walks with my girlfriend
Sheesh, get serious about programming, okay?
Walks with your girlfriend. What a waste of time. 
If you were married you wouldn't have this problem.
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Once upon a time, Microsoft was famous for its resistance to Linux, a free operating system that was developed by a community of enthusiasts and independent vendors. Don't talk about fight club?
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People were always asking me, did I know Microsoft...
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Quote: In fact, on stage, Russinovich said that he hasn't had a single customer conversation lately where Docker didn't come up.
If this isn't an exagerationlie he's either shoving it in the face of every customer he meets regardless of what they want/need; or running in a reality distortion field.
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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For humans, choosing what action to do next to reach a goal can be pretty intuitive. But for a robot, making even simple decisions can be daunting. That's why researchers at Brown University's Humans to Robotics Lab are developing an algorithm to help robots better plan their actions in more realistic environments. And researches have found that video games, especially Minecraft, can help robots learn these important decision making skills. Damn, the robots get all the good jobs! :-p
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