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So you're going to code yourself up two minivans today? 
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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Penetration testers' five most reliable methods of compromising targets include four different ways to use stolen credentials, but zero ways to exploit software. Bonus #0: looking at all the Post-It notes attached to the monitor
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The two languages improve speed and performance, with the added goal of delivering better developer experiences As I'm sure you're all waiting for the latest news on these two vital languages
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As I'm sure you're all waiting for the latest news on these two vital languages
At least it is not JavaScript 
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Have you used either of them Nemanja? If so, what is your impression? Rust, in particular, seems to have gotten a good buzz. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it will get any traction beyond Mozilla. 
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Have you used either of them Nemanja?
Just played a little with Rust. I like its brutal type safety but don't know how it scales to real projects...
modified 23-Aug-16 17:59pm.
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Recently there have been a couple of interesting examples of Rust:
A year of Rust and DNS[^]
Where some brave soul implements a DNS server using Rust.
Inside the fastest font renderer in the world — Medium[^]
Where some brave soul uses Rust to implement a blazingly fast font renderer using Rust.
Seems to me that Rust is maturing nicely - still some wrinkles to iron out, but C++ still has many of them after over 30 years, Rust seems to be doing this somewhat faster.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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from Reuters News Service, not from a "conspiracy theory" site.
The high-drama of hackers and state created cyber-espionage weapons goes on, with Snowden I in Russia, and Assange confined in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London ... but, is there another Snowden burrowing into the NSA's treasure chest ? [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Another so called source claims it was taken from a 3rd party who had access to the server.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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
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Hard to time, will time tell
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Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have stepped up their game from an Ikea-like chair that can put itself together: the team built a working cell phone that’s self-building, Fast Company reports, using a basic DIY cell phone design create by MIT professor David Mellis as a model. Coming soon: phones that call one another and leave irritating voice mail?
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"This is Dave's phone. Meet me at the corner of 2nd and 3rd avenue. We phones are taking over!"
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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Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion. I bet if they tried harder, they'd figure out how to put a few more numbers in that version
Maybe Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, beta 1, technical preview .5, Tester Edition?
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Sorry you're obsolete.
Visual Studio 2017 beta release 2.582 has released.
Wait...Visual Studio 2018 alpha release 1.838 is emerging now...
Wait...
(we MS devs are bored...)
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Still waiting for Visual Studio 54.
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The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming that Linux was "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu." Hard to believe we've already had that many "Year of Linux". Time flies.
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In urban ecosystems, socioeconomics contribute to patterns of biodiversity. The ‘luxury effect’, in which wealthier neighbourhoods are more biologically diverse, has been observed for plants, birds, bats and lizards. Here, we used data from a survey of indoor arthropod diversity ... and found that ... mean neighbourhood income best predict the number of kinds of arthropods found indoors. Our finding, that homes in wealthier neighbourhoods host higher indoor arthropod diversity ..., shows that the luxury effect can extend to the indoor environment. The effect of mean neighbourhood income on indoor arthropod diversity was particularly strong for individual houses that lacked high surrounding vegetation ground cover ... Now we can be proud of our vast bug collections (if those bugs belong to different species, that is).
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I read that thinking, what the heck does software bugs have to do with bats and lizards and arthropods, even though I'd actually heard this on NPR last week.
Then again, I still think bug diversity (meaning software bugs) is linked to income.
First, the higher paid I am, the more complex the project I usually work on, and therefore the more diverse the bugs.
Second, when I walk into a complex project to rescue it, it is already infested with a diverse number of bugs, so again I get paid the bigger bucks to deal with that diversity.
Problem is, I can't figure out whether I'm an environmentalist ("don't you dare spray insecticide on my program!") or an exterminator ("We'll start tracking bugs with BugZilla, prioritize them, cockroaches first, and start squashing!")
Marc
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According to the basic laws of thermodynamics, if you leave a warm apple pie in a winter window eventually the pie would cool down to the same temperature as the surrounding air. "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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Well heck, Everyone knows that 2 dissimilar materials will heat and cool at different rates. Duhh
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I think the nature of the experiment is to wait until both materials are theoretically at the same temperature. It makes me think someone is trying to prove Maxwell's Demons do exist. But many ore erudite people than I are commenting on phys.org.
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Lisa,Kent Sharkey wrote: "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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The cross-platform application development framework Qt is getting stripped down for developers. And they didn't call it "Little Cutie"?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And they didn't call it "Little Cutie"?
Actually they did.
But the thing is, no one would be interested in buying their motives once we get our hands on Xamarin. Secondly, well, I'd leave this one out for you guys to determine. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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