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Since the early 2000s, the number of web development jobs (and within the past decade, mobile jobs) has increased exponentially, and it sometimes seems that desktop development is now almost non-existent. Some ideas should cause their creator physical pain
Instead of just hurting me when I read them
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and it sometimes seems that desktop development is now almost non-existent.
if he sees as he writes... no wonder.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I use a web based web browser so that I don't need to use desktop applications.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Some ideas should cause their creator physical pain
Some do:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It won't be dead until the year of the Linux desktop.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft has unveiled its vision of a new Windows 10 Start Menu that utilizes a transparent background to showcase the new Fluent-based colorful icons. Meet the new Start menu, same as the old one
If you're going to go to the effort of creating all new icons, may as well have a way to show them off.
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It is remarkable that adults are paid to obsess over such things.
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More remarkable that some people are paid to play video games on youtube?!
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Tagline: Same cr@p functionality, great new visual differences that you won't even notice!
They could have at least changed the icon for the Start button. That would have made it worth the thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars they spent on it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you're going to go to the effort of creating all new icons, may as well have a way to show them off.
They'd better work hard on making the icons distinct and memorable. The new start menu removes the ability to color code them to help find specific ones when they all blur together.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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This month brings the latest Java release, JDK 14, but in May, the programming language will celebrate its 25th anniversary. And I forgot to get a gift
Maybe a silver compiler?
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I must have missed something, last I checked in with java it was on like 8 for a long time, and 9 just hanging there like no wanting to touch it.
Looked up the java version history Java version history - Wikipedia
Noticed the extended support for Java 8 ... Dec 2030
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Some measurements of AI’s economic impact sound like the metrics that fueled the dot-com bubble How much you got?
OK, not *all* of it is BS. Some of it is just really big switch statements.
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Well, once the combine AI with blockchain, it'll really take off.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Stanford’s AI Index report: How much is BS?
Yes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Hallelujah!
Someone talking sense, at last!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft's latest version of its automation tool for Windows, macOS and Linux is now generally available. Here's what's in PowerShell 7 and what's next. 16.7% more shells
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More evidence that using weak or default passwords is a bad idea: they really are the first thing hackers try out when attempting to take over a device. Oh good. P@ssword1 remains safe
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The problem is that this information shouldn't be on zdnet, which is the paranoia site for IT bods, because we already know all this cr@p -- it should be, for example, in the Woman's Weekly, in pron magazines, and on all the social chlamydia sites.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google researchers developed algorithms that the robot used to walk independtly They just kept playing that Aerosmith song until it had to leave
Alternating with the Run DMC cover
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They just kept playing that Aerosmith song until it had to leaveAlternating with the Run DMC cover It was threathened with a Eurovision songfestival.
It's what makes those rocks move too.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've lost track of what's what, with all the ham-fisted (as usual) time-travel Bologna, and the article doesn't say, so does anyone know the model name of the robot?
Is it T1 or Rev-1?
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T-800
#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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Nah, this is only the initial prototype.
It will take google at least three weeks to get to a T-800 beta version.
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But did it take a year to 'teach' the robot why it should walk in the first place?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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