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In a bid to accelerate growth and reduce labor costs, Apple supplier Foxconn cut 60,000 jobs at a single factory, work that is now being completed by robots. Do any of these robots combine to make a mighty robot? Loved by good, feared by evil?
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"You don’t take people’s property without permission and use it for your own benefit," said Oracle lawyer Peter Bicks. "Google took a shortcut, and they took a shortcut at Oracle’s expense." Wow the whiteboards and puppets and condescending tone really are coming out.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is attempting to suppress information about a massive database which contains fingerprints, palm prints, iris, voice, and face scans, as well as other biometric data, of millions of Americans. FBI? Secretive? Nawww
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Chad Lung recently put together a tutorial about writing a Python microservice using AWS Lambda, reachable via HTTP. It’s well written, it’s cogent, and it does a great job of demonstrating how Lambda is cool. (with a focus on API Gateway)
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There is a big problem with a system (at the very base), where for setting up a web server you need two hours of guided sweating...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes new RAM requirements. How low did we think they were going to keep the floor?
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At first, I suspected that the data might be a television stream for the TVs, but the packet length seemed too small, even for a single video frame. How curiosity wasted the programmer's time.
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Well, it was music to his ears.
/ravi
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Tools masquerading as languages, maddening syntax, dusty code that won’t die -- here's what has us shaking our fists Come visit your on-again off-again friends.
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I promise you I can live without XSLT.
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For the last 15 years I have no need of: COBOL (and not Cobol, as the author wrote it, proving the level of knowledge), Java, XSLT an Python...I can live without them definitely...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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0) Javascript
1) Javascript
2) Javascript
3) Javascript
4) Javascript
5) Javascript
6) Javascript
Every other candidate on that list has plenty of valid alternatives. Until WebAssembly becomes widely available, your choices for clientside scripting in the browser are native javascript and wannabe alternatives that employ a cluster elephant to decompose themselves into js for the browser to execute.
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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C doesn't really have an alternative either (unless you count c++)
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Clearly the author just had to write something to meet is weekly quota -- Visual Basic wasn't even on the list!
Marc
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British white hat hacker and Google Project Zero chap Tavis Ormandy is making life miserable for Symantec again: the bug-hunter has turned up an exploitable overflow in “the core Symantec Antivirus Engine used in most Symantec and Norton branded Antivirus products." See today's comic.
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And they load the scan engine into the KERNEL?!?!??!?!? SERIOUSLY?!?? WHAT ON EARTH WERE THEY THINKING?!?!?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Is this actually unique to Symantic? My assumption would be that as a kernel driver it's much harder for malware to try hiding themselves by tampering with it.
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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More evidence to support the notion that there is no such thing as Internet Security from any vendor outside of maybe you there at the keyboard or touch screen.
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It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively. Move over, Music and P.E.
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And the end of the story is: They are able to communicate in c# (or what else programming language) but not in their cultural language.
No, I think (hope) it is not that bad... I know the japanese school from childhood and what I remember it was always a step before others.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I'm all for making some basic programming logic mandatory. It's fairly easy to understand the basic control structures of conditions and loops so it shouldn't be too difficult. Just understanding this would help immensely when learning any language. It's also easy to relate to problem solving as well as creating algorithms.
I think we were thought about variables in mathematics somewhere around the age 13-14 here in Sweden and adding some basic programming about the same time would be nice.
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So Israel's been doing this since 2000; how exactly has it worked out for them?
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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In Sweden, kids have programmed teachers to let them do whatever they want. I didn't realize that screaming was a programming language.
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It's very closely related to the first language every new programmer masters: Profanity.
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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