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A false tweet from a hacked account owned by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013 sent financial markets into a tailspin. Twat tweets twaddle, manifests market mayhem
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According to Tim Rains the chief security advisor for Microsoft Worldwide Cybersecurity & Data Protection, the latest versions of Windows see lower malware infection rates. Maybe the hackers just can't afford the upgrades?
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Since there are also stats floating around about the biggest botnets/most common malware payloads using exploits that were patched a year or longer ago; has anyone prepared a report comparing fully patched installs of old OSes to fully patched installs of new ones?
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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This is the first post in our new “Dev Tidbits” series, which looks at interesting, quirky and fun facts about developers in their professional and personal lives. "Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised."
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The word is TITBITS!!! What is this "tid" nonsense?
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With our reputation I'm surprised at how many devs don't drink coffee!
There's even this quote from an unknown source that says a programmer is a machine that turns coffee into software/code/bugs (it varies).
I'm one of the non-drinkers though
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Me too.
For caffeine, its tea and Diet Dr. Pepper.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Most messaging apps are advertised as secure. The Electronic Frontier Foundation decided to verify those claims and then put its findings in a scoreboard. See which apps pass with flying colors. "I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle" (securely)
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All your personal data are secure (*until sold on to undisclosed third parties for money).
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Only 6 percent of adults say they are "very confident" that government agencies will keep their records secure. In related news: Pope still Catholic
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I don't trust the American government with my privacy either!
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In his book about the human side of open source development, Karl Fogel takes a closer look at what he calls the inescapable moral connotation between the terms “Free” and “Open Source”. Fropen source?
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The Windows Store is full of unexciting knock-offs, and it’s rare for quality releases to appear there these days. /sigh Whatever
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As the father of Java, James Gosling gets a lot of love from the millions of developers who use the language around the world. Today, however, he programs robots that swim in the ocean. We caught up with him to discuss the early days of Java.
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." -Nikola Tesla
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For several years, developers have had the ability to add method level contracts via the Code Contracts research project. Proposal 119, Method Contracts, seeks to offer this support. Like generic constraints, the pre- and post-conditions would be listed between the method signature and the body.
"I have seen the future, and it works." -Lincoln Steffens
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WCF targets the .NET Core framework which is designed to support multiple computer architectures and to run cross-platform. Maybe someone can fix the configuration complexity now
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe someone can fix the configuration complexity now
Amen to that. I think they had hired a *nix developer specifically to make the configuration a nightmare.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe someone can fix the configuration complexity now
Hear, hear!
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Bah... not impressed. Wake me up when they open source Windows Forms.
/ravi
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Oracle's Java VP discusses J2EE, OpenJDK, security woes, and the long gap before Java 7. "Yes there were times I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew"
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Failure #1: Someone let the architecture astronauts into the room. Since when is it OK to have an AbstractWidgetFactoryProviderConfigurator class? .Net has some of that, but it's run rampant over just about every Java project I've ever laid eyes on.
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Frickin' 100% agreement here.
TTFN - Kent
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In addition to Vark111's excellent point, I'd like to add the inclusion of Bloatware in the runtime distribution as a major failure - it makes me try to avoid installing Java on every machine I'm in contact with.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The tech industry changes so quickly that it often feels like many of the tools and techniques you’re using today were all but unknown two years ago. Assuming you want to compete with everyone else learning those skills
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