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In the valiant effort to combat imposter syndrome and gatekeeping, the programming world has taken a bad turn down a blind alley by celebrating incompetence. And here I thought people were just celebrating me
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Security researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux that keeps an almost invisible profile by hiding in tasks scheduled for execution on a non-existent day, February 31st. Like MM/DD/YY?
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AV-TEST, the IT Security research institute based in Germany, released its October 2021 best anti-virus programs assessment report for Windows 10 home users. Free is good
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With Visual Studio 2022 when you create a new console project based on .NET 6, the Hello World source code generated is now a simple one-line program Whoa - slow down. I can only type that example code so fast
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Pffft! They missed a trick - add a global static using [^] for System.Console - which can be defined in the project file[^], so no "code" involved - and the code becomes:
WriteLine("Is this modern enough yet?");
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Looks more like VB every passing day.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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This adds absolutely no value.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The new group will coordinate efforts across branches in an effort to figure out what, exactly, is flying around up there. The truth might be out there, because it probably isn't in there
Inspired by one of my favourite lines from a UFO-containing movie, "The saucers are up there, and the cemetery's out there, but I'll be locked up in there."
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Quote: The Pentagon forms new department to watch and study UFOs Is that an implied confirmation that we are not alone?
Or just another excuse to waste a big amount of $$$ just because?
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publicity stunts... some people are pretty sure those occasional visual artifacts on fighter jet's cameras are UFO and some politician too and want "deeper investigation".
Well, that's my take on it!
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Alternatively: new planes belonging to other countries.
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We're nearly two months out from the public release of Windows 11, and Microsoft is still slowly updating bits and pieces of the operating system that weren't quite ready in early October. It looks like you're trying to waste time with useless upgrades. Would you like help with that?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It looks like you're trying to waste time with useless upgrades. Would you like help with that? In a not so far moment comment...[^]
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If an allegedly exclusive partnership deal in the Windows on Arm PC space ends soon, will (and should) anyone care? MIPS and Alpha developers feel their pain
OK, that was .NET, but it's a slow news day, and my brain is slower still.
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Quote: Does Windows on Arm have a future? Maybe if they try on leg or on foot... but I think the best would be Windows with brain
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The hardest edition to find!
TTFN - Kent
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Just how instrumental have development teams been to the digital overhauls many organisations have undergone? Because I've run out of lyrics to put here
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I suppose the context is "the pandemic", but they needed a research project to discover the obvious?
That article is sort of like saying "people are really appreciative of farmers because without farmers to grow the food they would starve."
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Developers in the software industry rely on extracting relevant information from Google and other search engines to maximize their efficiency. "Keep me searching for a heart of gold, and I'm getting old"
Sorry about the lack of full-text on the article, but this has some of the top-level highlights
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Developers in the software industry rely on extracting relevant information from Google and other search engines to maximize their efficiency. Not to mention the Q&A, oh... wait
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Malware creators have already started testing a proof-of-concept exploit targeting a new Microsoft Windows Installer zero-day publicly disclosed by security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri over the weekend. To be safe: don't run any code on your system
An evergreen quote in the article: "Any attempt to patch the binary directly will break windows installer. So you better wait and see how Microsoft will screw the patch again."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: An evergreen quote in the article: "Any attempt to patch the binary directly will break windows installer. So you better wait and see how Microsoft will screw the patch again or see what other things will get broken while screwing the patch again ." FTFY
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Are we in store for the emergence of one, comprehensive mega-language? Or could programming languages disappear altogether? "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
I'll go with 'no' and 'heck, no', Alex
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As long as the desire to maintain techno-political-economic dominance by the major techno-monopolies drives language invention, development, maintenance, and governance ... more of the same.
More static, more FrameWorks, a glut of so-called "no code/low code" stuff that will create bloated unusable chimeras.
imho, ECMAScript (misnamed JavaScript) will survive as a lowest common denominator the major players tolerate. C#/.NET, Rust. Go, maybe Kotlin, Python ... will keep going their different ways.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Researchers have studied what brings happiness in life, and what, at the end of life, people wish they had done. "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
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