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For a pendant, he makes a lot of grammar and punctuation mistakes.
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Not sure if it was intentional (or autocorrect), but you just broke Muphry's law[^] there
TTFN - Kent
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Any, mistakes, are, due, to
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I noticed that. He uses commas where he shouldn't and not where he should, for a start! Then he has long, run-on sentences that change focus during the sentence. Oh, well...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In a wide-ranging interview at Open Source Summit, Torvalds talked about programmers, Linux, and open-source development. Something we have in common
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ZDNet article Torvalds added, "I don't worry about technical issues in kernel. I worry about them, but I'm not worried about them. The workflow is way more important than the code. If a bug happens, you know how to deal with it."
That's very interesting. That is a huge tech-details-geek saying that the code doesn't really matter, but it is the process that matters.
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In spite of Meltdown, Spectre, and IoT vulnerabilities, ransomware and cryptomining malware remain a real and present danger to IT operations. "From our home office in Wahoo, Nebraska..."
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NASA intends to shift its space-to-ground data communications from traditional radio to laser. The move may help internet throughput via over-the-air laser optical become a reality. It's all fun and games until a Bond villain takes control of your orbital lasers
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Blazor is the new Microsoft experimental framework that brings C# into any browser without a plug-in. It holds the promise of modern single-page applications, combined with the ability to use C# and its vast base-class library. But it still sounds like a villain from a He-Man cartoon
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Your misconfigured website could be exposing sensitive data, including database passwords. "Better a lap-dog to a slip of a girl than a … git"
I know I could have relied on the source to have used that word, but this was the only quote of his I could remember him using it.
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Meet Scott Guthrie, the executive VP of Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence business. Behold the Gu
As legend has it, he wrote the first version of ASP.NET while visiting his parents for Thanksgiving. (today's trivia factoid)
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As Chrome looks ahead to its next 10 years, the team is mulling its most controversial initiative yet: fundamentally rethinking URLs across the web. That worked out so well for AOL and Compuserve
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That worked out so well for AOL and Compuserve
That's a bit unfair to Compuserve, which actually predated DNS by roughly 15 years.
(According to CompuServe - Wikipedia, they were also the first online service offering Internet connectivity as well!)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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True, but they did seem to resist accepting the switch over to the web even when it was becoming obvious it was going to clean their clocks.
I do miss them though - it was expensive (to me at the time), but the conversations were excellent.
Present company is as well, of course!
TTFN - Kent
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NASA's new leader is gung-ho on privatizing spaceflight, and that could lead to some new approaches to branding... like it or not. From NASA to NAScAr
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The Ford Saturn V?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You think we can get enough money to name a rocket "Boaty McBoatface"?
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On the surface, the world of agile software development is bright, since it is now mainstream. But the reality is troubling, because much of what is done is faux-agile, disregarding agile's values and principles. Agile, "agile", or Agile(tm)?
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I was going to write some snark about agile, but read the article instead. I should have gone with my first instinct because the article was awful. The irony is that he has a small point, but entirely misses it by not realizing that the "agile manifesto" is antithetical to the agile methodology. The former was a description of what good teams do; the latter falls for the logical fallacy (and conceit) that imposing values produces the same results as [innately] having them.
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A pioneering experiment will extend human vision to invisible wavelengths, say researchers. It was Bruce Willis the whole time (Sorry, “spoilers”)
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The US, UK, and three other governments have called on tech companies to build backdoors into their encrypted products, so that law enforcement will always be able to obtain access. “The men don't know, but the little girls understand”
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I think what these government agencies don't understand, or hope the public don't understand, is that a backdoor means that the device is not encrypted.
If you have a 'backdoor' it means that anyone can have access.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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One-time-pads don't provide backdoors. Implementation available on request.
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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Google has made the astonishing revelation that in 2017 it took down an average of “100 ads a second” for violating company policies. I'll believe it when I don't see it
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