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Wouldn't it be better for them to keep their ISO's up to date, so when you want to re-install and go and grab the ISO it has the latest updates?
This seems really messy in comparison!
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Win8.1 from the app store does do that already. I had to download a cluster-elephant of 8.0 patches first to unlock it; but once I did the 8.1 update I pulled a week ago had everything except .net and a few assorted drivers fully up to date.
And the 8.1 disk install asked to DL some extra before starting; but I clicked the wrong button and decided against risking something going wrong by restarting it after realizing my mistake. I'd assume that means it fixed them too, but am not sure.
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
modified 20-Mar-15 9:22am.
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A team of researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed a new 3D printing process that may be fast enough to change the tide for 3D printing. "It combines the technologies of the transmogrifier and a photocopier"
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Wow. Not sure how I missed that. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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A new Wall Street Journal report details anti-competitive practices by the company. Do no^H^H evil
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GoDaddy's layered verification protections defeated by a phone call and four hours in Photoshop. Just in case you've got a GoDaddy account (or don't, but own PhotoShop)
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Microsoft has reportedly confirmed that while pirated versions of Windows 7 and 8 with non-genuine licenses can be upgraded to Windows 10, they will not be upgraded to a genuine license. So... I get Windows 10, but it's not really Windows 10? Is it Windows 1O?
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Nope that is a Windows ten.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Security mavens bracing for Thursday's scheduled disclosure of a high-severity vulnerability in the widely used OpenSSL crypto library need wait no longer. It's a bug that allows end users to crash servers running one version of the software by sending data that's relatively easy to duplicate.
"I don't suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?"
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If you’ve been working with software for longer than five years, then you can remember a time when SourceForge was one of the pillars of open-source software. "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!"
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Dice needs to be put under fire for all of this and have the execs who started this put in prison for a LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG time. Either that or executed.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The company oversold the wearable too soon and learned some lessons. Start (noun): the point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning of something.
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Does he mean that they should have oversold it a little later?
modified 19-Mar-15 17:37pm.
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An informal survey of programmers finds that the most important quality in good software source code is that it be easy to read and understand. Did no one survey the Perl and APL developers?
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The developers stand for, Martin Fowler[^], who says:
Quote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Kent Sharkey wrote: An informal survey of programmers finds that the most important quality in good software source code is that it be easy to read and understand.
Really? No! Who would a thunk it!
Talk about stating the bleeding obvious.
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Huh... I would have went with "that it correctly performs its intended function(s)" but... to each, their own.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: that it correctly performs its intended function(s) I believe that was a given, but yeah, readable too.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Geeks write obfuscated code !
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Next to readable, it needs to be easily maintainable. One of the ways of doing so is by structuring things in, say, objects. Having those objects arranged and working according to a well-known pattern adds to the maintainability, readability and hence, affordability. It also means that most things are only defined in one place. No, seriously, ONE place. No redundancies, no repeating code - as that would mean that you'd have to maintain multiple instances of the same when updating it. That increases the chance of introducing bugs, which is bad.
Good code is SOLID and DRY
..and commented, with a low cyclomatic complexity, conforming to FxCop rules, and come with unit-testing that has almost 100% coverage.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Microsoft corporation has recently published for free access the source code of the CoreCLR engine which is a key component of .NET Core. Fun and games with code analysis
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The Windows 10 device platform allows IHVs to develop a single universal driver that can be deployed across all Windows 10 device families (e.g., PCs, phones, IoT). One driver to bind them, etc. etc. you know.
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That is a great feature you know.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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