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and it places liability on the producers of spyware tools.
That makes no sense. The liability should be on the consumer of the tool.
If I take my wire cutters and splice in to my neighbor's analog phone line (ok, maybe that would have worked 10 years ago), do you sue the company that makes the wire cutters???
Marc
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If I sent someone a letter and others read it without my permission or the permission of the receiver, they are liable. How should it be different for e-mail or IM's?
If a product is created for the explicit purpose of intercepting private communication, how can they plead ignorance?
If someone creates a product to break into secured safes, they are as liable as the people that bought it...
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Intel wants to get developers more interested in its drones. At the company’s annual Developer Forum, it announced the Aero ready-to-fly drone that specifically targets developers. "Fly my pretties, fly"
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... and now I'm picturing hoards of drones chasing after developers.
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Trying to read their code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that specifically targets developers.
That has some nasty connotations for my health and well being, not to mention my house, two cats, and girlfriend.
Marc
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The visible universe just shrunk by 320 million light-years in all directions, updating a famous calculation that physicists first made 13 years ago. It actually ends just past the moon
Everything else is just lights drawn on the inside of Ymir's skull.
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Don't tell me - are all the stars are painted on the inside of a giant sphere surrounding the Earth?
The return of the geocentric model.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft looks to be building a Visual Studio-like tool suite for machine learning called Open Mind Studio. "Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open."
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Overall, the Electronic Frontier foundation finds that the free Windows 10 Upgrade violated the two key areas of user choice and user privacy. I'm glad they're on the case: no one else has been saying anything about Win10
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I'm especially happy about how rapid and timely their response was.
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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There's a lot of little tricks in Visual Studio that even the most seasoned developers sometimes miss. It might save you the time of going to UserVoice to request it
That map mode for the scrollbar looks like it might be fun and/or useful
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That map mode for the scrollbar looks like it might be fun and/or useful
Just tried that. Not bad.
Also, like the "Move lines of text with ALT+<UP> and ALT+<DOWN> keys. Quite cool.
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Ditto. Never knew about those. Quick launch seems helpful too.
Marc
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I use quick launch often. Really handy. The way find works now is different to say VS 2008 and 2010. Ctrl + I used to be really helpful in those days.
BTW, from the comments section:
Quote: Well, after resharper i don`t care about what features vs has
Because no matter how much confident/aware/correct you are in what you are doing, it will tell you you are wrong. IMHO, resharper is evil.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Cheaper, easier, faster, safer -- sometimes bad habits are better than good enough. To some measure of "work"
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Info world wrote: Quick and dirty code There is no such thing. You get what you paid. Everyone can do decent code with allocated project time delivery. The shorter the time, the higher buggy code(app).
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This is the only point which is truly bad and it's really bad. I recently worked on some code which was nothing but "quick and dirty" and it was a nightmare.
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I got to use the "pick any two" yesterday. A requirements meeting where they are exploring edge cases and someone bitched about the time an expense it was taking. To my astonishment the PM had never heard of it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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agree. Time/Money/Quality pyramid chose one
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My list is a bit, well, shorter:
Ruby
Javascript
Letting junior programmers write code without code reviews.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Ruby Hey, it's bad ideas that work
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: Letting junior programmers write code without code reviews.
FYFY. Just because experience means we've already done so many of the bad ideas that occur to kids who don't know any better doesn't mean we're immune to occasional attacks of stupid.
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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