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2020 marks 60 years since ALGOL 60 laid the groundwork for a multitude of computer languages. Where our fascination with semi-colons begins;
Even the name sounds like it came from the future.
"The defining committee couldn't agree on how to do input/output," said Herbert. "They decided that would be left to a library, and that library would be user dependent." <- yeah, not a great plan there
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Microsoft has quietly added a built-in network packet sniffer to the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, and it has gone unnoticed since its release. Yup, smells like a network.
After all, why bother letting people know about new features like this?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: After all, why bother letting people know about new features like this?
Because it is not intended to be used by you?  
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If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that while our ability to identify and treat pandemics has improved greatly since the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918, there is still a lot of room for improvement. So, let's just wait the 5-10 years for a quantum machine, OK?
Where the 5-10 year number stays the same for 10-20 years.
The "effort" isn't as much finding a vaccine, as making sure it's safe and effective across all us bags o' chemicals. I don't think the quantums can help with that.
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I don't want to get laid off. I don't want to get laid off. I know, I'll write an article on AI solving COVID-19. Oh, someone did that? Quantum computers solving it! Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The "effort" isn't as much finding a vaccine, as making sure it's safe and effective across all us bags o' chemicals. I don't think the quantums can help with that.
Of course not... you forgot the AI 
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I hear blockchain and icons will also help.
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"We don’t want to only carry astronauts to the Moon, we want to carry our values." Because as we all know, the Moon is a harsh mistress
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the Moon is a harsh mistress
My 5 to Robert A. Heinlein damned good book 
Had to look to the bibliography to be sure, dumb translations...
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What values are those?
Uh, values. VALUES!
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Uno Platform now supports macOS, meaning you can use the same code on every major platform. Just in case you need a calculator app that runs on both platforms
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Confirmed infections have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. Another suspected infection was reported in Spain. They're just trying to make up for funding shortfalls
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Microsoft has gone a long way since former CEO Steve Ballmer infamously called Linux “a cancer”. I thought the wrong side of history is when the dates all look backwards?
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Microsoft's Brad Smith worries about everything but actual Microsoft products. Why is this guy their president?
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The suit could focus on advertising and search dominance, a report says. "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time"
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Those constant interruptions can actually create sadness and fear and eventually, a tense working environment, according to a new study aimed at understanding what shapes the emotional culture of a workplace. Don't them notifications make my brown eyes blue...
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Yes, it's far better to work at a job where you do exactly the same repetitive thing minute after minute, day after day.
And for heaven's sake, stop letting people make decisions!
(Non-sarcastically, the sadness is when the person to whom you've said something a dozen times, drops by your desk and asks the exact same question again! Then again, maybe that is their one job.)
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The only thing I would change is to add single tasking to the whole negative emotions thing.
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I think it's just "the workplace" that leads to negative emotions.
TTFN - Kent
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I just tested your hypothesis by playing video games and ignoring my wife. Indeed that multitasking did not cause negative emotions, quite the opposite. I stand corrected and will submit the new findings to this "scientific" publication. (Did they even try eliminating the workplace variable from this study?)
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Programmers are more productive when they are zoned out and focussing at the task.
I don't know who came up with the idea that one needs to "react now". It began with emails, giving a notification; I turned notifications off and replied at the end of the day. Others react immediately because they felt the need.
Now the phone makes weird sounds when someone posts a reaction on twitter. People expect a reply in minutes, and call you if they think they don't have that time.
I love being in the zone, forgetting time. Hunting the documentation, running examples. Suddenly being hungry when you get out of it.
Interruptions costs the company money. Even lunch. If you interrupt me, you better have a reason that is worth that money, especially if it is not part of the scrummy estimate. And I'll take that lunch when it suits me.
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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Why label this a rant when it's the truth? I loathe those who are quick to soil themselves and often want things done yesterday. No ability to chill. They'd be better suited to a hospital emergency room--ideally as patients.
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Needed yesterday, but when you drop everything and deliver the next day they'll look at it next week 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I don't know who came up with the idea that one needs to "react now". It began with emails, giving a notification; I turned notifications off and replied at the end of the day.
I do it 1 to 3 times a day. The very first thing in the morning to see if I have to re-schedule something before I start, one (optionally) during the day if I have finished something and there is a natural break point anyways, at the end of the day (optionally) if I am not that busy with something else that I don't have any time left.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: And I'll take that lunch when it suits me.
Some people are incapable of learning...
On a day working from home, I sat at the kitchen table eating my lunch (at the usual time, my colleagues know when I am out for lunch normally).
Microsoft Teams rang. I ignored it.
A moment later, the phone on the landline rang. I ignored it.
Another moment later, my mobile rang. I ignored it.
Having finished lunch, I returned to my computer, and saw that an email had arrived in Outlook.
All 4 things from the same guy.
For a rather irrelevant question which could wait for hours, of course.
So what, if the world was on fire, I'll have had a good lunch at least. No need to experience it while being hungry.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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