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Kent Sharkey wrote: But do we really have the mental attitude to totally disconnect from work?
Hell YES!
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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The phone is always off; I'm not paid after work.
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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For the past six years, I've deliberately not found out how to remote into work. I also refuse to put my personal phone number on the company phone list. I've gotten no push back. (That doesn't stop my brain from trying to solve the latest challenge during off-hours.)
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Do most tech workers really have bosses?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Hire by Google, the company’s service for recruiters and hiring managers, is getting a couple of new features today that’ll make it easier to find the right candidates among the pool of potential employees who previously applied to a position at a company. Is that where you just Google the candidates and hire them based on their search results?
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People complain about Facebook data practices, but I think google knows more about more users people than facebook.
M.D.V.
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Yeah, but they'll never do anything evil, right?  
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft's Meltdown patch has opened an even bigger security hole on Windows 7, allowing any user-level application to read content from the operating system's kernel, and even write data to kernel memory. Qulaity is job wun
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I start thinking that the ones saying "better to turn updates off" might be right.
M.D.V.
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Of course, once you have access to the computer, all security bets are off.
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Apple took its annual spring event out of California and hosted it at a high school in Chicago this year, promising to focus its newest products toward the education market that’s been dominated by Google and Microsoft. "What you got? Not a lot"
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Researchers have developed a low-cost 3-D bioprinter by modifying a standard desktop 3-D printer, and they have released the breakthrough designs as open source so that anyone can build their own system. Oh good: now I can print my new liver at home
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh good: now I can print my new liver at home
I'll drink to that! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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A joint research team from the University of Cambridge and Dartmouth College has developed a system for using infrared light tags to monitor face-to-face interactions. Be a little worried if they set up infrared cameras for your next interview
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This Friday we published the Unity engine and editor C# source code on GitHub, under a reference-only license. 3D? More like Free-D.
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We're almost three months into 2018, which means the time has come (albeit with some delay) to make a top-10 list of bugs found by the PVS-Studio analyzer in C++ projects over the last year. Please don't be my code...
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Most of these are fairly unsurprising.
Number 1 though is a doozie. Using a macro to define sprintf as std::printf - effectively redefining one standard function to another. A real WTF. It is highly unlikely a code reviewer would spot this (although usage of sprintf itself may be suspect, as it could itself lead to buffer overruns).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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New attack focuses on a different part of the branch prediction system. Well, that was predictable
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And to fully exploit these things, you need such access that you may as well just copy all their data to your own system and be done with it.
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To stop the branch prediction attacks, you should cut off the limb before the branches start attacking!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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ViperCard recreates Apple's classic software, which Bill Atkinson thought up while totally high. I suddenly have a better understanding of why Hypertalk was like that
put the value of card field "typehere" into theValue
put "Hello" + theValue into card field "display"
Almost PureEnglish
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Almost PureEnglish
I think you meant to say 'Plain English' as in the Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers[^] lead by the infamous Grand Nagus. I bet there are very few left here on codeproject that remember that guy. I looked around but can't find his account.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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That's the one I was trying to remember, thank you.
Many a long flamewar there...
TTFN - Kent
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Personally, I want my programs written in theatrical English. Maybe in the style of Shakespeare...
Shakespeare Programming Language
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Interesting language. It seems to be missing dynamic linking, which I suggest implementing with the "wherefore" keyword:
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Ad astra - both ways!
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