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I was wondering why they would want it at first, then rememberd that they also own Direct tv too.
There goes the entertainment industry too.
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Unicode said that if the emoji was approved, it would include a range of skin tones, a feature introduced last year after much campaigning. As much problems as Unicode may have solved, I'm going back to limiting textboxes to pure ASCII.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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... 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I always found the number of cat emoji unsatisfying. The cat is usually yellow, but I'm missing black, whites, grey's, calico... Not to mention the race of that cat. I'm guessing it's a European short hair, but what about persian, siamese, long haired, etc. etc.
I say stop this oppressing cat emoji regime! #animalrights #catsarepeopletoo
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[edit] What the heck is that thing the woman is holding? It looks like a mutant pig without legs held up to a woman with (possibly) one breast.[/edit]
Marc
modified 22-Oct-16 19:42pm.
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Well that'll help keep them away from the pesky business of actually adding support for additional languages in unicode[^].
As a side note, I'll add that you know something's really turned into a dumpster fire when it's so bad that Buzzfeed is producing long form journalism instead of click bait full of nothing but dank memes.
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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The problem being that Unicode is largely descriptive, while the emoji part is proscriptive--they are trying to invent a new language and using Unicode to do it.
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The government is preparing to charge the suspect under the Espionage Act. No one noticed him walking out with a suitcase full of DVDs?
Or maybe a semi full of floppies?
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At 5 GB per DVD, that works out to 10,000 DVDs. His spying activities allegedly took place over 20 years, or 1,000 weeks.
The guy stole 10 DVDs worth of data every week for 20 years, and no one noticed? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A single pendrive can keep up to 128 GB and it's easily concealable in a shoe heel. So up to 256 GB of information can be carried out in a single day for two concealed pendrives, in 200 days of regular tranfers you get 50 TB.
Of course we do not know whne he started stealing data because if he started from the very beginning of his job of course the means of transfer stored less data, but IoMega Zip Drives were particularly big at that times and fairly commonplace.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Most highly-secure places (commercial companies included) don't even allow you to bring in any portable storage, smartphones, etc. If the NSA allows this, it is a major hole in their security!
What were they thinking of?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: What were they thinking of?
Nothing, of course. After all it's our data, not theirs! 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Most highly-secure places (commercial companies included) don't even allow you to bring in any portable storage, smartphones, etc.
Exactly. My brother works in a top secret facility (Air Force) and he can't bring into the facility any device, of any kind, that can store even one bit of information, other than his brain.
He also passes through (entry and exit) 3 security check points.
So, NSA must have some lax areas of security then.
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Maybe he bring some 50 TB back and everything is fine. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Maybe it was just all the porn found on the devices they were spying.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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According to Hillary, it was the Russians. Anything released is suspect.
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Maybe he was on Windows 10 and everything was force-saved to his OneDrive account.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks to Lean and Agile pioneers and practitioners, we now have simpler, safer, speedier ways to achieve awesome results. We call these new approaches “Modern Agile” because they’ve evolved far beyond early Agile methods. Because that old agile is just so 15 minutes ago
"Make people awesome." 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Make people awesome.
I am already awesome! What is next? 
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Yeah. So awesome that the InfoQ site can't be reached.
I can't wait to read the article and take pot shots at it. But for now:
Thanks to Lean and Agile pioneers and practitioners, we now have simpler, safer, speedier ways to achieve awesome results.
Sounds more like the tag line for a vibrator.
Marc
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This went straight in boomarks.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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you should see the film "hysteria" 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Make people awesome.
That's where my eyes crossed and I had to bail for my own sanity.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Modern Agile has no roles, responsibilities or anointed practices.
So in other words, it's a vaporware process.
OMG. I can't believe they wrote that. It's like the definition of space. Well, it's nothing - it's a a void!
Marc
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While I absolutely concur on the opinions stated in the article, I noted your response which had negative view points on TDD.
You state that TDD involves writing tests for code you haven't written yet. Well duh. That's the point. Otherwise you can end up testing that your code is implemented as it was just implemented.
With TDD, you write tests to force you to look at the expected behaviour of a unit of code. If you cannot express it in a test, you're probably not done thinking about it. It treats that unit of code as a black box - given an expected set of input conditions, does it produce the expected output. If not it doesn't work. If so, it works.
Next, and too often forgotten, is the third stage of TDD (red, green, refactor). Once your code works, refactor it. This may be to improve the structure, to optimise for performance, or numerous other desirable qualities of code. Because you have a suite of tests already written, you hear about any impact such refactoring has had on the rest of your code.
That way, TDD can help you maintain a project and keep the quality consistent. Miss the third stage, and its a pile of horse dung.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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