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<not even remotely sarcastic mode>
Of course, the real reason for this is to con decent scientists into making tiny but incredibly high-powered snooping devices for the NSA.
<back to normal>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Scientific American would only let me read a brief section of that article without a paid subscription.
However, I found good coverage here:[^].
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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heh. The New Scientist is a far better mag, anyway -- it must be; I wrote for them.
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Microsoft knows that, out there in the real world, developers come at DevOps using a wide range of languages and platforms, some of which are not of the developer's choosing. That was the core message of Microsoft DevOps expert Donovan Brown's demo at VSLive! in Las Vegas this week. And by 'any platform', they mean Visual Studio
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As NASA astronomers peer further and further into space, they require ever larger and more powerful telescopes to do so. That's why one team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Lab have proposed using the biggest object in our solar system, the Sun, as a cosmic magnifying glass. Uh, I think we're using it for something else?
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Just wait until a bunch of lunatics to come down the street protesting about how NASA is caballing to "take away" sun for some telescope related scientific research. 
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Hopefully, they'll only use the Sun at night when we're not using it.
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They just want to burn really big ants.
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During my younger days, I worked for a company that made a habit of strategic acquisition. They didn’t participate in Time Warner style mergers, but periodically they would purchase a smaller competitor or a related product. This is why gin was invented
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Put Your Outrage in Check
That's what The Weird and The Wonderful is for. Given that I've almost never posted there until, erm, recently...
Get a Visualization of the Architecture
That's a HUGE assumption.
And the first thing you should do is to start writing characterization tests.
Another HUGE assumption.
Isolate Problems
A rewrite by any other name would smell as sweet.
Evolve Toward Modernity
Shouldn't have hired a third world country to write the code in the first place.
The Fate of the Codebase
Is probably longer than my fate. 2.5 months and counting.
And as for the line spacing that CP creates/requires for quoted content: 
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: That's what The Weird and The Wonderful is for. Given that I've almost never posted there until, erm, recently...
Marc Clifton wrote: And as for the line spacing that CP creates/requires for quoted content:
For that there is Bugs and Suggestions[^] forum... another one to add to your "recently" list?  
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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Marc Clifton wrote: And as for the line spacing that CP creates/requires for quoted content:
Just start your reply on the last line as the quote, right after the </blockquote> tag.
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As my son has become fond of saying, "He's not wrong." However, I would love to see his reaction to inheriting a system written in a language that should have been outlawed the second it was purchased by Adobe. That was written by a complete noob with little or no over site from his politically motivated supervisor. Where the code review amounted to laughing at all the mistakes made by the noob programmer. Where this same system was then handed to two other noob programmers, neither of which bothered to fix any of the mess and who continually shoehorned changes to the system. Where literally 90% of the SQL was coded directly, stored procedures are too difficult.
Yeah, you have fun keeping your rage in check there, buddy. I don't mind fixing other peoples messy code, I've written more than my fair share of messy code, but there comes a point when a person needs to man up and take responsibility for being a shrub instead of dumping a boatload of manure in someone else's lap.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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But getting flagged won’t necessarily demote rankings. And the internet disappears in a puff of sulphur
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"This doesn't say that you should click on google ads. Block it."
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Cybersecurity experts recommend that smartphone owners take a number of steps to keep their mobile devices safe and secure. It's not like people keep any important or private information on them
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I personally don't have to worry.
My private/important information is password protected and safely stored on corporate servers like that of Yahoo.
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Mine now has a line at the top of "Settings" that says some things are set by my organization.
What organization? I have an organization I didn't know about?
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Do you receive business emails from an exchange server on your phone? If yes, there some magic going on and the mobile OS automatically configures itself to go by some security rules. Mine for example requires a password, otherwise the corporate exchange server wouldn't talk to it.
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No Exchange. No business emails.
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