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Quote: The agency didn’t provide an estimate of how much time is currently spent on Y2K paperwork, but Linda Springer, an OMB senior adviser, acknowledged that it isn’t a lot since those requirements are already often ignored in practice.
Except that it seems the burrocrats have solved the problem on their own using the standard tactics of burrocrazies everywhere. Ignore anything they don't want to do and hope no one ever asks for it. 
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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We could be just five years away from a space-based quantum communication network. Now someone will have to disentangle them
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Hopefully not a Quantum of Solace.
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Microsoft is moving Windows Server to the same semi-annual feature-update schedule as Windows client and Office 365 ProPlus are now on. Here's how this will work. Because one things sysadmins love is frequent server updates
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It is something we take for granted in every time we run a .NET program, but it turns out that loading a Type or class is a fairly complex process. "I wanna get back to Basics, just take it slow"
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He also posted it to CP: How the .NET Runtime loads a Type[^]
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Dammit, I even searched for it. Although, perhaps he loaded the article on CP after his blog?
Bother, and it was such a nice article. 
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, probably after. It came up for approval a couple of hours ago. That's the only reason I noticed.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Researchers have created wireless charging tech that can handle motion and distances of up to three feet. "Throughout space there is energy. … it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
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Quote: Assawaworrarit
As I try to say this guys name I sound (in my head) like someone with a speech impediment trying to swear...  
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Developers who use tabs to indent their code, developers who fight for truth and justice and all that is good in the world, those developers have a median salary of $43,750. They're also better looking, and have bigger hard drives
Or need them, anyway.
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...because correlation implies causation...
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Either that, or correlation can be conflated with causation for comedic effect. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Speaking as an ex-tab guy myself, go spaces or go home!
Jeremy Falcon
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I use 
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Better not show this to Richard Hendricks!
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Sadly, Charles P. Thacker passed away on June 12.
Hardware designer for the Alto, the first computer designed from the ground up to support a GUI, introducing the WIMP (Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointers), Wysiwyg, and many other paradigms. ACM Turing Award Winner - for this, and contributions to the Ethernet and Tablet computing.
Too many people are described as pioneers of computing who were imitators (Steve Jobs - I'm looking at you). This one was the real thing.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I remember the review of the Xerox Alto in the Sep '81 Byte. It "only" cost US $32,000! 
The Xerox Alto Computer
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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Unless I'm much mistaken, Photo 8 looks like it may even be the first Multiplayer First Person game too. That's one innovation I'd not heard of before.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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We could use a few more innovators like him.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
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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Box customers can now try out a feature that lets them stream files from the cloud to their computers. I could have sworn that was called, "opening a file from the network."
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Despite frequent talk of tension between software development and security teams, it turns out more than half of organizations surveyed have these two groups collaborating. "Warriors, come out to play-i-ay."
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Another "read one free article then you have to pay" site, eh?
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Warriors, come out to play-i-ay."
"Clink, clink, clink"
I actually saw that movie recently. It didn't seem quite as good as when I saw it (way) back in the day.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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