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kmoorevs wrote: There was a were numerous discussions here recently regarding TIOBElanguage popularity indexes. IIRC, the general consensus was that all the TIOBE indexes is are burning garbage. 
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have recently developed a conditional variational autoencoder that can produce unique faces for advertisements. Hurrah! A way to create more advertisements, more quickly
Who couldn't love that? ugh.
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Nelek wrote: Some people should really get "only because you can, doesn't mean that you should" tattooed in their forehead
Don't you mean "blυoʜƨ υoγ ɈɒʜɈ nɒǝm Ɉ'nƨǝob ˎnɒɔ υoγ ǝƨυɒɔǝb γlno"? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nelek wrote: Some people should really get "only because you can, doesn't mean that you should" tattooed in their forehead engraved on the interior of their skull using a jackhammer so that they see it everyday when they look in the mirror think about what they're doing
FTFY.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft is giving its Skype 7.0 'Classic' variant for Windows desktop a temporary reprieve, following many users complaining of its impending September 1 shutdown. People like Skype?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People like Skype?
I think the point is... they like the Skype version that at least works and don't want to get updated to the "new super hyper cooler" version that is / was being rolled out
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: People like Skype?
I'd like it more if I didn't have to uninstall it every month or so.
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After more than a year of development and months of testing by early adopters, we're ready to launch Android 9 Pie, the latest release of Android, to the world. Save your fork!
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For several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working to improve the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which is designed to help developers protect data as it moves around the internet. Secure your traffic, like the company that shares all your data
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I bet it will be really secure or at least they will make it as secure as they possibly can
At the end, they do have a lot of interest in being the only ones accessing our data.
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
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Researchers suggest non-exploitable “chaff bugs” in systems could be a fun way to deter attackers from doing real harm. I guess my work is done for the day
Oh wait - fake bugs? Dang.
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Hmm maybe that's what Microsoft has been up to all these years. Guess they just didn't get the part about non-exploitable.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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A new technique has been discovered to easily retrieve the Pairwise Master Key Identifier (PMKID) from a router using WPA/WPA2 security, which can then be used to crack the wireless password of the router. Why we can't have nice things, part 802.11
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While technology has typically created more jobs than it has destroyed on a historical basis, this context rarely stops people from believing that things are “different” this time around. Because the computer has already replaced all our jobs?
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The way software is built is constantly changing to meet the ongoing pressure of getting to the market faster and keeping up with the competition. Because the rules state we must use at least one methodology with a misleading name
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That Windows app you made on a Linux system actually isn't as protected from attacks as you thought. And almost a single app in production is afftected
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So that's why my program is only printing out 'Hell World!"
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First of its kind study establishes causal link between broadband internet and sleep deprivation. Because we used to fall asleep to the "doing-doing" of modems connecting?
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Filament is a physically based rendering engine for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows. This rendering engine was designed to be as small as possible and as efficient as possible on Android. Render unto Caesar a shiny metallic ball (or possibly bathroom tile covered)
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Now researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea have made a nanomembrane out of silver nanowires to serve as flexible loudspeakers or microphones. The researchers even went so far as to demonstrate their nanomembrane by making it into a loudspeaker that could be attached to skin and used it to play the final movement of a violin concerto—namely, La Campanella by Niccolo Paganini. Now I can finally get that tattoo that plays my theme song
Next step: figure out what my theme song is
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CIO Robert Walden explains why adaptability is key to creating a more nimble organization This is what happens when the computer makers stop putting the old connectors on the machines
Too obtuse? Sometimes I don't understand my brains.
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I totally agree that adaptability is so important.
For users:
Seeing what the big companies makes to the products, imposing what they think that can be the next hype without giving a crap about the feedback of the people...
For professionals:
same as above and in addition...
with the velocity of changes in specs (if you are lucky enough to have specs), the volatility in your boss' opinions / non-techie customers, the addition of "new cool features" (of dubious benefit) everywhere, etc...
Yes, definitively... either you adapt or you die. 
M.D.V. 
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Yesterday it was the same, and called "flexibility".
Some punk trying to impress with old wine in a new bottle.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"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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