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I promise to stop building 6502s in Minecraft on the job.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Hmm. True story:
Back in the late 1980's I worked as a defense contractor. A report was published back then that documented that, of all the software built for the DoD, only 2% of it was still in use a year after its completion. I personally saw this phenomenon with two of our contracts. One, which took team of five more than two years to build, was used for two weeks after delivery. The second, developed by a team of three over an 18 month period, was simply never used. It was placed on shelf.
Software Zen: delete this;
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And it's probably gotten worse since then, although the Department of Offense isn't an enterprise.
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As long as they pay...
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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My ongoing joke back then was "I may be a whore, but at least I'm not cheap."
... and we weren't; our billing rates back then would correspond to $400+/hour now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I was a cheap one back then (65€/h)...
I managed to rise my price for consulting tasks I had with a customer (to 100€/h), because the engineers came to me to ask about the processes and the possibility of doing stuff. I told it my boss and he refused because of the additional bureaucracy, as he would have had to make a special contract for me for that project.
Shortly later I started searching for something new.
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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To gain deeper insights into how new AI tools and existing workflows impact the overall developer experience, GitHub partnered with Wakefield Research to survey 500 developers from enterprise companies across the US. I guess it depends on where it hits them?
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AI voice-separation tech pioneered for "Get Back" will bring Lennon demo to life. "For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see"
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Is it as good as The Rutles?
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Drives automatically get a "warning" flag if powered on for 3 years. Those drives aren't old, they're well seasoned
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The three pairs of hard drives in my NAS are 12, 4, and less than 1 year old. I replace the drives in pairs when one fails. WD can pound sand.
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You’ll continue to see many more features show up with these monthly releases. .NET 6 and 7 users will want to follow this release closely since we have focused on making it a straightforward upgrade path. Channel 5 Model C Right Hand Drive (June edition)...
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Remote desktop connections are so powerful a magnet for hackers that an exposed connection can average more than 37,000 times every day from various IP addresses. "Well, it's just an invitation to the blues"
And I'd like to see similar numbers for networks that hang VNC and/or TeamViewer outside their network.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And I'd like to see similar numbers for networks that hang VNC and/or TeamViewer outside their network.
That's only possible if they DO use password... 
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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We’re happy to announce that starting with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6, Visual Studio layouts are available to install from an internal intranet website! They're giving everyone access to the Microsoft intranet?
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Color me less than impressed. We've installed every version of Visual Studio since 2003 via our company network, and doing it via an internal intranet website doesn't seem like quite the rocket launch they claim.
Software Zen: delete this;
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DeviceScript is a subset of TypeScript that compiles to a custom VM bytecode. The experimental project also includes a Visual Studio Code extension. Combine all the joys of IoT programming, with the joys of JavaScript!
Well, JavaScript-ish.
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40kB of wasted space because you couldn't be bothered to learn C++?
What are you even going to do with typescript on an ESP32, bitbang 9 bit SPI or GDMA?
Yeah, right.
This is like their attempt at getting .NET running on these things.
It's a bad idea. Of course, I also think running python on the things is similarly bad, but everyone does it.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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<OldFartGrumpy>In my 40+ professional years, I've found few development tool makers who wouldn't try to fit a size 10 peg in a size 1.5 hole.</OldFartGrumpy>
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It's sort of frustrating when I claw out some optimized code like this https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx/[^]
and then someone decides that Python is okay to run on something with 300kB of usable SRAM on boot - and that's generous.
Look at this mess
How fast is Python? - MicroPython versus C++ - YouTube[^]
And people still use it.
And then Microsoft makes it *worse*.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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That was great! Particularly the ending. 
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This is on top of a lawsuit also meant to prevent the merger. So much for that Call of Duty - Excel crossover I was hoping for
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Excel at one time included its own flight simulator as an Easter egg. What more do you want? A VBA macro that runs Doom in a cell?
Software Zen: delete this;
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