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Europe has had enough of the blurring between work and personal time – where your boss calls you in the evening or colleagues email at the weekend – and is mulling introducing legislation that would provide a “right to disconnect.” Can I set my official working hours to 1100 to 1101?
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.NET apps were found to have more serious vulnerabilities and suffer more attacks last year, according to data gathered by Contrast Labs. "You like me... you really like me!"
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The D programming language is best known as a system programming language, but it's also a great option for scripting. "Well, it's one louder, innit?"
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Cloudy DevOps company GitLab has removed its $4.00 user/month Bronze/Starter tier, giving users the choice between paying for Premium at $19.00 or downgrading to the free tier and losing some features. I see they're enjoying competing with Microsoft
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British programmers are developing more code more quickly than the rest of the world, new data suggests - though a lack of ambition could be holding them back. "Rule, Britannia!"
"A 'success rate' measure, which assumes failures in testing to be a signal of innovative risk-taking, shows the UK delivering successful code 95% of the time, compared to 83% in the US, and a global average of just 61%. CircleCI said this indicated that UK developers were more risk-averse and less likely to approach projects with a 'fail fast' mentality."
Hunh? That seems... uhm, what's the word for it... erm... stupid?
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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction is a new, and free, online reference tool. For all your newspeak needs
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This team has developed a cryogenic quantum control platform that uses specialized CMOS circuits to take digital inputs and generate many parallel qubit control signals. Probably not related to that Feature Update
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Since it seems to be the trendy thing to do, I'm going to claim a breakthrough in quantum computing myself! Can I get mentioned in the Insider News? 
Anybody else want to make breakthrough claims? All the 'in' people are doing it!
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Come on then, open the box. Did you or didn't you?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I even took out the cat that is still there.
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Microsoft tests its new way of delivering feature updates through the Microsoft Store. Making them easier to ignore +1!
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Intel’s first desktop GPUs in 20 years need a special BIOS I'm sure someone will be heartbroken
Stuck with AMD, NVidia and other high-performing GPUs. The HORROR!
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Just a quarter of employees save their passwords, either in a notebook, their smartphone or a password management app, according to data from KnowBe4. If we weren't meant to reuse passwords, they wouldn't have created the clipboard
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Kent Sharkey wrote: or a password management app,
And what's the problem with that? There are a lot of people / articles recommending it.
On the other hand...
they didn't say anything about the post-it under the keyboard... I guess I am still safe  
M.D.V. 
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Azure DevOps provides you with Azure Boards in order to help provide a place for you to begin tracking your work with a “drag-and-drop” interface right in your browser. In case you can-can the Kanban
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a place for you to begin tracking your work
And who tracks the tracker?
M.D.V.
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Since IBM's Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, advances in artificial intelligence have made chess-playing computers more and more formidable. No one wants to lose to the computer, so program a second computer to lose against the computer?
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Computers are excellent for masters and above, for analyzing positions. For less skilled players, they're not so useful. When they're set to play at a lower level, they fake it by occasionally blundering in ways that a human at the same level usually wouldn't. The AI described in this article should greatly improve the usefulness of computers as sparring opponents for amateurs, because it is getting good at making the types of errors that can be expected in matches against human opponents at a comparable level.
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Microsoft hasn't said much about Windows 10X – and what it has spelled out so far leaves the company's plans unclear. Is 10X the next version of Windows 10? Or a dead end? Yes?
My money is more on the former though. I've seen this movie before.
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Although it would be better for us if it is the second option...
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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Sorry, sometimes I forget to check the publish date. 
TTFN - Kent
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A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.
SUDO PWNED
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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