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Office Depot and its software supplier have to pay $35 million toward refunds. "That was easy"
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Golly!
Who would expect any kind of health check inside a major store to be a scam?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A new open source VS Code extension called Pyright has been created as a Microsoft "side project" to improve on current offerings for static type checking for the Python programming language. People like data types: Python edition
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Pyright ~ Pyrite: "Fools Gold"
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Probably unintentional, but definitely gold 
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft finally is telling business users that Windows 10 1809, originally released last fall, is ready for deployment -- just a month before Windows 10 1903 may start rolling out. Just in time for the new version to go into broad Beta testing (by paying customers)
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Isn't it just a teensy bit sexist that they're only letting broads have it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: new version to go into broad Beta testing
Don't forget the golden rule. There is no testing, like testing in production.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Thinking of terminating that underperforming or problematic employee? If you do, just make sure to protect yourself -- and your data. "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
It might feel good at the time, but you'll regret it PDQ
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The former employee gets free food, shelter and the chance to make new friends for two years, while his former employer loses customers and possibly more. Lesson learned.
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Free room and board in a semi-exclusive, gated community.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The odds of a highly experienced employee deliberately sabotaging the business in revenge for being terminated are so low that doing nothing to prepare for it is actually reasonable. The company either had exceptionally bad luck or was exceptionally skilled at infuriating people enough to insure mutual destruction.
Having no backups of customer data, on the other hand, is reckless and likely to lead to disaster in a number of more common scenarios.
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The article states: the reasons why he was let go aren't important
Yeah, right.
If a guy's under-performing in his first month, the most likely causes are all about bad management.
So it couldn't be because is boss was an @rsehole, who treats employees like sh1t, could it?
He was obviously a great boss, a superlative manager, who couldn't possibly instill hatred or the desire for revenge in his grateful employees.
The article states: Could Voova have avoided this crisis? Yes, and the solution would have been simple: a 2FA (two-factor authentication) system.
Yeah, right.
The answer to all your security problems is handing over your phone number to every idiot and web-site that says they need it "for your protection".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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2FA - something you have, and something you know.
"I have Herpes", and "I know you don't want to touch me there right now".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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could be a blown out story...the backups part...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Reminds me of an incident which happened more than 20 years ago. Just before he left, an employee who was fired changed the super-user password of the main Unix server of a branch office of a bigger company. The branch office lost all the data, as they had only to reformat the system. They had no backups. Lesson learnt the hard way.
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When I read questions involving time zones, there’s almost always someone giving the advice to only ever store UTC. Convert to UTC as soon as you can, and convert back to a target time zone as late as you can, for display purposes, and you’ll never have a time zone issue again, they say. It's true - they do nothing against werewolves
Dates are evil, latest in a never-ending list.
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This is not restricted to time-zones.
For everything that you store in the database, you either store it in a common accesible normalized form, or you add a column that contains such a form. Why? Because it leads to a mess if you put temperatures in a column in Kelvin, Celcius and Fahrenheit, and it breaks SQL in the sense that you have to get them in a single unit again before being able to call a simple funtion like "AVG()".
So no, that advice is not a silver bullet, but taking a single edge-case and making an article out if it is no silver bullet either.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Much ado about nothing. 
This is only an issue for future time stamps. For past and present timestamps, it's sufficient to store the timestamp in UTC with timezone offset.
#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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But with great power comes, yes, great responsibility. Developers aren’t only able to define their own Kubernetes clusters; in many situations, they’re responsible for them, without the safety net of Ops. "It's good to be the king."
And of course, "They are my people! I am their sovereign! I LOVE Them. Pull!"
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"Faster, faster with those oars. The captain wants to water ski."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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OT, but nowadays, with great power comes DOS attacks, security breaches, tech thieving countries, gender equality lawsuits, corruption, congressional hearings, the EU, and newbies wanting to rewrite everything in Ruby or Python.
Oh, and reading above, disgruntled employees that go postal.
Power is not what is used to be. 
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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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You’re a downer sometimes. 
TTFN - Kent
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> newbies wanting to rewrite everything in Ruby or Python.
before it was php... some years back.. well dot net was there but it was not opensource... but now we have the opensource version of that also...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "It's good to be the king."
The king is dead, god bless the king
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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