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Malware that stole contacts, audio, location and more was under development for years. But I can't get budget to get a feature added
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It is challenging enough for developers to make their code work. But software has to be more than functional. It has to be secure, accessible, and actually reflect what users want. If you need to get developers to provide something beyond the basics, try these motivational techniques. This blurb written by AI (based on previous blurbs)
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So, after being fed a few million lines of my code, it would appropriately come up with:
Private Class AnyOldCrapThatComesToMind
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Let me know when it can predict the winners of sporting events at a 99% rate.
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If they had that, they wouldn't be writing about it 
TTFN - Kent
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51% winning rate is all you really need.
#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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Like me walking through a strange forest can predict a few meters, so can AI. Call us when it predicts and codes an entire project.
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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It is challenging enough for developers to make their code work. But software has to be more than functional. It has to be secure, accessible, and actually reflect what users want. If you need to get developers to provide something beyond the basics, try these motivational techniques. Nothing but gin, work tickets, and the lash
Or something like that
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I read about a third of a brilliant book, recently, on the topic of how using "motivation" techniques is a complete waste of time.
Well, I say it was brilliant, because the core rationalisation was brilliant -- but the implementation was cr@p (it certainly didn't deserve a book-length text), so I couldn't find enough motivation to read the whole thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, I'm no management expert, but I always find that when dealing with people, "pleases" and "thank yous" tend to be far more effective than bull***t.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Making the code work is a minor barrier to success. The hardest part of it is to make the application uable by the target audience, with as little training as is necessary.
Make it work.
Make it secure.
Make it usable for the target audience.
".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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How ironic. The author states:
Quote: Yet, developers are already under stress, with plenty of barriers that make it difficult to put code into production.
and yet nowhere is there a recommendation to reduce stress and barriers (like inane paperwork, firecall procedures, and archaic SDLC apps) to get code into production.
Latest Article - Azure Function - Compute Pi Stress Test
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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By synchronizing brainwaves, this therapy reversed age-related memory decline Anyone know where I can get a couple of cups of "gentle brain stimulation"?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Anyone know where I can get a couple of cups of "gentle brain stimulation"?
Will a mallet and a couple of aspirin do?
It works for insomnia, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nah, I get that daily and it doesn't seem to help.
TTFN - Kent
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That's because you've been hitting your head with the aspirin and eating the mallet.
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Dang. I never get that order right. It's like my investing strategy - "buy high, sell low"
TTFN - Kent
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"If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI Just like the EU {/sarcasm} and :eyeroll:
Not an attempt at Soapboxing, I just find the EU government opaque, but that might be because I'm not in it.
Mind you, I find the Canadian government kind of opaque as well.
Dang. I am in Soapbox territory, aren't I?
Sorry.
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Well, you currently have a choice of two types of governmental behaviour, which are in diametric opposition:
0. One that acts a bit like a nanny to the general populace, and tries to make sure that corporations don't do whatever the F*** they like to people with whatever they can get their hands on.
1. One that's like the one with a certain person living in a certain-coloured house.
I know which I prefer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Let’s examine how the enterprise stalwart and JavaScript upstart stack up in the battle for the server room Something seems missing from this "epic battle"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Something seems missing from this "epic battle"
Hm.
You mean, like, epicness and any sign of a battle?
You might be on to something, there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Something seems missing from this "epic battle"
Dragons and White Walkers?
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USB storage devices will be easier to remove but will become slower. Because no one has time to wait to "Safely" remove them
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Well, of course!
Delayed write was a bloody good idea, but good ideas are not The Way of the Future!
But this caught my eye:zdnet sad: crucial PowerPoint slides
Um... yeh.
That's about the most important stuff that people do at work, isn't it?
It's like hollywood, where they believe that all anyone ever does at work is pitch ideas.
Fruggin' morons.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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