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I refuse to understand what I am doing!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Not understanding at the beginning isn't a problem. If you don't understand it by the program's completion, be very scared! 
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See the second sentence in my signature
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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The programmer's first duty is to ensure his continuing employment by making sure nobody else can understand their code, and how it does what it does.
It doesn't matter if you understand the other programmer's code, or not: what is important is your absolute certainty that it must be re-written by you to be usable.Quote: If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Salvador Dali
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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That is certainly a very sensible thing.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, perhaps?) many developers, including your truly, are under the belief that writing code should be as easy to understand as possible is the way to go.
But since it defies an initial logic assessment, I am still waiting for a deeper truth to be uncovered! 
Note: I think I found it, it's competition!
While it is your interest, it is the opposite interest of your boss, hence you should do it well enough that your boss doesn't detect it or a competitor doesn't make it any more clear.
Also, when working on your own project, it's your interest to make it as simple and straightforward as possible...
Hence it is not always the case you should make it as obscure as possible... and as obscure as possible has various degrees of obscureness depending on circumstances
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You touch upon a great mystery: the necessity to make your code appear understandable, while still containing the secret ingredients which will make it maintainable/extendable only by you.
See "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1922) by Aircraftsman T. E Shaw (aka: Lawrence of Arabia) for discussion of taqiyya in Ismaili Shiism.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Researchers have developed a technique for embedding data in music and transmitting it to a smartphone. "Music speaks louder than words; when you sing, people understand."
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Maybe, one day, someone will find a way of embedding music as data. That, unlike this, would be useful.
Oh, wait...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yet, no matter what they tried, the data kept being "Paul is dead."
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Handy for a hotel to give the WLAN password in the Lounge music, so the customers don't need to enter it manually. What the hell are they thinking?
As it wasn't enough to possibly have your conversations being spied, now you can't even get data / code transferred to the phone without being able to avoid it? 
I wonder how long will it take before someone missuses this to try to install malware in the phones 
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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Roslyn, the .NET compiler platform, helps you catch bugs even before you run your code. Assuming you want to write better code, of course
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Wow!
This is great!
And it's also a first, because no company has ever made such claims before!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The problem I've run across with Microsoft's code analyzers is the number of false positives. This is compounded by a lack of clear guidance on what things are important; a lot of items in Microsoft's tool are inconsequential. (And sometimes their suggestions are bonkers, especially the ones that want you to use something extremely verbose to replace something completely legal and succinct.)
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If Intellisense is any indication this tool will be so bug-ridden it is useless.
"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 malware doesn’t steal data from a user. Instead, it hacks apps and forces them to display more ads or takes credit for the ads they already display so that the malware’s operator can profit off the fraudulent views. "I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."
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So they're only "stealing" from google, the greatest thieves in history?
Good on 'em!
More power to their elbow supports!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Security researcher Marcus Mengs discovered that the flaws are caused by Logitech dongles' outdated firmware and that they allow attackers with physical access to their targets' computers to exploit the bugs and launch keystroke injection attacks, record keystrokes, and take control of compromised systems. People with physical access to your keyboard (dongle) can enter keys?
hhhWWWWwhaaaaaat?
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I've discovered a vulnerability where someone with physical access to your device (not just electronic) can walk away with it!
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But the questipn is: Do you make money out of it?
Bluddy "researchers" are malware producers by another name -- and they all stink of sh1t.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It turns out that you don’t need a computer to create an artificial intelligence. In fact, you don’t even need electricity. My latest transparent attempt at clickbait
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Shh!
I'm struggling to get the cacodemon death animations to work on this broken wine bottle!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What does AI mean?
Whatever you want it to mean.
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Quote: “We could potentially use the glass as a biometric lock, tuned to recognize only one person’s face,” Yu said. “Once built, it would last forever without needing power or internet, meaning it could keep something safe for you even after thousands of years.”
Well, I'll just have to see about that.
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