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Reuters, who are obviously very concerned about data privacy, say: By clicking Accept [the only button available], you agree to our use of cookies for the purposes listed in our Cookie Consent Tool.
... And then do not provide a way of accessing their "Cookie Consent Tool".
"Physician, heal thyself"?
"Let he who is without sin?"
The European ruling is bang on, and a damned good step toward depowering the ridiculously over-powered fb.
However, Reuter's interpretation of how they themselves should obey the law is (as it all-too-often is) mind-blowingly wrong.
Their support will be a great plus for opposers of the law.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The European ruling is bang on, and a damned good step toward depowering the ridiculously over-powered fb.
Agree
Mark_Wallace wrote: However, Reuter's interpretation of how they themselves should obey the law is (as it all-too-often is) mind-blowingly wrong.
Agree too
Mark_Wallace wrote: Their support will be a great plus for opposers of the law.
Sadly you are right again 
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About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit that contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers. What makes it worthy of note is that he remarks that the floppy driver is now orphaned. Now what are we going to use as a Save icon?
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Linus should have waited until December, 22nd for the 50 year patent anniversary before submitting the commit.
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You keep track of these patents? 
TTFN - Kent
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When asked:Kent Sharkey wrote: Now what are we going to use as a Save icon?
Torvalds replied: Linux is about making computers work, not about icons. Talk to Nadella.
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Microsoft has you covered - I heard there's going to be a variant of Clippy that looks like a marsupial, and has a floppy disk peeking out of a pouch.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
"It looks like you've typed three letters. Would you like to save?"
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An early draft of the document calls on governments, companies and citizens to make the web accessible to all. And it requires your feedback. "More what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "More what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules."
Either way there will be a lot of entities / people doing what they want instead of what they should 
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I open my all-seeing eye.
It sees that the "contract" will end up being so full of intentionally confusing garbage and intentionally polysemantic statements that it will be completely useless.
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It flew. It really did. On Thursday night, SpaceX's stainless steel Starship prototype took to the skies for the first time. Hippity hoppity, goes StarHopper
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Spacex has confirmed that they will not be siting launch pads in Rotterdam after Brexit.
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What I want to talk about is something I see in a lot of code that drives me up the wall: identifiers that are too damn long. Right, back to single character variable names!
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I agree with him, but I still prefer a long variable name over one where its meaning might be ambiguous.
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The guy is right, but that comment "back to single character" is wrong.
I see from the code produced by my colleagues that it is too complicated for them to find good names.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Let's be real, eh?
"Thinking up unique identifiers" != "Performing rocket surgery"
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On the C++ team we’ve heard loud and clear from users that build times are a pain point. Blink and you're linked!
Assuming your blinking is still pretty slow
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Blink and you're linked!
Assuming your blinking is still pretty slow
It's rabbit in the headlights time...
Dry eyes
Burning like fire
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AI and advanced analytic tools are present in most enterprises, but so are data silos and spreadsheets. Long after we're gone, the cockroaches will still be running Excel
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Are they the same executives that fire a developer because he / she didn't change the color of the icon to cyan?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Long after we're gone, the cockroaches will still be running Excel
Like cockroaches, Excel spreadsheets can survive a nuclear blast.
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Quote: Forty-six percent of executives see AI as an important initiative over the coming years.
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This is where the opportunity is for data analytics and AI proponents -- education, training, and simply focusing on helping business leaders work outside of their comfort zones.
Talk about utopian drivel. AI will come to the pointy hairs only by way of being taught to output data in Excel format. 
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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