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Ruby founder Yukihiro Matsumoto and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson offer frank feedback on the language. "When you change with every new day. Still I'm gonna miss you"
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Should have saved that for Tuesday.
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TTFN - Kent
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I would be funny if someone came out with a new language and called it Tuesday...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Today we're happy to announce TypeScript 1.4. With TypeScript 1.4, we've continued to build new features that help you work with more JavaScript patterns, create richer typings, and use new ES6 features. Now even more typey. Or is it scripty?
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The Hyperloop is nothing. Elon Musk, the man behind the high-speed train experiment, now conceives of an interplanetary Internet, according to a new report. Latency, schmatency
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Latency, schmatency
With a planned 750mi orbit vs 22000mi for a geo synchronous comsat, the speed of light latency problem mostly goes away. At geo you're looking at ~500 milliseconds for the 2 round trips needed (up and down for your request, then up and down for the servers response) from the equator. At the orbit Musk is planning the minimum is only 16ms; which while probably not as good as the 1st leg of your current ISP isn't going to be a major problem.
Musk's also hoping to make that up and then some by taking advantage of the fact that while light travels at c in a vacuum, it only travels at about .66c in a fiber. Potentially that means by bouncing a signal between several of his satellites it could be possible to beat a fiber ground link. (It's way too early for me to try and figure out how many satellites they'd need to use as intermediates in sending a message around the globe and fast they'd need to make relaying a packet for it to work out.)
The main challenge I think this would run into on the consumer end is that because LEO satellites don't maintain a fixed position in the sky, you'd need more open lines of sight to keep a connection, and a tracking antenna instead of a fixed one. And unless it was a phased array, you'd probably need two of them to avoid brief interruptions in service when switching from one satellite to the next.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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This is why I love this site.
Thank you so much for the 'splainin' 
TTFN - Kent
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Today, we released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 with new features in debugging, diagnostics, the XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 that we added after the November Preview release. While not a major release, this CTP is another opportunity for you to provide us with feedback as we make progress towards releasing. I still hope they start to make the install routine a little more customizable again. With all these releases in short time, I'm getting sick of manually removing all the features I don't need again and again. I don't do Windows Phone, I don't want all that SDK and emulator stuff I never use to sit around and eat up disk space.
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I worked in a private office once. It was in the basement. Attached to the server room. With the A/C set at 50F. And half a dozen dot-matrix printers constantly printing or asking for more fan-feed paper. 
Since then I've always been in a cube farm; they seem to work well enough, and I would not want to be in anything more open.
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I worked in a private office once, it was a demountable, in the middle of a warehouse, with no windows, and the A/C was faulty, oh yeah and there were 3 of us so I guess it was not so private.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Whilst companies employ an array of sophisticated technology to combat security risks, often the weakest link remains the person sitting in front of the screen. P.I.C.N.I.C.
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P.I.C.N.I.C
is that like 'pebkac' ?
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Yeah, but I did a search, and apparently I've used PEBKAC quite a lot (it is very appropriate). PICNIC is close ("Problem in chair, not in computer")
TTFN - Kent
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Another way to say it: problem lies between the chair and the keyboard
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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The only way to guarantee employee behavior security is to make sure the employees are addicted to only the designer-drugs the employer provides, and that withdrawal symptoms are rapid-onset, severely painful, even fatal.
from "Employee Management in the Sith," by D. Vader
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Obligatory link to Ketracel white[^], which worked fairly well like this for the Dominion.
TTFN - Kent
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Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Thanks. Fixed.
TTFN - Kent
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British Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly set to ask President Barack Obama to apply pressure to U.S. tech firms that offer fully encrypted communications, to compel them to break the encryption to aid investigations. First they came for the hashes, and I did nothing...
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While his motive seems reasonable, it's just plain stupidity!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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