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What happened to Felipe Peréz? One theory suggests he was abducted by a sophisticated organized crime syndicate, and then forced into a hacker brigade that builds and services the cartel’s hidden, backcountry communications infrastructure. They’re the Geek Squads to some of the biggest mafia-style organizations in the world.
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Companies are slow to switch out trusted databases, but NoSQL is having an impact. Matt Asay explains. SELECT * FROM databases WHERE hype>roof
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All of the materials (videos, programming in Scratch, and lesson plans) are freely available online, so parents—whether homeschooling or not—and kids with a lot of initiative can check out the lessons themselves. "Teach your children well"
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In the upcoming Linux 4.0, you may never need to reboot your operating system ever again – or at least, hardly ever. "Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
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One of the bigger announcements to come out of today's Microsoft GDC event was that cross-platform gaming is going to include cross-buy, a service that allows people to buy a compatible game once and then play it across all of their devices. Assuming that game is FreeCell
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A group of software companies this week proposed a set of development standards for enterprise apps that could make it easier for IT to manage and secure Android and iOS apps using popular EMM products. "I don't share your greed, the only card I need is the Ace Of Spades"
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But the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Microsoft is finally letting developers build apps for the Xbox One. While the software maker has had a private SDK since the console's launch, that will start to go a lot more public today. Next stop: your own Halo franchise
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This showed up in my CP Daily News:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2891140/study-finds-that-refactoring-doesn-t-improve-code-quality.html[^]
So - we have a study in one country at one school by one "research" group on one application with only a small sample of testers.
And this gets published as though it were worth something?
Perhaps a New topic heading in the Daily News: "Stop Embarrassing Yourself"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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We probably could have at least one article a day that's mockable, yes. Especially editorial pieces, of course.
TTFN - Kent
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If you do not provide at least one mockable a day worthy of obloquy, then your tenure as Oxpecker [^] at CodeProject is ... I'm sorry to have to say this ... redundant.
Without a continuous parade of foolishness located elsewhere, how else can we fluff ourselves in the mirror of our own technical excellence, and logical perspicacity, and revel in schadenfreude ?
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"<</font>
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I thought "oxpecker" meant something totally different. 
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Well, I think it's one for the birds.
«To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"<</font>
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We probably could have at least one article a day that's mockable, yes.
"could"
"one"
Quote:
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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Well the article violates the fundamental principles of Software Development. So the researchers selected a small-scale application (about 4,500 lines of C# code), unless it's a throw away type of software, it's a different matter.
In reality, the refactoring is something which happens in general and that's how we maintain software. How could one refactor the code without even having a knowledge on what they are doing. Are they kidding?
Ranjan.D
modified 4-Mar-15 15:26pm.
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I don't think it's Kent's intention to only post dead serious news here 
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Whaaaaaaaa?
I thought everything I posted was life-changing, critical information?
Now I have to re-examine my whole paradigm.
TTFN - Kent
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Sorry, Kent
Kent Sharkey wrote: Now I have to re-examine my whole paradigm.
Sure you don't want to refactor it?
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manchanx wrote: Sure you don't want to refactor it?
Ah, that trick doesn't work. (I read that somewhere.)
TTFN - Kent
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As that entry was only a few links down, you could have put this discussion onto the relevant story rather than kicking off a whole new thread.
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Yet another web site where leaving a comment would require authorising them to hoover my contacts.
I think I'll avoid that.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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But 88 percent report of hiring managers report that it's "very difficult" or "somewhat difficult" to find qualified candidates. The only problem: they want the 'free as in beer' employees
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That's "qualified" as in "a qualified statement".
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I would think I'd be getting tons of calls on this, I've been using Linux-salve for quite some time.
It's almost taken care of my Rash of Windows.
Come on! You people are stingy with your upvotes!!!!
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In this blog post I’ll walk you through some tips you can use to improve the performance of your debug sessions and include instructions for how you can provide feedback that will help us improve the areas that matter most to you. Debugging? Funny word. What does it mean?
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