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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Basildane wrote: In other news, eating rat poison might make you ill!
... or it might be the only thing keeping you alive[^] if you have the right (wrong?) health problems.
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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Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification. But I'm sure *they* would never misuse that data, right?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if iCloud is enabled
At least is something I don't have to worry about. 
M.D.V. 
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That's why I disable every Cloud-something in every product I own. Cortana, Steam cloud, Origin cloud... my data reside on my machine, Internet shortage don't cost me functionality EVER (my country has 40% of surface not covered by broadband and part of the population can't ahve the phone line either so the possibility of ending up without connection for months or years is always at the door) and noone can put its silmy hands on the data I don't explicitly share.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: Steam cloud,
This is the exception in my case. But I don't have any personal / economical data inside. I only play free games there. The few games I have bought, I installed them from CD / DVD, no need of cloud.
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But I'm sure *they* would never misuse that data, right?
I mean, in itself the feature is actually nice. Just recently bought a new phone, restored the previous phone's iCloud backup to it and instead of the call list being empty I can see all the calls made on the previous device. I would assume this is the intended scenario for the feature and not "theft". Maybe I'm just naive though. On the other hand I have just checked the backup settings and there is indeed no switch to indicate this is going to happen, which is somewhat worrisome.
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"Anything you say that can be used against you will be used against you."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google senior security engineer Darren Bilby has asked fellow hackers to expend less effort on tools like antivirus and intrusion detection to instead research more meaningful defences such as whitelisting applications. You go ahead and whitelist all the script code you allow to run on your network
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Doesn't that imply that all other apps are automatically blacklisted? Except Google's of course.
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Would openssl, bash, stagefright, java, glibc and the linux kernel itself be on the whitelist?
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Recruiters and hiring managers reveal what makes a candidate stand out -- or fall flat. Bonus #0: Use the canary-coloured paper
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From the article: "Consider getting certified"
Unless you're in IT, that's a big red flag for me. (Actually once saw a developer resume which listed the Dale Carnegie 3-day course he'd attended.)
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Pity is... that 90% of people deciding if someone get a job or not are not qualified for that, so yes... certifications do "impress" them and open more doors, even when some certifications are not more useful than to wipe your ass with them.
M.D.V. 
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I AM certified. Oh, not int THAT sense. Nevermind.
Seriously though, a Company which chooses candidates for certifications instead of experience saves me the time of scrapping them from the list of potential companies.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Bonus #1 Use Good English!
When I see a title like that, I'm not going to read the accompanying article that purports to tell me how to write something.
Are there no roof-preaders at Infoworld?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I have on my resume "microservices". At a recent interview (I got the job, BTW), they asked me about my experience with microservices. I said the truth -- I put that phrase on my resume as a kind of resume cannon fodder to attract searches, and that my experience with microservices is pretty much summed up by my architectural approaches (I refered them to my Higher Order Programming website and articles) -- small, modular components and semantic computing and that the hoopla around microservices is well, hoopla, it's actually just good architecture.
Lots of nods of agreement. 
It probably also helped that for once, the people I was interviewing with had actually perused my articles. You'd be surprised how many interviewers, when asked "did you look at my websites and my Code Project articles" answer "no."
So I think (and I might do it on my blog) there should be a list of do's and don't's for interviewers beyond the usual discrimation questions they're not supposed to ask.
Marc
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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Marc Clifton wrote: there should be a list of do's and don't's for interviewers beyond the usual discrimation questions they're not supposed to ask.
indeed. And some of them should show a certification in interviewing skills 
M.D.V.
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In releasing Dash to the open-source community, Popescu implicitly bared his developer soul in the form of code. "There's so much that we need to share. So send a smile, and show you care"
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The man has never come across an linear search of an array, never mind post 1950's constructs like maps or dictionaries? That if statement is truly shocking. I would discipline a working coder for making it.
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It's a perfectly good bit of code and would work with 100% reliability with the addition of the following:
&& DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Tuesday && DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay == TimeOfDay.Morning && Wind.Direction == WindDirection.Following
Slogans aren't solutions.
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"But Dash did ship, and it does work."
What more can you ask for from one guy, doing everything himself?
Now it's open source, the hundreds upon hundreds of hours required to take care of tidying up the "rushed" code are available.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Udacity Blitz is made up of Blitz teams that build mobile apps, web apps, websites, data services, and more for companies that need to stay relevant in today’s digital world. Get my app built by all those highly trained bootcamp graduates? How can I lose?
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Stephen Hawking thinks our days are numbered — unless we find a new planet to live on. Bad news for all of you planning on living 1001 more years
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