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Clive Thompson wrote a thought-provoking piece in Wired, The Next Big Blue Collar Job is Coding. Except Assembly coders of course
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"When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag - with the goal of getting insanely rich and, as they say, "changing the world."" - Clive Thompson
Clearly the article caters to that very audience. <sigh>
/ravi
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Linky gone walkies -- I can't even find it in the page source.
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Odd, I have it in both the text and HTML versions I got. It's here[^] anyway. I know someone was looking into this for another person's email.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's [] anyway.
That's twice it's happened.
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But due to Java’s release schedule, the Object.finalize feature will likely stick around for a while. "Final answer?"
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Cybercriminals compromised more than 4 billion records last year, including credit cards, passwords, health information, and business documents. Here's how to stay safe. Of course 3B of those are people that use 'password as a password
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.... and a largely overlapping 3bn are people who thought using Yahoo was a good idea. 
Full disclosure: Sometime in the stone age I created an account for Yahoogroups that I've never been able to give enough of an elephant about to delete. 
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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TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. Just in case this is something you're worried about
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Will this help when returning to an airline web site and finding a repeated search returns a 20% higher price than 15 minutes ago?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Doubtful. That's probably the site operator either playing skeevie games with cookies, or your bad luck that in the 20 minutes they sold the last ticket they were offering at the lower price. (Every few tickets sold they increase the price of all the ones left on a flight. They've been big dataing to maximize profit/flight via overly complex pricing schemes since long before big data ever became a buzzword.)
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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Yup, let's everyone flood the Interwebs with fake requests, to hide our pr0n searches.
Why let important things have any bandwidth?
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It will send all your browser history to some ads company... 
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I rather like it's concept and tried to install it only to find out that FireFox-stable doesn't support these kind of plugins anymore, since version 52.0. I suppose I could install the ESR version which supposedly would allow me to install it for another year or so, but after march 2018 I would have to choose between having an up-to-date browser and using this plugin.
Seems like the author already encountered that issue with Chrome, since Chrome stopped supporting plugins aome time ago, which would explain why the Chrome version is stuck at 0.2 ...
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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A team of researchers at MIT and in Chicago have devised a chip-making technique that could keep Moore's Law relevant for a while longer. Won't anyone think of the poor processor smiths?
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Wow!
Soon, they'll be making wires as small as 5x10-15m in diameter, and then we'll really see some spee...
... oh.
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To be clear, I don’t think Jobs’s letter killed Flash. But I don’t think Adobe did either. "Ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that a repulsive murderer has himself been repulsively, and, perhaps deservedly, murdered."
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Is that it?
Less than 200 words?
How are we supposed to take his suppositions seriously, given that he obviously knows nothing about bloat?
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I think Google dropping Flash is what killed it. Flash didn't need any iCrap support to be able to keep going!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I vote for its instability.
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I'd have voted for fixing its instability, but hey, diff'rent strokes.
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Microsoft will start rolling out the Windows 10 Creators Update release on April 11. More granular update controls may end up being business users' favorite feature. Mark your calendars now!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mark your calendars now!
What about my calendars?
Has ms even broken them, too?
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Kite is a heads-up display (HUD) that puts an end to this context switching by surfacing “proven engineering knowledge in a live internet-connected environment.” "Oh, let's go fly a kite"
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It won't take off until they add a pokemon-catching module.
It'll be a bit cumbersome and awkward (and even dangerous), though, fixing a computer monitor to some kind of harness, so that it will stay in front of your face as you walk; not to mention that you'll also have to carry a base unit and a keyboard -- and a generator, to power it all.
Perhaps they need more research -- into the meaning of "HUD", for example.
If their code is written with keyword errors that big, it'll be an absolute disaster.
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