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Naah, it's an intergalactic chain letter:
"Send 10^24 kilograms of Hydrogen to the first 10 star systems on the list, add your name to the bottom of the list, and forward to 6 other star systems. You will eventually receive enough Hydrogen to power your civilization until the heat death of the Universe.
Do not break the chain!
* The Klingons threw this message into their junk mail folder. Their home planet's moon exploded, devastating the planet!
* The Vulcans considered chain letters to be illogical, and their planet exploded!!!
* The Earthlings ignored the message, and their planet was demolished to make a hyperspace bypass!!!!!"
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's what she says...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Almost a year ago, we piloted the .NET Core reference documentation on docs.microsoft.com. Today we are happy to announce our unified .NET API reference experience. So you won't have MSDN to kick around much longer
You're going to miss it when it's gone
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Thank god, the .NET Core documentation was horrible before. It seems like now that they've unified everything it has all the goodies of the MSDN docs that it was missing previously.
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A broad array of Android phones is vulnerable to attacks that use booby-trapped Wi-Fi signals to achieve full device takeover, a researcher has demonstrated. Android is the new Windows, part way too many
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Another link (IMHO better): Project Zero: Over The Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 1)[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Software has shaped our lives and culture for decades, and now the United Nations will make a push to get world governments to work toward preserving it. The UN has spoken! All will follow.
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So that's what the NSA has been doing all this time! 
Don't worry guys, it's just preservation 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Don't worry guys, it's just preservation
Preservation Act 1 or 2?
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Quote: Davide Storti said:
True.
The bubble sort helped me understand how to arrange the pop bottles in my fridge (mind you, I did it descending, the first time, which made it awkward to get at the little ones).
But it never fails to amaze me how some people can just let words come out of their mouths without ever realising that they're making no sense whatsoever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system. Uhm.... math is hard.
Or 'maths are hard' if you'd rather.
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Counting stuff hurts my brainicle...
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No, "is" still works for "maths". It used to be seen as plural, but that usage is now obsolete *.
But "gets me" is definitely not an acceptable alternative. 
* Edit for clarity:
The idea that the "s" on the end of "maths" makes it plural is obsolete.
The "s" on the end of "maths" is not obsolete. We haven't conceded that one to the septics yet!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 6-Apr-17 7:25am.
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Richard Deeming wrote: but that usage is now obsolete
:raises eyebrows:
Quote: Math and maths are equally acceptable abbreviations of mathematics. The only difference is that math is preferred in the U.S. and Canada, and maths is preferred in the U.K., Australia, and most other English-speaking areas of the world.
Math vs. maths - Grammarist[^]
Now I can't comment on Britain (you may have a slightly more accurate perspective than I) but it's definitely what the cool kids still say back home in Oz.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think you've misunderstood my point. I'm not saying that maths is obsolete; I'm saying that the idea that "maths" or "mathematics" is plural is obsolete.
So "maths is hard" is correct, and "maths are hard" is obsolete.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Ah! Gotcha.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Maths is not hard. See signature !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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For instance, researchers found that the spacing of the zeros exhibits the same statistical pattern as the spectra of atomic energy levels.
OK, that's freaky.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
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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Fred Pohl would call it a "gosh"[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In the UK we would simply say "Maths is hard" (Mathematics is hard), similarly to "Mechanics is hard" or "Physics is hard".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At least 30 percent of malware today is new, zero-day malware that is missed by traditional antivirus defenses, according to a new report Mysteriously, the company producing the report has a solution you can buy
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I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Because once you go GNOME, you can never go home
Is that my coat?
Also, maybe Microsoft will take the hint that 'one OS for all devices' isn't a great plan after all.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: maybe Microsoft will take the hint that 'one OS for all devices' isn't a great plan after all
No, dammit! I want Windows on my phone! And I want a spare phone in case it's awful! But I wants it!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It took them a while to spot the gap in the desktop market, left by windows going "mobile first".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In order to drive the business’ competitive advantage, software architects need to mix three ingredients into the “evolutionary cauldron” if they want to keep up: agility, velocity, and modularity. Why, with new AgilScrumDevSecOpsML, of course!
“Stop thinking about where the business will be in three years; it’s moving too fast. Rather, refocus those energies on doing a better job on integrating data and functionality. This is the future of software architecture.”
Yes, please
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