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The role of the chemical bit, the 'chit', can be fulfilled by a simple arrangement of three droplets in contact with each other, in which oscillatory reactions occur. Mix me up a computer then
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At 10, Scratch is a popular tool to teach kids programming. But its real glory is how it imparts lessons in sharing, logic, and hackerism. "They give me cat scratch fever."
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The Visual C++ Team is elated to announce that with Visual Studio 2017, it has substantially improved the quality of the C++ Modules TS implementation in Visual Studio, in addition to introducing ability to consume the C++ Standard Library via module interfaces. Comedy is hard: you try to make a joke about modules
Although, they completely resisted using more punctuation. Good for that.
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Did anyone else notice the article inadvertently showing why combining locale computer and web searches into a single box on the start menu is a roaring dumpster fire? Web result 6 for "visual studio installer" was "visual studio installer hangs". 
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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The site keeps alive a hidden tradition of text-based art, a visual history interwoven with that of social media. Party like it's 1977?
1988? Trying to remember when I last was on a BBS...
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Advanced attackers are using a blend of in-memory malware, legitimate pen-testing tools and a compromised updater to attack banks and tech firms, warns Microsoft. I hope the uninstaller removes it, or Microsoft will really be cross with them
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Application Guard works by creating a virtual PC that is entirely separate from all storage, other apps, and the Windows 10 Kernel, meaning that the browser should be completely impervious to malware. At least until you have to disable it to get any work done
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Security company G Data says that a new piece of Android malware is discovered every 10 seconds. At this rate, the company is predicting that there will be 3,500,000 new malicious Android files by the end of the year. If that upsets you, take a deep breath and count to 10
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The platform to replace the smartphone will be a mixed-reality device like HoloLens, says Microsoft tech guru Alex Kipman. Just throw it away. Throw it away.
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The low intensity of light indoors suits this hardware just fine. So, my LED lights can power themselves?
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How is this news?
The news was dated Oct 20, 2014 for crying out loud!  
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Be fair: He fell for an e-mail scam, and had to spend three years in the deepest, darkest forest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Vivic wrote: How is this news?
The news
You seem to answer yourself. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Transport Canada has recalled the vehicle, which is classified under the official categorical designation of “STAR WARS,” for its tendency to experience failures in “extreme cold temperatures, such as on planet Hoth or in Northern Canada.” Just in case you're still using yours
I would have thought they'd warn about harpoons as well.
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Like they say: "When yer hifalutin modern technology fails, you can still rely on yer tuantuan"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agile promises continuous improvement through an iterative process, but without proper checks, project failure is commonplace Whodathunkit?
"Projects fail due to lack of planning". Yup. Agile or no.
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The other dead-on observation, which I've seen: "...the iterative process may lead to iteratively improving, one failure at a time, towards the wrong outcome."
I've yet to see a genuine agile project actually work. The ones that seem to have worked have so much planning and upfront design that it really wasn't agile, even if they used all the words and pretended otherwise.
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In my current project I was given one line requirement topics and asked to estimate development effort. Why ? because apparently it is an "Agile" project 
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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Then the person who asked you to do that was an idiot, no matter what process is being followed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They committed a project deadline of 30th June without even a single line of spec. 
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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And guess whose fault it will be, if they miss the deadline.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The only ones on the project who actually know what agile is and isn't. 
My company is the same way. "We're an agile shop! So here is your project budget, here is the list of deliverables, and here is your delivery date. Now go be agile!"
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Wow.
So if everyone who works at a place is lazy, incompetent, and unwilling to follow establised processes, those processes won't work?
Whodathunkit indeed.
Fave quote:
Quote: “Unless you are paying close attention all the time, your agile project could easily be hurtling towards disaster without you even knowing it,”
Um, everyone paying close attention all the time is kinda the core of agile, and one of the two-and-a-half reasons why I would upvote it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You really think someone would just go on the Internet and tell lies? This is why we can't have nice things (part 2131239582)
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