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Goatees == evil is a trans-Universal constant. 
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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With an infinite amount of parralel universes, and we hit only a single one in 13.8 billion years.
I think most gamblers would fold on a bet like that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It means, either that the we crack the secret of the Eternals, or we reached the Infinite (as the parallels are to meat only there)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"Hey, there's a chunk of empty space, over that way. How about we come up with some stupid theory for it that will get us grants to examine it, for a few years -- I need to work on my drive and bunker shots!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds like a Schrodinger catasstrophe to me.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I'm not sure that they've successfully eliminated some of the more likely explanations, including:
1) The cold region is populated by giant space-turtles that absorb vast quantities of heat.
2) Somebody left the air-con on while the windows were open.
3) Some places are warmer than others. Djibouti, for example, tends to be a lot warmer than Finland.
4) We may not always be 100% correct when we measure temperatures in places that are billions of miles away.
5) Somebody wanted a cheap headline in the hope of getting a commission from the History Channel because academia's not really working out too well for him.
These, and several million more explanations, all seem somewhat more likely than the one offered and I'm leaning towards #5.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I originated there. BeOS was the most used OS, Internet had a security baked in from its inception and Bernie won the elections. But coffee doesn't exist there. So I left.
modified 22-May-17 18:03pm.
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I resemble that remark!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The "Intel State of Personal Technology" study examines Americans' attitudes toward personal technology and new innovations that enable better experiences. "On average, Americans surveyed report they can go 18 days without talking to their family but only 13 days without their computer." Have you met my family?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but only 13 days without their computer
And that because they do not consider smart-phones as computers... It would be 13 seconds otherwise...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Microsoft wants to clear up confusion about Windows 10 S and Linux distributions available on the Windows Store. Unless you wanted to port Linux to UWP, I guess
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Microsoft is always looking for ways to make their AI more useful and weave her more tightly into our lives. It looks like you're trying to set up your IKEA shelf. Would you like help with that?
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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Now that Silverlight is dead, I'd like to move it to some platform where I can finally put it on the web. "Assured that love is just a four-letter word"
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XAML Standard is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. Who says we don't have standards?
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Obligatory xkcd reference: xkcd: Standards[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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According to data released today by Kaspersky Lab, roughly 98 percent of the computers affected by the ransomware were running some version of Windows 7, with less than one in a thousand running Windows XP. 2008 R2 Server clients were also hit hard, making up just over 1 percent of infections. So it was created by the Windows 10 marketing team?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So it was created by the Windows 10 marketing team?
There's many true word...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lost in yesterday’s shuffle of emergency updates and regularly scheduled monthly patches was Microsoft’s announcement that it was officially cutting off SHA-1 support in Internet Explorer 11 and Edge.
A few months behind Firefox and Chrome which did the deed in January, or Safari which did it at the end of March; but with IE and Edge on board no major browser supports SHA1 hashes for TLS any longer.
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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To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed P, a programming language for modeling and specifying protocols in asynchronous event-driven applications. Did I miss languages E through O?
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According to List of programming languages - Wikipedia[^], it looks like you may indeed have missed some of those.
Only H, I, M, and N are missing.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What a terrifying list! There must be the best part of a thousand there and it doesn't include esoteric/golfing languages, markup languages or many versions of BASIC. It's hard to imagine that the list is remotely complete, either.
It may well be that somewhere in that haystack, there is the language to end all languages but would we ever know if it was there?
Let's suppose someone wakes up feeling magnificently inspired tomorrow and gets to work on a truly brilliant language. It's robust; it's intuitive; it's self-maintaining; it's devoid of all ambiguity; it's breathtakingly quick; it's completely portable; it localizes seamlessly to natural language; it's everything a programmer ever asked of a language and so much more besides - in short, this thing absolutely rocks, it's the best thing since C and it's the best part of fifty years ahead of it. After a long and wearying search, our heroic inventor manages to find a name that hasn't been used yet and announces his creation to the world. The most likely response? "Oh great, yet another bloody programming language - the queue's over there, mate."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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JustAssembly is a free and open source .NET assembly diff and analysis tool. With it, you can quickly decompile .NET assemblies and perform binary code diffs against them, all within a single interface. "There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference"
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