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I'll not sugar-coat it: that comment oat to raise some hackles from the flakes that participate in this thread.
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"Flakes in this thread" - Hah! That was a real corny comment! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Yes, CFL
Current Fruit Loop.
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Some of them still deliver Curryent Loop
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^]
The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone.
Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads
So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area? Too bad she's on an iphone - otherwise I'd do it just for the laughs.
As for my own phone, eyes getting old, hardly ever surf on the phone except maybe to check the occasional sports result I may have missed (even then max once a month - usually coz visiting boring in-laws or at some distant aunties cousins wedding that I couldn't excuse out of).
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the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area?
So that's why I'm getting those adverts...
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Hasn't Samsung already backed out of the idea of adding microphones and cameras on their TVs, as a result of researchers finding out they were essentially running all the time and publishing their findings?
It's no coincidence they dropped support for Skype on their TVs, along with anything else that requires those devices...
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reaching for some tape for my laptop web cam... 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You mean you don't do that already? 
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Earlier this day i just ordered a Nokia 216.
I´m really looking forward to it.
 
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Me and the missus were at a large box store recently, we stopped in the exercise equipment department for about 10 minutes before heading to the clothing department. Within 2 minutes of exiting the store my wife receives an email with coupons for that stores' exercise equipment. She says "wow what a coincidence!", I say "I'm glad I have my $12 flip phone". Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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jeron1 wrote: Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
It's more likely the store was spying on her phone.
#SupportHeForShe
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Quite possibly, in any case it's a bit disconcerting to me, to her not so much. We're very different in that respect.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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My phone? A Flip Phone!
My "Smart TV" has no internet access.
I'm going to go back to changing my MAC address, when browsing, more frequently.
You can keep most of the control away from THEM . . . easy habits to develop.
Or you can walk around with a dumb grin, let them do what they want . . .easy habits to develop.
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Why is there so much software like this?
Why do people still create software like this?
How do these systems still get created and implemented?
ComputerWorld -- Now THAT'S what we call a rounding error! | Computerworld[^]
Here are the snippets from the article:
Quote: "We were originally told the managers would adjust our clock in/out times if we deviated from our schedule,
Quote: Say I clock out at 4:37 p.m. -- it's rounded to 4:30.
"However, if I clock out at 4:38, then I register as getting eight minutes of comp time. Only we're not allowed to earn comp time...
Quote: "Why did they decide against having the managers adjust our times? It's too much work. It seems it takes the managers about an hour to process each person's timesheet.
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raddevus wrote: Why did they decide against having the managers adjust our times? It's too much work. It seems it takes the managers about an hour to process each person's timesheet
Huh? what does the software do then?
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Lopatir wrote: what does the software do then?
Sits at the PC and plays Freecell.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lopatir wrote: Huh? what does the software do then?
It saves time, of course.
Some people just don't get technology, I guess. 
You hit it right on with that one.
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raddevus wrote: Why is there so much software like this?
Why do people still create software like this?
How do these systems still get created and implemented?
A few other things you could replace "software\systems" with:
Children.
Governments.
Politicians.
[fill in with further more soapbox-appropriate words]
Marc
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Haha! Made me genuinely LOL!
~ G.B. Shaw When you find something funny, search it for the hidden truth!
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And here I was thinking this was going to be about floating point precision numbers.
Not sure if this was better or worse, but it's quite funny and sad at the same time (Schrödinger's joke?) / 
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I'll just be 5 minutes late in the morning and make up for it by leaving 5 minutes early... It zeroes out, right?
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I'm leaving my current employment at the end of July and I'm tasked with creating documentation for whoever has to maintain the project(s) that I have worked on. I have created some of my own documentation explaining how things work and fit together, but I'd like to create more than that.
Most of my code has comments and so far I have tried several documentation tools, but I'm not too happy with the kind of documentation they produce. A list of classes and methods is maybe Ok for API documentation, but isn't really going to help someone get to grips with the project. I'd like to have some class diagrams and it would be really nice to have some UML diagrams or maybe even some flowcharts.
For those of you that have done technical / developer documentation, how did you go about it? Any suggestions for tools to use?
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Jacquers wrote: Any suggestions for tools to use?
Your brain.
Seriously. Specialized tools are limiting. Document:
- your design decisions
- the problem(s) your code solves
- the problem(s) your code created
- 3rd party / service / whatever dependencies
If it's complicated code:
- a high level architecture diagram can be useful, but class diagrams are sort of not. Instead, diagram the interaction between objects is probably more useful
- workflows are better than classic flowcharts, which can be too low level. Who needs to actually see triangles for "if" statements?
Visio (or similar), Word (or write in HTML or markdown). Create a table of contents!
Why not specialized tools? Because those often have a steep(er) learning curve, and maintaining something with a specialized tool is sort of a mental blocker for people. The ability to take a drawing or a text/wiki/etc. annotate it with notes (particularly as the new guy learns things and wants to make notes) is soooo much more useful.
Marc
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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
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