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Fortunately, stones regrow like trees.
Right?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Technically speaking, Office in the Windows Store is in "preview" -- a Microsoft support article states that "while Office itself is not in preview, Office is using new install and update processes that are in preview." Now people can finally install it!
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The Python programming language has come a long way since it was first released in 1991. Today, it is quickly becoming a first-class enterprise language used in production. I didn't expect that
You know - those guys in the nice, red uniforms
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Python is a nice and clean language. I use it all the time for various infrastructure/test/configuration work and now even a web back-end.
Too bad they broke backward compatibility and made the shift from Python 2 to 3 a nightmare.
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Development platform company Sencha has released the results of a new survey carried out by Dimensional Research, looking at current attitudes and common experiences surrounding the testing of web applications. I've never seen a web application with quality issues
They are all perfectly functioning ramshackle Rube Goldberg constructions of languages being used for purposes they were never intended, or that should never have seen the light of day.
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*Reads Quip*
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Security researcher Ross Bevington showcased a presentation at BSides London that revealed how an e-cigarette could be used to attack a computer either by interfering with its network traffic or by deceiving the computer to make it believe that it was a keyboard. I told you they were bad for you
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Last line of the article: “In all cases, be wary if someone wants to plug something into your machine.”
Is that oxy or moron?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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So you're saying that something that's a generic object you plug into USB ports has all the same hazards of any other generic object that you plug into a USB port.
*shocking*
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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On cigarette boxes in Hungary: Smoking can kill.
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: On cigarette boxes in Hungary:
not only in Hungary
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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Researchers are working to create new and adapt existing software technologies to operate at exascale by overcoming challenges found in several key areas, such as resiliency, data reduction, software libraries and the management of memory, power and computational resources. I'm going to guess, "by compiling 50x faster?"
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Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it. "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Yes, likely dangerously close to the "no politics" rule, but ... yeesh, people. Couldn't you have stopped this a few years back?
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Well, at least he's doing something about it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
After having worked for the Dept of Energy, I must agree.
Jeremy Falcon
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I guess nobody told him about the Y2K38 bug[^]? 
"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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I was going to say the same... That's gonna be fun...
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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Quote: The agency didn’t provide an estimate of how much time is currently spent on Y2K paperwork, but Linda Springer, an OMB senior adviser, acknowledged that it isn’t a lot since those requirements are already often ignored in practice.
Except that it seems the burrocrats have solved the problem on their own using the standard tactics of burrocrazies everywhere. Ignore anything they don't want to do and hope no one ever asks for it. 
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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We could be just five years away from a space-based quantum communication network. Now someone will have to disentangle them
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Hopefully not a Quantum of Solace.
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Microsoft is moving Windows Server to the same semi-annual feature-update schedule as Windows client and Office 365 ProPlus are now on. Here's how this will work. Because one things sysadmins love is frequent server updates
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It is something we take for granted in every time we run a .NET program, but it turns out that loading a Type or class is a fairly complex process. "I wanna get back to Basics, just take it slow"
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He also posted it to CP: How the .NET Runtime loads a Type[^]
#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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Dammit, I even searched for it. Although, perhaps he loaded the article on CP after his blog?
Bother, and it was such a nice article. 
TTFN - Kent
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