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I didn't realize MS had brought back the famed Must Consult Someone Else certificate. I'd assumed that set of letters was permanently dead due to the overwhelming amount of sarcasm directed at 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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Dan Neely wrote: Must Consult Someone Else certificate
Well, they resurrected the Must Consult Someone Dead certificate... 
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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For over two decades now, software testing tool vendors have been tempting enterprises with the promise of test automation. How are you going to automate customers finding bugs?
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All those points are valid, but miss the main one... Test automation can test only those use-cases you had think of, but end users have more creative ways you ever imagine...
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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This is why mathematics-based technology like TLA+ is going to be big in the future once it matures I believe. Once it does unit testing will only be necessary to ensure the implementation in code adheres to the logical specification.
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The latest Wikileaks release reveals the agency has been doing it for years. Maybe they change change the password from the default while they're in there?
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Too obvious. 
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Isn't that a prototype of the Dynabook?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I thought Moses had this down a few thousand years ago.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Fred Flintstone had this way before Moses.
"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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More info on the substance[^]
Not exactly eco-friendly, as it uses HDPE.
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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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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