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Eh, doesn't surprise me. They stopped listening to people after 3.5 I feel. 4th edition was garbage and I haven't looked much into 5th edition yet. I just play PathfinderRPG (a revamp of 3.5) with some rules modded back to 3.5. Also the Giant In the Playground[^] forum has already come up with excellent online rules they've been using for years. The official digital edition is a bit behind the times.
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My son, who is a great DM, really likes 5th edition. I'm also surprised they are getting on the bandwagon so late, especially since there's numerous sites like roll20 out there.
Marc
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I'll have to check out 5th edition. I heard they moved away from 4th's board-game-esque combat system which was one of the things I disliked about 4th. I still like 3.5's level of customization which I don't think they brought back but house-ruling a combination of 3.5 and 5 could be a fun adventure.
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I wonder if the licensing terms for the DND based RPGs they did back in the day got in the way of them being able to make an official play online product.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It’s summertime here at IEEE Spectrum, and that means it’s time for our fourth interactive ranking of the top programming languages. They're engineers, so it must be correct. Right?
I'm sorry, but a list of top languages with Forth only at #47? For shame!
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I read the most used language in programming was profanity. Seems to be missing on the list.
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Sometimes people have a very hard time debugging. Mostly, these are people who believe that in order to debug a system, you have to think about it instead of looking at it. I know none of you need this skill, but you might know someone who does
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Pretty obvious stuff. But he's correct: the right answer is "I don't know" and "I'll go look at ... and figure it out."
#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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Hmmm.
Sometimes people have a very hard time debugging. Mostly, these are people who believe that in order to debug a system, you have to think about it instead of looking at it.
The thing I do when faced with a bug that looks like those nasty things in colorized electron microscope images is think about it. Because there is no easy answer to:
Debugging is accomplished by gathering data until you understand the cause of the problem.
These are bugs caused not so much by data but by threading issues, workflow problems, lack of understanding the underlying tech, etc. Yes, there's a "data gathering" aspect in the broad sense of the term, but I've found that the really gnarly bugs are solved best by sleeping on the problem -- relaxing the mind, imagining the processes involved and how they interact, and coming up with some ways to simplify the problem down to a testable scenario that verifies the bug.
Marc
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Quote: When you start debugging, realize that you do not already know the answer.
Self-rerential platitude.Quote: However, most of the time, you will spend hours, days, or weeks guessing the answer and trying different fixes with no result other than complicating the code.
Ludicrous extrapolation from fantasized worst case to modal case.Quote: But getting back to the process of debugging itself, what should you do? Guessing is a waste of time, imagining reasons for the problem is a waste of time—basically most of the activity that happens in your mind when first presented with the problem is a waste of time.
Nonsense.
I wonder if this erstwhile pundit has heard the words "work-around" ?
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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However, I've often witnessed other developers go into a manic "let me try this" mode of debugging, and have had to stop myself from doing the same often enough. So he does have a point.
Marc
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A vulnerability codenamed Devil's Ivy is putting thousands of Internet-connected devices at risk of hacking. Stop me if you've heard this one before...
Oh, SOAP? Yeah, never trust that protocol, or anyone that promotes it.
I miss those days. 
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Thousands of intelligent devices can be linked using the network. I'm sure the hackers can barely wait
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and with the recently posted article showing the hole. I can tell you, very few embedded guys think about buffer overflow attacks.
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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People can detect a fake image of a real-world scene only 60 percent of the time, and even then can only tell what is wrong with the image 45 percent of the time, according to new research. That PhotoShop box image? Totally fake.
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The story of the agency is well-known, which is that the space program may suffer irreversible consequences if any of its software is incorrect, among them death. The shock of that reality has allowed them to develop a certain attitude towards programming. It could be instructive to take a look at what they value. Because they *are* rocket scientists
Yeah, one "naughty" word in the article. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. I know it's probably the first time you've encountered that word at work.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I know it's probably the first time you've encountered that word at work.
Anyone working under a manager knows that word! 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Anyone working under a manager knows that word!
Oh dear, I used to believe that the two letters of the abbreviation stand for Business Speak... What a revelation!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: I used to believe that the two letters of the abbreviation stand for Business Speak...
I think they are synonymous.
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
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Said "word" also useful when working over a manager, imho.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Everyone with more than a week's experience knows about bovine special high intensity training. 
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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Microsoft recently explained its Windows PowerShell roadmap plans, which will increasingly focus on PowerShell Core, going forward. So... "Core" is the new "Active"?
Coming soon, Notepad Core on the new Windows Core, definitely not from Apple.
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I guess they don't want Apple to register Apple Core; which would be dumb since you throw the core away.
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Chances of developing irregular heartbeat – atrial fibrillation – spikes up considerably with working more than 55 hours a week, research shows "Life is not a sprint; it's a marathon"
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Following its job hunting initiative announced back at Google I/O, the company today released a new tool to help small to mid-sized businesses recruit talent. Hire people like Google does?
Or does it just do a search and find all their ridiculous FB posts and LinkedIn lies?
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