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Marc Clifton wrote: Unit tests do not prove that my code works, it only proves that it passes the tests I wrote.
Then write better tests.
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Researchers have built a true random number generator that they say could improve the security of printed and flexible electronics. That's great, but how do I roll them to see if I hit the dragon?
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Kaspersky is withdrawing its European antitrust complaint against Microsoft today. Now it can concentrate on the other legal issues it's involved in
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Long the gold standard for bragging rights about your blazing broadband speeds, Speedtest.net has plenty of data to work with. I need a better connection
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A Password Power Rankings survey out today from password manager Dashlane shows that 46 percent of consumer sites, including Dropbox, Netflix, and Pandora, and 36 percent of enterprise sites, including DocuSign and Amazon Web Services, are failing to implement the most basic password security requirements. And banks seem to be the worst
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That's because they keep following other's advice rather than doing it right.
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Password quality meters that give a thumbs up to "Pa$$w0rd!" - aka every one I've seen and sworn at - are an anti-feature and should count as a fail not a pass.
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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Researchers have developed the next step in microbial fuel cells (MFCs): a battery activated by spit that can be used in extreme conditions where normal batteries don't function. I spit on your batteries! (to be helpful)
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Playing first-person shooter video games causes some users to lose grey matter in a part of their brain associated with the memory of past events and experiences, a new study by two Montreal researchers concludes. And really bad for the life of your W-A-S-D keys.
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Now I know why I keep on forgetting things !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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A sound IT architecture keeps your company’s technology strategy humming. From kludges to manual re-keying to redundant apps, these are the telltale indicators of an IT environment on the brink of collapse. Hurrah! I did catch them all!
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More than one "source of truth" (data store) is an absolute killer in my opinion.
(So much of my professional life has been wasted keeping databases or domains in synch)
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Yes, and now they think it's so easy that they don't need you for it. 
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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Woohoo!! I'm 9 for 9. Batting a thousand.
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Google is launching a new initiative to help reduce annoying advertisements online. All of them?
I'd really just like to see Taboola and OutBrain disappear from the known universe.
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If its not Google's add, its an annoying add? 
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: All of them?
No, just the ones that question its left-wing ideology.
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Quote: "Instead of pop-ups, publishers can use less disruptive alternatives like full-screen inline ads", Spencer suggests.
Wait what?!!!! Full screen overlays are worse than popups; in being harder for my blocker to kill, in being harder to manually clean up if they leak through, and in interrupting what I do instead of leaving a mess to get rid of later.
If this is typical of the advise Google's giving I see my blocker getting worked even harder in the future.
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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Today we are announcing the release of the PowerShell Module Browser, an easy, predictable way to search all Microsoft PowerShell modules and cmdlets. Great news for that guy that likes PowerShell
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1. Seems that "all Microsoft PowerShell modules and cmdlets" is missing some, um, Microsoft modules and cmdlets. For example Exchange and Active Directory. 
2. Yet another tool that offers the facility to find a command that you already know the name of. Doesn't particularly help find commands by subject area.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You can now start producing .NET Standard 2.0 libraries and NuGet packages. Please use Visual Studio 2017 15.3 to produce .NET Standard 2.0 libraries. Now twice as standard!
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That's what I call an exacting standard !
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This table tells a lot - [^]
Not only makes me excited about the platforms already support this, but also tells what Microsoft thinks about UWP, Windows Phone and Silverlight...
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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Well Silverblight is dead, Windows Phone is dead too (the win10 version is merely pining for the fjords, but AFAIK runs UWP). I'm curious what the story with UWP is, but wouldn't be surprised if it comes down to being frozen between OS updates.
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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