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I seriously doubt that there is a true "skills gap" here. I suspect it's more like most so-called "shortages" of qualified people : the only shortages are of people willing to work at the rate those employers want to pay. There ARE plenty of people who can do the job but the employers don't want to pay the going rate for people with experience. They often throw up their hands, write their congressmen and/or immediately donate to their campaign(s), and then go the H1B route. I have seen this sequence of events first hand more than once.
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Fatal error leaves customers scrambling for fixes that can take a week or longer. It's a lock. It's locked. Where's the problem?
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The article states door-locks - in which case one has to ask whether or not one would call the carpenter for an 'update' on the door.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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C++17 offers several "big" language features that should make our code nicer. Today, I tried to pick seven things that make your code more compact right off the bat. Is one of them, "install C# or Java"?
Or "python"?
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A plague on your house!
Surprised you didn't go for "Rust" or "Javascript", the two finest languages ever. (Where was the sarcasm icon again?)
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APL? It uses fewer punctuation characters 
TTFN - Kent
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Ruby. 
Marc
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NASA and HPE are launching supercomputers into space -- using off-the-shelf hardware. Now they can figure out where they're going?
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They are being replaced by HP ZBook 15s which will run the same mix of Linux distributions and Windows 10.
I wonder how long a W10 update takes to, um, "upload" to the ISS. 
Marc
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Seeing as how the Fail Crater Update took about five hours on my machine, it might follow Skylab before they get everything patched. 
TTFN - Kent
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They still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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Star Trekking
Across the Universe
Boldly going forward
'Cause we can't find reverse
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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The atomic clock, invented in 1948, paved the way for GPS It's about time
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Lu believes Microsoft and Google “made the same mistake” of focusing on the phone and PC for voice assistants, instead of a dedicated device. "Hubris is one of the great renewable resources."
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Great quote!
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Microsoft today announced the release of the open-source .NET Core 2.0, with improved performance, 20,000 more APIs from the .NET Framework world, better cloud debugging and live unit testing. Wasn't that last week? Oh, no that was Standard. Does that mean next week is the release of .NET Menthol 2.0?
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Engineers from the nonprofit say the bot learned enough to beat Dota 2 pros in just two weeks of real-time learning, though in that training period they say it amassed “lifetimes” of experience, likely using a neural network judging by the company’s prior efforts. First they came for the chess players, but I did nothing...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the bot learned enough to beat Dota 2 pros in just two weeks of real-time learning
I write code in lieu of playing games, so...Never heard of it.
Dota 2 - Wikipedia[^]
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6 years ago Erik Meijer and I were talking about how JavaScript is/was an assembly language. Until enough people invest time into it, then "the future" will change to something else
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The main goal of DevOps is quite simple: ship software updates frequently, reliably, and with better quality. I'm going to guess 'dev'. No wait, 'ops'!
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From outside the programming world, programming languages mostly just look like programming languages—a garble of mathematical symbols dotted here and there with isolated English words. Is there a .NET port yet?
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SonicSpy family of apps pose as benign programs. Behind the scenes, they spy on users. "Be seeing you."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Be seeing you."
Here's looking at you, kid!
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It started back in 1998 as an April Fool's Day gag. Written up by Larry Masinter of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), error code 418 — "I'm a teapot" — was nothing more than a poke at the "many bad HTTP extensions that had been proposed". The response was short and stout
More proof you can't trust those Aussies!
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