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Current programmers should adopt several attitudes that early mainframe developers considered an essential part of their skillsets. Don't shuffle the cards before submitting?
Learned that one the hard way.
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It’s not about refactoring: Optimize up front
Finally, someone with some common sense. 
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Write bug free code
Now why did I never think of that!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Oh those are really great ideas!
I like to provide users with a non-usable command-line interface.
And maintenance programmers with code highly optimized for non-readability.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Modern software development costs are a fraction of what they cost back in the 70s so isn't relevant to today. I'm sure there's not a single developer who is aware of the costs they incur doing their jobs.
With today's modern compilers, unit testing frameworks, testing tools etc it is getting easier to write more robust code with fewer defects. I don't think there's a single developer who consciously sits down and thinks "I really must add some more bugs to my code". Surely this just goes without saying.
However, I think optimising up front is a good thing. By aiming for efficient code, you need to design for it, as oposed to just writing code from day one that sucks and refactoring later (if you ever get the chance to go back that is).
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Owners of iPhones and iPads who install the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system will find that some older apps will stop working. Progress!
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Message to Apple Fan-Boys:
"We're Apple. We don't give a damn. We don't have to." *
* Just shut up and buy another phone
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Message to Luddites:
"Don't comment on technologies you don't understand"*
*Just shut up
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Good thing.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Researchers have devised malware that can jump airgaps by using the infrared capabilities of an infected network's surveillance cameras to transmit data to and from attackers. Beware cameras that wink at you?
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Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to create a program that, combined with existing tools, figured more than a quarter of the passwords from a set of more than 43 million LinkedIn profiles. Oh great, now AI is going for the hacker's jobs
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And the machines will ask for what? Spare parts? (as ransom)
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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More RAM? A shinier box?
TTFN - Kent
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article said: On some sites, these programs have guessed more than 90% of passwords.
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I can't believe people are still making up their own "strong" passwords.
I've open sourced the code, people. The apps are free. Please, just get the thing and try it.
No more making up passwords.
Sheesh. 
modified 19-Sep-17 15:01pm.
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Dear Jeff, Tim, and colleagues,
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So we'll keep fighting to fight to keep the web free and open. We'll keep suing the US government to overturn the laws that make DRM so toxic, and we'll keep bringing that fight to the world's legislatures that are being misled by the US Trade Representative to instigate local equivalents to America's legal mistakes.
We will renew our work to battle the media companies that fail to adapt videos for accessibility purposes, even though the W3C squandered the perfect moment to exact a promise to protect those who are doing that work for them.
We will defend those who are put in harm's way for blowing the whistle on defects in EME implementations.
It is a tragedy that we will be doing that without our friends at the W3C, and with the world believing that the pioneers and creators of the web no longer care about these matters.
Effective today, EFF is resigning from the W3C.
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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Well done EFF. But I fear it's pissing against the wind. I liken the Internet up until recently to the Wild West of old, but now the power-brokers with money (and bigger guns) are moving in to carve it up. It won't be long before national firewalls such as China's are the norm, and privacy is all but eradicated. Yes, a few will find ways to circumvent things, but by and large the single open free Internet is dying.
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Good for them for having the courage and morality to stand up to the corporate scumbags. I salute you, EFF.
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If you want a copy of DRM data to try to disassemble it to improve security, but a copy.. don't call it 'research' so you can get a 'free' copy.
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The design industry needs a new way to talk to users–one that isn’t just friendly, but respectful. "Burn them. Burn them all!"
OK, maybe I need to work on the 'respectful' bit a little.
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Don't care for "friendly" myself. I got work to do.
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According to the old Microsoft UX design guidelines, one would not be kind but concise, clear and to the point. The more text a MessageBox contains, the less time I spend reading it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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And that's the place to read about UX???
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You need to tell the users what they want, but in a way that they will afterwards think it was their own idea.
BREAKING FAKE NEWS: Trump told the truth!
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The Visual Studio debugger is an enchanting creature that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is bursting with tools that can make debugging easier… if you know they exist, and where to find them! Oh, where has that Function Breakpoint been all my life?
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3. Show parameter values in the Call Stack
I can see the usefulness of this one
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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