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Yeah, I'm nearly 54 years old (next Saturday) and I've always worked under the assumption that Social Security will have been bled dry before I collect a penny. Sad but probably true.
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I'm 62 (now) and it will likely bleed dry soon after I start collecting... if the Equifax hackers don't get to it first.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Mike Mullikin wrote: 32 years in my corporate 401K has done amazingly well.
Aye, unfortunately I was too stupid and too ignorant in my youth (um, that means my entire life) to put a little of each paycheck into the market or other places that have a track record of consistent improvement over the long haul. 
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A “quantum satellite” sounds at home in the James Bond franchise, but there really is a satellite named Micius with some truly quantum assignments. CAT DEAD STOP MAYBE STOP NOT FUNNY STOP
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Code can be redundant for a variety of reasons ranging from unused variables to incomplete changes and abandoned development. News from the Department of Redundancy Department
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As simple heuristic for this would be to look for code between a /* and a */ in many languages it's reasonable to assume that code is no longer needed.
Now can I get an article written up about my work on a bottom tier news site and linked to here?
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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And how are you sure that it is obsolete code and not an explanation, comment or something useful?
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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My algorithm says its junk.
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 the first stemming from the LHC's publicly available results. More eyes make all particles shallow?
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Now, Google is pledging to show all subscription news hits in search, allowing publishers to choose how many (if any) articles they provide for free through the search engine, without any impact on search result position.
Are they trying to drive me to Bing? Because polluting my results with useless links is how you drive someone to your competition. 
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 a smart business strategy. Because then you get the milk for free?
Yes, it's a re-packaged Quora question, but an interesting answer (IMO).
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This new faster update pace will dispense with service packs. Because that's what DBAs have been begging for - more time with the SQL Server installer
One of the slowest I've seen
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You have got to be joking, an update to the database server takes months of planning and some serious testing before it goes ahead. So we will constantly be 2-5 service packs behind as they have not been tested thoroughly.
And don't give me any bullshit about trusting MS to do adequate testing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: And don't give me any bullshit about trusting MS to do adequate testing.
That's was low! Very low! How dare you!!! 
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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A year ago, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update finally brought extensions support to Microsoft Edge, and there are now over 70 extensions for the new browser on the Windows Store. Riiiiiight
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A look at a few consistent themes that unite the work of product management across job titles, industries, business models, and company sizes. "Sittin' in the la la, waitin' for the ya ya"
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Ha! Just posted a Lee Dorsey song to FB last week. Always loved his voice.
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A prospective employer asks for your current salary. What do you do? "We want information..."
Yeah, Facebook. Sorry, but that's where he put it.
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Option 4: ridicule the prospective employee for mistaking me for a janitor.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Speaking to Bloomberg in a somewhat wide-ranging interview, Satya Nadella made an interesting statement on the size of the Windows ecosystem. What's a couple hundred million, here or there?
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Mars Climate Orbiter is just one of a very long list of projects that failed due to an extremely silly programming mistake; it can be used as another example that verifies the fact that proving any piece of software to be completely bug free and fully tested consists an impossible task. My job is done then
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The publication means that each individual version of the company’s firmware kernel is now available online for anyone to download, inspect, and interrogate to find out more about how macOS and iOS are put together at the lowest kernel level. There you go, now you can build your own iPhone
Some assembly required
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I suppose that we will soon have a wave of mac- and iExploits
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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Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. "I’m not Wintermute now"
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