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raddevus wrote: Since this post is trying to lead somewhere
I cannot influence whether you perceive this post as "leading," or not.
All I can say is that my intent was to share information, and I trust you, as an intelligent adult person, will form your own opinions.
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Tens of thousands of developers using weak credentials to secure their npm accounts inadvertently put more than half of the npm packages (JavaScript libraries and tools) at risk of getting hijacked and used to deploy malicious code to legitimate applications that use them in their build process. It's not like anyone depends on them or anything
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Oh the joys of open source components.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Oh the joys of open source components.
I completely agree. Only Windows is secure.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: Only Windows is secure
Too subtle. Many readers will not pick up on this. 
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There are a lot of open-source products out there that don't have that problem. You're trying to pin this to open-source, where the average programmer is using Windows and VS, downloading a long list of packages and scripts that they "need".
Joel Spolsky already warned about dependencies. This is simply the price you pay for using unverified code.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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dplyrXdf began as a simple (relatively speaking) backend to dplyr for Microsoft Machine Learning Server/Microsoft R Server’s Xdf file format, but has now become a broader suite of tools to ease working with Xdf files. "How else would you pronounce it?"
Normally I'd save this for the Trending Tech newsletter, but with that file name, I had to include it for all to see.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: dplyrXdf "How else would you pronounce it?"
"Throat Warbler Mangrove"?
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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Windows 10 is a work in progress. Each new feature update adds additional functionality to the operating system, but it also often removes features for one reason or another. It has a media player?
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I still use Winamp for audio, VLC for video. Now if they'd just get rid of Groove.
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Great, so I wasted one of my wishes on that!
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Along with programming skills, the ability to write—and verbally convey ideas, processes and qualifications—is near the top of almost any company’s list of desirable qualifications. I wonder if there is any place one could practice their writing skills?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: wonder if there is any place one could practice theirone's writing skills?
FTFY 
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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Kent was just helping us practice our writing skills with an obvious error. 
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/shrug
The Official CP Style Guide permits the use of the singular they[^] 
And thank you for the fix. 
TTFN - Kent
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Some Microsoft fans are taking the cancellation of Groove Music Pass as the biggest sign yet that the company is shifting its focus away from making technology for consumers, and exclusively towards the lucrative market for selling software and services to businesses. "You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me"
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To me, the native music decoder in Windows generates inferior sound quality to my ears, compared to many third party decoders, since the early days of Windows. It looks like (to me) they had intentionally dumbed down the quality. I had checked (and compared) it last month that it hadn't changed in Windows 10. Maybe my perception sound is not like others ... If it is the case then it is not Microsoft's fault. Otherwise, one may find it not a surprise that their Music line of products to be not popular ...
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The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe – protons, neutrons and electrons – unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space. All those mis-matched socks?
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People who are miserable on Monday have lots of company. It’s the worst day of the week for millions, according to researchers at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center who analyze Twitter messages for happiness sentiment. Was the head researcher Garfield?
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Since I became self employed I have embraced Mondays and feared Fridays.
Monday means two things to the self employed:
5 days to finish the puzzles that are dropped on my desk and a new week of financial potential.
Fridays mean I have one day to wrap it all up or someones gonna be less than enamored
with me and there are two days of sitting around making no money or headway.
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I remember the self employed days differently, Monday I could start chasing the invoices (not my favourite pastime) and filling the work funnel, Fridays I could look forward to 2 days of productive work actually earning some money.
The only great thing was that I worked from home 95% of the time and could take time out to hassle the kids on a regular basis.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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