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The algorithm is having a cultural moment. Originally a math and computer science term, algorithms are now used to account for everything from military drone strikes and financial market forecasts to Google search results. "Stagger, stagger, crawl, crawl, jump..."
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Just the other day, I actually heard someone say, "You could use an algorithm for that couldn't you?"
I replied, "Yes, you could, but I'll look for an alternative." 
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We knew this day would come. One of the major parts of our formative years on the worldwide web -- we called it that back in the day -- will cease to be. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) came to a close a few hours ago. ICQ, AIM, can we hope for Messenger or Skype to follow?
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Google announced today that it’s shutting down its high-end smartphone augmented reality platform, Tango, in order to focus on the more mass market ARCore product. They discovered it takes two
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Before debugging the code we must follow a moral code. Debugging needs a Golden Rule. A rule to remind developers of a few important facts of debugging. Submit bug reports on others as you would have them submit bug reports on you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A rule to remind developers of a few important facts of debugging
Answering with another quote (not literal and don't remember who said it)
Quote: 1st rule of debugging: Don't debug
2nd rule of debugging(only for experts): Don't debug (yet)
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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And its corollary, the Coding Golden Rule: "Just say no."
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Google’s Security Researcher Tavis Ormandy has discovered a bug in Windows 10’s Password Manager which allows attackers to steal passwords. Do they spend as much time and effort on finding bugs in Google products (Android says no)
It's patched already, BTW.
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For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. The truth is somewhere
Of course, the Pentagon probably also spent $22MM a year on coffee and muffins.
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The add-on, called Looking Glass, was intended to promote the season 3 finale of Mr. Robot that aired on Wednesday, December 13, but the whole media stunt failed miserably. They should have said they got hacked
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Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. I suppose it's better than the alternative?
Although they seem to be adding JavaScript as well.
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 Sorry, man:
Custom functions allow developers to add any JavaScript function to Excel using an add-in (http://bit.ly/2AYtNUW). Users can then access custom functions like any other native function in Excel (such as AVERAGE).
TTFN - Kent
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Another huge question that needs answered early on in the cycle not mentioned in that article is if they're going to just write python wrappers for the giant-hairy-elbonian-cluster-elephant that is the decades old COM API, or start by creating something (theoretically   ) saner and exposing an interface to that.
Dunno what I'd recommend. The former is an abomination, attempting the latter would almost certainly result in huge numbers of bizarre edge cases where the old and new APIs function differently.
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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My money's on "Abomination" 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: My money's on "Abomination"
Just one? Mine's on Abomination^3 at a minimum: (Wrapping Office COM Interop Library) * (Trying to make the latter "pythonic" but ending up with something that simultaneously fails to be a clean mapping to the COM library or even vaguely pythonic) * (Syntactic Whitespace)
OTOH Since in similar terms VBA could be expressed as: Abomination^Abomination ... (Abomination times) ^Abomination it could still end up being better than what we have at present.
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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Span<t> is a new type in .NET that enables efficient access to contiguous regions of arbitrary memory. This article introduces Span<t>, Memory<t>, and related functionality, and provides details on how they are quickly permeating their way throughout the .NET ecosystem. Or is it a data-type too far?
For those who have been waiting for this article. Oh, and there's a few other items in this special Connect(); 2017 issue of MSDN Magazine[^]
modified 15-Dec-17 13:38pm.
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I can see the benefits for those needing to deal with lots of arrays and strings.
And I can see the type of code that's going to be written using this just to mess with our heads.
I'm going back to TurtleScript.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oooh, method names that being with "Dangerous". What could possibly go wrong!?
System.ItDidntWorkException: Something didn't work as expected.
C# - How to debug code[ ^].
Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave Kreskowiak
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But what if you wanted to support data in memory that wasn’t in an array, but instead came from native code, for example, or lived on the stack and you only had a pointer and a length?
I'd use C++/CLI. Bridging the gap between native and managed code is what it was designed to do. The details in the article about Span<T> internally using a special JIT intrinsic is interesting though. I'm more interested in those details than the classes themselves. Not to say they don't have their uses of course.
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It reminds me of an episode of Happy Days - the one with the shark in it.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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It's been a good year for bitcoin investors but a terrible one for those who hoped that the cryptocurrency would become the de facto tender for the internet. How much bitcoins for leg of lamb?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How much bitcoins for leg of lamb?
35, 43, 17, 25
Think of them as poker chips ad you're playing a in high stakes game that you cannot win unless you bought in weeks ago. 
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BC's tend to rise in value, and thus, people won't spend them - they're being hoarded.
That's what one would have expected from gold in the recent years; after all, if all money is debased, precious metals rise. That slight difference may be due to the fact that there's no government involved in setting the price for BC
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Shout about bitcoin as you like. I see that I took nearly 6% over (last) night. Ok maybe a lucky shot, but I will stay tuned in the Casino 
[Edit]
And last but not least, everything tax-free 
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