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.net 2 should be enough for anybody.
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Something, old something new. Kotlin and C are the two candidates that have what it takes to become the programming language of the year, according to the latest TIOBE index. They give out a prize for "It's not Java" now?
modified 19-Dec-17 16:08pm.
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For the past 24 years, the Royal Statistical Society has published a wickedly difficult Christmas quiz to entertain puzzle fans over the festive break – and this year’s challenge, set by Dr Tim Paulden, may well be one of the toughest yet. Cracking the thirteen problems below will require a blend of general knowledge, logic, and lateral thinking skills – but, as usual, no specialist mathematical knowledge is needed. Because we all need a little distraction about now
I just think it's a kicker that there's actually a website for Stats Life. Now I'm picturing a bunch of mohawked statisticians in cut-off jean jackets.
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Attackers bypass HTTPS encryption protection by registering new TLS certificate. Mental note: add to 'security firms not to hire' list
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Apple is being sued for its App Store logo by a Chinese clothing brand called Kon that has a similar logo We're trademarking triangles now?
"Kon is a clothing brand founded in 2009 based on the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK". Because nothing says 'Anarchy' like suing someone.
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Apparently, the letter 'i' wasn't good enough.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We're trademarking triangles now?
When applied against the jerks that sued over a patent for "rounded rectangles"...yes.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Blockchain development is the second-hottest skill in the job market today, growing more than 200% since this time last year. "Fashion, turn to the left. Fashion, turn to the right"
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And all this time I thought there was only miner growth in the blockchain industry...
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Ouch. I hope that one hurt you as much as it did me.
TTFN - Kent
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You can't run a Hype Train without a conductor...
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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A word of caution: Never, ever run any of these on a production system. They will harm your system. Don’t try this at home! Don’t try it at the office, either. Just a reminder that April 1 is only a few months away
Start planning those "amusing" command aliases now.
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Quote: rm -rf /
Want to ruin a Linux system in no time flat? You can't beat this classic "worst command ever." It deletes everything—and I mean everything—from your system.
The good news is that it doesn't complain about another process having the files locked 
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More subtle is rm -rf .*
This achieves the same thing as rm -rf / but to the unwary looks like its only going to remove the hidden files and directories in the currrent directory.
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That reminds me of the biggest c**k-up that I ever made on a server.
I had always used HPUX where a command like "cp SomeExecutable /bin" would copy SomeExecutable to the /bin directory.
I then tried this on an AIX box only to find that the good people at IBM are somewhat more literal than those at Hewlett Packard. Why is there noting in /bin? Because /bin is now some executable file, of course! The damned thing had done exactly what I told it to do.
Such is UNIX - with great power comes a great ability to destroy.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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This move is likely because Opera Software ASA — sorry, Otello Corporation — wants to distinguish itself from its browser business, which it sold to group of Chinese investors in 2016. They did something other than browsers?
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Catchier headline might have been "Fat Lady sings for Opera browser" if they wouldn't get hung out to dry by overly sensitive social media hounds from a phrase used back in the "prehistoric" days.
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Either you don't have a need for tuples, or the support that's been built in the language has not been that great for it. A tasty mix of chick peas and roti? Oh wait, that's doubles. I misheard (and I'm a bit peckish).
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Is a Tuple bubble forming?
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Technologies from several projects will provide a pipeline of new capabilities in Java 10 and later versions. All the features they cut while working on 8?
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It believes it didn't get a fair shake amid fears of Russian influence. If someone won't buy your product, sue?
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Clearly it is all a misunderstanding. They thought the government said "My fear is russian influence in your product." When I believe the correct interpretation is "Mafia is russian influence in your product." It happens to me all the time when my kids think I'm asking for a pizza paper.
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The new chip design, published in the journal Nature Communications, details a novel architecture that allows quantum calculations to be performed using existing semiconductor components, known as CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) - the basis for all modern chips. Except for the pixie dust required to make it work
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Come with me if you want to live!!
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Ohhhh...CMOS...
...that's really new technology, ain't it? 
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