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I must admit that I don't get the reference. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I must admit that I don't get the reference.
As in, Kent Sharkey. 
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Not *quite* that old. Feels like it some days 
TTFN - Kent
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The picture makes an interesting change from the Sun's usual Page 3 girls... 
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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The chief executive of Exmo Bitcoin exchange has been kidnapped in Ukraine. "He who profits by crime is guilty of it." (hopefully it works out with him safe)
Not that bitcoin is used to launder money or anything like that
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A recent study suggests a very simple solution helps limit the appeal of conspiracy theories: news media literacy. This isn't knowledge of the news, per se, but knowledge of the companies and processes that help create the news. Or so *they* say
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Conspirational thinking is being fed by politicians, and the media's reaction. Take Blairs word, there are WOMD in Irak. Yes, it is better for Libya to destabilize them. They will be happy with the democracy we bring. No, it just dentists and lawyers that are seeking refuge in Europe.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Blair? You're a little our of date, aren't you? Besides, lies and conspiracies are not quite the same thing.
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A_Griffin wrote: Blair? You're a little our of date, aren't you?
Perhaps you'd like to explain that in Irak?
A_Griffin wrote: Besides, lies and conspiracies are not quite the same thing.
No one claimed they are 
Still, governments are trying to label a lot of "fake news" as conspiracy-thinking, where more and more conspiracy-theories become conspiracy-facts.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Apple just published a letter to customers apologizing for the “misunderstanding” around older iPhones being slowed down, following its recent admission that it was, in fact, slowing down older phones in order to compensate for degrading batteries. “We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down,” says the company. “We apologize.” We apologize, you pay?
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$29 battery? Pfft. GTFO Apple. Hardly any capacity and not suited to high discharge rates - they're worth bugger all.
I can buy one that's 0.95 Ah (Admittedly, about 1/2 the capacity) that can be safely charged in 4 minutes and discharged in less than 1 - for 13 aussie dollars. High discharge and charge rates influence the price more than capacity.
Don't even get me started on the refusal to include a micro-sd card slot. I can buy one and have it shipped to my door from China for US $0.44 - just a postage stamp alone here costs AU $1
Apple. The company that just keeps on sucking. 
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Count me in. I simply refuse to buy any of their products, and will continue to do so. For a phone, I now have an LG V20, and find it far superior than anything else apple will offer at that price.
But there are people who will pay the 'premium' to buy inferior apple products, so then of course apple will sell it to them.
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That looks like a bit of an animal of a phone for that kind of money, nice.
$29 would buy me a LiPo battery tough enough to start my 1MZFE based car.
Bought a very early 40GB iPod for about $800 a zillion years ago and to my shock and horror, the power supply was so poorly isolated that I could hear noise every s i n g l e time the damned thing did anything with the HDD. Sony walkmans from the 1980s were better. Sony minidisc players from the 90s murdered those horror shows from Crapple. Go to a runway if you want expensive fashion made by slave labour in China.
The IIE computer was fun at school. The end.
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A few years ago my iPhone 4S started behaving strangely, resetting at random times, and battery indicator didn't seem reliable anymore after 3 years of use. I figured spending €35 on support might help me out. Reinstalled the thing, didn't help ofcourse. I decided that was the last time I made use of Apple support and to just order a new battery and install kit to see what it does, and presto, magically everything was fine again for another 2 years.
Eventually I used my iPhone 4S for 5+ years, and this year I upgraded to the iPhone SE. In 1-2 years, I'll replace the battery and I hope to be using this phone for about 5 years as well. Altogether it's not that expensive (calculating cost/year), but I agree Apple service and ethics are very poor.
Wout
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While its drop of market share became evident, there is keen interest in whether or not Microsoft has ambitions as a comeback kid, not with a Windows Phone but with something now being rumored by watchers as a "Surface Phone". They re-invented the laptop?
Without a keyboard.
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I guess they're hinging their success on this? 
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As someone who is totally f***ed off with both Google and Apple, and is only interested in a phone for voice, text, email and a street map app, I may well go for a Microsoft phone.
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What does that mean, actually, to be the “best programmer.” How does one measure that, how does one know he or she is it? When 11 just isn't enough
I'm seeing a theme for my brain this week
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but maybe in a few years, he will want to do something more. That he will adjust his dream to not just be good at one narrow skill called “programming,” but will aspire to have the impact of a 100x engineer.
And therein he skirts but fails to identify the real issue -- motivation. There's a lot of 1X (or maybe they should be called .01X) programmers that completely lack the motivation to "aspire..." To them, it's just a job. Maybe that's OK, maybe not, but it does shift the burden of mediocrity onto those who have to do the testing, code reviews, and bug fixes.
Then there are those that lack the motivation because the corporate culture fails them. It fails to provide training, to provide inspiring work and projects, and to manage a project so that grunt work gets delegated to, if not the afformentioned grunts, then at least to the newbies that need to learn things. Work-life balance, work environment, telecommuting, those are all other factors in the corporate culture. To paraphrase the saying, it takes time and effort to built motivation, and it can be destroyed with a single stupid act.
Like how the TV in the lunchroom was removed because "corporate" didn't want to pay the monthly cable bill. I kid you not. You think I feel motivated to be really be a committed employee with decisions like that?
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Marc Clifton wrote: Then there are those that lack the motivation because the corporate culture fails them. It fails to provide training, to provide inspiring work and projects, and to manage a project so that grunt work gets delegated to, if not the afformentioned grunts, then at least to the newbies that need to learn things. Work-life balance, work environment, telecommuting, those are all other factors in the corporate culture. To paraphrase the saying, it takes time and effort to built motivation, and it can be destroyed with a single stupid act.
Amen to that
Marc Clifton wrote: Like how the TV in the lunchroom was removed because "corporate" didn't want to pay the monthly cable bill. I kid you not. You think I feel motivated to be really be a committed employee with decisions like that?
Or want you to print in black and white because it is cheaper and more ecological, but team leaders drive cars that consume more in one week than my car in half a year.
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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Cargo cult programmers struggle to make meaningful changes to a program and end up using a trial-and-error approach since they don’t understand the inner workings of the code they’re about to change. buuuuuuuuuut, "We've always done it that way."
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Why does he pick on C#???
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Because it isn't as pretty as C♭.
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