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When I get asked to build a web page or fix a computer because I'm "a computer guy", I use references the average person can understand. Is an auto mechanic the same as a diesel mechanic or small engine repair person or jet mechanic? No, they all have their realm of influence, and, although there may be similarities between them, they aren't necessarily cross-functional.
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A freedom of information request revealed that the FBI used the Best Buy division's repair staff to flag illegal content. "No one stands behind you like Geek Squad"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: stands behind
More like "looks over your shoulder!"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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There have been some concerns that Windows 10 has a built-in “keylogger,” because the operating system uses typing data to improve autocompletion, next word prediction, and spelling correction. Now they ask politely before watching everything you type
"Microsoft is also testing the idea of Windows 10 users receiving seven individual screens for all the privacy controls in the operating system"
Because more settings screens is better?
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Updates on performance, unit testing, C++ 17 Standards Conformance and probably much more Incrementally better than before!
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Java 10 will be released this month with a focus on cloud and serverless computing, Oracle has announced. Somehow I missed everything between 2 and 10
Guess I can keep ignoring it?
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Previously built using the Microsoft C++ compiler, Google is now using the same compiler for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, and the switch makes Chrome arguably the first major software project to use Clang on Windows. Clang, clang, clang went the browser
And they got help from Microsoft to do so?
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Two independent Israeli researchers found a way for an attacker to bypass the lock protection on Windows machines and install malware by using voice commands directed at Cortana. Hey, Cortana, you got some 'splaining to do
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Cortana : I thought it was Chief. And you know I got a soft spot for him !!!  Singularity achieved !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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A video game company, Ubisoft, is leveraging a new AI tool called Commit Assistant, which flags mistakes in a game's code before programmers even make them. I make msitakes faster than an AI can find them
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A cursory glance at the first paragraph (or even the name of the tool) indicates that it doesn't. It evidently catches errors at commit-time.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google announced a 72-qubit universal quantum computer that promises the same low error rates the company saw in its first 9-qubit quantum computer. Google believes that this quantum computer, called Bristlecone, will be able to bring us to an age of quantum supremacy. "Low error rates"? Time for the great quantum leap!
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The vulnerabilities affect the attach, detach, and paging procedures that are part of Long-Term Evolution (LTE), a standard for high-speed wireless communication for mobile devices. Three cheers for no security anywhere!
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We're wasting so much time collaborating and toggling between apps it's a miracle any work actually gets done. Someone IMed me an email about a Slack chat on this very topic the other day
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From makeup artists in Venezuela to women in conservative parts of India, people around the world are doing the digital equivalent of needlework —drawing boxes around cars in street photos, tagging images, and transcribing snatches of speech that computers can't quite make out. "It's made of people! PEOPLE!!"
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Blockchain-powered computer programs promise to revolutionize the digital economy, but new research suggests they’re far from secure. "The way it looks I'll probably hang cause there ain't no hope on a chain gang "
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Self Documenting code is not a good goal to aim for. Quite the opposite in my opinion. if(controversy()) { push(traffic); } else {break;}
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Graham Cox wrote: Self Documenting code is not a good goal to aim for. Quite the opposite in my opinion. Self Documenting code is a good goal to aim for.
Fixed. Better click-bait, twice as lengthy.
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It’s going to happen: At some point in your professional career, you’re going to feel stupid, and it’s going to be because you forgot some simple term. FWIW (which isn't in there at the moment)
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Newer Intel microprocessors are provided with Software Guard Extensions (SGX) which allow software programs to run in their own little safe corner of the processor. These safe areas are created on demand and have their own memory, isolated from other system software like hypervisors and the operating system itself. Just when you thought it was safe in the processor
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The technology industry has been overloading the term ‘senior engineer’. A senior engineer is not a senior engineer is not a senior engineer. Does this mean I won't get the discount at the movies?
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And as long as that bullet list is it still managed to miss at least one important type of senior engineer. The person whose broad skill base allows quickly coming up to speed on anything complex despite having no direct prior knowledge of the domain. AKA the coworker of mine who gets put on any new project needing a skill we don't have in house to figure out the best approach and either implement it directly or do knowledge transfer to one of his more mundane coworkers to do the bulk of the work.
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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Dan Neely wrote: the coworker of mine who gets put on any new project needing a skill we don't have in house to figure out the best approach
For the program I went through in college, in the last year, everyone was split into teams. Each team was tasked with developing a system for a business in town. That meant interviewing them, determining the needs, designing a system and implementing it. The grade depending on what the business had to say. I was placed in a group with one other person where our 'project' was to be a resource for all other groups; if they had an issue with an algorithm, technology, whatever... they came to us first. If we couldn't resolve it, then they went to the professor.
At the time, we were split between PC based applications and VAX/VMS, so it was a broad base and was a good challenge.
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Regardless of title, in my mental notes, I consider someone a senior engineer if they have a combination of expertise and time working in that field--usually six to eight years. Moreover, the real key of a senior engineer isn't knowing what to do, but knowing what not to do.
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In a growing sign of the increased sophistication of both cyber attacks and defenses, GitHub has revealed that this week it weathered the largest-known DDoS attack in history. Good thing that's not a place that everyone stores their code
Yeah, kind of a dupe, but a different focus on this article (as opposed to the one talking about the memcached bug)
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