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PeejayAdams wrote: does this not leave all platform providers in a position where they cannot risk any kind of support for Java?
And that is a BAD thing??
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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According to the summary of changes, using offensive language in Xbox services could lead to the suspension or banning of a user, loss of Xbox Gold membership time, and possibly the loss of account balances on the account. They know what I say when Windows crashes?
Oh, phew. Only XBox users. Safe for now.
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Micro and Soft sound actually quite offensive to me! There is a reason why the alliance and horde cannot talk to each other. Learn from the masters n00bz.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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If they get rid of theBSOD occurances, most offensive languagewould vanish!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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EPFL and Nissan researchers are able to read a driver's brain signals and send them to a smart vehicle so that it can anticipate the driver's moves and facilitate the driving process. For those (few) who can keep their mind on the road?
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Now your tinfoil hats can serve two purposes! Or three!
1) Protect from the hypno-rays, 2) Capture your brainwaves, or 3) Send big data to mothership
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Visual Studio is investing in new tools to improve the productivity of Windows desktop developers and we’d love your help to make sure the improvements we make are the right ones. A few of you might have an opinion on this
Possibly even one that can be shared without breaking the kid sister rule
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It's Ok, you can break my kid sister!
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Astronomer Jill Tarter believes that by the end of this century, we will be able to find alien life. Just keep predicting it: there's a "possibility" you'll be right eventually
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Whilst I firmly believe that there's plenty of life out there to find, I just don't see SETI as being the way to find it. It's so reliant on another species evolving on similar lines and having the same idea, that the odds of finding anything are, well, astronomical.
We will, I suspect, discover life elsewhere in this solar system long before the end of the century but I wouldn't put too much money on SETI getting any results by the end of the millennium.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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If the odds are astronomical, they should have already found it! If they were miniscule, on the other hand
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think there's already alien life discovered in the form of the POTUS.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Tribbles are real, and they can control a homunculus reasonably well. 
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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The European Space Agency has pinpointed the vehicle’s reentry date to sometime between March 30th and April 2nd, with the event most likely happening on April Fools’ Day. Whoever gets hit is the April Fool?
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Microsoft looks poised to add a new Multi Session option to Windows 10, likely this fall, which will allow IT to provide multiple users with remote access to desktops/apps without relying on Windows Server. SSHiny?
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Organisations have failed to automate IT processes and still rely too heavily on manual intervention according to new research that has revealed that UK IT departments spend just 12 per cent of their time innovating. "Making it work. Takes a little longer."
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The South Korea government has created an initiative to force its employees to stop working so much. Over the course of the next three months, it will shut down government computers progressively earlier on Friday nights. Right in the middle of a compile. Again.
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Swift is becoming a first-class server-side programming language, with the aid of tools such as Kitura. It's also for breakfast?
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Microsoft today announced developers can now sideload custom Linux distributions to the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux (WSL.) Because it's The Year of Linux (on Windows)
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Return as soon as you know your method cannot do any more meaningful work Returning this one before even looking at the if statement
Or: discuss
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"else" considered harmful 
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Dammit, how did I miss that one? 
TTFN - Kent
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What else is ambiguous about "else" ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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The whole thought of processing the exception first upon returning from a call is so counter intuitive to the way we think; we process good/expected results first, THEN proceed to look at the outliers.
When I read the code, I think the developer is expecting an error so prepares to handle it first.
It all goes back to the maxim: write clean code; there is nothing wrong with indentation or else statements. Also, write comments on what the process is doing and why, don't assume the code is so well written its intuitively obvious what the desired result is.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: process is doing and why
Agree with the why. I can read the code to see what it's doing. I've seen so many comments // declare variables then // call the function then // process result
So helpful.
Tim Carmichael wrote: there is nothing wrong with indentation or else statements
egregious indentation and if/else's are problems when there are too many levels, usually more than two. This leads to functions that are too long and have multiple purposes. Better to refactor the code and move the different cases into different functions.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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