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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to obtain cellphone location information routinely collected by wireless providers. Don't worry, Google still knows exactly where you are
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One-time licenses won’t be available for Java SE 8 or later, but separate support contracts also go away. Charging for stuff is so unlike Oracle
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The University of Michigan was salty that IBM made a smaller computer than it did, so it made an even smaller computer. I thought that sushi tasted a little off
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The times when exploit kits (EKs) were known to be the breeding ground of new zero-days is long gone, and most EKs nowadays live off older vulnerabilities, meaning that keeping your browser, OS, and Flash Player up-to-date is enough to safeguard you from today's top web-based threats. So my IE6 is OK then?
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The actual title of ‘junior developer’ is one that many seasoned tech pros have held, but there’s increasing concern it’s a title new developers won’t hold. Now they jump straight from college to Senior Dev? Or CTO?
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Yes, since I've worked with green "senior developers" who were really "junior developers" (and sometimes not even that.) Unfortunately, the opinions of these folks too often held sway to the detriment, sometimes severe detriment, to the project and company.
Fairly recently I worked with a very talented developer who had the title "junior developer" and was quite honest about needing time and experience to earn "developer" and "senior developer" titles. It was refreshing.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Yes, since I've worked with green "senior developers" who were really "junior developers"
If you put "seniour" on your resume whilst not having completed a single project, you are committing fraud; you are selling yourself as something you are not, an can be held liable for all damages resulting from it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In what universe? Not that I disagree with the sentiment...
#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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Did not read it but I am sure they rebrand as "Full Stack"
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Because there are no (or much less) big companies that can support junior developers and have them grow and gain experience within the company, move from junior to senior in 5, 10 years.
Today, there are a lot of small companies and they cannot support that model.
I'd rather be phishing!
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University of Bristol researchers were able to study our thinking behaviour by analysing seven-billion words used in 800-million tweets. Did you just use "thinking" and "Twitter" in the same sentence?
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Quote: Overall, the study discovered strong evidence that our language changes dramatically between night and day, reflecting changes in our concerns and underlying cognitive and emotional processes. These shifts also occur at times associated with major changes in neural activity and hormonal levels, suggesting possible relations with our circadian clock. Furthermore, the study revealed both cognitive and emotional states change in a predictable way during the 24 hours.
6AM: 'jeez, what a nightmare !
8AM: this commute sucks
10AM; work sucks
11PM: meetings suck
1PM: Agile sucks
2PM: managers suck
3PM: milestones suck
5PM: this commute sucks
6PM: shopping sucks
7PM: dinner sucks
8PM: tv sucks
10PM: sleeping pills suck
12AM: insomnia sucks
2AM: tv sucks
4AM: insomnia sucks
«... 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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Wow man.
Looks like you and 6 others so far are doing it wrong.
Hope for your sake, you get nicer toys than I do. 
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It sure looks like it’s regretting promising 18 more months of support for Windows 10’s biggest competitor. "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast"
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I wonder when the author is going to complain about Sony's lack of support for his Walkman.
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The real unspoken elephant in the room is that 50% W7 now, is much higher than XP was 18mo before its originally planned EOL.
MS is at some point either going to have to extend support by a few years or have about 1/3rd of the internet online with foreverday bugs. They could turn free W10 upgrades back on for consumers I suppose; but on the enterprise side a lot is legacy crapware blocking upgrades, and volume licensing means that they could go W10 anytime they're ready anyway.
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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With C# 8, reference types are not null be default. This is a big change, and a great feature. However, what about all the legacy code? Can old libraries be used with C# 8 applications, and can C# 7 applications make use of C# 8 libraries? NotNotNullReferenceException?
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This is VERY interesting.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'm VERY... oh wait, I don't care.
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I found this a less than useful article because the author used Type 'String for all his examples, and Type 'String is, imho, not where dev's have null reference exceptions.
«... 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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Researchers have shown that a new quantum-based procedure for distributing secure information along communication lines could be successful in preventing serious security breaches. So all we need are quantum computers, and our cats are safe?
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Do they realize that quantum-based solutions will mean that their passwords will also get cracked faster?
And it won't stop people from clicking on "You Must See This!"
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It's a "quantum step". I.e. the smallest possible step in the quantum world - close to nothing at all. Hence: title is correct.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The US Supreme Court has overturned a tax-related ruling from 1992, freeing state and local governments to collect billions in internet sales tax. "Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all"
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Hmmm? Seems Illinois has been doing this for a few years now... I've been robbed!
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