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Kent Sharkey wrote: The bad news?
How about the possibility that your phone could be spontaneously texting your photos to random contacts[^], without leaving a trace on your phone? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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There may be some truth to the saying "getting up on the wrong side of the bed," according to Penn State researchers who say starting your morning by focusing on how stressful your day will be may be harmful to your mindset throughout the day. So *that's* my problem
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Communication could step beyond reading a cellular phone screen with a new technique by Purdue College of Engineering researchers to learn and read messages through a person's sense of touch. Feels like I have an important message coming in... no, it's just an itch
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C# 7 introduced pattern matching with the extension of the switch statement and the is operator offering the const pattern, the type pattern, and the var pattern. With C# 8 an extension of pattern matching is planned, including the property pattern, the recursive pattern, and a new switch – the switch expression. "For a moment I regarded the Pattern—a shining mass of curved lines that tricked the eye as it tried to trace them"
Is it just me, or does that seem a little voodoo-ish?
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Ah, a Zelazny fan!
#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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I've posted a tip-trick on wha you need to do to access the new 'switch features in VS 2017, .NET 7.2: [^]
However, I must warn you there are problems in the article's code examples.
imho, better examples here: [^]
«... 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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As teams are pressured to release software more rapidly, more and more aspects of software development are being forced to “shift left,” moving up earlier in the development lifecycle. Because it's faster than multiplication?
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In what amounts to be an amazingly nefarious bit of malware, hackers have created an exploit that watches 2.3 million high-value crypto wallets and replaces the addresses in the Windows clipboard with an address associated with the hackers. 3BYpmdzASG7S6WrpmrnzJCX3y8kduF6Kmc Hmm. Maybe I should stop cutting and pasting my blurbs
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Employees working for hundreds of software developers are reading the private messages of Gmail users, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. They're too lazy to do it themselves now?
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That would be so extremely cool; because it means they're in direct violation of the European rules!
I see another fine coming 
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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Codenamed Andromeda, Microsoft’s project has been in development for at least two years and is designed to be a pocketable Surface device All the functionality of a cell phone, in a larger, more awkward form factor
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You may love what you do, but change is a fact of life in technology. Here’s how to stay a step ahead. Don't be a Dodo
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Perfect - I started working 6 years ago in a place that uses 1998 technology. The premise was to change but... well let's say it's going SLOW. Mostly due to management and our business model but still.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Reminds me of Visual Studio 1998
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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Every resemblance to real facts and objects is purely, absolutely, positively, superlatively casual.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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People have strong convictions about testing approaches. Test Driven Development is the most prominent example. TDD: To Draw Debate
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Go ahead and have that cup of coffee, maybe even several more. New research shows it may boost chances for a longer life, even for those who down at least eight cups daily. If I keep drinking it, will I live forever?
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With the amount of coffee I imbibed in the past 14 years I must be good for a couple of centuries.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Thanks to European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, a group of astronomers have taken the first photograph of a planet being formed around a young dwarf star called PDS 70. Still has that 'new planet' smell
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In Visual Studio 2017 release 15.8 Preview 3 we’re announcing support for Just My Code stepping for C++. In addition to previously supported callstack filtering, the Visual Studio debugger now also supports stepping over non-user-code. Because you know the library code is always bug-free
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Snark aside, if you've ever tried to step through a call to a lambda or construction of a shared_ptr, you know why this exists.
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Fair enough, but I'm paid by the pound of snark, and baby needs a new pair of shoes!
TTFN - Kent
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While this year marks the 20th anniversary of open source, it is hard to imagine a time before open-source software. This blurb is freely shared using the "Yeah, whatevs" licence
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Microsoft last week released a new Windows 10 preview build for Insiders and it comes with a message within the Snipping Tool revealing that the app would go away soon. Oh, praise the Redmondites (there is a built-in snipping tool?)
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We haven’t heard many specifics about Google’s video game plans, but what we have heard is that it’s a three-pronged approach: 1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella, whether through aggressive recruiting or even major acquisitions. Google Doodles: now in hardware!
Because when you think "gaming", think of the company that brought you the "Do you feel lucky?" button.
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