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PixelPlayer can mute the piano if you just want to listen to the violin. In the future, we can finally deal with those pesky accordian players
And the bagpipers.
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One day, Linux' creator made a utility called Git to keep track of all the contributions to the Linux kernel. That triggered a string of events leading to the establishment of GitHub as the de facto automated supply chain for software -- not just open source. Because git is decentralized?
"You do not want everybody to write to the central repository because most people are morons."
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A recent study conducted by academics from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK has revealed that almost two-thirds of second-hand memory cards still contain remnants of personal data from previous owners. Formatting is hard
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[^] Quote: ... two glass-and-aluminium towers (taller than the Trump Tower, connected by three bridges that glow golden at night) Tencent's new building breathes the future. The South wing measures a whopping 248 metres (about 814 feet) and consists of 50 stories, while the North sits at 194 metres (about 636 feet) with 39 levels.
... Health Link, on level 22, explaining the cameras are facial recognition systems tasked with allowing only authorised personnel to enter each space.
True to its name, the Health Link offers a gym, table tennis and pool tables, a badminton court, a dance studio, a yoga room and more.
We visit its massive indoor rock climbing station, currently kept out-of-bounds while the safety equipment waits to be installed. Later, we find ourselves on a 300-metre indoor jogging track that runs a full circle around the bridge, connecting the North and South towers.
... Some of Tencent's employees, including high-ranking staff, love basketball, our guide tells us. For their benefit, the company made a full-sized basketball court complete with a giant monitor that screens a game from Tencent's sports channel during our visit. The glass windows are soundproofed, no doubt to prevent noise seeping through from passionate players.
Employees who find themselves starving after work or exercise can proceed to any one of the four levels containing staff canteens. They serve a range of cuisines to cater all palates, with staff members hailing from various parts of China and the world. Breakfast is free, with lunch payable at discounted rates ...
Not all facilities are open yet, with Tencent aiming to have everything up and running closer to the end of the year. Some of the things we missed include the third bridge, which holds a library, an education centre, offices, meeting rooms and more. We also missed the swimming pool -- yes, there is a swimming pool in this skyscraper.
But, do they have a sauna ?
«... 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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Did they remember to add restrooms?
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Holes in the floor 
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Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who’s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he’s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. I can hardly wait to see how this will be abused
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Well,
Trust me it's already being abused. A few years ago I wrote network URL logger for my home office and quickly discovered that some web services are generating massive GET requests that were several kilobytes in size. My logging code was breaking the requests because I truncated them at 2kb. Over the last few years I've had to keep increasing the buffer size... 3kb, 4kb and growing.
According to RFC 2616[^] HTTP/1.1 does not have any maximum URI length.
Kent Sharkey wrote: I can hardly wait to see how this will be abused
I recommend creating a committee to oversee these new microsites. The itty bitty committee.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: The itty bitty committee.
With a teenie weenie subcommittee.
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He re-invented FrontPage? 
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Popcorn kernels are a natural, edible, and inexpensive material that has the potential to rapidly expand with high force upon application of heat. Although this transition is irreversible, it carries potential for several robotic applications. "As much fun to make as it is to eat"
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I prefer marshmallows in the microwave, but I guess popcorn works.
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Thought to myself: Could they use popcorn for edible PROM memory?, unpopped = 0, popped = 1. Hmm secret codes, temporary data, etc., the possibilities are staggering.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I’ve been digging into .NET Internals for a while now, but never really looked closely at how the ‘Just-in-Time’ (JIT) compiler works. Hopefully this is just in time for your education
Apologies if his blog ends up pushing this as an article. It wasn't showing on the site at press time.
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When we last met UDOO, the team was building a powerful Raspberry Pi-based DIY board with a bunch of impressive features, including more ports and a better processor. I heard Chris was going to be running CP on a stack of these
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One of the new tactics by the malware involves an injection technique not seen in the wild until just days ago. Three cheers for progress
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Article wrote: "We strongly encourage users and organizations to follow recommended security practices, such as installing security patches as they become available,
The problem is when such hasty patches bring more problems than they solve.
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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Very true. On related note, some of the conspiracy theorists among us think those recent "absolutely necessary patches" are about a little more than just security and the "sky is falling" scenarios we have seen lately are much ado about very little designed solely to motivate us to "patch" our machines.
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I present here a small bibliography of papers on programming languages from the 1970’s. if !study(history) { repeat; }
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if !study(history) { repeat; }
To some of us older coders, it does seem that history keeps repeating itself, adopting new names for old concepts, and frequently encountering the same pitfalls.
To be honest though, I find this more with frameworks than languages. Actually, I find very few real new features in languages, with odd exceptions (like lifetimes in Rust).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Following a pre-dismissal hearing with management, the 38-year-old employee downloaded the software to a mobile storage device, bypassing security systems. "The great thieves are leading away the little thief"
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