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My new mission in life is to produce a Windows version of Rockstar with bindings to the Win32 API.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Amazon wasn't able to handle the traffic surge and failed to secure enough servers to meet the demand on Prime Day, that led to a cascading series of failures. With the cloud, your applications magically scale on demand
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Tesla boss Elon Musk has reached an agreement with a Colorado potter who accused the billionaire of using his farting unicorn without permission. With that headline, I *had* to read the article
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I didn't read it, only the headline is already good enough...
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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DNS rebinding attacks are when an attacker tricks a user's browser or device into binding to a malicious DNS server and then make the device access unintended domains. That's OK, no one relies on any IoT devices, do they?
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Google Translate is moonlighting as a deranged oracle—and experts say it’s likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
Which apparently translates to "For example, please contact us" in Swahili.
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bu ba ba ga ho see ma ba ba ba ma ma ma shskdalj ljsadkj ljkjlk klkj hooo ooodajh skadhoiapdpoKDLJLKJADLsjbxzmvmbkxvjspouosdf kdjfksjfjflkjdsflsjfdlks fskjfldsjf kj jdj djj djjjj ar e th e tran stla tions so woca ma sa ha maga chai chai i rds chai ai ma ma
It is not for the purpose of giving it even more and more to the extent that it is not even possible to make it easier for the people to be able to find out what they are doing in the future.
MIND BLOWN !
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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The company claims anti-competitive behavior goes deeper than just Android Evil level: ducking sneaky
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Gotta love what passes for quality reporting from The Verge.
The Verge: DuckDuckGo also highlights that Google currently owns the “duck.com” domain name, and it has since at least 2011.
in an article that quoted a tweet linking to this page, which states that:
On2.com:
Google acquired On2 Technologies and its video products and technology in February 2010.
The On2 products Flix Pro, Flix Standard, Flix Exporter, Flix PowerPlayers, Flix Live, Flix DirectShow SDK, Flix Publisher and Flix Engine are no longer for sale.
Please note that On2 was previously called the Duck Corporation. So if you typed Duck.com, you are redirected to On2.com:
- If you meant to visit ducks.com, click here. Note that it redirects to Bass Pro Shops.
- If you meant to visit the search engine DuckDuckGo, click here.
- If you want to learn more about ducks on Wikipedia, click here.
Which coincidentally is where duck.com redirects to. And given that ducks.com is IMO at least as plausible source of a mistype to duck.com as duckduckgo.com Google serving that disambiguation landing page is perfectly reasonable.
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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To be clear, duck.com was registered before google.com and duckduckgo.com, but is somehow part of a plot against the latter company, which chose a long URL which could easily be shortened. The complaint is not all that it's quacked up to be.
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An open-source collaboration for ‘the future of portability’ They've re-implemented ASCII^H^H^H^H^HXML^H^H^HJSON^H^H^H^H?
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“We are serving the wrong masters.” "It has always been due to human error"
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Why does Chrysler exist?
More seriously, Mr. Norman reminds me of the manager who chants slogans and in the end says nothing. His criticism is interesting, perhaps even valid, but in the end, his main suggestion is to keep doing what we're already doing.
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Most technology startups founded in the past decade are either building software for the cloud or running their applications in the cloud. And I didn't even get past the "not interested" stage with cloud. Think of the time saved!
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Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
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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"Ultra-low latency cannot be achieved by using our present cloud-based systems."
Our present?
Unless the next step is to have cloud-based systems on your local computer and/or device. We'll call them "Personal Clouds" or PCs. Just imagine the power of a "cloud" in your house! Or your pocket.
Whoa, sorry, getting a little Star Trekky there.
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The European Space Agency is hosting a competition to find a snazzy new name for its ExoMars rover, Sky News reports. The rover will be deployed to Mars in 2020, so the winner would be playing a small role in the progress of space exploration. They probably won't accept Rover McRoverface will they?
Le Rover? La Rover?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They probably won't accept Rover McRoverface will they?
That was my first though too, but apparently they've learned that lesson already: 
But don't think "Spacey McSpaceFace" is a goer because this is not an online poll. All ideas will be put before an expert panel and it is they who will make the final choice.
"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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I suppose "I can't believe it made it" is too long.
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How about calling it a Cat. And once Curiosity finds it, its game over !!! 
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‘1337d00m’ is a new and challenging way to play the first person shooter. 0_o
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Everyone wants to know how long a project will take. Here’s how to provide managers with a prediction that’s both accurate and imprecise, using cycle time and counting stories, along with advice on when to avoid estimation altogether. "When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done."
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Just give the them the cable guy range estimate. The project will be done sometime between now and when I retire.
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The dept. head asked me and another fellow recently to provide a confidence factor that something that's taken a year and half to develop will be ready to ship in Aug. I replied with basically:
Well, if you don't want a number that's pulled out of our arses, the typical way to do this in a professional software development company would be to use some measurable analysis:
Do the unit tests pass? Fail. We don't have unit tests because nobody writes them and I personally conducted a couple training seminars for the developers on how to write them in VS, but nobody took up the banner (nobody, as in management)
Does the app meet the requirements? Fail. There was a one line requirement "send auto insurance policy changes to Verisk."
Have the code reviews all passed? Fail. What's a code review?
etc...
I was only slightly nicer in the actual email.  I need to find another job.
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Tests - what tests, management will not release the resources to build test, just get the job done, NOW!
Requirements, what requirements the ones we have get morphed every time management has a meeting
Code review- bah I don't want to have to go through some other sod crap - again.
I'm retiring so part time stuff done from home is now an option.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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