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Misinformation, deliberate blackouts and the worst consequences of big tech are undermining the online world. The Web Foundation thinks it may have a way to fight back. If you don't start behaving, I'm turning the web off!
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Microsoft offers a new snapshot of the data that feeds into its Intelligence Security Graph. And that's just my machine
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You can ask "How tall is the tower in Paris?" and it knows what you're talking about. That was meant to be a compliment, right?
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Is that before or after Paris is killed by Philoctetes?
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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public SearchResult DoSearch(string userQueryString)
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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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For software engineers, writing becomes becomes the tool to reach, converse with and influence engineers and teams outside their immediate peers. If only there were some place you could practice your writing skills?
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True, but - I'm not sure how much of a correlation there is between the quality of the writing for an article and the article's impact in and on the CP community. I've seen articles with poorly-written text but were very popular due to the topic or the code. I've also seen well-written articles here that only heard crickets when it came to ratings.
Orosz makes a good argument, despite the typos and grammatical errors in his post  . It's almost stereotypical for engineers to hold soft skills like writing and public speaking in contempt. I've experienced prejudice from other engineers simply because I write in complete sentences and I'm not tongue-tied when speaking to a group. They only do themselves a disservice, however.
I've asserted myself more times than I can count to engineering management through considered writing and coherent speech - and achieved the result I wanted because of it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I find it hard to communicate ideas to people because their attention spans are too short, and like you, I write in complete sentences, and without emojis. I also really like using Oxford commas.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Mike Milinkovich now believes that Microsoft is heading for a complete monopoly which might endanger other companies and projects like Eclipse IDE. I'd expect nothing else
If I had a choice between Eclipse and editing my code in Notepad, I might have to think about it for a while.
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Yeah, I'd do Notepad++ in a heartbeat compared to Eclipse. I was meaning vanilla notepad.
I think I'd still go with Notepad. 
TTFN - Kent
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I played with Eclipse once, many years ago, and remember extreme frustration before giving up. If I recall correctly, all the cpp files had to be in one directory! I'm sure I had to have overlooked something, but that was a god-awful experience. And Slow! Hopefully they've improved it somewhat in the years since then.
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Eclipse can't go extinct fast enough.
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One of the beauties of M$ taking a lot of their projects/code FOSS...
If you don't like the direction that Microsoft is taking a project, you can always just fork it and maintain your own version of the project. You can't do that with proprietary code.
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I had to use Eclipse for a while and I was so annoyed with it that I bailed out. I ended up using it solely to run the compiler.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The Redmond giant has added yet another feature to its hat by helping Mackmyra developing the world’s first AI-generated whiskey. Smarter than the average tipple?
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Smarter than after imbibing large quantities of any other tipple! 
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Annual assessments can be "wildly inaccurate" - not to mention "soul-crushing." Here’s why the dreaded ritual falls short, and what might work better. List four S.M.A.R.T. reasons why they're awful
"All too often, Aguinis says, formal performance reviews become a self-serving exercise in politics, not a realistic examination of an employee’s strengths and weaknesses. "
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What, are you saying that I'm not incredibly amazing and that what I achieve isn't miraculous?
[sniffle]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, it only said, "most people". I'm sure you're not "most people" 
TTFN - Kent
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They are even worse, to the point of being entirely useless, when you review yourself.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You need to develop software requirements before you get started. But are you getting input from the right people? Here’s how to know. It's not just "who's writing the cheque?"
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The people you should talk to are busy, and the people who you don't need to talk to keep you busy by repeatedly telling you how great they are (while making sure that you never get to talk to anyone who actually knows what they're talking about).
Same old, same old.
I don't see any strategies in the article for getting around those obstacles. Maybe I should offer to rewrite it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The problem? Post office customers were tossing out unwanted mail and receipts -- all of which contained confidential personal data now regulated by GDPR. The post office's solution was to remove its inadvertent data collection facilities, which apparently led to people leaving their regulated data lying on the office's counters and floors.
Fortunately, this new normal for post office users was swiftly reverted back to the old normal. The Commissioner of the Office of Data Protection issued a clarifying statement on post offices, rubbish bins, and protecting the privacy of post office customers.
When contacted this evening, a spokesperson for the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner told independent.ie that "under no circumstances" could public litter be in breach of GDPR.
So only a temporary win for the Gradual Dismissal of Public Refuse-bins this time.
giggles in American 🦅🦅🦅
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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