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In this series, we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best alternative to C and C++ currently available. It gives you a chance to rewrite everything in a new language?
Sorry, that album is *literally* the first through fifth things that comes into my head every time I hear about this language. This was an attempt to avoid repeating myself again.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that album is *literally* the first through fifth things that comes into my head every time I hear about this language
I always have to think in Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (Official Video w/ Lyrics) - YouTube[^]
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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I have a better idea - LEARN HOW TO F*CKIN WRITE CODE!
You can write crappy code in ANY language, and the language ain't gonna help you.
".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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Now you really gone way too far... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It's amazing how many people think they are first rate programmers who do not introduce bugs, yet the evidence doesn't bear it out in most cases.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That class of vulnerabilities could have been avoided in several ways, none of which involve a rewrite in Rust or any other language. Isn't that why they added the str***_s family of functions?
"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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A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value. Today, you can extend PostgreSQL with the right software and bio-chemical modules, and run SQL on DNA. SELECT * FROM nucleus WHERE G!=C
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ZDNet wrote: Initially, storing a megabyte of data took scientists a week.
Haha 
ZDNet wrote: But data and databases are going to the cloud anyway, and as long as your data is safely stored in a data
Hahaha
Kent Sharkey wrote: This is because it's abundant, and cheap -- or, to be more precise, the hope is that it eventually will be.
It may also prove to be a big dud.
ZDNet wrote: Eurecom, CNRS, ICL, UCA, plus Helixworks, a DNA synthesis start-up, have secured EU funding to further pursue research on DNA storage.
Because it's the future man! In a few years, we will all be replaced by robots! 
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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My program in DNA code is equivalent to the ebola virus. Can I still share it? How do I re-access it to make changes without killing myself?
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Franky Zapata plans to cross the Channel on the Flyboard Air on Thursday Sounds like he'll be testing it for waterproofing
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At the end of quite a long public discussion, the Go team decided to reject the proposal of a built-in try statement for Go error handling. "Do... or do not. There is no try."
You knew I absolutely *had* to use that, right?
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No, you had to throw that out there.
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Finally!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Google will pay $11 million to settle the claims of 227 people who say they were unfairly denied jobs because of their age, according to Friday court filings. The settlement must still be approved by the judge in the case. "The same old story, but it's worth telling just once more"
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Minus the legal fees, that's about $0.09 a person, woohoo!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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There should be a minimum of one zero added to that number.
"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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Subject line corrected.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Age discrimination because the Google employee assumed a byte to be 8 bits. Even if you are 60 something years old, surely you know that nobody uses other size bytes these days. That's a ridiculous accusation.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Nice cherry picking there. I would say that the following is more damning...
During one interview process, Fillekes says, a recruiter requested that she submit an updated résumé that showed her graduation dates for college and graduate degrees. When Fillekes asked why this was required, she says the recruiter responded that it was "so the interviewers can see how old you are."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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For many years __has_include was available as an extension in Clang. Now it’s in the Standard! I can haz include?
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This was a long and difficult read (detailed notes about the brain implant) but an interesting take on brain/computer interface.
https://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer/[^]
Title: The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind
wired article said: It will be a long time before anyone starts sending fully formed thoughts to a computer, he says—and even longer before anyone finds it really useful. Think about speech-recognition software, which has been around for decades, Schalk says. “It was probably 80 percent accurate in 1980 or something, and 80 percent is a pretty remarkable achievement in terms of engineering. But it’s useless in the real world,” he says. “I still don’t use Siri, because it’s not good enough.”
In the meantime, there are far simpler and more functional ways to help people who have trouble speaking. If a patient can move a finger, he can type out messages in Morse code. If a patient can move her eyes, she can use eye-tracking software on a smartphone. “These devices are dirt cheap,” Schalk says. “Now you want to replace one of these with a $100,000 brain implant and get something that’s a little better than chance?”
I try to square this idea with all the stunning cyborg demonstrations that have made their way into the media over the years—people drinking coffee with robotic arms, people getting brain implants in Belize. The future always seems so near at hand, just as it did a half century ago when José Delgado stepped into that bullring. One day soon we’ll all be brains inside computers; one day soon our thoughts and feelings will be uploaded to the Internet; one day soon our mental states will be shared and data-mined. We can already see the outlines of this scary and amazing place just on the horizon—but the closer we get, the more it seems to fall back into the distance.
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OpenAI, a company working on AI for the public good, is committing to build with Microsoft new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and getting a $1 billion infusion from Microsoft as part of the arrangement. Keep your friends close, and pay your enemies to keep them closer
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could this be an other nokia moment?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, this is a — a — a very important question and, in general, I think over time we're going to move towards more proactive review, with more A.I. tools to help flag problematic content.
In the near term, we have a lot of content on the platform, and we — it's — it's hard to review every single thing up front. We do a quick screen. But I — I agree with you that I think in — in this specific case, I'm not happy with where we are, and I — I think it makes sense to — to really focus on making sure that these areas get more reviews sooner.
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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Equifax has agreed to a settlement over its 2017 data breach that saw as many as 147 million people’s personal information, including names, birth dates, addresses, and social security numbers, exposed by the company. Only $5 each - cheaper than a credit report!
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