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The relative inscrutability of the CLIs we use in our terminals has always bothered me. And create inscrutable windows apps instead?
I suspect we may hear from VMS fans here
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Abelson et al said: understanding, using, and creating UNIX-style CLIs is an odd real programmers one-upmanship type of thing
They should have said that at the beginning of the article; it's the only real point to make.
As long as nerds get what they believe to be bonus points for doing things that are indecipherable to other people (more indecipherable or to more people = more bonus points*), there will an abundance of *nix-ey command-line nonsense.
* Calculations of the scoring are, of course, carried out using a custom-built database which has a black screen and command prompt as its UI, and 43 back doors.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds like they are looking for PowerShell  Such a massive improvement over text pipeline CLI scripting.
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With billions of users and a gargantuan platform to defend, it's not easy to catch every flaw in the company's 100 million lines of code. You're assuming they do
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 100 million lines of code
I'd say that's the first matter they should address.
Any web-app that requires more than 99,999,999 lines of code is Shirley over-engineered.
Tell the buggers to get off their skateboards and get refactoring.
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modified 19-Aug-19 0:38am.
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Technically, the Facebook code runs on one million lines of code. The other 99 million lines of code are courtesy of the NSA.
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A fast-acting hacker could be able to weaken the encryption of Bluetooth devices and subsequently snoop on communications or send falsified ones to take over a device due to a newly discovered vulnerability in the standard. Beware of hackers offering pairing opportunities?
"In order to execute this attack, a hacker would have to be present during the Bluetooth devices’ connection, block each device’s initial transmission when establishing encryption key length, and broadcast their own message, “all within a narrow time window,” says the organization behind the standard. The hacker would also have to be in range and repeat the attack every time they wanted to break in again." OK, disengage panic mode
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "In order to execute this attack, a hacker would have to be present during the Bluetooth devices’ connection, block each device’s initial transmission when establishing encryption key length, and broadcast their own message, “all within a narrow time window,” says the organization behind the standard. The hacker would also have to be in range and repeat the attack every time they wanted to break in again." OK, disengage panic mode
Sounds like what's really going on is:Daniele Antonioli, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, and Kasper B. Rasmussen said: Please, please, Please give us a reward! We worked for hours and hours, but we're cr@p, so we didn't find anything!
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Feature Kaspersky added in 2015 also made it possible to be ID'd across different browsers. Every single day, and every web page you display, I'll be watching you
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Benjamin Franklin: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Yes, I had to look it up.
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Microsoft is continuing to make incremental improvements to Windows 10 20H1, due out next year, with test build 18963. Finally, we can save all that space on the install DVD
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Finally, we can save all that space on the install DVD
Exactly!
And not only that, but:This means future Notepad updates will be available via the Store Wow!
Just what we needed!
An app that's barely changed for 350 years will now be easier to update!
And everything else in the winio update is every bit as useful! (Although I would have hoped that, on top of being able to rename virtual desktops, there would be a new icon. Maybe next time.)
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I bet this decision took the team two months to finalize and another three months to move it to the app store with new icons.
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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Next up, the subscription fee.
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Very cool, but she's wrong in one thing.
She's not like everyone else.
Very few people have the drive and guts she has to do something like that.
And the (exceptionally) supportive family helps too.
No kid could do that without the support of an adult, if only because other adults won't let you.
Do you think she also hires programmers?
She seems like an awesome boss!
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Sander Rossel wrote: She seems like an awesome boss!
All bosses could be like her. Even the adult ones.
Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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All bosses could, but most bosses aren't 
Picasso is right, but growing up isn't the problem.
I blame school.
We're taught to learn curriculum and never question authority.
Kids are curious by nature, until they go to school.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Kids are curious by nature, until they go to school.
Curiousity isn't rewarded in school; obedience is.
That makes a degree a somewhat different story. Good dog. Sit. Stay.
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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This looks an awful lot like "Daddy didn't want to pay taxes, so, because the idea was based on a question from his seven-year-old daughter (presumably after he refused to buy her a lollipop because they're bad for her teeth), he decided to do everything in her name."
Never ascribe to genius what can be explained by greed.
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How Should Schools Grade Unexpected-But-Correct Answers On Coding Tests? - Slashdot[^]
I solved this back in the early 80's using Turbo Pascal. Back then, the solution wasn't "unexpected", because we didn't have convenient framework methods available to us that actually did the math. Here's my approach, converted to C# from that ancient Pascal code (yes, I still have source code from the 80's on my box).
static int CountLeapYears2(int minYear, int maxYear)
{
int years = (maxYear - minYear);
int periods = (int)(years * 0.03);
int count = (int)((years - (years * 0.03)) * 0.25);
return count;
}
It should be noted that iterating from the minimum DateTime value to the maximum DateTime value with the C# DateTime.IsLeapYear() takes a measurable amount of time (for me, it was 0.0068359 seconds), while my almost 40-year old method did not produce a measurable duration at all. In the ineterst of completeness, here's my iterative method:
static int CountLeapYears1(int minYear, int maxYear)
{
int count = 0;
for (int i = minYear; i <= maxYear; i++)
{
if (DateTime.IsLeapYear(i))
{
count++;
}
}
return count;
}
".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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wrong forum? It looks more a like a start point for a debate in the lounge
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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Well, it was a tech article, and I simply commented that I'd done the "unexpected" almost 40 years ago...
".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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#realJSOP wrote: Well, it was a tech article,
It looks more like a reddit thread
It doesn't matter... I just pointed it out, just in case you had a lapsus. But if it was on purpose... ok
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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Are you sure you've got that conversion right? The methods return different values in quite a lot of cases.
const int MIN_YEAR = 1753;
const int MAX_YEAR = 2199;
for (int minYear = MIN_YEAR; minYear <= MAX_YEAR; minYear++)
for (int maxYear = minYear; maxYear <= MAX_YEAR; maxYear++)
{
int y1 = CountLeapYears1(minYear, maxYear);
int y2 = CountLeapYears2(minYear, maxYear);
if (y1 != y2) Console.WriteLine("({0}, {1}) :: {2} != {3}", minYear, maxYear, y1, y2);
}
"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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