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Maybe they'll have better luck inside a pyramid in Egypt.
"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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No sh*t. The idea is as daft as aether was in the 19th century and served the same purpose.
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A couple of weeks back, researchers from cybersecurity firm Eclypsium revealed that almost all the major hardware manufacturers have a flaw that can allow malicious applications to gain kernel privileges at the user level, thereby gaining direct access to firmware and hardware. Or as everyone else calls it, "Tuesday"
Or Monday if you're clever (and attractive) enough to be reading this then
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PANIC!!!
UPDATE EVERYTHING!!!
Or you could just read the last line of the article first: don’t download or open any suspicious email or install any 3rd party software from an unknown vendor
Okidoki.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Much like the Spectre and Meltdown scares.
"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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When you start to break down clean code principles, what counts as clean code to one person may not to another. "All will come out in the washing."
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From the article:
For example, most programmers know what “i++” means, and prefer to use it to increment integers instead of writing out a more tedious phrase like “i=i+1.” But i++ is a shorthand, and shorthands breed ambiguity and uncertainty.
If "most programmers" know what it means, is it really an ambiguity? Follow-up question - at what point does an "ambiguity" fall into the realm of "common practice", and when you're classing code as ambiguous, what is the target audience for the classification?
Lastly, reasonably enforced coding standards go a long way towards developing clean code, especially in a team environment, because as a member of a team with said standards, at least you can expect the code to look a certain way.
".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 author briefly touched a large topic: Excessive shorthand.
Excessive shorthand is:
- Well-known in one subculture (such as C-style language devs)
- Initially confusing to outsiders
- Problematic for far-off future devs who don't know past languages and frameworks
A better example: Lots of C# shorthand in one statement:
public long MyDistance { get; set; } = 0L;Long-time C# devs know instantly what it means. It looks like garbage to outsiders.
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to be fair, most of the stuff they've added with C# 8 looks like garbage to me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Quote: Christopher Tozzi, who does not write code, but just looks at it, said:
... And then demanded that everyone follow guidelines that he prefers, and not follow "almost universally accepted" guidelines that are not to his preference.
As John said, his declaring the almost universally accepted i++ as being "ambiguous" is ridiculous -- it has one and only one meaning, and everyone knows that meaning.
Perhaps this non-coding "writer" should learn how to use a dictionary, before opening his mouth, and focus on doing his own job properly, before bitching at the way professional coders do theirs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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++i must send him into fits.
I just want to code for loops at him to see how long it takes him to have an aneurysm.
for(int ic=list.Count,i=0;i<ic;++i);
TAKE THAT MISTER NAGGY MAN!
or one of my favorite C# iteration constructs
string line;
while(null!=(line=reader.ReadLine());
i'm sure everyone hates me for that.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well, seeing how it violates at least two typical coding standard tenets I can see why. 
"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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only two? rules were made to be broken.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You rebel, you. 
"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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In other words it comes down to community standards, just like pornography. One person's art is another person's smut.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Except for Perl. That's always smut 
TTFN - Kent
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Got Fortigate or Pulse Secure? Now would be a good time to make sure they're patched. Why we can't have nice things, part 13379
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Real men create their own VPN software.
".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 project uses Rust and WebAssembly to allow playback of Flash media more securely than the original Adobe player Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if anyone cared if they did
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Let's hope the story isn't larger than it appears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This blog post discusses the small but complex switching power supplies that helped make the AGC compact enough to fit onboard the spacecraft. In related news - the power supply on my PC burned out again the other day
OK, that was fiction - I don't actually use a PC. I just whisper to the hamsters.
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The supposed grievance? Allowing talk attendees to challenge CEO Robert Grant as he tried to pitch them on so-called quasi-prime numbers and "Time AI™." I'm sure that will change their minds
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And I am sure that will make a big difference to someones life style  
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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Nelek wrote: And I am sure that will make a big difference to someones life style
No idea.
I accidentally leaned on the spacebar and arrived at this link[^], and I never got back to read the article.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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