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Share & share alike right?
I prefer Bing datamining myself; get points for tracked searches, etcetera that directly translate into rewards diminishing the wh0r3s approach to "invading" other's privacy; the whole license grants impunity to the law regarding your personal information is borderline terroristic and criminal if subjugates any user to unnecessary, uncontrollable risk. Amazing that these "commercial" grade companies understand basic business law and liability; these companies assume control of tort on the behalf of everyone with a digital signature system granting them immunity from responsibility yet they're responsible enough to cash that check bordering if not explicating residing within the domain of incompetency. Explains why so many of these elite online presence wind up in federal and foreign trade court due to the fact that licensing may NOT replace or over-ride the individual's rights to safety.
Don't see the need for search history being anymore than what it is currently considering the extensive logging that is Windows 10; am waiting with baited breath for the ensuing sh!t-s70rm that will inevitably roll out from the bowels of the Linux & BSD communities concerning Chrome & Google inclusively. One more brick in the wall.
I can already hear a chorus of quacks as DuckDuckGo hits an all time high in user traffic and the open source Chromium skyrockets in usage when it drops the history logging feature at user request --it's going to happen.
I was unaware of that...
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Yesterday, the U.S. News and World Report published its annual list of 100 best jobs of 2019 and the software developer role topped the list. I really need to look into that job, it sounds fascinating
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The unofficial list...
1. Software developer
2. Firmware developer
3. Hardware developer
4. Tupperware developer
5. Silverware developer
and rounding out the bottom...
Underwear developer.
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The text was bland but acceptable, up until this point:packtpub wrote: The other top jobs in the list were Statistician, Physician Assistant, Dentist, Nurse Anesthetist, Orthodontist, Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrician, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon.
And that's where it came off the rails and lost all credibility.
I haven't dug into it, yet, but I'm pretty sure that anything that pushes the idea that dental workers are the happiest people on Earth is at least partly sponsored by the insidious DDT (Dentists are Doctors, Too!) organisation.
But then it really left the atmosphere here:
packtpub wrote: And, if you are curious which was the least favorite job, it was Surgical Technologist.
Don't bother to look it up; it's what scrubs put on their CVs.
Being a scrub is the best job on Earth?
WTF were they smoking/sniffing/snorting/mainlining when they compiled this?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When I looked up the differences of those mouth related jobs, seemed okay to separate.
But what shocked me, and might need to consider is Software Engineer was not on the list.
They got Web Developer down at 51.
Should I consider requesting a promotion from Software Engineer to Software Developer? 
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Photo Developer used to be high on the list but, for some mysterious reason, is no longer there.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security, and why you really need to change your passwords. Ever progress
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Got fed up with that article pretty quickly.
AI this, AI that, AI the other.
AI is new tech (to people who haven't been involved in it over the past 25 years or so), so what are the first things it'll be used for?
Like any new tech, in order of priority:
1. Weapons
2. Crime
3. Pron
"AI waffle waffle waffle impersonate people waffle waffle waffle phishing waffle waffle waffle" does not an article make. A little research (y'know, that thing that real journalists do) might have made it interesting.
Mind, the fact that this is another site that forced me to go through three browsers, before it would display properly, didn't set me up to read the article with any optimism.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This roadmap is meant to give our team and users clarity over our priorities over the next 6 months. It's meant more as a set of guidelines than as a strict set of tasks we are bound to finish. We may adjust over this period depending on changing needs and feedback from our users. It's not going away (yet)
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Not reading that one.
Google maps is bad enough, with its undelineated white roads on pale, pastel grey backgrounds.
An ASCIIart map would be almost as unreadable as that, so why bother?
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Every year, Mark Zuckerberg announces his New Year’s resolution. In years past, he’s decided to tackle more inconspicuous tasks: learning Mandarin and traveling the entire country. But in 2019, he wants to be more ambitious by tackling big questions surrounding technology’s place in our world. Because if there's one person that could do it... it's not him
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Zuckerberg wrote: “My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society”.
... So that I can patent any new ideas before some other firm thinks of them!
Beware of Greeks @rseholes bearing gifts.
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By now, Agile and DevOps are proven methodologies and well known throughout the software development industry, but their stories are not over yet. Unfortunately...
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There comes a time when it's necessary to stop talking bollocks about trivial modifications to processes, and get some bloody work done!
But people don't make names for themselves or wheedle their way up the career ladder by doing work that actually brings in money to pay everyone's salaries, so maybe not.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Rollback attack let attackers spend 88,500 previously spent coins. Currency of the future...
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At least they were foresighted enough to give the currency a remarkably appropriate name.
The words "Disappearing into the" come to mind.
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If they wait long enough, it will only be 50 cents worth of cryptocurrency, so its not so bad.
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The 20-qubit system combines into a single package the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a machine like this for research and business applications. Didn't they just say yesterday that they'd have one, "in a few years"?
Does this mean that I have to be a millionaire now? Dang.
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Arvind Krishna said: “The IBM Q System One is a major step forward in the commercialization of quantum computing”
When did "a major step" gain the meaning "a pig in a poke that can't actually do anything useful".
What's the next step? Revive production of the Altair?
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The 'reserved storage' coming with the next Windows 10 version is another reason to avoid PCs with little storage. It's not like you were going to do anything else with that disk space, right?
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ZDNet wrote: The 'reserved storage' coming with the next Windows 10 version is another reason to avoid PCs with little storage that godawful OS like the plague.
So much for installing windows on phones, tablets, and netbooks, then. When they said "One Windows", they must have meant "On PCs Only".
I look forward to reading about people's machines bricking because temp files in current use by the OS (to perform updates, etc.) were overwritten by downloaded update files.
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GNU project made version 5.0 of its popular POSIX shell Bash ( Bourne Again Shell) available yesterday. Bash 5.0 explores new improvements and features such as BASH_ARGV0, EPOCHSECONDS, and EPOCHREALTIME among others. Not sure if it still has amnesia, I've missed a few versions
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I'm sure that I don't have to point out that, without fail, sequels get progressively worse.
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What programming languages did we fall in love with in 2018? TIOBE knows the score – Python is their programming language of 2018! If Python is not able to complete it's reign, the duties will be taken up by Miss Congeniality VB
Yeah, another TIOBE random number generated article, but I couldn't resist. I'm a weak, weak man.
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Ah, another year, another moment for me to BASH on these TIOBE ratings.
All in good jest.
First some helpfull things from the article. Python heavily used in AI and machine learning. Oh, I had not realised that. I know a lot of its use with my time on hobby IoT tinkering. These two fields are strong business needs.
However, my itch still persists. Popularity of something does not mean usefulness.
STOP: I have only a very minor knowledge of how the TIOBE index is calculated.
One of the metrics I assume is what people are posting questions and talking about across the internet. This defiantly can be a helpful indication, but also misleading.
I assume the IDE Scratch sees i sizeable install base. That is great for getting people started into code. Same I think for a number of languages.
So a question I have is what is the curve for when people start using a language professionally (earning money) and when switching from asking questions to reading documentation and finding existing questions?
For reference I have found some of the tutorials on Unity very well to follow, which compared to 10 years ago I might have posted a number of forum questions but now have little need.
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