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With all the people that claim to have attended Woodstock, I think more than a few of them probably were time travellers.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Come to think of it... time travelers now have that document as a guide of what not to do.
Dun dun DUN!! I think you might be on to something there.
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The thing about being a time traveller - every time you are discovered you can go back in time and hide (have hidden?) better....
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Hey, why don't they use Google for finding my proof of time travel posted in the Lounge tomorrow (I'll travel back three years to make it appear in the correct place): Proof of Time Travel[^]
And that happened to me two more times since then: on the motorway near Erlangen some two years ago, and just last December somewhere in Malaysia. Time travel is quite common! Sadly, I find out only later on when I analyse the track records of my GPS device.
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An alleged future successor to Windows received renewed attention over the past week, as speculation whirled that Microsoft might open-source the new programming language associated with it. If "the future is abstract, parallel, and managed", I'm staying here
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the future is abstract, parallel, and managed
Sounds like my ex-wife.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: M#
At first, I thought of a new step in the development of MUMPS which somewhen became OpenM...
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Malicious ads served through Yahoo's ad network delivered malware to thousands of site visitors, according to researchers at Fox-IT, but Yahoo subsequently blocked the attack. Ya-hoo.
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I don't know if this is a good candidate for The Insider, or not: [^].
Appears to be based on tweets, so who knows what the sampling bias is.
cheers, Bill
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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The lawsuit claims that Facebook scans messages between users labeled "private" for links and other information that can be sold to advertisers, marketers and data aggregators.
What a bunch of Facebook stalkers.
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A lot creepier is that Facebook also polls the content of what users put in the textboxes.
So if you've typed in a comment, wall-post or status update and then decided not to post it, they still know about it.
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0bx wrote: So if you've typed in a comment, wall-post or status update and then decided not to post it, they still know about it.
Really?  I could have fun with that. 
Marc
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CORS, the cross-origin resource sharing specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), allows Web developers to incorporate client-side data into their apps.
"Don't take other people's data, unless you take it the way we tell you to take it."
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After more than eight years of petitioning, the non-profit group Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally won its battle to expand the web's offering of generic top-level domain (gTLD) names. If all goes as planned, the new suffixes will begin rolling out by the end of January. "Slash dot, dash dot, slash dot, dash dot, dot com"
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Just get rid of the stupid things; they were a bad idea from the start.
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Surely microsoft.com, microsoft.co.uk, microsoft.co.jp, microsoft.ru, microsoft.tv, microsoft.ca could all be separate companies, and we have to plan for that? 
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Only microsoft would be "official"; anything after that must be phishing.
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Shame about the lack of IP addresses to bind them to (at least until IPv6 adoption ranks up somewhat).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As a company, Apple seems to court the naysayers. Of course, it's been about to collapse for the last 25 years, with plenty of examples of things not going to plan, technology that wasn't adopted, products that failed to sell, or that died before version 2.0. "Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
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Coders make resolutions, no? If your to-do-better list is still empty, consider these ideas from other programmers to put to use in the New Year. Even the smartest folks have room to grow. "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"
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I was recently asked for advice on how to go from two week sprints to one. The conversation was one I've had several times. Client: "We are a scrum shop that has two week sprints. We'd like to release faster. Any suggestions?" "An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing."
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Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun announced the statistics on his Sina Weibo account today, revealing that it also hauled in total sales of $5.2 billion, up 150 percent from last year
Just as Samsung's sales begin to plummet. Coincidence?
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How Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible and Bcfg2 have changed the ways CM is set up and run.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there.
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Open Source Initiatve co-founder Eric S. Raymond says bzr is dying and Emacs should move to another version control system, like GitHub.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
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Emacs should move to the circular file system... unless it wants to grow up and be a real IDE.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: be a real IDE
Why the heck would it want to do that? 
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