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I do hope they get the colors and fonts right this time at least. The current colors/fonts for terminal is dark, fuzzy and not quite view friendly, like the ones in x-window of *nix system
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IBM accused of targeting older workers as 'up to 100,000' laid off | ZDNet[^] 
They will surely be surprised when the next generation of issues pop up 
On a serious note:
I don't know if all the "old farts" are that good, but there are for sure a big number of seniors that have better / healthier practices as the youngsters, just out of experience.
Doing such an aggressive campaign against age, is IMHO not a good idea.
M.D.V. 
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The risk arising out of this is already seen in the Boeing Max case.
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And the sad part is that it seems no one has learned from it
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Oh surprise, surprise.
It won't help their image with the young and the hip because it's not cool to work at IBM any more and never will be no matter what they do.
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I can't remember a time when it ever was cool to work there.
"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, but it's easier to convince a 22 year old to work 70 hour weeks for peanuts than someone who's older and wiser. And that's what it's all about. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Using kinetic energy, it's got the potential to be more efficient than solar panels. They thought of everything with that language, didn't they?
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Rust never sleeps, so it might as well do something useful since it's awake, anyway.
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GenJerDan wrote: Rust never sleeps
Agreed. I learned that in Ohio when I was young-er, before I started rockin' in the free world.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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But now you're an old man with tired eyes, it indeed might be better to burn out than to become helpless. I might become a campaigner for that idea. 
"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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But the old ways will conspire to prevent this happening.
Wax on, wax off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are they say that wet-cell battery is actually a real thing?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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The ubiquitous virtual keyboards found on smartphones, tablets, and other touchscreen devices might someday be replaced by an invisible equivalent, if researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have their way. Mpw ebwrypnt ccn g-uxh stpe!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mpw ebwrypnt ccn g-uxh stpe!
 
First I thought you were using (root13) 
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Quote: 95.84% typing accuracy
It's probably more like 65%, given that the keyboard is never in the same place and it has to guess which letter you start with to position the rest of the keys, but even 95% means one word in 12 will be mistyped/misinterpreted by the dictionary, which, I gotta say, means that it ain't nowhere near usable.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: which, I gotta say, means that it ain't nowhere near usable.
As that were a problem in our current buzzwordy and hypetrendy society 
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Invisible keyboards? I can't see that happening...
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 Ugh, why did I not think of that? Brilliant!
TTFN - Kent
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Martin Fowler recently tweeted a link to his blog post about Kent Beck’s four rules of simple design, which I think could be improved upon (and, which can lead programmers down the wrong path at times) "I agree with no man's opinion. I have some of my own."
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My two rules:
1) It works
2) It's maintainable by someone who knows what they are doing
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Can you up that by a few thousand words? We have column space to fill. 
TTFN - Kent
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And don't forget to make a study about... there are a lot of funds waiting over there
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Quote: a nice side effect of reducing the number of concepts in a system is that you increase the number of people who can understand the system
How true. Get rid of Object Orientation, let's happily embrace FORTRAN!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I'll stop paying attention after the seventh version, because it will turn to cr@p after that -- especially the 10th (the "last version ever"), which will be hugely amended and modified several times a year.
He who ignores history...
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