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PeejayAdams wrote: The best advice on developer recruitment that I could give any company would be to let the developers chose the developers and not let HR types anywhere near the process!
Amen
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GUN violence in America gets plenty of attention, but cars kill more. Around 40,000 people a year die on American roads, more than all fatalities caused by firearms Seems plausible
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It's not a zero sum equation.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I can confidently say that Opera isn’t a better browser than Chrome or Safari on either iOS or macOS. What I can say, however, is that it feels like a better fit for me than either of them. I switched from macOS to Windows '95 and couldn't be happier
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Amazon may have to give up to £56 million in refunds for purchases of in-app downloadable content made by children. This comes after the company has dropped its appeal in the United States against such refunds becoming possible. Why yes, that big-screen TV and router were bought by my children
Oh, only in-app purchases. Dang.
Plus, no children to blame it on. Maybe the cat?
Also, I think it's pretty strange that Neowin posted the refund in pounds, when it might only apply in the US.
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Anyone know a guy who can make fake passports?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Neowin: Amazon may have to give up to £56 million in refunds for purchases of in-app downloadable content made by children
Kent Sharkey wrote: Why yes, that big-screen TV and router were bought by my children
If your kids figured out how to turn in app DLC into physical goods, I'd suggest giving up on the refund attempt and instead using the duplicator they invented to get rich by downloading diamonds, gold bars, etc.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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It’s no secret that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms. Breaking News: special-purpose chips faster than general-purpose chips
We now return you to your regular programming
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Discovered almost 10 years ago at CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances. OK, it's not the microwave this time
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Quote: a lower limit on their distances of ≈ 10 ^ 4 km (limit of the telescope near-field) supporting the case for an astronomical origin.
Yes - 10 to the power 4 kilometres suggest astronomical origin to me too ...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: OK, it's not the microwave this time
But the microwave is still watching you.
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Golly!
It's "dark-but-not-really-dark-but-still-dark-because-I-said-so" energy!
TBH, I really am getting sick of hearing the astronomy world's fantasy cr@p.
E.g. they can tell us p1ss-all about Europa, Titan, and Callisto, but they're c**k-sure about microdots a million orders of magnitude further away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances
"it doesn't look like an SOS...it looks like a warning" 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Either that or they're flash-transmitting the recipe for human-rump soup.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Either that or they're flash-transmitting the recipe for human-rump soup.
I was going to post a link to images of the fattest people on Earth (thought it might be fun to start putting a menu together) but it even made me feel sick 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ironic if it turned out to be Lrrrrr's microwave, back in Omicron Persei 8.
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$50 says that if you slow it down and analyze the pulse, it will decode to something like "you've just won a free cruise...."
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Naah, it's an intergalactic chain letter:
"Send 10^24 kilograms of Hydrogen to the first 10 star systems on the list, add your name to the bottom of the list, and forward to 6 other star systems. You will eventually receive enough Hydrogen to power your civilization until the heat death of the Universe.
Do not break the chain!
* The Klingons threw this message into their junk mail folder. Their home planet's moon exploded, devastating the planet!
* The Vulcans considered chain letters to be illogical, and their planet exploded!!!
* The Earthlings ignored the message, and their planet was demolished to make a hyperspace bypass!!!!!"
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's what she says...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Almost a year ago, we piloted the .NET Core reference documentation on docs.microsoft.com. Today we are happy to announce our unified .NET API reference experience. So you won't have MSDN to kick around much longer
You're going to miss it when it's gone
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Thank god, the .NET Core documentation was horrible before. It seems like now that they've unified everything it has all the goodies of the MSDN docs that it was missing previously.
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A broad array of Android phones is vulnerable to attacks that use booby-trapped Wi-Fi signals to achieve full device takeover, a researcher has demonstrated. Android is the new Windows, part way too many
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Another link (IMHO better): Project Zero: Over The Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 1)[^]
M.D.V. 
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Software has shaped our lives and culture for decades, and now the United Nations will make a push to get world governments to work toward preserving it. The UN has spoken! All will follow.
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