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"fix the bugs that need to be fixed and understand why we're not going to fix some bugs that perhaps ought to be fixed."
I must be getting old. Used to be, the goal was to have no known bugs when we shipped a product. Funny Sad how that's changed over the years. And the "well, software has gotten a lot more complex" is a BS excuse IMO. Programmers have simply gotten lazier.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sad how that's changed over the years. And the "well, software has gotten a lot more complex" is a BS excuse IMO. Programmers have simply gotten lazier.
Agree!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Programmers have simply gotten lazier. I was too lazy to bother reading the link.... so um yeah... I gotta agree with this.
Jeremy Falcon
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Microsoft docet: whrn a bug is well known since a certain amount of time fixing it will break compatibility with tons of programs that make expilict usage of said bug. Label it as "feature" and "by design".
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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Time to disable the bloody annoying java updater service for a few months, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Called Delegated Recovery, Facebook engineers created a protocol that allows one online service to vouch for a user on another website. I was originally so shocked that the answer was, "login to Facebook"
Better than entering you mother's maiden name, I guess.
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Bob has an account on Facebook and GitHub. What ? Bob is no longer on CP ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I wouldn't trust either of them.
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Problem is... idiocy is very contagious... I bet this will spread very fast
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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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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MOCAS is the world’s oldest computer program that’s still in active use. It was launched in 1958 by the United States Department of Defense for keeping track of contracts and payments. After 57 long years, MOCAS, pronounced “MOH-cass”, is still used to take care of the records using an IBM 2098 model E-10 mainframe. How could I have guessed it was used by a government agency?
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And it includes a time machine:
January 31, 2017
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Long back in 1958, fifty-seven years ago, ... It lost a year or two somewhere in between.
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They may have been on Nixon's tapes...
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In that article is a link to: 20 Most Important Programming Languages In The World[^] on the same site.
Includes such gems as:
"Pascal is still taught as object-oriented programming at many places"
"ADA is an object-oriented programming language"
(On C) "Mother of many other programming languages–Python, PHP, Perl, MATLAB"
"World’s most popular mobile operating system Android is written in Java."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Now Microsoft Money fan RJ P has started a petition asking Satya Nadella to reconsider, and restore the app to service, adding it to the Office 365 subscription. You know it's not real money, right?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You know it's not real money, right?
I still use this - a great piece of kit - works well.
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I still use it as well; an online version would be pretty cool.
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I'm a fan. I'm signing.
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Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM[^]
Yeah, more security holes. Just what we need.
#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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We just released updates to the .NET Core SDK, .NET Native Tools and NuGet, all of which are included in Visual Studio 2017 RC. "Nothing endures but change."
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A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and complex hologram. "Just remember that it's a Grand illusion and deep inside we're all the same. "
To modern physics levels of "substantial"
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Quote: A holographic universe, an idea first suggested in the 1990s, is one where all the information that makes up our 3-D 'reality' (plus time) is contained in a 2-D surface on its boundaries. Atcherley, I "suggested" it in the late Seventies, but I couldn't get the numbers to work by the middle of the Eighties -- and a much simpler and more elegant possibility caught my eye, anyway.
<grump>So now I've got to go through it all again, to see what they found that I missed!</grump>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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partly responsible for the random black and white dots you see on an un-tuned TV
That certainly dates the audience of that article!
This is a really cool and technically in depth article on the subject.
Marc
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So we're all in a Virtual Reality Simulation? Damn! Mine needs some adjustment!
#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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just remember that it's a Grand illusion and deep inside we're all the same. Kent boy, just how old are you? A Styx[^] reference ?
Software Zen: delete this;
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