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Kent Sharkey wrote: it's really easy to trick a machine Who'da thunkit?
My only regret is that they don't burst into flames and explode, when they meet a logic error.
Hollywood, you promised so much!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: My only regret is that they don't burst into flames and explode, when they meet a logic error.
What a coincidence, that's my wish for humans and logic errors as well
TTFN - Kent
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You'd have been able to smelt diamonds with Tolkien, if I'd had my way.
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And while the induction of such casual slang is sure to offend some, none will likely take great umbrage than Apple zealots, whose zealotry is cited by the dictionary as an example of the proper use of the word. Wake up!
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What dictionary did the m-w get it into?
Oh, wait. I see.
They only put it into their own joke book. I don't know why the site referred to it as a dictionary.
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To understand why it is so difficult to defend computers from even moderately capable hackers, consider the case of the security flaw officially known as CVE-2017-0199. "Works as designed"
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Is it in Word 2003? If not, I'm OK.
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Reuters said: it was in Microsoft software, could allow a hacker to seize control of a personal computer with little trace, and was fixed April 11 in Microsoft's regular monthly security update after the NSA told microsoft they were finished with it
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The new metal fabric is a flexible hybrid of chain mail and plate armor, in the horticultural sense of a hybrid: the offshoot of two different parents, having certain distinct and hopefully desirable characteristics from both. For all your space jousting needs?
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If it's as tough to get through as the awful, stilted writing of the article (and the two modal pop-ups that are there to take the p1ss out of the law), the guys will be as safe as houses.
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Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at UBC's Okanagan campus, recently published a study about the feasibility of time travel. 0. Done. Give me my grant money!
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The headline cracks me up. What else was he going to use, eggs?
"Researcher uses math to investigate possibility of something that requires math."
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Joe Woodbury wrote: cracks me up.
Joe Woodbury wrote: eggs?
Just like the old saying:
Quote: You gotta break some eggs...to travel through time.
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And the writer calls the lecturer/teacher/professor an "instructor", so he's probably a dumb jock who never even understood the words on the front cover of a Maths book.
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The Geometry Of Causality is a video that immediately springs to mind. It's on the PBS Space Time channel on boobtube and is a great watch if you've the mental fortitude.
Find it here: The Geometry of Causality | Space Time - YouTube
I suggest paracetamol or ibuprofen before watching the videos on that channel.
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Feasible, maybe; achievable, probably not.
Time travel makes for a great literary device until you realize that it just can't work the way it has generally been depicted.
Doctor Who may have it best though -- go to the Time Vortex, travel through it, come out somewhere/when else.
modified 28-Apr-17 0:31am.
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Mathematically white holes are possible. We've never observed one.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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<Godwin>
Mathematically Hitler was a very successful leader.
</Godwin>
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A service that claims to be the only way to do email in a secure way is actually riddled with flaws, opening it up to hackers, according to a researcher. Why not just paint a big target on it while you're at it?
Although it does seem the 'easily hackable' is 'easily debatable'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although it does seem the 'easily hackable' is 'easily debatable'
If you're referring to the response from nomx, I wouldn't classify sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you" as "debate". It's more like the five minute argument[^] instead.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He who steals my e-mail steals thousands upon thousands of words of bollocks.
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I like to think of software development as navigating through a dark, perilous wilderness. You have no map. If there is a map, it is because someone has already made your idea, so there is no map. The terrain is always uncharted, and always dangerous. The feature should take two weeks, plus or minus a year
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xyzzy
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Well, he's not wrong...entirely. But I think it's a mistake to throw out all deadlines. There are programmers who could easily spend three years tweaking a project that should only take six to eight weeks to complete. On the other hand I wouldn't mind seeing some of the sillier arbitrary deadlines tossed out, unless that deadline is a conference or convention where the project has to be finished on time.
But it also reminds me of myself, who is terrible at estimating development time. I was tasked with converting a ColdFusion site to ASP.NET MVC. I thought I has set down and sufficiently looked at each page and the processing behind each page and adequately estimated the time required to complete the task, around 120 hours. But by the time I had hit 300 hours I knew we needed to change the estimate. We bumped it up to 500 hours, but even then it took over 600 to finish the job. Fortunately, there was no real 'line in the sand' deadline.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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