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I'll never forget how disappointed I was when they cancelled Google Desktop. It was great for searching the local file system.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Backdoors snuck into 12 OSS packages were downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. "Shake for me girl, I want to be your back-door man"
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So remember, for the best security and stability, Download and Install ALL Updates Immediately!
Yeah, right.
I'll stick with using real security measures, thanks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What a disgrace! There's no such word as "snuck". The word is sneaked.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Round numbers can be powerful marketing tools, increasing people's sense of accomplishment as they work towards goals in areas like finances or weight loss, according to new Washington State University research. Study is 51.43% accurate (+/- 51.43%)
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Good Lord!
Washington State University has finally discovered the Threshold Effect!
Quick!
Someone tell everyone who's known about it for the last two-hundred years, so they can start working with it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'll require 42% more resources for that. And plenty of break-time walking through flower-filled meadows surrounded by verdant forests to handle the stress of it all. I'll be able to accomplish it all with 97% greater efficiency and 98% greater happiness.
#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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With this release, which brings the volume of its open data to more than 2 PB (or two million GB), CMS has now provided open access to 100% of its research data recorded in proton-proton collisions in 2010, in line with the collaboration’s data-release policy. Find your own particles!
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Great idea!
Let's feed thousands of random, home-grown AIs with data that they can use to find ways to destroy the universe!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Object-oriented programming: Some developers love it — but some hate it. "It is dangerous to make predictions, especially in a discipline that changes so rapidly, but one thing I can say with confidence is that I have seen the future, and it is object-oriented."
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Required adjustments implemented.
Closing ticket.
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There seem to be two prevailing views on this:
0) OOP is the way to do absolutely everything.
1) FP is the way to do absolutely everything.
I'm going to propose a "third way":
OOP is best for some projects and FP is best for others.
The "trillion dollar mistake" was not OOP per se but the notion that one size somehow fits all whatever the nature of your application. It's a mistake that many seem to be hell-bent on replicating with FP.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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To a man who has a hammer...
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OOP done right is good. The problem is that we have new devs that don't do oop right, and nobody calls them out on it, because "everybody is a winner".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Perhaps because:
- Everyone claims to be doing OOP
- Very few are actually doing OOP
- The few who are doing it, are doing it wrong
Kinda like teenage sex...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Those dang kids should just be passing messages and maintaining their own state?
They'll get hairy palms doing that
TTFN - Kent
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As usual, I find myself agreeing with your insights; may I propose one more point:
4. There is no consensus about how to do OOP right because there was never a rigorous definition of what OOP is.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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It's more than hating on OOP, it's also hating on basic programming concepts. To paraphrase, those who know, do, those who don't, write articles and bitch about those who know.
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Bingo.
(Also why I'm so bitchy)
TTFN - Kent
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I think the ratio of ignorant doers to ignorant writers is probably equal.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Opinionated jerk looking to offend someone offends the opinionated jerks who were looking for something to be offended by.
The Circle of Life.
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Several Battlebots videos were taken down in the least few days, with YouTube citing animal cruelty policies. People for the Ethical Treatment of extreme Robots (PETR) strikes again!
I guess their AI was really taking it personally
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It's just attention seeking (probably sponsored by Robot Wars, or similar).
If they truly cared about animal welfare, they'd take down everything to do with every flavour of pokemon.
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In the EU, that falls firmly in the camp of "that will take more time to intelligently consent to cookie use than actually read the article". People really need to start stream-lining this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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