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Maybe he meant "intercontinental".
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SpaceX has launched a new web-based booking tool for its rideshare Falcon 9 launches, a service it announced last year to expand its addressable market to include small satellite customers who don’t have the budget or need to book a full rocket, which can cost upwards of $60 million. "Zero hour nine AM"
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Techcrunch said: additional weight adding $5 per kg to the cost That's less than a twentieth of the rate the KLM sh1theads charged me for being a kilo and a half over, coming back from Shanghai the one time.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: KLM sh1theads charged me for being a kilo and a half over
KLM == Kan't Load More?
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: KLM == Kan't Load More? Oh, I'd do much worse than that.
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I've got a ticket to the Moon
I'll be leaving here, any day soon
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-- ELO
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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HackerRank has published its 2020 Developer Skills Report, which shows C# gaining ground in the list of "best-known" programming languages for 2020. Rocketing from 7th to 6th!
And based on the fact that JavaScript is #1, it's obviously not a "best known-language" list.
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In a new attempt at augmented reality smart glasses that actually impress consumers, Bosch is doing away with images projected onto lenses. Instead, its Light Drive glasses will beam images directly onto users’ eyeballs with tiny lasers. Unfortunately, you can't re-aim them to get rid of pesky interlopers
Fortunately, Microsoft is working on AR goggles for people who have been blinded by lasers shooting into their eyes.
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So they laser-print on your retinas?
Sounds pretty cool, but I'd rather watch people wearing them if they used older tech.
Dot-matrix, for example.
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I'm disappointed you didn't manage to work in a reference to:
"Revved up like a deuce, Another runner in the night"
"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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Wow. And to think I paid my ophthalmologist a crap-load of money to do that with my left eye in a procedure called Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty, which uses a yellow laser to reactivate dormant cells in the eye which help moderate fluid balance. It's a treatment for glaucoma.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Fortunately, Microsoft is working on AR goggles for people who have been blinded by lasers shooting into their eyes.
Unfortunately, hololens 2 is also laser projection to the eyeballs tech. Just an earlier and bulkier implementation.
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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New study challenges the idea that hunting for an individual star developer will boost productivity. "It's a long way to the top"
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OK, got it.
Lemme just change the want ad to "Script kiddies needed".
You hire the best programmers you can find. End of pointless discussion. Give back the money that was wasted on the "study".
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You hire the best programmers you can find. End of pointless discussion. It is hard enough to define "best"; but I would not blame people for expecting more results if they have to pay more.
Given the mythical man-month, if you switch out an average programmer for a better one, will not mean cutting your development-time in half.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That's true enough, but you can normally spot whether or not a candidate has got a brain and enough experience to back it up (and will be willing to spend some time with his bum in his seat doing the work).
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Brain and experience is not everything. I got those.
I'm also rather slow in thinking and have the attention span of a goldfish right now. Also knew a rockstar-developer that split the team into two camps, hindering all progress. Would outcode three of us, but in a team of seven, that's a bad strategy. Adding a 10x-dev is not always a net to the project; sometimes you're better of with willing mules.
Mark_Wallace wrote: (and will be willing to spend some time with his bum in his seat doing the work). That sounds like "working on it in their spare time". I know no professional outside of IT that's crazy enough to do so. No plumber, no cleaner, car-mechanic. Lawyers and doctors even bill in minutes
I don't do unpaid overtime anymore; done it long enough, because all that is good for the company benefits all employees. Nowadays I'd point to the contract; that's the deal, that's the hours sold against the agreed payment.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In my experience it will, but you won't notice for years when you aren't fixing old code.
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As I get older I realise that I am only a 9X developer, I didn't manage to get that last 'X'.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I didn't manage to get that last 'X' Don't worry. She's out there somewhere.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No.... All my X's are dead!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Owners of Philips Hue smart bulbs are being urged to check its firmware, after the publication of a vulnerability in how the accessories communicate with each other over Zigbee could allow an attacker to gain control over the whole home network. I knew those bulbs weren't a bright idea
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There is an advantage to using these smart bulbs, though: if you've got too much money in the bank, they'll get rid of a chunk of it for you.
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OK, so now I *finally* understand the purpose of these. I've stared at the display in the hardware store, but just couldn't understand them (until now). Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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