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Dang. Caught it on the version that mailed out, but not this forum version. Ah well, you're not missing much:
"Whiteboards deemed awful"
TTFN - Kent
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The experience of the writer just elephanting pisses me off. I can tell you for a fact that if I had guys slinging algorithms around like asked for in the interview, I'd be very concerned. Why?
I happen to be a grunt EE who writes embedded s/w and HMIs. My products NEVER die. Fancy code gives me the squirts. Stick with the basics, don't come up with fancy embedded classes within .h files. You might die (I might be a suspect) before I ever retire.
I am so tired of fancy code that is unsupportable.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Microsoft says the ability to sync extensions across their Chromium-based Edge browsers on different devices is coming this month, starting with Canary channel testers. Because I know you're all breathless, waiting for Edge updates
And it's an incredibly slow news day.
I remain surprised that the Windows team hasn't pulled them back under their release schedule
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In 2018, the owner of Two-Bit History, a site dedicated to computer history, wrote a successful article about mathematician Ada Lovelace, who some credit as being the first computer programmer. Sadly, if you search Google for that article today you won't find it. Some idiotic anti-piracy company had it deleted because it dared to use the word 'did'. Did be evil
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And where exactly is it that companies keep off-shoring their support teams to?
Dance, Western Fools, Dance!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft is giving up on making its Visual Studio App Center a Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) to concentrate on DevOps functionality, and many developers aren't happy about it. "You can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You messed up. You trusted us!"
Slightly sanitized
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I tried real hard to get riled, but failed.
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I confess that it hit me in pretty much the same way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Breakthrough Listen project just released two petabytes of SETI data, and anyone from scientists to coders with experience in Python and a bit of gumption can look for signs of extraterrestrial life. It's only 2 petabytes, shouldn't take too long
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There's many people asking for free stuff or begging for resources. SETI doesn't seem worth the effort, there's no proof of intelligent life if this universe at all.
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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The paradox is that it will take the advanced intelligent life they are looking for to find advanced intelligent life in that amount of data.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 2 petabytes Every time I see data quantities like that, it reminds me of a Linux app -- a small Linux app -- that had made provision for storage of up to multiple yottabytes of data.
I don't know how much unique data there is in the world, but there's a fair chance that it hasn't even reached one yottabyte, yet (that's a top-of-the-head non-calculation, so I'm quite ready to be corrected on it).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: it hasn't even reached one yottabyte
Is that with, or without, cat videos?
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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Ah. Point taken.
Less than 20 yottabytes, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord. Those Linux folk *are* a shifty bunch
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If you read their full instructions, they recommend the softly-softly approach, engaging the offending child with "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello? What's all this, then?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It means you suspect if you use them; so, downloading Kali now
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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There's the rub: I'll bet all the Brummy kids who'd never heard of Kali Linux before this have all downloaded it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is ethnical profiling by software; use Linux, you a criminal. If you use TOR, you a criminal. If you use bitcoin, you a criminal.
I'm not a criminal until proven, but will act as if any government is hostile, and will provide services to those who pay.
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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To be fair, Discord is really lame.
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A nocturnal work schedule is the key to creativity and productivity for many open source programmers. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
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Open Source wrote: Bright computer screens It was already a thing when we worked with green-screens.
You easily get into the zone when focusing on a problem without being disturbed. That's not very easy in an office, and impossible in an open office. But.. go, open offices! The thing of the future!
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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There's nothing special about programmers in this regard. Anyone who works independently of others will tend to keep their own schedule. The 9-5 wasn't even invented until the industrial revolution, which means it's been around for only about a 200,000th of the history of people.Kent Sharkey wrote: "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." Not wanting to state the obvious...[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It couldn't be they actually, you know, WORK during the day?
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