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I'm honestly not sure the last time I had an incoming call that wasn't spam or a wrong number. (Maybe when I bought a car???) Or an out going one that wasn't a work related conference call.
And with ubiquitous caller ID on mobile phones these days, I'm surprised enough people are picking up on unknown callers to make it worthwhile. Some people have positions where they can't let voice mail screen incoming calls for them; but surely those people are a small minority these days.
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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A new study suggests employees nationwide are most concerned about their salary, underscoring a trend we’ve seen developing for some time. And bears
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And bears Perfectly on point. I always tell people who are afraid of spiders to divert that timorous energy in the direction of lions, because spiders won't rip 'em to shreds and eat 'em.
If you're going to be afraid of something, make sure it's worth being afraid of -- because if it ain't, you're a wuss, and the hideously phrased and ungrammatical "salary, job loss" ain't a lion or a bear.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, but I don't encounter lions or bears in my living room.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Yes, but I don't encounter lions or bears in my living room. Maybe, but I rarely let my bosses in to my living room, either.
They usually run straight up the stairs (which is why I'm glad I installed a fire escape for the bedroom).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I dared my bosses to pay me so much that I'm priced out of the market and can't get a job anywhere else. So far they have backed down from that challenge. They think I'm only about the money which couldn't be further from the truth. I'm all about the amount of money.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And bears
Only in finance.
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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The world's most popular programming language, according to devops biz Datree.io at least, it not Java, JavaScript, nor Python. Rather, it's YAML, a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language." At this rate, someone might declare ASCII the most popular programming language
Or Unicode if you're one of those people that like ligatures.
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It yaml what it yaml, and that's all what it yaml -- but it yamain't programming!
Look! up in the sky! Is it a super-programming language? Is it---
... Bugger! It was just config, flying out of control! Anyone got a Kleenex?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: someone might declare ASCII the most popular programming language No, it's not the most popular programming language, it's the most popular encryption method. "Passwords are ASCII encrypted."
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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At one sheet thick, these new supercapacitors can bend, fold, flex, and still hold electricity. You do have to keep the capacitor kryptonite away from them though
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So the most common computer repair that I have to do will no longer involve soldering, but it will be more like fixing a photocopier paper-jam?
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Git-based code hosting project Sr.ht aims to blend the best of GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, while sticking with a copyleft license I wonder where they store their source?
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The move, expected to roll out in 2019, comes in the aftermath of the company's botched rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. We're gonna need a bigger database
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Surely with all the dev ops and stuff the argument would be that there are no bugs since its always continuous development, ya know like they have developers working night shift and day shift on "continuous development" so there would no need to have any bug status dashboard..besides it would expose to much ... like Microsoft when the apple way few years back...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Security keys and Windows Hello are now options. The hackers have them all anyway
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An engineer finally got the scoop on square poop. Because we were all waiting to know
Yes, I included that in a thread elsewhere, but Bob decided it needed broader distribution.
Is the wombat the only non-deadly Australian animal? Or is the square poop poisonous?
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Fully grown wombats are kinda like furry rhinos, except they chew through and otherwise destroy anything in their path.
And they are not big on discrimination.
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Hmm. Unfortunately popsci.com has found its way into my hosts file (all zeros), because it flaunts European law by not allowing me to refuse to accept the 91 (count 'em) "unnecessary" cookies that it wants to use to manipulate/spy on me.
The law is there for very good reasons, and the Internet is big enough that I don't need to see every single site.
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JavaScript is always changing. New libraries, new frameworks, new languages… It's part of the fun, but it can also feel overhwelming sometimes. You know it's a cool site because it's white on black
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It's a shame that their div-based sidebar doesn't work properly in many browsers.
Maybe they should have used JavaScript.
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More than a few people are starting to wonder if the very nature of open-source software ― the idea that it can be used by pretty much anyone for pretty much anything ― is causing its developers big problems in the era of distributed cloud computing services. "Think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'"
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If they'd just published their work under the AGPL license then only other open source developers would have used it and we wouldn't have any problem.
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To summarize Redis and MongoDB:
1) Write software
2) Give it away
3) Magic happens
4) Make millions
Now they whine that step 3 didn't work.
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That's a little unfair, because the magic did happen, but the corporations who made the millions are unwilling to contribute any of the money they made to the guys who did the work.
It's an unfortunate fact that if an open-source project is your only product, you're quite likely to take a fall, while others profit from your work ("others" being both users and end-users).
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