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Mark_Wallace wrote: My new method is going to be called OpDevs.
Just take all the dumb@rse ideas that come along, and implement them in reverse.
Expecting sysadmins to be able to write complex applications will probably at least fail fast. As a dev it's easy enough to install/run a server until something breaks horribly; making that flavor of koolaid appear to work for a while.
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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MIT Technology Review wrote[ ^]: More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built. I wish the 'spend twice' option was backported to paper money.
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I get"MIT said: MIT Technology Review is currently unavailable. We are working on it and we apologize for the inconvenience. But the reasons for that could prove to be more interesting than the article itself.
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A paper published Monday in a well-known science journal begins with the following sentence: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a pair of grape hemispheres exposed to intense microwave radiation will spark, igniting a plasma.” A universally acknowledged truth indeed... but what causes this microwave marvel? Grant money well spent. Now on to putting forks in the microwavev.
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Sparks are nice. Personally I'd like grant money to study what they put in marshmallows to make them swell up in a microwave. I'd rub that formula on like suntan lotion at the beach and look like Arnold the Terminator after a few minutes in the sun. Might even have uses that put viagra out of business. Now thats a grant that would have some ROI to it.
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Actually, I loved this!
There's something wrong with my brain, I know...
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Over the last few months, we’ve seen lots of thoughtful and passionate discussion throughout the community, on the blog, in Developer Community, and a bunch of social media sites. Through these previews, we were able to share some of the UI changes in this release. Aw, look. They do listen.
And of course - NEW ICONS!
{insert slide whistle here}
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Kent Sharkey wrote: {insert slide whistle here} I'm not going to ask where the arrow pointing to "here" was pointing.
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Really? A major release, and they changed the f*ckin title bar? And added new icons? And that's news?
Who exactly are they listening to?
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Who exactly are they listening to? I don't know, but I'm guessing a beret or turtleneck are involved.
TTFN - Kent
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Really? A major release, and they changed the f*ckin title bar? And added new icons? And that's news? It's "The Way of the Future!"
Unless you're not a complete bleeding idiot.
I've lost count of the times, in recent years, I've wondered why I've even bothered updating stuff.
"If it ain't broke" is very firmly a thing of the saner and stronger past.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Who exactly are they listening to? Clippy?
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"Over the last few months, we’ve seen lots of thoughtful and passionate discussion throughout the community, on the blog" and promptly ignored them. Hurray for us!
This is Visual Studio 2012 all over again. Why not bring back ALL CAPS and make the circle complete?
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Nah! It's a typo!
The R is supposed to be a D.
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Cramming the title bar to save vertical space!
I develop on a portrait mode 16:9 screen and have oodles of vertical space.
Everyone should do this - I should work for Microsoft to enforce portrait mode working and thereby reduce title clutter. I hate title clutter!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In an effort to allay fears, the Linux Foundation today launched Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA), an open source project comprising tools intended to help companies build and certify Linux-based systems whose failure could result in loss of human life, significant property damage, or environmental damage. "Everybody's taking the chance"
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Jesus wept!
When will these open-source idiots learn that icons is the way of the future!
Wasting my bloody time, mumble mumble mumble...
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ELIZA was a fake chat program. Is this a fake security program?
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Remember that early 2000s software that extracted .zip files and just about any other file archive on your Windows PC, WinRAR? Better late than never?
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19 years?!?!?!?
That's about as long as I've had a license for it!hackers could manipulate WinRAR to extract a malicious program to a computer's startup folder. You've got to admit that that's an elegant trick.
It's a shame that I've had StartupMonitor[^] on every machine I've owned for about as long (I even built an installer to run it as a service), because simplicity and elegance should be rewarded.
But maybe shorter prison sentences would be reward enough.
And, I've gotta say, if you don't have something that monitors items being added to start-up locations and reg keys, you need a kick in the pants.
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Funny how they think millions used WinRAR
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5G may be one of the biggest internet buzzwords around, but Donald Trump is already over it. Instead, Trump has moved on to 6G. Do we hear 8 now, 8G. 9G... 9G... going once...
Edit: Oh, and obligatory Dilbert[^]
modified 21-Feb-19 14:35pm.
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I often wake up in the morning and think "How can I make an idiot of myself, today?"
But this guy! He's got me beat five ways to Thursday.
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He does wake up early, apparently. Gotta get a good start on that.
TTFN - Kent
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You're right.
I need an alarm ringtone that screams "TWITTER IS ON-LINE! TWITTER IS ON-LINE!"
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