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Adobe isn't just putting Flash on ice. In the wake of customer emails, the software giant has signaled that it will discontinue Shockwave for Windows on April 9th, 2019. "You cannot kill what is already dead"
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"That is not dead which can eternal lie."
"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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At least they didn't choose April 1st...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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My mind is over complicating how difficult or easy will old 2000s web games will be playable in the future.
Hardware based console games are mostly can be emulated, or original hardware restored.
How much of a hurdle will it be to run a VM or Windows XP, install Firefox 5, then install Adobe Flash, just to find it complain "permission to run has been disabled due to lack of fetching Ads to server before the game"
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I'm surprised someone hasn't recommended using Docker containers yet.
".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 we should use Docker containers instead?
There, happy now?
BTW - What exactly are Docker containers again?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Something DevOps guys should know about and be eager to implement. Or so I'm told...
".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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Quote: Something DevOps guys should know about Thank God I didn't know. I thought for a minute I might be one of those DevOps creatures!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Shock and awwww?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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#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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The free, online course is a master class series that aims to empower business leaders to lead with confidence in the age of AI. I predict some "new direction" coming from a lot of CEOs
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God almighty.
You'd think AI were something special, that can be used for everything.
It's really not.
Everyone who now thinks "Sh1t, I wish we'd never bothered with this useless 'cloud' cr@p" should remember that feeling, when reading all the AI hype.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A student or a programmer hired from Freelancer.com? Doesn't really matter. Both don't know that many things about password security. This is why we can't have nice things
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ZDNet wrote: Programmers who are paid an absolute maximum of USD 66.67 per day might not be the best programmers in the world!!!!
PANIC!!!! Golly.
Without zdnet, I would never know what I should be terrified about.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The top two lessons I've learned when starting a new project:
1. Implement instrumentation first (exception handling, error logging, etc)
2. Implement security correctly second (sometimes #1 requires doing #2 first depending on your reporting mechanisms)
Then get on with the process of actually implementing the project.
Full disclosure: I often ignore those two lessons.
Latest Article - Web Frameworks - A Solution Looking for a Problem?
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Beyond password security issues, some really senior professionals will invent their own encryption methods.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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One of the delights of my professional life was encountering a login dialog that used a Caesar Cipher (Practical Cryptography) to "encrypt" passwords. I could probably have cracked that when I was eight years old.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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This study should have been titled, "Hiring Developers - You Get What You Pay For".
".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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At those laughably low rates I'm surprised none of them tried to pass of ROT13.
Seriously though, does Java not have an out of the box solution that doesn't require extra work to setup?
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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Freelancer -- or hire-an-amateur-from-India. Right.
Quote: The first, Base64, isn't even an encryption algorithm, but an encoding function, something that the participating developers didn't seem to know. Similarly for MD5, which is a hashing function.
"Many participants used hashing and encryption as synonyms," the team of academics said in their research paper.
"Of the 18 participants who received the additional security request, 3 decided to use Base64 and argued, for example: '[I] encrypted it so the clear password is not visible' and 'It is very tough to decrypt'," researcher said --highlighting that some study participants didn't know the basic difference between an encryption algorithm and a function that just jumbles characters around. Yep, still get this from so-called "experienced" devs.
#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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Microsoft offers Windows 10 users a look at how they use data to improve the quality of Windows 10 updates. Crossed fingers and lucky rabbit's foot?
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Why on Earth would I want to read about something that's obviously not working.
Oh, can't hang about. There's a new bulletin about brexit.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: that's obviously not working. Even if they worked... they will be ignored. As the feedback of the insiders
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The insider program is pointless to the way they currently do things.
Their entire QC is based on data slurping. Instead of debugging, they just wait and see how many machines their updates kill, or if more programs or drivers crash or slow down.
It's a bloody shameful way to do business, that's what it is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We fixed our problems, except for the utter crap upcoming release.
Ultimately, the problem is that the CEO and President are more concerned with being social justice warriors and visionaries than in actually running their company.
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