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Unreproducible bugs are the bane of my existence. Far too often, I find a bug, report it, and hear back that it’s not a bug because it can’t be reproduced. Of course, the bug is still there, waiting to prey on its next victim. These types of bugs can be very expensive due to increased investigation time and overall lifetime. They can also have a damaging effect on product perception when users reporting these bugs are effectively ignored. We should be doing more to prevent them. In this article, I’ll go over some obvious, and maybe not so obvious, development/testing guidelines that can reduce the likelihood of these bugs from occurring. The steps in this article don't seem to work for me
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While there is a long list of historical reasons why browsers have a locked-down DOM, and why the same origin policy constrains interaction to/from back-end systems for portions of a page, why in 2014 do email applications totally forbid JavaScript? I’m going to do that here, and outline what could happen if email application makers made that leap. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"I love you" - how many years have passed since that? Sufficiently long ago for forgetting it, obviously.
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Last week, Microsoft Research announced it was adopting a policy that allows it to retain a license for research submitted to conferences or publishers in order to post it to a freely accessible online site as well. And earlier this week, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson said it will release data from clinical trials, through an agreement with the Yale University Open Data Access Project. "Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking."
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The government believes vehicle-to-vehicle data links will help improve driver safety, and will push for legislation requiring it in "a future year." You just know someone's going to figure out how to put adverts on it, right?
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yeah, and hack your controls and drive your car away...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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WTF? There is an alert code for Air Raids? Seriously?
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Probably just a free text field to go with the exclamation in a triangle.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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More petabytes for the NSA to track.
/ravi
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Office 365 users now get the same service-level-agreement and compliance guarantees with Access-based Store apps as with the rest of Office 365. Access your Access, now in the cloud
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New U.S. government rules allow the companies to disclose how many FISA requests for member data they receive.
Will the "truth" set them free?
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Developers can integrate the SDK into their existing mobile or web apps to stream them on Chromecast.
All for dongle streaming, and dongle streaming for all.
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The proportion of Windows XP users actually rose in January, according to NetMarketShare figures.
They hit it with six shots, and it's still alive!
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Unless you believe net market share's precision is better than .25% ; all the chuckleheads reporting on the XP revival are confusing sampling noise for a signal.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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We gaze into our coding crystal ball to find the sure bets and intriguing developments developers should target in the next five years. "In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive"
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Together they fashioned a general purpose programming language that was also suited to advanced mathematics and statistics and could run at speeds rivaling C, the granddaddy of the programming world. What, another "one language to rule them all"?
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...and in the darkness bind them.
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Excellent!
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This defense of our own choices and ideas is core to human nature. It is easy for us to adopt a new idea but we religiously defend the ones we have without needing much evidence to back it up. The problem is we tend to tie up our ideas about things with our identity and even our value as human beings. "Burn the heretic, Kill the mutant, Purge the unclean."
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Prove it.
I'll also add that OpenVMS is the very best operating system and Windows and all other "personal" operating systems are utter crap for enterprise work. But Windows pays the bills so I use that.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I'll also add that OpenVMS is the very best operating system and Windows and all other "personal" operating systems are utter crap for enterprise work. But Windows pays the bills so I use that.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Prove it.
Thank you for saving me the effort
TTFN - Kent
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