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The problem with staying competitive isn't that we spend too much on IT, it's that we don't spend enough "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
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Who let the economist in here?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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QuickTime and iTunes are two of the most exposed programs, according to Flexera I think it's because they want to forget they actually installed iTunes for Windows
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The first thing I uninstall after installing Quicktime (which I only do with a gun pointed at me) is the Apple Updater. Because for some reason, Apple believes that "Keeping Quicktime up to date" means the same thing as "Install Safari, ITunes, and any other Apple-branded crapware under the sun"
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That's the same reason I haven't had quicktime installed on any of my PCs since the last one I had before installing Vista64 because I needed more ram.
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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Developers are business people. The only way the statement in the Agile principles makes sense is to suggest that they’re not. Certainly true, if the question is, "Give us one word that describes Leslie Nielsen."
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Actors?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Developers are not business people, just as athletes are not business people. Policefolk and firefighters are not business people either.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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In other words, business people are declarative while developers are imperative?
Marc
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Wasn't that the first comment at the bottom of the article?
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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He's addressing an issue that doesn't exist. The entire article is based on a non sequitur.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I recently read Christin Gorman's blog Future Proof. In it she lambastes the idea that you can create code that is protected from future change. YAGNI
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Researchers have found that the most secure password you can create is actually a little poem made of random words, which could take millions of years to crack and are also easy to remember. I think that I have never heard a poem as lovely as a password
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They've stolen my IP - there goes my use of
"The boy stood on the burning deck..."
"When a man grows old and his $#$%^ grow cold"
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Interesting article; I wonder how many people will be willing to type in passwords consisting of sixty characters, even if those sixty characters are easy to remember:
Sample password poem generated by the system of Ghazvininejad & Knight, NAACL 2015.
For demonstration purposes only!
010100010110001111100011100110001111111110010100010011001001
The global village authorized
mistakes protects a criticized . The site that will generate a sample password for you (and promises to erase it forever after they send it to you) displays this message today (Nov. 2):
"Oct 22nd update: Site traffic is high and the processing time will take longer.
Please don't request multiple times. The password will automatically be sent to you in the next few hours.
Approximate waiting time: 437 hours."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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What good is a secure password when the crooks just steal the whole database?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And now you have such a long password, is it really good?
Depends on the other site: there might be a maximum length (quite common), password field lengths at sign-up and "change password" pages may differ (yes, already found such a case), only the first 8 characters are used as password (seen that in a Hospital Information System), the password is stored in plain text in an environment variable of the process (seen in another HIS), ...
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With its last generation of space-race engineers hanging up their slide-rules, NASA is looking for someone fluent in Fortran and other Cold War-era languages. Be present for the future of the past
Also: be one of the first in the know when V'ger returns to destroy us.
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Quote: Also: be one of the first in the know when V'ger returns to destroy us. Either Voyager inherits IBoomerang or Universe is a sphere!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: inherits IBoomerang Far too modern. Old versions of Fortan are not object-oriented, no interfaces and inheritance known...
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I know several assembler and Fortran developers - not sure they'd cope with 1970s hardware though
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1970s hardware was simple. You just needed a mechanical card punch. No electronics required.
Admittedly most of my work in that decade was on coding sheets - the only equipment needed was a pencil.
Fortran was my first 'real' language (in joke: the others 'float').
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simple but very limited - it's the limited bit I think many would struggle with now - but there has to be plenty of embedded devs who would cope.
I used Fortran IV - in the 80s though - I only ever wrote one program in it - a 12" mag tape handling system.
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Desktop OS Market share has just been released for the month of October, and it shows that Windows 10 is installed on 7.94% of desktops globally, up from 6.63% last month. Windows 10 is 8%, Windows 8 is 10%. Mind blown.
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