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The steering wheel and pedals will be replaced by a pastel-coloured stack of jenga blocks, threaded together with a ribbon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It happens to everyone that writes code all day long — the sudden feeling of "I'd rather do anything else than this right now" — even though writing software is one of your favorite activities in the world. "Burning out his fuse up here alone"
The William Shatner version, of course.
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But doesn't that feeling eventually come to everyone who does the same thing all day long? It's not specific to software developers.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But doesn't that feeling eventually come to everyone who does the same thing all day long? Every job sucks, simply because it's a job.
Fortunately, we're in a line of work where the old excitement can be found again, from time to time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But doesn't that feeling eventually come to everyone who does the same thing all day long?
Even with actors in certain "film" industries?
Marc
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I stopped paying attention to tech trends and reading hacker news.
Amen, bro!
Except for The Insider News.
Marc
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On December 30, the White House quietly released its Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy, a 25-page document outlining the United States’ plans in the event that a giant asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth. Two words: Bruce. Willis.
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A 25-page government document?
So that's:
- Five pages front matter (+ two "This page intentionally left blank" pages)
- Two pages of preamble (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- Two pages of introduction, twice, from different departments (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- One page of executive overview (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- Four outline pages (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- One page for the index
That leaves two pages for the content.
I'll bet it's a great read.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The two pages of actual content say "START SCREAMING" in 96 point font.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bruce. Willis.
Well, if Chuck Norris has a day off, I guess Bruce will have to take over...
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Answers to three important questions of code coverage and important industry data points. Apply two coats for improved coverage
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FTC: D-Link failed to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras, potentially compromising sensitive consumer information You mean admin/password isn't security?
I mean, they probably mentioned in their manual that changing passwords might be a good idea.
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There are manuals for routers?!
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What, are you saying that you don't love the Help system for HP servers?
Where I am, it works wonderfully -- I mean downloading live content from the Internet (there is no off-line option) is just perfect for air-gapped systems!
Thank Heaven that their management tools, pre-boot options, etc, are so intuitive.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Interpreters are out and native code is in for Google's Python to Go transcompiler, which is designed to replace CPython 2.7. Coming soon: a compiler that uses your Python code to create a custom chipset
There must be some way to get performance out of this!
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According to a security expert who requested anonymity, ransomware cybercriminals took in about $1 billion last year. I sure hope they report that income on their tax forms
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They're spending it on buying BD-R discs, to store their family photos.
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Today, Razer unveiled what it refers to as "the world's first automated triple display laptop". I don't understand, but I think I want it
Of course, battery life will likely be measured in batteries per minute, not minutes per battery
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Powered by a GTX-1080? Yeah, car batteries per minute would be accurate.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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There’s nothing quite like Psyche anywhere else in our solar system—a small asteroid belt object made entirely of iron-nickel metal. The mission name better have a few umlauts in it
Psyche? No, I think not. Ästëröïd Hüntsmän!
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From the link: Another very compelling to visit Psyche: space mining.
Anyone else noticed how the gizmodo editor silently slipped in this pseudo scientific scifi bullshit one-liner of their own into the article?
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: pseudo scientific scifi bullshit one-liner But, but, Luxembourg is leading the way[^]!
All they need is a rocket, some kind of equipment to get out there, mining equipment that works in almost 0G, and some way to get things back and down the gravity well without burning up. Then profit!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: All they need is a rocket, some kind of equipment to get out there, mining equipment that works in almost 0G, and some way to get things back and down the gravity well without burning up
That sounds eerily similar to some of the user stories written by the "business analysts" at my previous workplace. The developers were expected to build software based on such "specifications".
On one of the meetings, a senior developer (he was close to 60 then, and is probably retired now) commented that the specifications might as well say "Hello, have a nice day. Bye!".
The developers and even some of the business analysts in the meeting room laughed out so loud.
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