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I present here a small bibliography of papers on programming languages from the 1970’s. if !study(history) { repeat; }
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if !study(history) { repeat; }
To some of us older coders, it does seem that history keeps repeating itself, adopting new names for old concepts, and frequently encountering the same pitfalls.
To be honest though, I find this more with frameworks than languages. Actually, I find very few real new features in languages, with odd exceptions (like lifetimes in Rust).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Following a pre-dismissal hearing with management, the 38-year-old employee downloaded the software to a mobile storage device, bypassing security systems. "The great thieves are leading away the little thief"
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Modern open office architecture tends to decrease the volume of face-to-face interaction by some 70 percent and increases electronic communication accordingly. Bring back the cubicles?
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Yes, YES, a thousand times yes, give me back my walls.
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It will now be open for debate and amendment; another vote will occur in September. EU rejecting new regulations is news, isn't it?
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An international team has developed a ground-breaking single-electron "pump". The electron pump device developed by the researchers can produce one billion electrons per second and uses quantum mechanics to control them one-by-one. "Pump it up, until you can feel it"
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As the head of engineering at Atlassian, I’m part of a lot of interview panels (Like, a lot). I know I’ve got an above-average candidate sitting across from me when they start asking questions about the team they’d be joining. 'Will I be paid in many large, unmarked bills?', isn't one of them (heard from a friend)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As the head of engineering at Atlassian,
I suppose one of his questions for candidates is: do you enjoy working for a company which seems intent on ensuring its products are never great?
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Ouch!
TTFN - Kent
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It's always depressing reading those articles. My answer is "Nope!" to those 8 bullet points. So why do I work where I work? Aye, there's the rub!
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I have determined that for myself the two most important questions I would ask are:
- Define leadership in one sentence or less.
- Define teamwork in one sentence or less.
If they can't adequately answer these two simple question, run.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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I would demand a complete sentence - none of this "or less" nonsense. Far too many people speak in sentence fragments as it is.
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Rick York wrote: none of this "or less" nonsense. Far too many people speak in sentence fragments as it is. A.k.a: code plzzzz!!!
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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modified 6-Jul-18 13:11pm.
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"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Microsoft continues to advance the development of Visual Studio 2017, and their latest preview of 15.8 shows some important new features that will benefit most developers. Good news for people that edit a lot of carets?
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Don't see "Fixed Intellisense crashing issue" on the list. (To be fair, support has maintained that there is no such bug and you can't fix what isn't broken. [Sarcasm tag])
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Google says it vets these app developers and offers strict user controls over data sharing Move along, nothing to see here (by you. They can see everything)
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"Don't worry, we make sure thieves use a key and sign a log book when they rob your house."
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A person's fingers leave thermal residue on keyboard keys that a malicious observer could record and later determine the text a user has entered on the keyboard, according to a recently published research paper by three scientists from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Looks like his password has a lot of backspaces in it?
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Good luck stealing my password; "11111111"
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Better to write "passw0rd" wait a couple of seconds to login successfully and then "äadhfp iwueg fökybcxvlhsagfqtgfb-y<jbxcökah gsifgasr08sed865fo42bvnb="" .23,mn4="" hp768052354bgads="" bfcy="" öfcqoiuzw4e9ß6"="" when="" the="" focus="" is="" not="" even="" set="" to="" an="" input="" box
<div="" class="signature">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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So 80% of users worldwide all have "PornHub" as their password
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Con artists pushing tech-support scams are once again exploiting a Chrome bug that can give users the false impression they’re experiencing a serious operating-system error that requires the urgent help of a paid professional, according to a Google developer forum. A Mozilla developer forum indicates a similar bug may also be present in Firefox. Why am I not surprised that there's an "ms" in the front of that function name?
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A Polish charity has received a huge phone bill after it lost a GPS tracker that it had placed on the back of a stork, it's reported. Mental note: never lend a cell phone to a stork
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