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And where exactly is it that companies keep off-shoring their support teams to?
Dance, Western Fools, Dance!
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Microsoft is giving up on making its Visual Studio App Center a Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) to concentrate on DevOps functionality, and many developers aren't happy about it. "You can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You messed up. You trusted us!"
Slightly sanitized
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I tried real hard to get riled, but failed.
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I confess that it hit me in pretty much the same way.
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The Breakthrough Listen project just released two petabytes of SETI data, and anyone from scientists to coders with experience in Python and a bit of gumption can look for signs of extraterrestrial life. It's only 2 petabytes, shouldn't take too long
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There's many people asking for free stuff or begging for resources. SETI doesn't seem worth the effort, there's no proof of intelligent life if this universe at all.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The paradox is that it will take the advanced intelligent life they are looking for to find advanced intelligent life in that amount of data.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 2 petabytes Every time I see data quantities like that, it reminds me of a Linux app -- a small Linux app -- that had made provision for storage of up to multiple yottabytes of data.
I don't know how much unique data there is in the world, but there's a fair chance that it hasn't even reached one yottabyte, yet (that's a top-of-the-head non-calculation, so I'm quite ready to be corrected on it).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: it hasn't even reached one yottabyte
Is that with, or without, cat videos?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Ah. Point taken.
Less than 20 yottabytes, then.
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The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord. Those Linux folk *are* a shifty bunch
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If you read their full instructions, they recommend the softly-softly approach, engaging the offending child with "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello? What's all this, then?"
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It means you suspect if you use them; so, downloading Kali now
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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There's the rub: I'll bet all the Brummy kids who'd never heard of Kali Linux before this have all downloaded it.
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It is ethnical profiling by software; use Linux, you a criminal. If you use TOR, you a criminal. If you use bitcoin, you a criminal.
I'm not a criminal until proven, but will act as if any government is hostile, and will provide services to those who pay.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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To be fair, Discord is really lame.
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A nocturnal work schedule is the key to creativity and productivity for many open source programmers. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
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Open Source wrote: Bright computer screens It was already a thing when we worked with green-screens.
You easily get into the zone when focusing on a problem without being disturbed. That's not very easy in an office, and impossible in an open office. But.. go, open offices! The thing of the future!
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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There's nothing special about programmers in this regard. Anyone who works independently of others will tend to keep their own schedule. The 9-5 wasn't even invented until the industrial revolution, which means it's been around for only about a 200,000th of the history of people.Kent Sharkey wrote: "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." Not wanting to state the obvious...[^]
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It couldn't be they actually, you know, WORK during the day?
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I can't wait for their follow-up article. I hear it is an in-depth study of why night watchmen like to sleep during the day.
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Never let it be said that Amazon Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi thinks small: His latest patent lays out a plan for a launch system that could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip, guided by a phalanx of drones attached to the lash. "When a problem comes along, you must whip it"
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Well, the Amazons were highly regarded for their physical abilities, not for their brains.
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Are patents requiring magic allowed.
(Seriously; they should require that an invention be actualized within, say, a year of the patent application. Used to that you had to bring a model of a patent to the patent inspector.)
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That’s what I always thought had to be the case. I think switching back to those requirements would definitely put a kink in the patent trolls.
TTFN - Kent
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