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Microsoft was able to identify new wiper malware (dubbed "FoxBlade") and provided both mitigation strategies and updated Microsoft Defender definitions to the Ukrainian government "within three hours" of discovering it. They can do more than icons when needed
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Measuring developer outputs can be detrimental because there are not enough data points to understand if the unproductiveness was caused by the developer himself, or by his surroundings/company. kLoC, of course
That's why I format my code with one keyword per line.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's why I format my code with one keyword per line.
You and the author of the above article.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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I think it might be easier to measure developer non-productivity. Let's call it FART.
F - Fear of making changes
A - Architecture, death by
R - Refactoring because the code base is hell
T - Technical obsolescence - you want me to code in what???
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I think I found the source of all the anti-productivity problems, all of the
Bloated
Useless
Lousy
Leaderpship
Shoving
Horrible
Ideas (from)
Tradeshows
being rammed down our throats from on high.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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You can't effectively measure a programmer's productivity:
0) if you hold programmers to a schedule
1) if you impose artificial and arbitrary security restrictions
2) if you won't provide sufficient tools (hardware and software) that allow them to do their jobs
3) if you have a number of programmers with various skill levels because there's no "baseline" value to compare against.
4) if you have a number of programmers with various skill levels working on a large code base of varying complexity.
5) if the sky is blue one day, and overcast the next.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The idea behind this "interaction language" is that the machines around us could be more intuitive and perceptive of our desire to interact with them by better understanding our nonverbal cues. Sorry, did you say something?
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I go on the computer to get away from the wife, I don't need my PC yelling at me when I'm not paying attention too.
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You know, it might end up as a new process concept!
(Youngsters may not be aware of it: The Unix process concept was developed by K&R for their space invasion game, so that the invading spaceships would continue to get closer while you were scratching your head for what to do next. Being slow on the draw might cause your death. This mechanism for letting spaceships sneak in on you if you didn't pay attention became the Unix process. And the space invasion command processor became the shell.)
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Did they get jealous of MoviePass? (That you mentioned here a while ago?)
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Was it the Chinese Government to ask for such a thing?
Party members have to spend some amount per day with the thoughts of their Great Leader. Now, the party can even check if those party members really pay attention...
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Is there any doubt about the reason that Google wants this technology?
So that they can charge more for ads that people are paying attention to! And so that they can study what makes us pay attention, of course.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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When he retired with stuff left on his to-do list, he expected fixes would flow. They haven't What if we put up some paneling, and maybe a throw rug or two?
That would really tie this place together.
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I agree with him. There is zero security baked into the underlying protocols, which I find absolutely amazing since is was the DoD, via DARPA, that paid for the basic development of the IP protocol family.
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Remember that IP wasn't intended as a host-to-host protocol, but as an internet protocol, for gatewaying from one network to another network, and security was the responsibility of the two networks connected through the IP gateway.
But (in contrast to the competing OSI Internet Protocol) Internet IP didn't really provide any help whatsoever to make different networks talk together. So by and by, hosts took over the IMP functionality, bypassing the network on their side of the gateway. Then of course they should have taken the full responsibility for network functions such as network security. They did not.
Doing so would have increased the complexity to a level that couldn't be handled by a University freshman student as a home exercise. That could have had negative effects on the spreading of IP as The Ruling Network Technology.
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There's more to coding than coding. Showing the hiring manager your puppy-eyes expression isn't very helpful
...I've heard.
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To be hit by a dual ransomware attack is a nightmare scenario for any organisation, say security researchers. Sadly, they don't mutually annihilate one another
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There’s a difference between privacy, which is based on trust, and secrecy, which isn’t. To maximize your team’s potential, you need to foster privacy and eschew secrecy. Go on - tell everyone your bank account PIN. You want to be effective, don't you?
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A signal interpreted as the first light illuminating the Universe may not be from the far reaches of the Universe after all, a new study has found. In fact, it may not even be from space. Those danged microwave ovens!
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To understand if programmers have difficulty learning additional programming languages, we conducted an empirical study of Stack Overflow questions across 18 different programming languages. The semi-colons are all in the wrong place
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After having been a programmer for more than 20 years. I really don't find it that hard to learn a new language. Of course I actually sit down about once a year or so and take a week and try to learn a new one. Sooooo there is that.
Started in JCL, RPG and SAS
Moved to VB(ugh) then C#, SQL
Moved onto Powershell and most recently node.js (javascript)
And a host of other languages in the middle of those.
Not a big deal.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Difficult to learn a new language? No. Difficult to get proficient in it? Yes.
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Learning the syntax? No big problem.
Learning to master the ecosystem and developer defined conventions? Huge problem.
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