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I suspect they have their cause and effect backward.
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It has been exactly two months since the release of Java 9, so as per the new schedule, the next release of Java is now only four months away. Coming to a computer near you, sometime in the next decade or so
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US academics find words such as ‘airlock’ and ‘antigravity’ are cues for test subjects to assume a story isn’t worth a careful read. "Ninety percent of everything is crap"
Technically not in our bailiwick, but I figure the Venn diagram of SF and devs has enough overlap. Or maybe it's just me.
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Passed this along to some of my SF-writing friends.
Can't wait to hear from them.
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Can the explosion be seen from Low Earth Orbit?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I note you had to include an emoji because the use of sci-fi terminology meant that your readers would be unable to infer the emotional reaction intended.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Perhaps they should test the percentage of subjects that find that the phrase 'US academics' is a cue to assume that an article is nonsense.
(They can then go on to test similar phrase for other nationalities. That should keep them out of mischief for a while.)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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US academics find words such as ‘airlock’ and ‘antigravity’ are cues for test subjects to assume a story isn’t worth a careful read.
Funny, for me those words are triggers for "ooh, sounds like a cool story, gotta read it!"
Academics. Perhaps they should add "ivory tower" to their list of "isn't worth a careful read."
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Recruiting and retaining top UK tech developer talent is becoming more challenging – especially for non-tech organisations.
UK-centric (it is US Turkey day afterall), but I suspect the trend is broader
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There are places where you get more pay and respect, you can actually afford a house, and your children don't get brainwashed in the school.
The UK - driving home-grown developers away since Tony B. Liar first got elected.
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Its teamup with "Have I been Pwned" should wake up breached companies. All of them?
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This is actually a good idea.
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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The maintainer of the Linux manual program man has scrapped an "Easter egg" after it broke a user's automatic code tests. "Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away"
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What I mean by The New Microsoft is that Amazon is starting to act a lot like the old Microsoft of the 1990s. You remember -- the Bad Microsoft. Just without an operating system. Or word processor. Or IDE.
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Yeah, turns out they're releasing a rainforest now.
Jeremy Falcon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: like the old Microsoft of the 1990s
As opposed to the brand new and Good Microsoft of the 2000s and on?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: As opposed to the brand new and Good Microsoft of the 2000s and on? Yes. For whatever their faults they may have (and name me one organisation of anything like a comparable size with fewer) they're alright by me. I for one wouldn't be where I am, wouldn't have the career I have, were it not for the free products Microsoft has made available, which got me started - the free versions of Visual Studio are immensely powerful tools, really. And they've open sourced an awful lot of their products. I've got no real arguments with them as a company. (But I do wish they'd reinstate the "Download updates but allow me to choose when to install them" option...)
modified 23-Nov-17 15:21pm.
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You missed my intention... What I was hinting, that Microsoft neither good or bad, and never was... It's a company for profit... So when Microsoft ruled the internet it wasn't because of bad-behaviour (or at least not worst then others), but because they had something to sell to all of us... The same today with Amazon... They taking over cloud because we choose their service, and Amazon not undermining the competitors becasue Amazon is bad, but because it is a... competition to win...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In intelligent persons, some brain regions interact more closely, while others de-couple themselves. This is why I never use off-brand connectors
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It is often said, and very true, that setting boundaries is beneficial for creativity. Why did they just mount baseball bats in every cubicle?
Yes, I'm aware of the irony of linking to a article about writing better JavaScript code in the same newsletter as an article about how much bad JavaScript code is out there.
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One of the discoveries the Open Source Security report mentions is that an analysis of around 433,000 sites found that 77% of them use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability. I would have guessed around 100% based on the way things have been going lately
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if its the UglifyJS library, I don't need that one. I write ugly code from the start.
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The remaining 33% use only the vulnerability but dumped JS...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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