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President Donald Trump continued his war of words against technology companies for a third day in a row, this time telling Bloomberg News in an Oval Office interview this afternoon that he sees the power and influence of companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google as a “very antitrust situation.” Soapbox, soapbox. Soapbox soapbox: soapbox
But I mention it here as it's news, and about technology companies (I've been trying to avoid posting about it)
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Do you wish you had a later version of C++ in your production code? If you do, you’re not alone: a lot of C++ developers today don’t work with a compiler that supports the latest version of the standard. With the added bonus that you'll still need to update your code when you finally get the new version
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The whole article could have been reduced to a single sentence:
"Place the C++ keywords not yet supported by your version of C++ in C-style comments wherever they would actually be located."
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Terrible advice!
I've spent a lot of my career "up-porting" code. This is so much easier with clean code, written to the compiler, libraries and operating systems available rather than what might happen sometime in the future.
I once worked on a project which took most of these ideas, especially the emulation one, to the limit. It was a nightmare. The code was littered with inscrutable comments, macros, defines and emulated functions, none of which were quite the same as what became the standard, so could never go away without heavy refactoring. (Worse, there were often multiple versions of the above!)
modified 4-Sep-18 13:54pm.
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Google wants to ensure developers have the tools necessary to protect user data with the open-source release of Tink. ROT13 ought to be enough for everyone
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Cool, I thought, I don't need OpenSSL just to get AES-GCM! Then I read "Tink depends on Abseil, Protocol Buffers, and BoringSSL." Screw you Google.
(BTW, doing AES-GCM with OpenSSL is absurdly easy. To me, Tink makes it more complicated.)
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Here’s the not-so-secret recipe for strong passphrases: a random element like dice, a long list of words, and math. And as long as you have the first two, the third takes care of itself. First, roll for initiative
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The C language is very powerful, widely used—particularly in the Linux kernel—and very dangerous. One of the Linux engineers outlines how developers can cope with the programming language's security weaknesses. Just shoot off a toe, not your foot?
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Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world. I'm confused: if the story is untold, what's this story about?
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How many times have you created a console application to run specific tasks in .NET? 25 points
50 if it did my work for me.
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Videos account for some of the richest and most delightful content on the web. It's a cat video, what else do I need to know?
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How do we prepare for and manage what's known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution? You mean we're not in it now?
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Imagine you could get the entire web in a database, and structure it. Then you would be able to get answers to complex questions in seconds by querying, rather than searching. This is what Diffbot promises. Try it before one of the search engine buys the company
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Fortunately for those whose names are likely to be flagged by filters, many platforms are increasingly relying on humans to moderate content since they can better understand the context. Just checking to make sure everyone's email filters are up to snuff
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Presumably with a first name of "Seymour", just to satisfy Bart Simpson?
Of course, email address generation policies can make even perfectly polite names sound rude: Megan Finger on Twitter[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh, my. Poor Megan
I think email admins just look for some of those. Of course, I would never be tempted.
TTFN - Kent
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You beat me to it
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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As always, life imitates Dilbert.
Dilbert Comic Strip on 2000-08-19 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The worst name I had seen was back in the 90's on an old research paper from NASA. The last name was "Leaky", first name "Colon". The name is bad enough, but the report was from a study on cow flatulence.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Phuc Dat Bich tops Butts any day!
PS. Nice name for a Vietnamese. Google it.
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Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Time to program my fingers for new keyboard commands
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Many of the improvements have been nice. Unfortunately, Intellisense for C++ has gotten measurably worse and they still haven't fixed intellisense for things like emplace_back or make_unique.
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Mozilla today announced that Firefox will soon block web trackers by default. In conjunction, Firefox will also let users control what information they share with sites. That should go over big with advertisers
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Just as it has in the past, Yahoo mail continues to scan the content of its users’ emails in order to sell that information on to advertisers. If you're still using Yahoo email, you have bigger problems
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I hate yahoo. They keep hijacking my browser. Wish they would just die.
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