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Interesting article; I wonder how many people will be willing to type in passwords consisting of sixty characters, even if those sixty characters are easy to remember:
Sample password poem generated by the system of Ghazvininejad & Knight, NAACL 2015.
For demonstration purposes only!
010100010110001111100011100110001111111110010100010011001001
The global village authorized
mistakes protects a criticized . The site that will generate a sample password for you (and promises to erase it forever after they send it to you) displays this message today (Nov. 2):
"Oct 22nd update: Site traffic is high and the processing time will take longer.
Please don't request multiple times. The password will automatically be sent to you in the next few hours.
Approximate waiting time: 437 hours."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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What good is a secure password when the crooks just steal the whole database?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And now you have such a long password, is it really good?
Depends on the other site: there might be a maximum length (quite common), password field lengths at sign-up and "change password" pages may differ (yes, already found such a case), only the first 8 characters are used as password (seen that in a Hospital Information System), the password is stored in plain text in an environment variable of the process (seen in another HIS), ...
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With its last generation of space-race engineers hanging up their slide-rules, NASA is looking for someone fluent in Fortran and other Cold War-era languages. Be present for the future of the past
Also: be one of the first in the know when V'ger returns to destroy us.
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Quote: Also: be one of the first in the know when V'ger returns to destroy us.
Either Voyager inherits IBoomerang or Universe is a sphere!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: inherits IBoomerang
Far too modern. Old versions of Fortan are not object-oriented, no interfaces and inheritance known...
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I know several assembler and Fortran developers - not sure they'd cope with 1970s hardware though
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1970s hardware was simple. You just needed a mechanical card punch. No electronics required.
Admittedly most of my work in that decade was on coding sheets - the only equipment needed was a pencil.
Fortran was my first 'real' language (in joke: the others 'float').
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simple but very limited - it's the limited bit I think many would struggle with now - but there has to be plenty of embedded devs who would cope.
I used Fortran IV - in the 80s though - I only ever wrote one program in it - a 12" mag tape handling system.
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Desktop OS Market share has just been released for the month of October, and it shows that Windows 10 is installed on 7.94% of desktops globally, up from 6.63% last month. Windows 10 is 8%, Windows 8 is 10%. Mind blown.
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I wonder whether does it count those who got bricked with their latest updates. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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For years, people have wondered when Google would combine Android and Chrome OS. That day appears to be coming. Those two people that enjoy their Chromebooks will be sad
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Ever been on a project that is on the slow death march to failure? I have, more often than I care to remember. And, each of these projects had a Project Manager at the helm. These PMs were not evil. They just seemed to not know any better. So many more ways to do the opposite though. I guess that's why more pick that route.
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Some PMs are evil. I once had a PM say to me in a meeting: "The reality is, Duncan, that testing is just a luxury we cannot afford".
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Oh, I know that guy... so he switched from our company to yours?
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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He certainly has moved company a good few times to my knowledge.. like Godzilla he can be tracked by the trail of smoking ruin he leaves behind.
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That sounds horribly familiar 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Is he "old school" (the customer does it) or "new school" (the crowd in the cloud will fix our open source)? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Old school with other-world ideas along the lines of "If we just write the software without bugs we can save the time it would take to test it".
Not so much "technical debt" as "technical NINJA[^] loans".
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My favorite was when the manager came to me in a dither and told me "Start coding and I'll get you the specs as soon as I can".
My first thought was "I am so out of here". And I was.
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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MY favourite was when my manager (the owner of the company) said with regards to our flagship product, "Make me a list of all the unexpected things that might happen in the next three weeks..."!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 that's just... wow. His brain must have gone 404.
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 more languages you know, the better a programmer you are, right? Not always – your coding skills are just the beginning of what most companies are looking for in a fresh programming recruit. "You've gotta have heart. Miles 'n miles n' miles of heart."
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Good article. Having good technical skills, whilst important, is not everything. I've worked with some really good developers who were real jerks. They wouldn't budge in their opinion as they thought they were always right. They wouldn't take positive criticism on board. In short, they didn't listen to those around them.
"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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C.A.R.Hoare, wasn't he the author of the billion-dollar mistake?
"Quote: I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. Tony Hoare, 2009.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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