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During a recent calibration exercise, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a remarkable view of Earth and its moon from a distance of 127 million miles (205 million kilometers). I can see my house!
OK, maybe Chris' place in Oz.
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Libel case brought by lawyer who represented Hulk Hogan in Gawker lawsuit. I hope they didn't reply via email
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Ummm yeah, he claims that he invented email in 1978. I was a computer user then, and sent what would be the equivalent of email (with a different name) back in, I think, 1970 (and if not then, then no later than 1972). I was not an inventor of the technology; I was a user. It was a user to user message system which I believe was developed locally on our IBM /360-65 mainframe at the University of Manitoba (and networked to other machines). I also later (?) used a system called Plato (?) circa 1973 or 1974, I think from the University of Minnesota, which had a similar messaging system, which was more networked.
This guy might have invented the term "e-mail" but he didn't invent what it was.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Today's computers often use as many as four different kinds of memory technology, from the hard drive to the memory chips, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Let me guess: 5-10 years away?
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Where's the pause in that sentence?
I read it as if they're working on the promise, not the technology itself. Which sort of seems about right for what has already been worked on for the past decade or so.
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions states that, “all non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.” Someone call Mario!
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Java and Swift will see significant upgrades, while JavaScript frameworks and Microsoft tooling will transform. Like the year behind, but starting now
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Five groups of attackers are competing to delete as many publicly accessible MongoDB databases as possible. In related news, it seems MongoDB is more popular than I thought
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For all those MEAN developers, it is a lesson not to be MEAN... 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Five groups of attackers are competing to delete as many publicly accessible MongoDB databases as possible
That's what they get for not providing proper end-user documentation with pokemon go.
Gotta catch 'em all!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The project, that was originally started by Nokia under the name DVLUP rewards program, aimed to reward developers with badges, XP, gift cards and other prizes for developing or incorporating new features in their apps. The what now?
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Microsoft isn’t building its own connected car — but it is launching a new Azure-based cloud platform for car manufacturers that want to use the cloud to power their own connected-car services. Good news for all of you that drive on clouds
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I prefer Rainbow Roads 
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The steering wheel and pedals will be replaced by a pastel-coloured stack of jenga blocks, threaded together with a ribbon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It happens to everyone that writes code all day long — the sudden feeling of "I'd rather do anything else than this right now" — even though writing software is one of your favorite activities in the world. "Burning out his fuse up here alone"
The William Shatner version, of course.
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But doesn't that feeling eventually come to everyone who does the same thing all day long? It's not specific to software developers. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But doesn't that feeling eventually come to everyone who does the same thing all day long?
Every job sucks, simply because it's a job.
Fortunately, we're in a line of work where the old excitement can be found again, from time to time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But doesn't that feeling eventually come to everyone who does the same thing all day long?
Even with actors in certain "film" industries? 
Marc
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I stopped paying attention to tech trends and reading hacker news.
Amen, bro! 
Except for The Insider News. 
Marc
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On December 30, the White House quietly released its Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy, a 25-page document outlining the United States’ plans in the event that a giant asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth. Two words: Bruce. Willis.
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A 25-page government document?
So that's:
- Five pages front matter (+ two "This page intentionally left blank" pages)
- Two pages of preamble (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- Two pages of introduction, twice, from different departments (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- One page of executive overview (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- Four outline pages (+ one "This page intentionally left blank" page)
- One page for the index
That leaves two pages for the content.
I'll bet it's a great read.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The two pages of actual content say "START SCREAMING" in 96 point font.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bruce. Willis.
Well, if Chuck Norris has a day off, I guess Bruce will have to take over...
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Answers to three important questions of code coverage and important industry data points. Apply two coats for improved coverage
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