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BillWoodruff wrote: it's astonishing how few devs know the advanced breakpoint functionality and other VS resources like compiler preprocessor directives, etc. how to even do basic debugging.
So I've noticed, at least. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Perhaps I shroud have said "QA-parasites," rather than "devs."
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop then go back to the beginning"
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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A new report released today shows that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have increased dramatically in the first two quarters of 2018 compared to 2017. The increase in attacks is being attributed to large scale botnets being created by attackers using insecure IoT devices. Hurrah for Internet-enabled refrigerators!
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Looking forward to the day my video game controller can talk to my refrigerator so I can make the refrigerator walk to me. Sometimes I need a cold beverage, and a snack, but I'm in the middle of killing zombies. That is a conundrum no man should have to face.
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I'm sorry Dave I can't open the refrigerator door...
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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God forbid we should have IoT enabled coffee makers!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I can do without refrigerated food but coffee, now we're gonna wrestle!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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 Truth!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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A new study examined hundreds of popular Android apps for security vulnerabilities, finding that the improper use of open source software puts organizations and users at risk. My new study: software development contributes to app vulnerabilities
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The flip side is that without users, there would be no problems.
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Exactly! Now we just need to figure out how to keep those users off the systems! :P
TTFN - Kent
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And still get paid!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The pioneer behind a new national plan says it could help the US compete—and address a looming shortage of quantum engineers. First step: put all students in a box
Not intended to be a political statement
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Quote: It is hard for these companies to find engineers to help them develop and commercialize scalable systems.
I’m not surprised. I can’t get past the first three questions in MS's Quantum Katas! There’s about 100 questions or something (fill in missing code to make the unit tests pass).
Lots of docs on the tech but not much on how to put it together to do things. So for me at the moment it’s just random combinations!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Quantum Computing and Q# Blog – Microsoft Faculty Connection
only has a few parts written.
Kevin
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article said: Quantum bits, or qubits, created and manipulated using superposition and entanglement, can perform certain types of calculation very rapidly on vast amounts of data.
Unfortunately that right there proves it is not a Quantum computer.
I guess they are speaking of "quantum" computing...since they could never get to the real Quantum Computer.
If it were a true Quantum computer it would create a set of all data (infinite set) and then simply choose (without calculating) the answer.
And I'm sure this will start up a lot of controversy but you'll have to read the book, A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer[^], so we can discuss (argue about) it further.
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Researchers at the AI Lab of Tsinghua University have recently developed an incremental encoder-based model that can generate story endings. "And they all lived happily ever after"
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The horror genre addon (in kill.dll) :
if (happyEnding) ++unease; 
(Ha ha! Made myself laugh! Kill Bill - Kill Dll! Revenge For The Ninja Coder! Don't take my bytes away!)
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"Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck."
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Good. Let's break it feeding it Neon Genesis Evangelion.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I thought people would try pointing it at Game of Thrones, seeing as how GRRM can't seem to finish it.
"You dis, she dies, everyone dies."
TTFN - Kent
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GoT can't seem to finish, NGE finished half a dozen times... Maybe if Martin and Gainax have a meeting the situation will be solved?
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The tool, called SapFix, has been used to ship stable code updates to millions of devices using the Facebook Android app. It just publishes it to your wall, and your 'friends' can fix it?
SapFix. Must not make 'sap' joke...
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I think they should rename this: "ebola4u"
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Quote: For high-firing bugs, Facebook explained, SapFix creates patches that either fully or partially revert the code submission that introduced them. For more complex crashes, SapFix draws from a collection of templated fixes to create patches. When that doesn't work, SapFix will attempt a mutation-based fix.
The first part of that, being able to automatically identify the offending commit looks like a generally useful tool regardless of how you ultimately fix it even if you don't want to use the auto-rollback feature.
OTOH the last part, trying to mutate code until it works makes me rather nervous. As an emergency bandaid it may be better than nothing, and I'll give FB the benefit of the doubt, and assume they will have a human review what the tool did and make sure it's a correct and safe fix as well as being easily readable code and rewrite it when it's not, but we all know there'll be PHBs who declare that changing what the magic fixit tool corrected for their devs is a waste of time and will end up burying their software in technical debt as a result.
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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