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Yeah, no.
It's the same with all engineering. The main thing is the cost of a failure; whether or not you get do-overs.
If it must be right the first time and every time; that's engineering.
Line-of-business applications, Web applications, etc. are never engineering regardless of the qualifications and attitude of the developer(s).
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As general counsel for an open source and commercially licensed software company, I have been asked by hundreds of customers to review their use of open source software (OSS) and compliance with licensing terms. Free as in puppy (that needs lots of newspaper)
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Yeah, but on the other hand, all those OSS creators don't have any money to hire a lawyer to sue you for license violations. 
(ok, someone will prove me wrong no doubt.)
Marc
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We posted earlier today that the ISDA Award-winning Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Reality headset was out of production, and was surprised that this news surprised our readers, assuming it was common knowledge. It was in production?
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Intel might be sticking to the familiar Kaby Lake architecture for the eight generation of its Core chips, but the its internal testing looks pretty promising as far as performance goes. I'll believe it when I see it. Please send a bunch for testing.
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That's not entirely fair though, they've stuck more cores on those chips.
Meanwhile there is also the less-unexpected headline "Intel Confirms Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake Single-Threaded Performance 11% Faster Than Kaby Lake 7700K"
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Good, I need to upgrade from Core 2 some time soon maybe ... 
Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8200
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6850
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I just wish they'd stick with the same socket so that we didn't have to get an entirely new motherboard just upgrade the CPU. Yeah, yeah, I know, we might not be able to use all the new features of the CPU. The main one I'm interested in is SPEED.
#SupportHeForShe
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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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Microsoft provides tooling and SDKs for consuming PDB files, but nothing for generating them. To be fair: Microsoft has been too busy to document that file format
I mean, it's new and all.
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Microsoft not to be outdone by Android naming their latest OS Oreo, says we can now consume PDB files.
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Google loves to make a big splash when it reveals the name for the latest version of Android. But the company is going all out this year, using the solar eclipse as an opportunity to reveal that Android O will henceforth be referred to as Oreo. For the record - your phone does not appreciate being dunked in milk
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It's probably one of those fake Oreos where the stuffing is barely there and the cookie is stale.
(I still marvel at just how bad Android is after 14 releases.)
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I wonder if they are paying oreo to use the name or if oreo will sue them for copyright damage
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I know they did some kind of licensing arrangement for Nutella, so I'd be surprised if they didn't do the same here. Yeah, Nabisco would be coming at them pretty hard if not.
TTFN - Kent
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They also licensed KitKat when that was a thing.
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Right, that's the one I was thinking of, not Nutella.
TTFN - Kent
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This will last about 5 minute until Nabisco sues them for using their product name.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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For the record, my phone doesn't care - it's still stuck on "Marshmallow". 
(Not sure whether to blame Samsung or O2. But either way, it's a poor show, given the phone was only released this April.)
"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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I've always found the naming system more than a little bit silly (Froyo and Ice Cream Sandwich were particularly lame names) and this is the second time they've had to do a corporate tie-in to keep the daftness going.
Aside from the obviously tricky Q, U, V and Z, what do they intend to do when they hit the end of the alphabet? My suggestion would be to rename Android to Android Type 2 as a nod to the diabetes-inducing properties of previous versions. At that point they can restart with Amputation, Blindness, Care Home, Death, Emergency Room, Failing Kidneys and so forth, giving them at least a couple of years to come up with a better plan.
Why can't they just use sensible sequential version names like Microsoft do? You know the sort of thing - XBox, XBox 360, XBox 1 ...
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: XBox, XBox 360, XBox 1
Xbox 1.11 for Workgroups, XBox ME, XBox XP 
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More than 100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of "killer robots". "But there was one man who taught us to fight..."
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Bah, that kid was no good, the Terminator did better, proof: he is now governor of California !
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Was going to make a snarky remark, but then bothered to read the letter. I think they're essentially tilting at windmills, but at least they specifically said "Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems", not "AI", though it wasn't clear whether they were all running around waving their hands in the air.
When looking through the list of signatories, I was disappointed to not find someone who is the CEO of "Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, Inc."
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