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Kent,
I've noticed a few typo in some of your news articles. I talked to Chris about this and we agreed that I could help out while you are away. Could you send me your login credentials so that I can get started?
Thanks.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. "Walk right in, sit right down."
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I was thinking a couple of days ago about the new wave of systems languages now challenging C for its place at the top of the systems-programming heap – Go and Rust, in particular. I reached a startling realization – I have 35 years of experience in C. I write C code pretty much every week, but I can no longer remember when I last started a new project in C!
Not someone I'd've expected to be predicting the end of C; but he's reached the point where he thinks several new languages are reaching the point where they may be able to dethrone C even for systems programming.
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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At one point, COBOL was supreme. It's gone. And yet, there are still some things today even COBOL is used for, so it'll never completely go away since C has touched so many things in tech and has such a small footprint. I'd still use it in certain situations today, even for the web. But, by and large things get phased out by the majority. Personally, C will always be my favorite language, but it's just the nature of the beast to have change.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And yet, there are still some things today even COBOL is used for
Indeed. The insurance company I work for still has mainframe systems processing policies using COBOL, and replacing them is a slow and tedious process. Even more bizarre though is that some of the third party services like LexisNexis and Verisk appear to be using COBOL, as we have to supply them policy data, no, not in JSON, no, not in XML, but as text files with fixed position/length for each field. Basically, so COBOL can easily drop it into a record like 05 ZIP-CODE PIC 9(5). Just a guess, but I can't imagine why else. It's certainly not for the compactness, as many optional fields have to be 0 or space padded.
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Totally 
Jeremy Falcon
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Ugh. So instead of them writing a json/xml API once - even at the the level of an array of flat objects - they force every one of their clients to write one. I can only imagine how much more invalid data that feeds into their mainframe.  
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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Dan Neely wrote: I can only imagine how much more invalid data that feeds into their mainframe.
It keeps some old-timers busy writing COBOL validation routines. 
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Dilbert Comic Strip on 1997-11-04 | 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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Jeremy Falcon wrote: At one point, COBOL was supreme.
For system programming?
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D language that could Dthrone C? Don't you know which one Dat is?
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Go?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Never used it myself, but an acquaintance of mine has played with it off and on over the last decade or so. Summing up his frustrations in a single soundbite of snark: "D is like Fusion Power: The technology of the future. Always has been. Always will be."
(No specifics since his rants about D and Go have merged together in my mind, and I don't know either well enough to disambiguate.)
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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i'm about to start a new C project. i'd use C++ if i could. but i can't.
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Chris Losinger wrote: i can't
Not something you could claim about VB6 Professional
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The need for greater scalability and flexibility, and a desire to avoid capital expenditures are driving enterprises to move more of their workloads to the cloud. "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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I wonder if the economic model for "the cloud" computing will be just as viable as the "Offshoring" model was. 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Application security vendor Veracode has released the "2017 State of Software Security Report," and the results paint an unflattering picture of Java developers. What's next: are we going to find out that C# developers don't floss?
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The source code released today is for a toolkit named Hive, a so-called implant framework, a system that allows CIA operatives to control the malware it deploys on infected computers. This is really going to help
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Thanks for letting me know. I almost forgot about this. 
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Salk and University of California San Diego scientists have discovered that the fruit fly brain has an elegant and efficient method of performing similarity searches. Why do I keep finding pictures of bananas?
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They've found out that brains are good at recognizing patterns.
Yay! One small step for mankind..
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The shuttle, made by French startup Navya and owned and operated by French private transportation company Keolis, operates on a 0.6-mile loop around downtown Las Vegas offering free rides to residents. "This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
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It was due to human error this time too. The shuttle was backed into by a delivery truck. It was NOT the shuttle's fault.
I think it is important to note the facts before jumping to conclusions that are likely incorrect.
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