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Nearly three-quarters of developers say they are responsible for managing the quality of the data they use in their applications The other 25% will be blamed if something goes wrong anyway
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Data quality and security are the most time-consuming coding issues we have. When I got to my current job, there had been almost no effort put into defensive data quality coding We have been plagued with varchar database fields that became too small due to requirement changes, and a general attitude of "we assume that everything will be okay" (actually found that comment in a stored proc). We no longer assume that everything will be okay.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: We have been plagued with varchar database fields that became too small due to requirement changes, and a general attitude of "we assume that everything will be okay" (actually found that comment in a stored proc). We no longer assume that everything will be okay.
How was it... Hope the best, expect the worst?
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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Docs as Code treats all documentation as a codebase. I tried that, but Word kept crashing when I tried to compile
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I guess C# is a third world country.  Either that, or it's already readable enough that it doesn't require the "facilities" that physically and mentally challenged languages like Ruby and JavaScript require. 
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Xbox Cloud Gaming is now part of the Xbox app on Windows Otherwise it's pretty difficult to play games on the PC
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A new class of passive TEMPEST attack converts LED output into intelligible audio. Stop staring at my LEDs, my eyes are up here.
I doubt this one is terribly practical, but it is cute, and I love the name.
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By integrating brain connectomics into the construction of ANN (artificial neuronal network) architectures, researchers hoped to both learn how the wiring of the brain supports specific cognitive skills, and to derive novel design principles for artificial networks. On the one side... Cool stuff.
On the other side... what could go wrong?
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First, they must fully understand how the brain works, then they can begin to simulate it.
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In this study, the researchers discovered a novel nano-biological effect where BP nanomaterials directly affect the core of all mitotic life as well as the cell cycle's centrosome machinery, and consequently present anticancer promise. I hope they are right.
... and it doesn't get missused or abused.
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Maybe it will end all life (as we know it)?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Maybe it will end all life (as we know it)?
The Large Hadron Collider is going to double down on their efforts.
(TikTok and Facebook sneer.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: The Large Hadron Collider is going to double down on their efforts.
Fake news. Many "cosmic rays" have energies much higher that those reached by the LHC, but their collisions with the Earth over 4.5 billion years have yet to generate a black hole.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Many "cosmic rays" have energies much higher that those
Of course... if not we wouldn't have the fantastic four or Jean Grey... 
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And the lack of humor award goes too...
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Perhaps your statement lacked that subtle component of humour known as "being funny". 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Based on what I was replying to, I'll stick with lack of humor.
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While numerous libraries exist to abstract away the complexities of asynchronous and concurrent programming, developers still need to drop down to lower thread-handling logic from time to time. more done background even the get in
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Learning to code is no longer fit for purpose[^]
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Unfortunately this article is not available to non-subscribers. The gist is
Quote: Employers looking to hire software developers have noticed something very strange filling up their inboxes recently. Aidan Fitzpatrick, founder of one of London’s genuine technology successes Reincubate, a two times winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise, spotted it a few weeks ago. It was a new kind of job applicant.
“As first blush I was blown away by the positivity and richness of their CVs,” he says. “But it didn’t take long for patterns to emerge.” The patterns were spooky. Each applicant had created a ghostly portfolio website, created a Medium blog, and a Twitter feed, but he walked away from all of them. Their applications rarely included a covering letter. They were the product of a recent development: coding schools.
“These schools are clearly training their adult attendees to exploit pattern-matching techniques in their applications and CVs,” says Fitzpatrick. “We’ve never proceeded with one of their candidates.”
The digital bootcamps that are churning out these generic job seekers are a product of the idea that “everyone must code”. A decade ago, this gripped the chattering classes here in the UK. Without computer programming skills, parents feared that their children could no more navigate the new digital world than a blindfolded traveller could find his way around in a new and alien world.
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I can't read the article unless I create an account to subscribe.
No thanks.
I am sure it was a good article. 
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Sorry about that. I will edit the post.
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You can tell the people with real experience from the recent grads by looking at their skill sets, and their recent job positions should reflect those listed skill sets.
It should be obvious that someone who lists a position was "Assistant Manager at Dairy Queen" within the last five years is not an experienced developer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But in some places they might be hired to manage experienced developers. Workers are, after all, nothing more than "resources", are they not?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Workers are, after all, nothing more than "resources"
Or more likely, "slaves".
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