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A class-action antitrust case has been filed that claims Apple and Google have violated U.S. antitrust laws in how they deal with each other, up to and including the payments that keeps Google's search engine as default on Apple products. You're searching it wrong
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The first PCs to incorporate Microsoft's Pluton security chip will be available from Lenovo this May. It's not a planet, just a dwarf-security chip
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And now the countdown begins until the version of Windows that can only be installed on a computer with a Pluton chip.
"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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Our most important goal in writing software is that it be correct. The software must do what the programmer wants it to do. It must meet the needs of the user. Look for the red Xs your teacher marks it with?
Just ship it(tm). You'll find out pretty fast.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just ship it(tm).
Or tweet[^] it? 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The ESP32-S3 is a new offering in the ESP32 that adds more I/O and standard PSRAM and a fully programmable USB interface to the already fantastic ESP32. It's an answer to the STM32 offerings that come with those features but lack the CPU power and RAM of the ESP32.
Espressif released S3 reference boards late last year, but software support has been lagging.
ESP32-S3 Support · Issue #5594 · espressif/arduino-esp32 · GitHub[^]
Watch this space, as Arduino support for the S3 is almost here. Any day now!
This is just great!
Real programmers use butterflies
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Researchers have studied the relationship between music and work for a long time now. Here’s how you can come up with a personal strategy for using music as a productivity booster. Type to the beat
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No, but it keeps a part of my mind occupied during the 90% of boring code that I write. If not occupied, I tend to surf CP, the news, the COVID stats, and SpaceFlightNow iteratively and sometimes recursively. 
Like now. And music isn't helping. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: No, but it keeps a part of my mind occupied during the 90% of boring code that I write. If not occupied, I tend to surf CP, the news, the COVID stats, and SpaceFlightNow iteratively and sometimes recursively.
As a great philosopher once said, "I say, I resemble that remark!"
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
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Can't do it. If I have music playing, it's to listen to it. Otherwise it's Muzak, which is a distraction.
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Music plus a set of studio-quality headphones keeps me from being distracted by many things:
Conference calls on speakerphone in the middle of a 60+ cube farm. Several different calls at once is always fun.
My neighbor with the chronic asthmatic cough. The only time he stops coughing is when he's expounding his political conspiracy theories to anyone who will listen.
The meeting that continues in the aisle after the people left the conference room several minutes ago.
The machine noise from the lab, which has perfectly lovely doors which no one ever closes.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If you’re in software development, don’t make this mistake when it comes to inflation "They're size 28 but I take 34"
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Quote: But how do you attract high performers? By focusing on emerging technologies. These technologies can make existing processes more efficient, but they can also act as a draw for talent.
Software developers are looking for companies that are the “next big thing.” Artificial intelligence, blockchain, and more will inevitably shape the world in countless ways. Top talent wants to drive that change.
That there is some serious horseshit. Many things motivate developers more than the latest shiny thing. Sensible management, reasonable processes, and working on successful products come to mind.
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This time of year always brings thoughts of how badly we messed up the past 12 months and how much better we’ll definitely make the next dozen. "This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace."
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It's a sad state of affairs when we can create an AI that makes better decisions. Then again, I am not surprised in the least.
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Cleaning off decades of code mess isn't for the faint of heart, but leading Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar is giving it the old college try in the open-source Linux kernel. "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux"
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Rewrite from scratch? I guess that's not an option.
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They can call it Firenix
TTFN - Kent
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Firenix? I thought that was nomex underwear.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Hmm. I wonder if the reduced cost in building the kernel is balanced by an increased cost somewhere else, say in maintainability or readability?
Software Zen: delete this;
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I bow to this guy's brass pair and optimism that he can get this approved. I once did something similar, but it only affected a paltry 2,500 files, not the 25,000 that this guy is targeting. And I didn't ask for permission, and fortunately didn't end up having to ask for forgiveness.  Interestingly, the code-base sizes were about the same: 27.6M lines in Linux and about 30M in our products.
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Quote: The mess we create trying to work around issues in C
Ah, the "let's blame the language" tack. Twenty years from now, someone will be griping about working around issues in Rust (or whatever.)
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If you had a 1,000 line BASIC program and a syntax error on line 793, you often wouldn’t find out unless that line executed. It made development hard, but it did mean that we were constantly manually doing QA on our programs, something that is often skipped in today’s TDD world. We used to have to compile uphill in the snow (in both directions)
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Eh, there were compilers (even BASIC compilers) in 1987, and some of them were very strict (i.e. Pascal). The difference is that very few languages today use a real interpreter: they typically pre-compile the code when it is first run.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you had a 1,000 line BASIC program and a syntax error on line 793, you often wouldn’t find out unless that line executed.
If you have 1,000,000 lines of JavaScript (or Python or Ruby etc) and you have a syntax error on line 893,125, you wouldn't find out unless that line executed.
And we have improved over 1987 how???
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