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I got a bridge for sale.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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one more step to making the mark of the beast
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Didn't Elizabeth Holmes originally try and market something like that until she ran the amazingly successful startup Theranos?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It was nano-volume blood-tests from memory.
This sure stood out on her wiki page:
Holmes attended St. John's School in Houston.[16] During high school, she was interested in computer programming and claims she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.[17] Her parents had arranged Mandarin Chinese home tutoring, and partway through high school, Holmes began attending Stanford University's summer Mandarin program.[18][10] In 2002, Holmes attended Stanford, where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering.[15]
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Originally she was marketing a device that attached to your arm and would analyse your blood and then inject the correct dose of the correct drug at the right time depending on the built-in diagnosis computer.
It was said that what she was attempting was beyond even what Star Trek could do.
When that fell through she went with the nonotainer with the Edison machine debacle.
I read Bad Blood - which was about her exploits, a really good read.
Also quick note - she attended Stanford but left before graduating so that she could pursue her projects.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I could have been doing something when writing notes on my arm all these years?
What makes you think you haven't been Sharksey? While it was an interesting gimmick, I'd advise against the idea of the shredding frame... That could ah, hurt a little..
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A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent at coding. Can you go to the whiteboard and write a routine that outputs your current level of anxiety?
And maybe does a quicksort on it.
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"Performance anxiety"?
Too arrogant for that; but true that there's not much companies that give you a basic coding test. It's hardly relevant if you can actually write code, it seems.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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HHRR have no ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing clue on coding, so it is kind of logic that they only evaluate "general" things they can "see".
But... in this case, that gives more information about the company to the potential employee that the other way around.
I wouldn't like to join a company where is more important the performance in stress than the technical skills for a technical job and pretty probably would continue searching if I didn't need it that bad.
M.D.V. 
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My experience is that HR mostly screens applications and sets up interviews with technical managers who have job openings. I don't think HR is capable of stressing candidates unless they claim to have reviewed all their social media posts. 
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Can you tell me why this pencil is black?
Ok. Ok. this kind of dumb questions don't really stress, they just annoy and piss off candidates.
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A little over two years ago, Apple faced one of its highest-profile scandals that wasn’t related to privacy, security, or even monopoly. For just pennies a day, you can slow down your iPhone
Or something like that - my brains officially off for the day (assuming it was ever on).
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Article: The company just decided the litigation would have cost more than the settlement. At $25 per claimant, that settlement would cost it as much as $500 million. Not a small figure but probably still cheaper than letting the case go on.
and that's a big part of the problem... as long as they (and I don't mean Apple alone) don't get real consequences and they can do things like this, they won't learn anything and will continue doing what they want and treating us (the average joe and consumers) as the last crap (instead of treating us with some kind of respect because we are the ones making them rich).
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Torvalds worries about compiler bugs: 'Very rare, but incredibly hard to debug' Does this mean Linus will have to yell at people in a new language?
Because nothing says, "shiny new code" better than ferric oxide.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 'Very rare, but incredibly hard to debug'
Rare and hard... No sh*t Sherlock, we are speaking about linux.
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A new archive of the entirety of English Wikipedia for Kiwix, an offline browser for web content, is now available for download to anyone who wants to browse offline or have a local backup of the online encyclopedia. Because you never know where you might need to lookup who won the shot put gold medal in the 1924 Olympics
Or to prove the "Getting to Philosophy" theory.
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89 GB. Almost as big as a full Visual Studio install.
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The whole Wikipedia is only 89 Gb? 
I would had expected way bigger numbers
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I'm sure that's very optimally compressed. Out of curiosity I tried to find how big the Encyclopedia Britannica's were, and the only thing to quickly show is that the 2002 edition came to about 264 GB. While doing so I found that EBs were no longer being printed after 2010! Did not know that.
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After getting caught up in the craze and buying an ipod 20 years ago, apart from a tank-warz type game, something I remember being able to do with it was upload the entire English contents of wiki, which at the time, came to just 5gb.
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System admins need to patch servers as quickly as possible DNS: Did Not Secure
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Article: Microsoft is warning of a 17-year-old critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that the company has classified as “wormable.”
I bet it was never used before... 
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While other message queuing systems are generally preferred, many enterprise applications were based on MSMQ and this creates a problem for teams looking to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or the upcoming .NET 5. "Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."
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Did anyone really think that there would not be "compatibility issues" between the different .Net worlds?
A little clue: ".Net Framework" and ".Net Core" not even the names are 50% similar. 
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Anything Windows-specific cannot be ported to .Net Core because it's "cross-platform". WCF is the big deal for me. Beware of using anything in the windows namespace if you're writing for Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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