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You’ll need the right attitude and the right hard and soft skills to feel like a winner in your software development career. "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?"
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Kent - please do us a favor and stop citing articles from InfoWorld. I had to close popups/overs half a dozen times trying to read the article, after which I finally gave up.
The only way to stop people from using such abhorrent tactics is to deny them traffic.
Software Zen: delete this;
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He might be unaware of them. I didn't have any popups on that page. Maybe it is due to using a hosts file. Or Vivaldi is really good at clobbering popups. I don't know.
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Just an article for me. Firefox with add-ons Adblock Plus, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, and DuckDuckGo Privacy Esssentials. 
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Fair enough - I didn't get the popups, but I've been increasingly unhappy with them lately. Their content quality has really nose-dived lately (and other reasons). On the ignore pile (unless it's really-really good).
TTFN - Kent
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Thank you sir!
I owe you a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Software Zen: delete this;
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They’re bogged down in endless unit testing and legacy code support. They feel like a worker on an assembly line. Brownfields, and I love them; often have the combined knowledge of multiple people over years. That's code that been maintained and fixed, and got nuggets you never find in a greenfield.
And getting paid to learn from it? Awesome deal 
We are working an assembly line; code is mass produced, and a lot of improvements are "mechanical". Nothing wrong with that; I remember the y2k bug, with a lot of "search this and replace with this" instructions. It's honest work, and companies need it. We can't be all hero-programmers; and where's muck, there's brass.
..also, no popups; running just a custom host-file. Though, would be nice if I could turn that host file off for CodeProject, as it is blocking your income.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: where's muck, there's brass
That is glorious - consider it stolen! 
TTFN - Kent
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Not mine to begin with; it's a British thing, dunno who said it first. But it's true, the stuff no one likes pays best 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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Most vulnerabilities exploited in the wild are years old and some could be remedied easily with a readily available patch. We will patch no bug...until it's time
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A global survey of 950 developers published today finds more than a third (38%) of developers spend up to a quarter of their time fixing software bugs, with slightly more than a quarter (26%) spending up to half their time fixing bugs. There's more to development?
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So do they also spend between 25% and 50% of their time writing bugs? If they skipped that portion, they could eliminate the fixing bugs portion, too!
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A signal from venerable space probe Voyager 2 reached Earth today, acknowledging that the spacecraft has received its first command since March 2020 and had reset internal clocks as instructed. "V'ger... expects an answer."
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The LibreOffice team has been working on a port to browser-hosted WebAssembly, and hopes for a working demo by summer 2021. Never rewrite your code from scratch: Web Edition
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I genuinely think that this is a very wise move on their part.
It seemed to me that O365 and the like were set to drive LO and OO into irrelevance. 
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It was Feb. 16, 1978, just after the great blizzard, when two Chicagoans, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, launched the world’s first computerized bulletin board system (BBS). "Ain't we lucky we got 'em? Good times!"
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Dyn-o-mite!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The research firm's low-code market forecast suggests that a surge in remote development during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to prop up the space overall. And Gartner is always right
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And Gartner is always right
Of course they are and if you don't think they are they'll keep repeating it until you believe.
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Microsoft has officially confirmed that Windows 10, version 21H1 will be the next Windows 10 update to be released later during the spring of 2021. Sad news for those plodding along on ancient machines (you're still not getting a new one)
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Quote: Microsoft confirms Windows 10 21H1 will run on existing hardware
Not if I can avoid 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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To win a slice of the cash on offer, competitors have “to create and demonstrate a solution that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and lock it away permanently in an environmentally benign way”.
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Yet this punter’s plaything has serious environmental consequences. “Mining” bitcoin — the process by which the supply of coins is augmented — requires electricity on a vast scale to run the computers involved. According to the Dutch economist, Alex de Vries, it chomps through around 78 terawatt hours (TWh) a year globally — equivalent to the consumption of Chile, a country of 20m. Each bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of power as 436,000 through the Visa payment system.
The Hulk is green too, isn't he?
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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At ~9GW of power generation, that's around the lower bound of estimates I've seen of how much energy scamcoin's waste via proof of pollution mining. Elsewhere I've seen figures several times higher.
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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