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Well...God Mode ON[^]
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var expendable = [ex, guyThatBulliedMeInSchool, SOBThatCutMeOffYesterday,...];
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Introducing the most significant invention of the 21st century: the bacon toaster! 
veni bibi saltavi
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Cool gadget but too pricey  I love bacon and it too messy to prepare it.
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This seems like a success at least:
Quote: Archana Vemulapalli, the city’s Chief Technology Officer, said the city did not pay ransom and resolved the problem by taking the devices offline, removing all software and restarting the system at each site.
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Yes, at least they seem to have had a recovery strategy. So many entities simply have nothing in place, should they be hit by a ransom virus. And the FBI's advice for such people: Pay the ransom! Inconceivable!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: And the FBI's advice for such people: Pay the ransom! Inconceivable!
Crazy! I don't even understand it. 
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Is there any area which is not "hacked" in US?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Because of its wealth, the USA is a prime target for hackers. And yes, I believe businesses and other entities can do a lot more to safeguard themselves against hackers. It may be difficult, but I believe possible, to safeguard your systems against viruses that make their presence known, like the ransom virus.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Because of its wealth, the USA is a prime target for hackers.
Hey, you make it sound as if most hackers aren't American!
Honey pots are always attacked more from sources inside the US than from anywhere else -- and what other country has attempted to make other countries' nuclear power stations meltdown?
And Hell, ransomeware was invented in an American university!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I bought a car, when I was younger from an inlaw/outlaw and he had taken the back seat out and hauled hogs in it. Once you got past the smell it was a good running car. Only Mercury I ever owned...no kin to Freddy.
Sorry haven't had coffee yet this morn
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I think my worst was my second: a Simca of some variety, bought for £10 with a years' MOT1 (or at least with a MOT certificate of dubious provenance) and sold a year later for £10 with no MOT. And a number of extra dents and scratches.
That thing was evil. It didn't just break down, it broke down in such a way as to cause maximum inconvenience. For example, the throttle jammed full open - and when I stomped the brakes to slow down that's when a brake hose popped.
Mind you, it was the perfect car for driving in London: everybody let it out at junctions (because it was fairly clear it didn't mind another accident or two) and nobody boxed it in when parking (because it was clear it would just push them out of the way if they did).
Total heap of junk. I was sad to see it go in a strange way. 
1) MOT: UK certificate of roadworthiness. Tested every year after the third, and without which vehicles are not allowed on the road.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Total heap of junk. I was sad to see it go in a strange way.
It's amazing how one can become attached to pet's, sheep and evil car. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Once upon a time when very young I had some sort of skoda. On a good day in winter nursing it along I might get almost an hour before it overheated and exhausted the bottles of water carried along - really only used as a car to get to work and back, about 10 minutes away. Of course a bitch to start, and top speed maybe 40 mph with a tail wind.
Bought it for about $200, sold it 9 months later to a scrapper for $50 - he promised to de-register it for me. Yeah I guess I got my money's worth.
What happened next was priceless: Couple of months later police showed up at the door, apparently the car had been used in a store robbery, luckily my mom kept the receipt from the scrapper. But I couldn't stop laughing the mental image of 3 huge guys (as I was told) using that POS as a get away car - slow as sh*t, and if they were driving hard it would be at best 10 mins before it overheated. (But they did get away - only because police were slow to respond.)
Now that's a memorable old car, and a lesson in the importance of keeping the papers of your car even when it's gone.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Tricky To Be An Optimist[^]
So ... Is your software finished? Or is your glass half full?
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At the moment, I seem to be continually throwing out the contents of my glass and half-filling it with some other tasteless substance. 
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Full of half-working code. Not my fault the user-specification defined input as an integer only and not an unsigned integer. Get specifications from the customer more accurately or hire me to do the job 
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One day I entered the world of modern day javascript development and oh my god, what I saw is a perfect plot to drive any sane developer to become a mental zombie on the edge of killing himself and reborn and be killed again by weapon of mass destruction created by these modern day javascript frameworks.
It made me first laugh and then cry and then cry some more. All the way I was asking myself why. As a developer how can you put up with something like this. I know there are lot of smart people making lot of smart tools but this is just insane. My journey began as I was trying to learn angular but before that I had to understand all those javascript jargon (which is acceptable to learn any language ) but there are bundlers, task runners, ployfills , hot module loading, linting, module loaders, minification, uglify etc. etc. Then there is grunt,gulp,systemjs,webpack, npm ,node, es6, typescript. Gone are the days when you just put a script tag in your html to your javascript and Jquery files and you are good to go.
Number one issue with most of the javascript frameworks are lack of tooling support and framework itself rely on unfinished modules or modules that are still in beta and yet framework claims that it is production ready. Also it feels like, to do a simple thing you have to install this or that module. I guess everyone is relying on someone else to provide that bit of function you can write in few lines of code but no you have to install this or that using npm. Angular's quick start install few hundred modules ( WTF !) . What good is a framework if it needs to rely on so many other modules ?
You look at some of the configurations you need to create to make everything work with each other is just ridiculous. Every project on the Internet has different setup using pinch of this and pinch of that. It feels like you are at an international food festival where they use same basic ingredients but what they cook is up to them and everyone has their own flavor.
A lot of people are praising these frameworks which makes me wonder either I am too dumb to understand all these or they are afraid that if they say this is insane they will be cast out of community or wake up from their beautiful dream.
I have not given up yet but please tell me I am not going insane !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Obligatory How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016[^].
Just convince your team to try Elm[^]. Raw JS and JS libraries will be killed eventually by all the nonsense you mentioned anyways. In a world where every company is looking for greater productivity, needing to learn 20 different libraries/frameworks just to print some data to the screen can't last. Not to mention many JS libraries introduce the modern version of dependency hell which you already touched on.
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I was thinking, now where did I stash the link to that when I was reading the rant on JS. Glad you posted it, saved me the trouble! 
Elm looks interesting, why use Elm rather than TypeScript?
Marc
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It depends on your project I'd say. Typescript is definitely an improvement over JS imo and you get the bonus of having a mature language. Elm isn't as mature so may not be suitable for some projects but it offers speed[^], pure functions, immutable data, and simple HTML5 integration via the elm-lang/html[^] package. Plus the language is designed to support basically an MVC pattern they call the "Model, Update, and View" pattern.
All of this kinda meshes together to make a nicely decoupled, error-resistant, and easily extendable code-base. There are two good responses here[^] from companies which are using Elm for production.
Disclaimer: I'm no Elm expert. Just someone that enjoys what Elm offers. It feels simple and intuitive to use once you get the hang of it while not sacrificing power. Also, markdown support[^].
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