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One day in Redmond[^].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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According to Randy California (guitarist with spirit, now deceased) his song was stolen by Led Zeppelin
The process has started today to judge if this is the case.
What's your verdict?
Spirit - Taurus[^]
vs
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven[^]
I'd say it might possibly be inspired by, but I would not go as far as that it is a (reworked) copy of. Is "inspired by" also plagiarism? Looks like a gray area to me ...
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Can't listen them due to draconian Internet rules in my company. But as you said inspiration is a tricky matter. Many people come to the same inspirations without even being aware of each other (many magic / roleplay ideas I had already existed very similar to mine but I discovered them later), other are inspired and so tend to be similar but in the minds of the creators they are completely different.
After all one can make a song thinking about his emotions, which are different from the song that inspired it and be a totally different thing... but a listener may have the same emotional reaction to both songs, notice the similarities (which are often generational, in each generation there are recurring rhythmic and melodical patterns or exploits) and think of plagiarism.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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As Abba said:
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's Lawyer's world
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's just an expansion of the revenue stream strategies of Litigation lawyers.
As one comedian stated. The word Lawyer originated from the word liar 
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V. wrote: Looks like a gray area to me ...
Looks about 45 years too late to me.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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Totally agree. I can't believe there's no statute of limitations on this type of thing. Christ, Dennis Hastert could not be charged with abusing children 40 years ago, but some schmuck can sue 40 some years later over arguably the most popular rock song ever recorded? At this point I don't care if it has been ripped off or not. 
"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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"I'd say it might possibly be inspired by"
Considering they toured together before this, I'd say slightly higher than "possibly".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Led Zep paid up once.
In the US, "paying up" is a synonym for "creating a bandwagon".
There is, in the entire world, only one rap song string of noises. The guy who originally wrote it could spend the rest of his life suing everyone who copied it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After this silly CP News about Scala, the new golden child[^]
I mused that I was definitely more excited by Go[^], Rust[^], D[^], if not for the lack of good Windows GUI library!
But lo and behold, there is an upcoming GUI library[^] for Rust!
I wouldn't call it good by any means... but I would call it possibly acceptable enough to give a closer curious look at rust for me! 
So I wonder, could anyone share their opinion about some all purpose interesting programming language (from system programming to user App), or the above (D, Rust, Go)?
It could be that C++ 17 is quite good.
My occasional musing with C++ in UWP quite pleased me.
What mostly annoyed me was the limited scope of UWP at the time (Windows 8: only fullscreen app, limited reflection, no unfeterred access to the file system, no easy way to use DataContract, WCF,... though perhaps WebAPI will be alright? didnt check at the time)
And anyway .. good UWP app are still limited to Windows 10... which is still kind of a problem for market penetration for now...
modified 14-Jun-16 19:17pm.
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Have you looked at Skia: [^], [^] ?
I haven't been actively following what's happening with this renderer, but I noted with interest it uses PostScript style syntax.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I was aware that you were probably looking for a complete widget toolkit, not just a rendering engine, but still thought you might find this interesting.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Alright then! 
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This is going to sound like a vent (and maybe it is, to a degree), but I really want to go beyond just complaining and DO something about it.
I am absolutely fed up with the deluge of inane and ridiculous “Security Questions” that have inundated the web world. I’m speaking, of course, of the ubiquitous websites that require you to answer harebrained trivia questions like “Who was your first Little League coach?” or “Where did you get your first turtle?” or “What kind of apple do you like to juggle with?” These preposterous questions are intended to provide a layer of “security” to my account, in the event that I forget your password. But they are ludicrous because they are useless. They provide virtually no real security – just aggravation to the hapless users who are forced to come up with meaningful but memorable answers. They are either too easy to guess or too hard to remember. The latter must be written down – an intolerable inconvenience that also opens up a huge security hole to anyone who stumbles across your post-it notes.
This problem has been around for a long time. Josh Levin complained articulately about it back in 2008. Google acknowledged the absurdity of the strategy in a security document published just last year. I particularly love Dustin’s parody. Nevertheless, the gabberflasting problem remains, darkening our society and threatening to snuff out any remaining sanity in our civilization. What can be done? Where can we protest? Who can be held responsible for these abominations that pierce my spleen like a poison-laced javelin every time I try to register for an online bank account or foosball tournament? Can anything be done to save humanity?
Seriously, though. Is there any way we can join together and make our voice be heard?
UPDATE:
This is especially frustrating because there is a perfectly reasonable alternative: Simply let the user write his/her OWN question and answer. It is easy to think of a question with a single unambiguous answer known only to me. THAT's a system that is both secure AND convenient. ( Of course there will always be brain-dead users who make up a ridiculous question like "What's 2 + 2?". But the whole system shouldn't be ground to a nub just because a few doofii can't be educated.)
modified 14-Jun-16 13:29pm.
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I definitely hate the questions. Never know the answer since generally just make up something. Worthless for me.
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I just give nonsense answers, then ignore them. If I forget a password, I'll click the "Reset Password" (however it's phrased) link, which is always there alongside the stupid questions.
To me, they're a security risk, not enhancement.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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kdmote wrote: Is there any way we can join together and make our voice be heard?
After all the plain-text passwords, SQL injection and other crap, I'd recommend to stop hiring people with a degree in CS.
Perhaps then the schools will start actually teaching that stuff.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: After all the plain-text passwords, SQL injection and other crap, I'd recommend to stop hiring people with a recent degree in CS.
FTFY
Many of us "old-timers" do know what we're doing!
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Matt T Heffron wrote: Many of us "old-timers" do know what we're doing!
Were those topics explained in detail during your education, or did you learn it in the field?
My guess would be the latter.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There wasn't any education in this, back when I studied. Hackers didn't exist.
Unsurprisingly, trolls did, though -- it's probably true that they've been around since the dawn of time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Unsurprisingly, trolls did, though
To quote Socrates, non curo - especially since your argumentation is based on calling me an idiot
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: your argumentation is based on calling me an idiot
I don't see how you arrived at that conclusion, but no problem: I'll happily call you an idiot if you'd like.
It wouldn't matter anyway, because I only exist as bits and bytes on the Interwebs -- non sum in rerum natura, and all that
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My education pre-dates the Internet by about a decade!
But, even with my having learned it in the field, the "recent degree" probably is still a relevant differentiation.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Another solution is to use KeePass[^], and store your answers in there. At least that way they are encrypted, relying only on one password to remember. It doesn't address your fundamental complaint, but is a method of dealing with the madness.
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