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The Russian press agency ITAR-TASS is reporting something so surprising that I'm having a hard time believing it: Cosmonauts have found microorganisms on the exterior of the International Space Station. "If we let it in, the ship could be infected. You know the quarantine procedure. Twenty-four hours for decontamination."
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"I wonder if it will be friends with me." -- the whale
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The tongue is our most sensitive organ, so they should lick it and see.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote:
Plankton in these stages of development could be found on the surface of the oceans. This is not typical for Baikonur. It means that there are some uplifting air currents which reach the station and settle on its surface.
Or maybe they hitched a ride on the space shuttle or dragon capsule both of which launch from coastal areas. I suspect the same is true of Japan's cargo launches too.
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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When it comes to code, there is great truth in the old saying: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Do you have some library or framework for which, when people come to you with questions, you say “Before I answer that, the thing is…”? Of course you do.
But teach a programmer to fish and...he still doesn't know how to use StackOverflow?
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"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
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Light a man a fire and you keep him warm for the night.
Light a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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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While reading about various programming languages, I developed a hunch about how often different languages are mentioned by other communities and about the average conversational tones used by relative members.
PHP developers really need to watch their mouths...
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They have a lot to swear about.
TTFN - Kent
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*nods*
Truer words.
I've been poking around for a language that's not clinically insane that was written to serve the niche that php is supposed to occupy.
I may just end up using python.
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Christopher Shields wrote: PHP
Wash your mouth out with soap!!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Young programmers don't generally seek advice from aging coders. Fine -- but for once, sit down, shut up, and listen in. In my day we didn't have any of these new-fangled variables. And we loved it!
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I like #7...
Quote: 7. Programming is not hard unless you make it hard. People are still messing up software development in the same dumb ways since software separated from hardware. Programming simply requires reading, concentration, and logic. Luckily, plenty of books, courses, and patterns can tell you how to do all of that (see No. 6).
Coordination with other people on any scale? That's hard.
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Microsoft is involved in many major open source projects, including Hadoop and Docker. What's motivating the company to abandon its 'proprietary-only' roots? 'It's just a silly phase they're going through'
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They realized being the cartoonish open-source villain wasn't profitable.
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This is an important update to Microsoft’s OWIN implementation, which offers you powerful new functionality. Because... You know I never really could figure out why this exists. To avoid IIS?
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I thought the end goal was so that you could run your .NET web apps stand alone on a Windows box or Mono on a Linux without a web server program?
...researching it is on my todo list...
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Yeah, something like that - to remove IIS as a dependency and make it more like Node/RoR.
DaveX86 wrote: ...researching it is on my todo list...
Ditto, but I'm willing to let my list rot these days.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, it's not high on the to do list 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: make it more like Node/RoR.
Watching a couple of webinars about OWIN/Katana gave me this perception as well. Node has the whole "asynch by default" paradigm going for it (not sure about RoR - never went down that path myself). OWIN/Katana nudges .NET in the "It's a whole lot easier to write asynch server side code" direction. I hesitate to say it rises to level of "asynch by default", though.
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Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th to detail upcoming changes to Windows as part of a release codenamed "Threshold." The latest guess (on the product that doesn't exist)
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Here are some principles to guide you in building and releasing code that others will care about. Step 1: make code available to everyone. Step 2: done
Yes, that's entirely wrong (humour is sometimes based in exaggeration). Or even, "Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth." Never let it be said I'm not at least a half-wit. Yeah, probably just half.
Their last step in the article is the most important decision in the process though: "Do You Really Want To Lead An Open Source Project?"
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That's only how to start an "open source". To have also "project", step 2 should read
"make sure it builds correctly".
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Cristian Amarie wrote: make sure it builds correctly
I don't believe that's a requirement for open source software. 
/ravi
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