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A new Wall Street Journal report details anti-competitive practices by the company. Do no^H^H evil
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GoDaddy's layered verification protections defeated by a phone call and four hours in Photoshop. Just in case you've got a GoDaddy account (or don't, but own PhotoShop)
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Microsoft has reportedly confirmed that while pirated versions of Windows 7 and 8 with non-genuine licenses can be upgraded to Windows 10, they will not be upgraded to a genuine license. So... I get Windows 10, but it's not really Windows 10? Is it Windows 1O?
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Nope that is a Windows ten. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Security mavens bracing for Thursday's scheduled disclosure of a high-severity vulnerability in the widely used OpenSSL crypto library need wait no longer. It's a bug that allows end users to crash servers running one version of the software by sending data that's relatively easy to duplicate.
"I don't suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?"
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If you’ve been working with software for longer than five years, then you can remember a time when SourceForge was one of the pillars of open-source software. "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!"
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Dice needs to be put under fire for all of this and have the execs who started this put in prison for a LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG time. Either that or executed.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The company oversold the wearable too soon and learned some lessons. Start (noun): the point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning of something.
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Does he mean that they should have oversold it a little later? 
modified 19-Mar-15 17:37pm.
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An informal survey of programmers finds that the most important quality in good software source code is that it be easy to read and understand. Did no one survey the Perl and APL developers?
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The developers stand for, Martin Fowler[^], who says:
Quote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Kent Sharkey wrote: An informal survey of programmers finds that the most important quality in good software source code is that it be easy to read and understand.
Really? No! Who would a thunk it!
Talk about stating the bleeding obvious.
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Huh... I would have went with "that it correctly performs its intended function(s)" but... to each, their own.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: that it correctly performs its intended function(s)
I believe that was a given, but yeah, readable too.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Geeks write obfuscated code !
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Next to readable, it needs to be easily maintainable. One of the ways of doing so is by structuring things in, say, objects. Having those objects arranged and working according to a well-known pattern adds to the maintainability, readability and hence, affordability. It also means that most things are only defined in one place. No, seriously, ONE place. No redundancies, no repeating code - as that would mean that you'd have to maintain multiple instances of the same when updating it. That increases the chance of introducing bugs, which is bad.
Good code is SOLID and DRY
..and commented, with a low cyclomatic complexity, conforming to FxCop rules, and come with unit-testing that has almost 100% coverage.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Microsoft corporation has recently published for free access the source code of the CoreCLR engine which is a key component of .NET Core. Fun and games with code analysis
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The Windows 10 device platform allows IHVs to develop a single universal driver that can be deployed across all Windows 10 device families (e.g., PCs, phones, IoT). One driver to bind them, etc. etc. you know.
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That is a great feature you know.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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... and in Berkley's internet domain to name them.
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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ExtremeTech, March 18: " ... researchers from Nanyang Technical University in Singapore have developed a new technology they think is already capable of the ‘brain-like’ computing effects many have imagined for it.
The secret to their new device is something they call ‘photonic synapses’. They are exactly what they sound like: networks of light-bearing amorphous metal-sulphide microfibers that make synapses on to each other much like those found in actual brains. These unique microfibers aren’t something they just pulled out of thin air. The so-called ‘chalcogenoid’ alloys, alloys with elements like sulphur, selenium, or telluride, are prized in the fiber business for the unique optical properties they give to glasses made with them. The researchers here used gallium lanthanum oxysulphide (GLSO, syc) fibers which can be photodarkened by light itself." [^]
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Probably they can define something near to brain. But the actual thing is the response, artificial intelligence and the intelligence itself are two different things. No matter how tough you build the program, there would be glitches in it.
But, let us give them a warm good luck for their product!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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"Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us." 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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