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Dan Neely wrote: Why single out #6 (#5 in Europe) for special praise?
Partly as they really stood out for me on the list (I guess because they're such a small country), but mostly because I really like saying, "Luxembourg".
TTFN - Kent
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As long as you had a good reason... 
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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PowerApps lets anyone build a cross-platform mobile application -- no software development experience required. Well, it's been a great career while it lasted. I guess we're done now.
[/sarcasm]
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Networking professionals are in short supply as network demands grow. Automation can help. How hard can it be? You just plug one thing into another.
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I believe it, along with their close brothers, IT Security. They make darn good money and in many cases only went to technical or junior college.
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In my previous blog, The Programmer's Oath, I introduced the concept of an ethical oath for programmers. In this article I want to provide the rationale for this oath. Why do I think the concept of an oath is important? This is my compiler. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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He has a very valid point, but I doubt the value of such an oath - as long as the paycheck is big enough, I guess almost everybody will just deliver. Look at the people who implemented high frequency trading. Look at the ones who implemented remote control for drones that kill people on the other side of the world. (I really do despise them.)
But, yeah, either they honestly don't know what they're doing - cannot grasp the consequences of their solutions -, they know it but are careless, or the money must be too good. An oath doesn't help in any case. Not in this economy, not in this society.
And look at the Hippocratic oath for what it's worth - it didn't prevent doctors from performing medical experiments on innocent people during WWII, for example. Ethical behavior doesn't require an oath, only sanity, and enlightenment.
Just stop being only a tool.
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I don't know who told it, but I find it totally correct...
The biggest problem nowadays is that mankind is increasing its knowledge before it increases its wisdom and its ethic.
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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Nowadays? 
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Nowadays = heutzutage (german) = contemporary = present era = ...
or are you being just a bit sarcastic and saying that this is not only "nowadays" but always?
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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The latter. 
I'm not just sarcastic, I'm also a cynic.
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I must compile my code true. I must compile it better than the warning that is trying to stop me. I must compile it before it segfaults me. I will...
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 you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Science fiction is filled with examples of robots declining the requests of their human companions. "A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
I'd have gone with, "I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that", but that's right there in the article.
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This is going to end bad, I fear
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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In exchange for not being sued, Jakub F. had to make a video slamming online piracy entitled “The Story of My Piracy.” In the future, we'll all have to go viral
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Free Pascal is a 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler. Because Niklaus Wirth has a posse
Besides, don't you still have some code left lying around from your Turbo days (or college)?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Besides, don't you still have some code left lying around from your Turbo days (or college)?
Yes. Yes I do.
And I'd say, "and I know how to use it", except I don't. 
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Good code reads well, best code rhymes There once was a coder named Chuck...
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IWandered _lonely As Cloud
if (Music b<Love>(theFood)) { play.On; }
Oh this is going to make an awful mess of Monday...
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Google Glass redux ? The Verge: [^], SlashGear: [^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Without altering its genomic sequence, biologists have created hybrid flatworms with heads and bodies from two different species. Good news if you're a brainless worm? (But enough about me...)
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Ah, but Creationism created worms with which science could then do that!
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