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Code is for communication. Good code is clear code. Clever code is crap. "Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Code is for communication. Good code is clear code. Clever code is crap.
Unless you work alone and even then, often true.
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True - in that case you're communicating with yourself in six months (when your - or at least my - usual reaction is, "What idiot wrote this code?") 
TTFN - Kent
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Six months? How about six minutes between the time you write and the time you debug it?
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Forgetaboutit! I've seen places where coding by obscurity makes you a "lead architect". Hell, when no one know what the f*** is it you wrote, it makes you indispensable. 
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SD Times[^]: wrote: Code is for communication.
No it is not. Code is a representation of the steps needed to solve a particular problem in a definite time, which must be read from a machine. Whether this is a multistep execution (code->compiler->linker->loader) or a single one (machine code) the substance is that.
Documentation is for communication, not code.
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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The UN agency that oversees communications and IT development today published its annual global survey charting progress across developed and emerging markets. Congratulations to Luxembourg for being so connected
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Congratulations to Luxembourg for being so connected
Why single out #6 (#5 in Europe) for special praise?
From the article itself...
Quote: Interestingly, the list does not necessarily correlate with how fast an economy is growing or the impact it may have on the wider tech market as a result of that. Mainland China, for example, which is such a crucial market for the likes of Apple and others, ranks at number 82 in the ITU’s index, moving up only five places in the last five years. And India is at 131, having moved down six places.
... the internet isn't the overwhelmingly dominant factor in driving economic growth?! This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone other than a tech crunch editor. 
Quote: While we’ve talked a lot in the past about a digital divide between rich and poor nations, the ITU is finding that the gap at the moment appears to be between middle-ranking countries and the very poorest.
“Over the past five years, there has been a widening of the gap in IDI values between countries ranked in the middle and those towards the bottom of the distribution,” the ITU notes. “In the LDCs, the [ICT development index, or IDI] grew less compared to other developing countries and LDCs are falling behind in particular in the IDI ‘use’ sub-index, which could impact on their ability to derive development gains from ICTs.”
So growth is occurring fastest in the richest countries that have low penetration levels while the poorest ones are still stuck at extremely low levels. Again something that shouldn't be surprising to anyone but a techcrunch editor. 
From the ITU data itself, I'm wondering if the overtake by the percentage of people with a mobile phone of the percent living somewhere with at least 2g coverage is due to people who have to go somewhere other than their home to get a signal; or due to double counting of people with multiple devices.
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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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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