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A new analysis of lunar rock and soil samples suggests that the Earth got full-on clobbered by an ancient planet called Theia. The sky is falling!
Alternately (for those who watch late night US infomercials): "Apply directly to the forehead"
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I’ve been asked a number of times over the years how, exactly, I approach learning new stuff, whether that be a new programming language, a new platform, whatever. A lesson
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how, exactly, I approach learning new stuff, whether that be a new programming language, a new platform, whatever.
I find a job where I can get paid to learn it. 
Marc
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Sadly, so do far too many politicians. 
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I put myself in a situation where the bonfire lit under my butt flares, and there's no choice but to get a move on 
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on his translation of “Eugene Onegin.”/xml>
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BillWoodruff wrote: and there's no choice but...
the best master for most people.
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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Last fall, we learned that a former Google employee named Sanmay Ved had managed to purchase the “Google.com” domain name for exactly one minute before Google realized what had happened and snatched it back. Decent wage for one minute's work
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Google's push for all websites to be HTTPS has so far been all carrot. But the company is now using its big stick: a large red cross through every website that doesn't offer an encrypted connection. Time to be certifiable
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OpenSSL maintainers release update that fixes key-recovery bug. Patch now. {sigh} You know the drill...
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With an unprecedented choice of tools, languages, platforms, and architectural styles, developers are creating a wildly inventive, software-defined world. "Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel"
(whop-whop-whop)
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The first thing that came to my mind was that cloud computing made the assertion as disturbing as it was appropriate, promptly followed by a realization that this wasn't the soapbox.
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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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Golden age with a scoria made of JavaScript impairing its shininess.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Kent Sharkey wrote: With an unprecedented choice of tools, languages, platforms, and architectural styles, developers are creating a wildly inventive, software-defined world.
The chaos of that is not the golden age, it's the dark ages. Actually, more like the black hole ages, where the remains of yesterday's inventive technology can only be detected by the residue of its gamma ray burst as it is consumed with today's so-called inventive technology.
Marc
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Developers are living in a Tower of Babble constructed of styrofoam, if you ask me.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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I concur.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OpenBSD put a slidedeck[^] of their progress up late last year.
The most important highlights probably are that the cleanup and diet they've put the code in are already having a major impact in security, half the total number of CVEs as OpenSSL (22 vs 43) and no high risk CVEs at all vs OpenSSL having 5; and that the ports collection has spread beyond OpenBSD to be the default on some Linux distros (eg Arch and Void) and should work on "anything you care about". The latter includes Visual Studio 15; so it's not isolated in *nixland.
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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Rob Joyce, the nation’s hacker-in-chief, took up the ironic task of telling a roomful of computer security professionals and academics how to keep people like him and his elite corps out of their systems. Don't connect it to the Internet?
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"It is of vital importance that you leave fsyskcr.dll unpatched! For your convenience, you'll find a copy of a completely safe version on the USB sticks supplied with your meeting notes. Just plug it into you laptops right now, the stick comes with an excellent autoinstaller!"
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Like when watching a sleight-of-hand magician, Web developers have been distracted by the recent popularity wars between the various front-end frameworks, and we’ve missed a fundamental shift in the nature of these frameworks. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) has been quietly and steadily showing up in many aspects of the main frameworks of today.
Very useful article on the growing popularity of FRP within web development.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Actually, on the client I think that is exactly what we need.
JS is a POS, and the sooner the Web can be targeted using other languages, the better.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Don’t you think that a developer should be [a] programmer who is also an architect and a problem solver? I'm a Senior Blurb Architect
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DaedTech wrote: Give me one set of people: those that know how to solve problems, including the problem of taking care of both vision and details.
Can't find such set. There is always knowledge friction in this field.
Wonde Tadesse
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