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Another day, another sensational report from Forbes. Oh my goodness, is Windows 10 really "phoning home" thousands of times a day? Nope. In fact, anyone who has even a basic understanding of how networks work should cringe at this shoddy report. A tech reporter getting something wrong? My world is akilter
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Two-thirds of the vulnerabilities patched this week in IE11 and Edge likely exist in now-retired IE7 and IE8, definitely in semi-obsolete IE9 and IE10 If only there were other browsers people could use in safety!
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Have they been secure once ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Move constructors are often cheaper than copy constructors, which makes the construction and immediate relocation of objects in modern C++ more effective than in C++03. std::FTW
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It's taken decades, but it now appears that new forms of real -- albeit simplified -- software development can be carried out by almost anyone with only a little technical know-how. Can Excel, will travel
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Kent Sharkey wrote: almost anyone with only a little technical know-how
Just because they can doesn't mean they should. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Just because they can doesn't mean they should.
Hey! That's my line 
TTFN - Kent
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ZDNet: It's taken decades, but it now appears that new forms of real -- albeit simplified -- software development can be carried out by almost anyone with only a little technical know-how link to Q&A.
FTFT(hem)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Well, we all started that way. Granted, probably a bit more to the metal.
Marc
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ZDNet albeit simplified -- software development can be carried out by almost anyone with only a little technical know-how.
Well, if by simplified you mean undocumented, horribly indented, clunky software with more security holes than an caveman's computer, than yeah.
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Women's contributions to open source are more likely to be accepted than men's. I'd make a "pull request" joke, but that would be juvenile
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Warp back to 1992 with Ross Perot, Saddam Hussein, hundreds of shareware nag notices. For all your Extended (and Expanded) Memory
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Scientists just announced the detection of gravitational waves, a discovery that stands to change the way we understand our universe in extraordinary ways. 1/5 - no lyrics, can't dance to the beat
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Nonsense, can dance to anything 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You can dance if you want to...
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Rubbish. That's like encoding the Mona Lisa via some algorithm and saying, "this is what the Mona Lisa sounds like".
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The idea is to help a programmer easily identify an extra parentheses or an errant "I" where a "1" belongs amid thousands of lines of code. Pretty, but I'm not sure it's USD199 pretty
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Kent Sharkey wrote: amid thousands of lines of code
Can they fit that on a screen? I can't, and I use a very small font.
Quote: Operator Mono achieves this with color
Ummm... what? Fonts don't have color. 
I suspect their choice of IDE is a greater factor than the font.
modified 10-Feb-16 19:07pm.
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Script Italics for Class, Method, Parameter names ?
Insanity !
«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 translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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I do like the squirrely brackets of that font.
But that's a hefty price for a font in my world to solve what's a non issue according to me.
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Based on that screen-shot, I wouldn't use it if they were giving it away! 
Also, I suspect many of the features only work in an editor which supports ligatures. Most of them don't.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Following that coloring schema the next step will likely be individually colored characters within keywords and identifiers 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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