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Ah. Right. I had tried to think of a rationale and failed, but that makes perfect sense now. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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A new developer option available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update just made background activity a whole lot easier. "Get back, back to where you once belonged"
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A species of tropical fish has been shown to be able to distinguish between human faces. It is the first time fish have demonstrated this ability. Something to think about next time you have sushi
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Oh! So that's why. 
The trout are all like, "Here comes Ron. His snacks are prickly. Don't bite it".
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They can recognize more than only faces when it comes to their kin. Don't you remember:
"Look, Henry is being eaten!"
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ahem ... [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Beat me by 4 hours. Sorry, next time I'll remember to uncheck the "post in insider forum". 
TTFN - Kent
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Sounds fishy
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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As part of the ongoing transition to the module system, CORBA and other Java EE modules won't be included in the default classpath from Java 9 onwards. Now how is it going to revolutionize programming?
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It used to be that if you needed to create a recording of a program on the PC, you had to get Expressions Encoder or some other capture program. But the feature is now built into Windows 10, assuming you're willing to do some pretending. Well, if this doesn't get you to upgrade to Windows 10...
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The question is how good is it? Is sound synced correctly? What's the frame rate like? It's actually very hard to do video capture without dropping frames.
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/shrug
It was originally built for XBox game sharing, so I'm assuming it's got to be fairly good for software-only. Of course, I know what happens when I assume[^].
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft GigJam is a new way to work with your documents and SaaS information. It allows you to quickly share only what you want from any source, on any device, safe and securely. Now everyone can jam their gig (but try not to bruise it)
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A team of researchers thinks it may have solved an impending problem with silicon-based computer chips: replace the transistors with vacuum tubes. The sound, man. It's just so much richer with tubes...
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Yeah, they're vacuum transistors, not vacuum tubes
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ed welch wrote: Yeah, they're vacuum transistors, not vacuum tubes
That's the point -- the article Kent referenced wasn't talking about vacuum tubes either. 
Marc
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Once AI really hits it off and computers become as smart as us humans they'll be trading their silicon chips for potato chips. They support a FAT file system and enough salt for a gazillion passwords
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In this article Patrick S. Li, the designer and implementer of L.B. Stanza, suggests that the greatest productivity gains are the result of having a wide spectrum of libraries. The purpose of a general-purpose programming language is to enable the creation of powerful and easy-to-use libraries. The more powerful the language, the easier the libraries are to use. #include "rest_of_program.h"
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Amen. Besides having my own personal C# library that I use for everything, from WinForm to web servers, and a small but growing Javascript library, one of the reasons I'm using Python for Beaglebone development is that there's a large community of cross platform libraries, I can easily swap the the LCD screen stuff on the BBB with Tk on Windows, and for the hardware specific stuff, there's a ton of examples for I2C and GPIO interfacing. Of course, it also helps that there's a bunch of cheap hardware out there for screens, LCD displays, buttons, sensors, etc.
The point being though, these libraries really do impact my productivity.
Kent Sharkey wrote: The more powerful the language, the easier the libraries are to use.
Now that, I'm not sure I'd agree with. That seems like a specious conclusion. A library is easy to use if it's well designed, I don't care if it's written in COBOL or in BrainF***.
Which is the most complex programming language?[^] An amusing link when I googled that question.
Here's a new term to sling around: "Turing Tarpit."
Another interesting read[^] on the subject of complicated languages.
But complexity != powerful. Well, for "powerful", I give Top 10 Most Powerful Programming Languages - YouTube[^] this video. 
Marc
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In the wake of megabreaches at some of the Internet’s most-recognized destinations, don’t be surprised if you receive password reset requests from numerous companies that didn’t experience a breach: Some big name companies — including Facebook and Netflix — are in the habit of combing through huge data leak troves for credentials that match those of their customers and then forcing a password reset for those users. That's OK my password will never be hacked - the extra 7 at the end makes it secure: 1234567
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Dang it, that's the 4th iteration of my luggage combination.
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Of course it will just mean that I am more likely to forget the password. too many passwords. At least a number of sites let you use your email, which means that is harder to forget.
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If Facebook or Netflix will ask me for password reset I will know that something went totally wrong...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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