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Are you a good programmer? Are you above average as a software developer? I’m almost sure that your answer is yes. Most programmers feel like that. But, of course, if most programmers think they are above average, many of them are wrong… The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is that you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger club
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There are very few really good programmers, and the worst of the bad programmers are very bad indeed -- so perhaps the average isn't where you think it is?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
There are very few really good programmers, and the worst of the bad programmers are very bad indeed
Yeah, I'm starting to think that the 10x developer is a myth, but the 0.1x developer is real (and really common).
TTFN - Kent
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The "10x programmer" is a myth, but the hero programmer is real (i.e. someone who thinks they are a 10x programmer)
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ed welch wrote: hero programmer ... thinks
LOL. Yes, I've met a few of these guys -- very dangerous, very political and can talk up a storm. Often they have good ideas, just can't really execute, but usually can obfuscate that fact until it's too late...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I don't think the 10x programmer is real, or he/she is an extremely rare beast. But the 3x or 4x programmer is more common, I've met a few. And no, I don't think I'm one. I think I'm good, maybe above average, but not 3x or 4x.
It's also possible that good programmers have a 10x "moment".
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Downloads and installs clean copy of OS; scrubs all software not bundled with 10 Does it uninstall Windows 10?
{Ba dum pum - just pointing out again that I'm happy with Win 10. I've only had to reset it from scratch once.  }
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I didn't realize the windows OS allowed recursion.
I new it allowed re-cursing.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The official uninstallers that Adobe supplied for those wishing to remove the Flash plugin from their Windows installation have for some time been supplying hackers with a ‘privilege escalation’ attack vector. "If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double"
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Quote: Kanthak first reported the vulnerability to Adobe in March, and the company’s first patch for the exploit was issued the following month. However the patched version contained the same vulnerability, but simply loaded different DLLs.
What...?
EPIC FAIL, ADOBE!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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How is this even remotely possible?
I'm not talking about the bug. I'm talking about the complete debacle that is Flash. It has one job to do: play a flash movie. That's it. Except for years, and years and years it's been the but of all security jokes because they can't do that one simple thing without exposing the entire PC to every nasty under the sun.
It's so bad that browser manufacturers are actively blocking it[^]. Yet even with that it's still a hole ridden mess.
They made 4.759 billion last year. BILLION. Yet they couldn't find the cash to - I dunno - rewrite the whole damn mess properly?
And now they can't even uninstall it without exposing us to rancidware.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Because it's not just a video player; even if that's 99% of what it's still used for.
The cluster elephant is a full fledged language runtime like VB6 or javascript. 
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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Chris Maunder wrote: It's so bad that browser manufacturers are actively blocking it[^].
Well, I've been doing that for years now. I don't have flash installed except as a browser plugin. And every browser that has a flash plugin installed is configured to "click to play". I haven't installed the JRE either... And haven't missed it so far.
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Microsoft is fleshing out further its Visual Studio '15 tailored installation experience by adding more than a dozen workloads for specific development tasks. It only installs what I want? Brilliant!
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Quote: It only installs what I want?
No, it only installs what they think you should want! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: No, it only installs what they think you should want!
No, it only installs what you are supposed to want! 
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First step let me choose the location it installs all those parts...
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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Does it install Windows 10 first if it isn't the currently in use OS?
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You should've just linked directly to the MSDN post. All ZDNyet did was to delete all the details and dumb down the language.
On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation | The Visual Studio Blog[^]
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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Recycling plastic can be difficult, but maybe we could squeeze something else out. Fill 'er up. With pop bottles.
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OT - Ars Technica attempted to download multiple files automatically... Not nice at all...
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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W3C has early draft of specification for authentication standard that works across browser platforms, prevents phishing. Coming to a browser near you... by 2050 (maybe)
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New emoji are typically proposed by the Unicode Consortium and approved for the next version of the spec without much fuss, but a rifle emoji proposed for Unicode 9.0 apparently ran into opposition from two major members of the consortium: Apple and Microsoft. The Second Amendment doesn't protect your "whacky" FaceBook chats
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“We are not building an operating system for just a single device, when I think about even Windows 10, the way we conceptualized it is, we are building an operating system for the user across all the devices” Service... without a smile
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t is a service, that is how I think of it. Windows update is probably the biggest service we have because it touches 1.5 billion machines every day
So in other words, Windows 10 is a service whose purpose in life is to update 1.5 billion (I question that number) machines every day, with, erm, itself??? Gads, if I wrote a service that did that, I'd be fired. I certainly wouldn't brag about it.
I (or someone here!) better trademark OSAAS - OS As A Serice before Microsoft does! And its variants, like OS As a Software Service.
Marc
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