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As NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its way up a layered mountain on Mars, the little bot is finding even more signs that the Red Planet was once a habitable place — potentially capable of hosting microbial life billions of years ago. Then they tried to invade us. Look where that got them!
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WebHooks provide a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and services with your code. Insert Tab A into Slot 1
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Insert Tab A into Slot 1
That's what she said.
Jeremy Falcon
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It’s common knowledge that reflection in .NET is slow, but why is that the case? This post aims to figure that out by looking at what reflection does under-the-hood. Why, do you feel a need? A need for speed?
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Because light slows down when it bounces off a mirror due to quantum interference effects of local dark matter created by photons hitting themselves in a causal-reversal time continuum. 
Marc
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I struggled so long (maybe a minute) to come up with something like that. Thank you, and well done. 
TTFN - Kent
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This turned out to be an excellent read, thanks. I found the links in the article also valuable.
cheers, Bill
«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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After admitting in September that hackers had stolen at least 500 million users passwords and personal data, the company now says they found evidence of what might be a separate attack affecting 1 billion victims. They'll be catching up with McDonald's pretty soon at this rate
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Physicists have achieved record levels of temperature reduction using the process of radiative cooling, by which heat is beamed from Earth’s surface into outer space. Scotty not required (or O'Brien)
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A solution for Global Warming!
#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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Send it back to the sun. We don't need your stinkin' heat.
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Evernote announced that it will roll out a new privacy policy on January 23, and the changes have users threatening to abandon the service. So, please make sure they're interesting for them.
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Microsoft has quietly fixed a software update it released last week, which effectively prevented Windows 10 users from connecting to the Internet or joining a local network. Assuming you could connect to the Internet long enough to download the patch
"It's unclear exactly which automatic update caused the problem". Maybe the "automatic" part?
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I didn't have any problems with it. The "patch" Time Warner/Spectrum did to my Netgear cable modem in late October, on the other hand....
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While we are still in the process of planning the next release, there are some big themes you will identify in the early work on GitHub I know, let's extract all the APIs from Core that run on every OS ever. We can call it .NET Quark.
Hmm. "Spring 2017". The next Build conference is May 2017. Coincidence?!
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Every now and then politics crosses with software development, which makes it relevant to my blog, at least in my mind. "Pride - a deeper love"
Yes, this one is pretty close to the "no politics in the newsletter" rule, and sorry if you feel it has crossed that line. I just live to make you all aware.
No really, Chris only feeds me if I post enough news. Send help. And hopefully Chris won't see this.
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No, not too bad; an interesting read and perspective. Either Franklin is misinformed or he is shunning software developers because of political alignment; i.e. the legacy industry workforce.
If I don't have pride in my work, I don't have anything. I'd rather be a bum than working a screw driver at a TPS factory. Most serious software developers take an excessive amount of pride in their work.
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I don't think "pride" is correct for developers, I prefer IEnumerable<lion>
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The actual quote was this:
Quote: “And people are out of jobs, are out of work. And they say, ‘But we’ll retrain you, we’ll let you be a computer programmer.'”
“They don’t want to be a computer programmer!” Graham continued. “They want to do the same job as their fathers and their grandfathers. There was pride in the manufacturing and the building. And we’ve taken all that away and it’s sad.”
I think that can be taken two ways, either:
1) There are people being forced into careers that aren't really right for them (undoubtedly true in any day and age)
or
2) We should head full-steam back to the iron age.
To me, it reads far more as the latter.
Either way, the idea that we'd all be happier doing what our grandfathers did does seem a tad irrelevant. I would have a very hard time finding a job as a stableman in a dairy, no matter how proud it would make me to do so. I did once have a job shovelling equine by-products - which was about as close as I could ever get - and whilst I was perfectly happy doing it, I wouldn't really describe it as a massive source of pride. I can't help but wonder whether the good reverend has ever had dirt under his fingernails.
Somehow it's all rather reminiscent of the last century when Soviet supremos and left-wing intellectuals would talk of the "dignity of labour" whilst the Nazis were hanging up signs saying "arbeit macht frei". And neither is it terribly far from the "modernity is evil" stance of Boko Haram, or for that matter, the back-to-the-planet attitudes of the hippies in the '60s. It seems that the one thing that they all agree on is that graft is good when someone else is doing it.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Trump seems to have a special talent for employing ass hats.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Chris only feeds me if I post enough news. Send help.
I've sent you a can of beans.
The half that I ate was quite tasty.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Beans! Party in the cubicle!
I'll provide the music.
TTFN - Kent
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