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Quote: He found one listed web address, ending in a number, which pointed to a PDF file purporting to be a medical marijuana dispensary application. Altering the number in the web address let anyone view different applications.
Wasn't someone sent to prison in the US for doing precisely the same thing, a few years ago?
The court set the precedent that (on US soil) manually modifying a web address in the address bar of an Internet browser is classed as hacking.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Over the past few years, governments around the world have started warming up to the idea of collecting their citizens’ biometric identities. This includes fingerprints, which are already required for passports in many countries, or more recently iris scans, now required in both India and Singapore. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads"
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As the federal agency at the forefront of exploring outer space, NASA winds up being the front door for all manner of alien conspiracies. And so every year, to find out what the miscreants at the space agency have been keeping from the good, honest people of America, we like to google the phrase "NASA hiding." Wake up, sheeple!
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Wake up sheeple and do what? Baa at the moon?
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After the post by Steve Klabnik, “Rust is more than safety”, and a reply by Graydon Hoare, “Rust is mostly safety” - I thought it wise to throw my opinion into the mix, whether warranted or not. No pressure now
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"Better documentation than Python"
Pretty low hurdle.
(I prefer languages that no only let me shoot myself in the foot, but load and c**k the gun for me. Perhaps even aim it.)
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Style and content of this messianic article suggest, to this reader, that the author of the article (and the OS made-of-Rust, Redox) has metastasized his own (admirable) creative euphoria into ... grandiosity of the Manichean flavor, with the venerable C language, and its various incarnations, cast in the role of the "dark forces."
Generalities by the author, like these:Quote: What I found in Rust was a language that had:
Better safety than Ada
Better concurrency than C++
Better performance than C
Better documentation than Python
Without explanation, or links to technically sound content, suggest evangelism, not reasoned hypotheses.
Yet, who knows ? Perhaps Redox will turn out to be something useful; perhaps the author's work will lead to improving Rust.
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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Comparing a language to Ada, C, C++, and of all things, Python, does not win any points with me. 
Marc
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Note how he skillfully avoids mentioning that javascript is better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I made a mistake that cost my company more than $10,000 dollars. "I'm sorry Jake, but it's my mistake"
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Conversely, I once wrote some software that would allow the company I worked for to reduce the number of T3 lines they had. It worked and went live. The COO forgot to make the phone call. Probably cost the company $50,000 cash, but he didn't lose his job. (And proceeded to lose the company even more money. To no big surprise, the place went bankrupt ten months later.)
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I was on my first job as a Rails developer.
Say no more. 
Marc
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I’m not sure exactly when the stereotype of the brilliant programmer switched from nerd to role model. I'm about 42 lumens (on a good day). Does that count?
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It must be a blue moon. A well written and intelligent blog post.
Marc
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It switched?
Better inform all the single women out there. (And my kids.)
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Whilst the author makes some good points, it also heavily generalises to do so. I've known many great software developers who have stayed the distance at a company, and mediocre developers who have the attention span of a goldfish. Those same great developers are also the ones who put the application into operations and hang around to fix the bugs.
I don't think any of the traits the author describes applies specifically to the "great programmer". Yes, these traits exist, as they exist in many people in other industries too.
He draws very general conclusions using stereotypes and generalisations.
"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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Using gold nanoparticles and AI, a device correctly diagnosed 86 percent of patients. "Your mouthwash ain't makin' it."
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The other day I read something about a specially trained dog doing the same and with a high accuracy too...
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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Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is turning a shade of green for Windows 10 testers soon. Problem solved: no more BSODs!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: is turning a shade of...
Where are the other 49? 
I know, I know... we are not in the soapbox...
I'll go get my coat
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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Airline booking systems lack basic security checks that would stop attackers changing flight details or stealing rewards, warn experts. "Should not have got on this flight tonight"
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Understanding encapsulation has more to do with object-oriented purism than one might imagine. Anemic objects might be more SOLID than you would first think. Have you tried putting iron pills in your model?
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What about the beriberi objects?
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What you do after graduation matters way more than where you went to school You'd think they'd have a job by now
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