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Kent Sharkey wrote: This news item posted by the blurb-o-matic 9000
There's no AI that could replace your pithy comments. Your job is secure!
But regarding the article:
IT staff only spend 14.5 percent of their time on innovation and new projects.
The "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" has a corollary - "if we touch it, we'll be sure to break it."
Which is Shirley the case in what I'm experiencing -- a lot of data and code running on mainframes with COBOL. It's hard to "innovate" when the people that wrote some of this code aren't around and the people that could innovate have no idea how to read COBOL.
Marc
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You are too kind. Thank you.
I thought you were wrasslin' with Python? Now there's COBOL in the mix as well?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought you were wrasslin' with Python? Now there's COBOL in the mix as well?
Python was the previous job (web server was running Django), except what I'm doing with Python on the Beaglebone my client is using, and I'm quite pleased with Python in that environment.
The company I have a 6 month contract with still maintains COBOL code on their mainframes. I had a look at some of the code, it was like reading a foreign language. It would take a couple weeks of learning the language just to be able to read the programs.
Happily, I'm doing C#/SQL work.
Marc
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Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has a bug that causes it to use a single-letter universal decryption password: "p". "And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids"
Special shout out to those who hate the word 'gotten'
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"Open Sesame!"
"No, just 'p'"
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That article had me p'ing in my pants! 
Marc
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Zionks! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Back in October 2014, Microsoft made a bold promise, that anyone with an Office 365 subscription would get unlimited OneDrive storage, rather than the 1TB that users were already being offered. A year later, the company officially broke that promise, saying that anyone that had been upgraded to either unlimited or 10TB of storage would be downgraded after a year. "Gone gone gone, she been gone so long"
You are blessedly lucky if that friggin' song isn't going through your head now. Doubly so if you've never heard it.
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Like so many others, Microsoft learned that when you give "unlimited" something, there will be a small number of people who will try use it all.
At one point, I had 125GB storage on OneDrive, though all the offers I'd used to get that had time limits. The last limit expires in a week or so and I drop to 15GB, leaving a 3GB buffer. (I keep my code backups on DropBox, of which I'm not a fan, but I knew that extra data would cause my storage to exceed 15GB and figured I'd forget until it was purged, so used DropBox. At one point, I was also using Google Drive, it caused all sorts of problems, so I just do manual backups to there.)
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640K 1TB ought to be enough for anybody 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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To help detect the sentiment behind speech, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a wearable app that can parse conversation to identify the emotion behind each part of the story. My mood ring has been doing that for decades
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This post is meant to provide that additional context for the principles we use to make decisions for each language. You should consider it as guidance, not as a roadmap. "The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."
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The issue escalated into emergency database maintenance after data was deleted accidentally — followed by an apparent inability to restore the data from backups "I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error."
Hurrah, for "the cloud"
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The affected database includes issues and merge requests but not repositories
Whew! My code has no issues, and nobody but me works on it, and I have no idea how to do merging, so everything is on the master branch anyways!
Marc
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The package provides tools and scripting supported, but Python does not become a first-class CLR language The world was waiting for this
And by "waiting", I of course mean, "working away, never suspecting someone felt this was necessary".
And yes, there's still IronPython. Someone other than the developer might even use it some day.
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Note that this package does not implement Python as a first-class CLR language -- it does not produce managed code (IL) from Python code,"
Damn. I was hoping I could take Python generated IL and decompile it to C#.
Marc
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I think you might be able to do that with IronPython... but don't quote me on that...
#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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So, it's basically the equivalent of pinvoking the Windows API from .Net --- only it's pinvoking .Net from CPython.
 Why? Just why??
Use C#. It can already do that without the pinvoke!!! Gaaaahhhhhh.
#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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As much disparity as there is between an Altair 8800 and a modern personal computer, looking even further back is fascinating. For those who long for "the good old days"
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I still have my ENIAC running.
It really generates a huge kWatt / hour bill but it's definitely worth it.
When all the smart phones crash and the Internet fails, who'll be right then?
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Probably keeps the house nice and toasty as well.
TTFN - Kent
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Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
When programs ran forever and a day
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Quote: There were 5 million hand-soldered joints!
That was a lot of cigarette breaks!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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It can tell whether a completely paralyzed person is thinking “yes” or “no” Blink once for "yes", twice for "no", three times for "Take me back to Talos IV"
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