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Google catches a lot of flak for having too many messaging apps, but there’s another messaging-style app that you almost surely forgot about. It is called Spaces and it’s shutting down on April 17th Google Whatnow?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google Whatnow?
My response exactly!
Hands up anyone who's ever heard of it.
<searches out of sheer dumbfoundedness>
Ah. It's android.
I don't use google products on my phone unless it won't work without them. I suppose it's one less thing that will be asking me to update it, every five minutes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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More often than not throughout any career in development, you'll find that you're spending a lot of time trying to understand someone else's code Sucks to be them
edit: finally fixed URL
modified 27-Feb-17 15:32pm.
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That link leads to a page with the title "Webmail Login"...
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The guy who coded it left, a few weeks ago, and they're trying to figure out why it happens.
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 he was obviously thinking about his future replacement!...it's why I don't comment anymore!...let 'em sort it out.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Sorry, C/P buffer issue (OK, Kent issue). URL is fixed now (thanks, Sean).
TTFN - Kent
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You only fixed the redirector used by the insider email; not the post here.
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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Derp. Thanks, fixed.
TTFN - Kent
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There needs to be a law against mondays. 
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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I'm pretty sure I'm on the winning side of this, in that I believe I spend less time trying to understand others' code than they spend trying to understand mine.
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I know what you’re thinking. How can caring about spelling in code be anything but pedantic? That danged strnig data type!
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wow. Must have been a really slow news day.
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My gf's computer got hit by ransomware last year. Reformat drive, re-install OS, and recover documents that were happily stored elsewhere. An hour later, problem solved. (That was W7, haha.)
While ransomware is not the saddest thing that sadists do in the world, it's definitely another transaction in the block chain of despicable behavior with the genesis root of "Homo Sapiens." 
Marc
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raddevus wrote: it may be necessary to ban Bitcoin
Sponsored by the banks, I dare say.
In other news, it was discovered that more than 90% of crimes involve money, either directly or indirectly, so money is being banned.
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If you find a problem you care about, you're more likely to stick with it through that incredibly confusing and intimidating first stage of your adventure. And even as you progress and become programmatically proficient, finding projects that personally interest you will help you learn new things. Yeah, whatever
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This is the conclusion of a study carried out by cyber-security firm Avecto for the second year in a row, after, at the same time last year, it discovered that a sysadmin could mitigate 86% of all critical vulnerabilities Microsoft patched in 2015, just by taking the same action and disabling admin rights. And it only prevents getting any work done 49% of the time
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And it only prevents getting any work done 49% of the time
Exactly!
It's not really Microsoft's fault, rather 3rd party programs (usually). It's definitely not the users / IT departments - they are forced into this compromised position.
The reason most companies "have" to turn their users into "admins" ... lots of the programs simply refuse to work otherwise. Things like registry settings, DLL calls, config file locations, network & peripheral coms, etc. tend to have restrictions per user access levels. Which in turn means the UAL needs to be escalated just so the program can be started. And trying to modify ACLs of all relevant files / reg keys / hw devices / etc. for each program on each user account becomes a complete hogwash of a task. Thus the simpler solution is to give the user account admin rights.
Unless Windows' security makes it easier to sandbox a program and force 3rd party developers to refrain from using admin-only paths this problem will not go away. The reason Linux gets it right is because it was like that from the very start. Windows only added this idea later, meaning lots of legacy programs tended to be incompatible with this add-on security system, which in turn meant users needed to turn it off. And since that tends to be the case nearly all the time, even newer programs are still written without regard for such rights limitations (to a lesser extent, but still causing the problem).
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All they have to add is a suwindo command.
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I bet turning the computer off mitigates 100% of Microsoft vulnerabilities.
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Witchcraft!
You must be a security EXPERT!
TTFN - Kent
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Removing my dad from a keyboard mitigates 100% of all vulnerabilities, regardless of OS.
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I have often suggested that every comment represents a failure to make the code self explanatory. /*this comment isn't necessary*/
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What a lovely story.
For those who found it tl;dr grist:
If your code is more than just simple, basic, first-year-student-level statements: it needs commenting.
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