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Today almost all information stored on hard disc drives or cloud servers is recorded in magnetic media, because it is non-volatile and cheap. For portable devices such as mobile phones and tablets, other forms of non-magnetic memory are used because the technology based on magnetism is impractical and is not energy efficient. Oh, of course, it was the chirality of the vortex domain wall all along! How silly of me not to realize it.
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I wonder if there's a market in high speed printers as an emergency backup measure. As in:
"Holy Sunshine, Batman! We have 6 hours to back up the Internet on paper before that X9 CME hits the earth and wipes out all electronics!"
Of course, there wouldn't be anything left to scan the paper back into digital form, at least for a few years.
Marc
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Latest Kaspersky Lab findings reveal over five million attacks in the last three months following leaks of major exploits. "It's a very, very mad world"
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The company faces an inherent contradiction it has yet to resolve: It says Windows 10 is the last Windows ever, but has also set time limits on support. Same as the rest of us
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As the Moon blocks the Sun’s light completely next week in a total solar eclipse, more than 50 high-altitude balloons in over 20 locations across the US will soar up to 100,000 feet in the sky. On board will be Raspberry Pi cameras, weather sensors, and modems to stream live eclipse footage. They’ll also have metal tags coated with very hardy bacteria, because NASA wants to know whether they will survive on Mars. They want to make everyone sick! Wake up Sheeple! DooOoOOOooOOoOOOOMMMMM!11!!eleven
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The latest C++ Core Guidelines Checker is deployed as a part of the Native Code Analysis tools in Visual Studio 2017 15.3. These tools are designed for use in Visual Studio, which provides a rule set editor for filtering warnings. But what if you want to adopt the C++ Core Guidelines checks in your automated builds? Getting it without Visual Studio is left as an exercise for the reader
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LinkedIn must remove any technical limitations it has put in place to prevent the "scraping" of members' data. I'm glad the bots find that site useful
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This is a good result tbh, you can't put information on the public internet the complain when it gets read. Just because it was read by a computer program is irrelevant.
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Let’s take a break from analyzing the top programming languages and focus on the most searched (and possibly popular) IDEs instead. There are others?
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vi, erm, emacs, just shut up.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is that because the alternatives are so good people don't need to search for help?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Noted Windows' tail-wagger and gossip-monger claims he's seen a memo: [^] Quote: Since then, however, another trusted source at Microsoft has provided with a different take on this story. Microsoft, I’m told, fabricated the story about Intel being at fault. The real problem was Surface-specific custom drivers and settings that the Microsoft hardware team cooked up.
The Skylake fiasco came to a head internally when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and asked the firm, then the world’s biggest maker of PCs, how it was dealing with the Skylake reliability issues. Lenovo was confused. No one was having any issues, he was told. I assume this led to some interesting conversations between the members of the Microsoft senior leadership team.
I continue to look ... askance.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Not surprised, falls right in line with the rest of MS half assed frameworks and products.
Wout
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You could apply that comment to pretty much anyone. I'd be happy to sit down and go on for days about Apple. And Google. And pretty much any man-bun smashed-avocado powered $300 connected device whose software I've had to deal with lately.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I stay far away from all consumer sh*t. I've been very happy with using HP business notebooks (elitebook/zbook) for about a decade, very robust products that don't break down after 6 months of use.
Wout
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So, clueless idiots lie to a slightly less clueless idiot. Big surprise.
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Incidentally, I use a Surface [3?] tablet daily as part of a project. Not impressed, especially with the moronic screen aspect ratio it uses. Then again, I'm not a fan of most tablets.
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While it's notoriously tough for enterprises to find skilled developers for mobile and data science initiatives, a new report from Canonical indicates a skills gap is also affecting recruitment for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) space. Time to learn things, people!
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Personally, the things that makes IoT hard to learn is the hardware part of it. GPIO's, SPI's, bizarre funky WTF I'm going to guess mapping of pins to memory locations, picking a good library for direct I/O to said devices, and of course the awkwardness of command line and learning *nix, if you don't know it already, which is pretty much a must learn -- I haven't tried .NET Core yet on my Beaglebones. Other things that we take for granted (tons of disk space, tons of memory, tons of CPU performance) are all things most people will have to learn how not to take for granted, particularly when writing to a SIM card with a limited read/write lifetime. And of course, probably a new programming language (most likely Python) and if you want to do anything at the bare metal level, dust off those old "C" books!
Thankfully, there's tons of open source libraries and examples and some decent books to learn from.
It all reminds of the wild west days of homebrew computers, PET's, Apple II's, Z80, and so forth. Smaller package, more I/O, faster processors, more memory, and decent high level languages, otherwise, it's pretty much the same cacti, dessert sand, and barroom brawls.
Marc
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It is easily argued that invasive technologies such as IOT are primarily designed to benefit surveillance states - the US being the largest of them! My suggestion to software developers is to invest in a few ethic courses before even thinking about updating your skill set.
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It's not a skill gap, it's the pay gap.
A productive embedded developer is worth as much as SQL beginner. And he or she has to understand cutting edge, difficult to master GNU tools (C compiler, linker, assembler, make, OpenOCD), system programming (operating system, CPU, sometimes GPU, real-time, kernel level), a bunch of low level protocols, electronics, debug weird physical defects emanating from overheating or a spike, work with obscure IDEs, with little skill upgrade in years, and similar...
I do embedded at home, have written my operating system, but am not crazy to leave the business apps for half the pay. At present, the bang for the buck just isn't there. Perhaps, when I'm older and without plans and a mortgage. Cause it's fun.
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I seriously doubt that there is a true "skills gap" here. I suspect it's more like most so-called "shortages" of qualified people : the only shortages are of people willing to work at the rate those employers want to pay. There ARE plenty of people who can do the job but the employers don't want to pay the going rate for people with experience. They often throw up their hands, write their congressmen and/or immediately donate to their campaign(s), and then go the H1B route. I have seen this sequence of events first hand more than once.
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Fatal error leaves customers scrambling for fixes that can take a week or longer. It's a lock. It's locked. Where's the problem?
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The article states door-locks - in which case one has to ask whether or not one would call the carpenter for an 'update' on the door.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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