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Researchers at Curtin University in Australia published a study in Geology which found that more than a billion years ago, a chunk of present-day Canada broke away from the fledgling North American continent and smashed into Australia. That chunk of land is present-day Georgetown, Australia. Chris, no souvenirs!
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Does that mean that Georgetown's address is Physical Canada and Logical Australia?
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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Does that mean Canadian's can visit or move there? Is it sovereign land?
Are the current inhabitants considered to be Canadians?
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It was all that maple syrup.
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Developers tend to get thrown under the bus when it comes to application security, but recent data shows that developers do, in fact, care about security. Write your new password on a Post-It before changing it?
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Old data suggests the same. What is and is not implemented is usually not the choice of the developer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A Google engineer who just left the company after nearly 13 years criticized it Wednesday for becoming "100% competitor-focused" and said the company "can no longer innovate." So, "Google is the new IBM/DEC/Microsoft?"
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Billed by Google X chief Astro Teller as a “digital immune system,” Chronicle focuses on detecting threats by analyzing and storing security-related data within large enterprises. All you have to do is run all your company's data through Google to keep it safe?
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The title (of the link below) is a bit misleading.
The document is very well written and :
1. explains the challenges of concurrency
2. a method of solving those challenges.
What Are Actors | Akka.NET Documentation[^]
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That article actually does a great job of pointing out that most software engineers falsely believe that the computer is following the Von Neumann architecture[^]. But actually... most modern CPU are implementing a Modified Harvard architecture[^].
But we really need something new... and in light of the recent Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities... the existing architectures are under intense review. Hopefully the JUMP research grants[^] will pay off and result in a new distributed CPU architecture.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Great comments. I agree.
Randor wrote: But we really need something new... and in light of the recent Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities
I thought that was interesting that the article also touched upon the way parallel cores work and as I read it I thought of the spectre and meltdown bugs too. That's what made the article additionally interesting at this current time. 
EDIT
Also, thanks for mentioning that von neumann architecture vs. modified harvard architecture difference. That was good reading too.
modified 24-Jan-18 17:12pm.
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In many projects, there is a certain amount of code generation. The generated code is not seldom treated as a second-class citizen, the only measurement of code quality being whether it compiles and passes the tests. We can – and should – do better. This blurb was generated by a tool
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"This blurb was generated by a tool"
That's being unkind to yourself. I know you occasionally double-post news, but wouldn't go so far as to call you a tool. 
(That may be an English idiom, but when someone here is described as a tool, it means they're a bit of an idiot)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I thank you for recognizing where I was going with that one (and even more for accepting me as a non-tool)  
TTFN - Kent
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Every time in my career I have had to deal with Lex/Yacc or similar tools, I shudder and pray I don't need to debug the generated code, and inevitably do.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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One in three smartphone users in India run out of space daily due to the good morning messages sent with colourful images and even videos. And good morning to you!
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And I thought LinkedIn emails were irritating. 
Yeah , I could see that getting bad, fast.
TTFN - Kent
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Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a mathematical model for the emergence of innovations. Light bulb goes out, light bulb goes on. Can't explain that!
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How did they get that idea?
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One of the things I've told potential employers ever since I was fired for refusing to work more is that I don't do overtime. At the very least, not on a regular basis. Assuming you want to be, that is
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That's an awkwardly-worded title - "and so can you" what? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If it's not give and take then it's all take and I quickly lose interest.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I'm a 9 to 5 developer as well. 9PM to 5AM that is.
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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