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Graham Cox wrote: Self Documenting code is not a good goal to aim for. Quite the opposite in my opinion. Self Documenting code is a good goal to aim for.
Fixed. Better click-bait, twice as lengthy.
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It’s going to happen: At some point in your professional career, you’re going to feel stupid, and it’s going to be because you forgot some simple term. FWIW (which isn't in there at the moment)
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Newer Intel microprocessors are provided with Software Guard Extensions (SGX) which allow software programs to run in their own little safe corner of the processor. These safe areas are created on demand and have their own memory, isolated from other system software like hypervisors and the operating system itself. Just when you thought it was safe in the processor
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The technology industry has been overloading the term ‘senior engineer’. A senior engineer is not a senior engineer is not a senior engineer. Does this mean I won't get the discount at the movies?
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And as long as that bullet list is it still managed to miss at least one important type of senior engineer. The person whose broad skill base allows quickly coming up to speed on anything complex despite having no direct prior knowledge of the domain. AKA the coworker of mine who gets put on any new project needing a skill we don't have in house to figure out the best approach and either implement it directly or do knowledge transfer to one of his more mundane coworkers to do the bulk of the work.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Dan Neely wrote: the coworker of mine who gets put on any new project needing a skill we don't have in house to figure out the best approach
For the program I went through in college, in the last year, everyone was split into teams. Each team was tasked with developing a system for a business in town. That meant interviewing them, determining the needs, designing a system and implementing it. The grade depending on what the business had to say. I was placed in a group with one other person where our 'project' was to be a resource for all other groups; if they had an issue with an algorithm, technology, whatever... they came to us first. If we couldn't resolve it, then they went to the professor.
At the time, we were split between PC based applications and VAX/VMS, so it was a broad base and was a good challenge.
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Regardless of title, in my mental notes, I consider someone a senior engineer if they have a combination of expertise and time working in that field--usually six to eight years. Moreover, the real key of a senior engineer isn't knowing what to do, but knowing what not to do.
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In a growing sign of the increased sophistication of both cyber attacks and defenses, GitHub has revealed that this week it weathered the largest-known DDoS attack in history. Good thing that's not a place that everyone stores their code
Yeah, kind of a dupe, but a different focus on this article (as opposed to the one talking about the memcached bug)
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The nation's top lawyers recently battled artificial intelligence in a competition to interpret contracts — and they lost. You had me at, "beat lawyers"
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So, do we now ask; What do you call one AI at the bottom of the ocean?
(A good start.)
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Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come. Flying car notably absent (again)
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The 'extended mind thesis' suggests devices deserve the same protections as our brains and bodies. Or just welded to your hand?
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No, it's something that wakes me up in the morning, receives the odd phone call and allows me to check the cricket scores. You really wouldn't find out much about my life by looking at my phone.
I think there's a huge gap here between those young types that are permanently plugged into the damned things to the point that they can't even walk down a street properly and old farts like myself who treat the thing as a pocket telephone.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches closer to theaters, the marketing masterminds at Warner Bros. have been tapping into that nostalgia with Easter egg-filled trailers, and now there’s an online arcade with a number of vintage games to play. Beware the "unbeatable?" pterodactyl!
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Researchers have set a new speed record for the 'logic gates' that form the building blocks of quantum computing -- a technology that could transform the way we process information. Is it just me, or are quantum computers heavy on, "lookitthis", and light on, "1+1"?
Yeah, I know, it's early, but someone promised me a SQUID
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Google's vertical search tormentors in Europe have called for Alphabet's cash cow to be broken up, arguing that Google's solution hasn't improved competition. Seems to me I've seen this movie before
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What is wrong with these european anti-business people. All they have to do is Google "top internet search sites" to find all of googles competitors.
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Not anti-business; but Google has become too powerfull to exist, and must follow Ma Bell.
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It is also not just about competition in search-engines; it is about their parent-company that has now more political influence in Europe than could be considered healthy. It kills innovation and threathens democracy in the long-run.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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although I admit, I know nothing of googles/alphabets european influence. My comment was merely meant to be a bit of sarcasm telling them to google, googles competitors. I enjoyed the ironic aspect of it.
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Bullshiz
#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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About 21,100 results (0.40 seconds)
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Really proud of your eloquent argumentation 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The problem isn't Google, but that companies persist in the belief that online advertising is highly effective and worth the money they pay for it.
Quote: McNamee envisages "eight or 10 different monopolies"
May be the dumbest thing I've read in a very long time and arguing with stupid is a Sisyphean task.
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Technology users who receive guidance when setting passwords -- including how likely it is that hackers could break into their accounts -- are significantly more likely to make their choices secure. Colour me unconvinced
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Kent Sharkey wrote: are significantly more likely to make their choices secure.
and that is supposing the site allows you to type a secure password.
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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