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RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. "Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring!"
I don't think I could do this job as poorly as I do without RSS
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Out of interest Kent, what do you use as an RSS reader nowadays.
It seems that each service I use retires just as I get comfortable.
Damn google for starting the trend by shuttering Reader.
"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'm pretty happy with Feedly. I've got it set up to look and work mostly like Google Reader (bastards! Philistines! How dare they cancel it!), so I'm pretty happy. I managed to get one of their lifetime Pro packages, but I'm tempted to ask them to start billing me as all the use I've had from it.
TTFN - Kent
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Interesting, I've been using the free version, but haven't spent much time in configuring it, so will check to see if I can get it set up more to my liking.
One thing I do seem to observe though, is that frequently it reposts articles I've already seen as unread, making it hard to focus on new announcements. With feeds like Ars Technica, this can get quite tricky.
"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 suspect some people may find that the NamedType class template has a nice interface but is using a somewhat heavy machinery to achieve the modest goal of strong typing. For those people, I have good news: you can achieve many of the functionalities of NamedType, with a very simple tool. I was unaware I was being charged for my data types
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Clearing your download history could speed up Chrome's startup slightly. Getting caught is a bug
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The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not only make fewer errors, but they often type the next key before the previous one has been released. More than two functioning fingers?
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Some applications and websites don’t render and display so called “zero-width characters.” A developer created a tool to hide these invisible characters in plain sight, and then use them to identify who copied and pasted the original text. Just in case you're worried about such things
Coming soon: a tool to prevent zero-width characters from being posted to the clipboard
also coming soon: malware that uses zero-width characters
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Well, that's actually just a more modern (and less easy to detect) version of an intentional tyop.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Convert it to ANSI in Notepad++ and the characters become question marks.
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The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project "They're the people that you meet, while you're walking down the street"
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And how does "is that only a few developers do the major work" actually differ from a commercial software project?
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I was just thinking the same...
in Germany we say: "TEAM = toll, ein anderer macht's" (= nice, another one does it)
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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Thousands of Google employees have signed an open letter asking the internet giant to stop working on a project for the US military. That's totally IBM's job
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Researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually speak aloud. Electrodes in the device pick up neuromuscular signals in the jaw and face that are triggered by internal verbalizations -- saying words 'in your head' -- but are undetectable to the human eye. Sorry, I wasn't talking to you, I was just eating lunch
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If that happens where I work, a lot of people are gonna be really upset with me. I'm already pretty vocal and willing to call an idiot an idiot. Can you imagine what I hold back? 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Can you imagine what I hold back?
Better not... I still want to sleep today
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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How many times do you read “C++ is dead” or “Is the C programming language still used?”, but in the reality they still very popular. C/C++ *is* dead. It's just that *all* those programmers haven't realized it yet, so they keep using it
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No. They moved on to C# or Java, or what ever, but continue writing code in C style. E.g. return values indicating success/failure:
int result = ICAN_API.CAN_Init(m_CardIndex, m_PortIndex, m_BaudRateLowbyte, m_BaudRateHighbyte, m_IdentifierMode);
if (result < 0)
{
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Microsoft will bring 64-bit app support to ARM-based PCs in May Mental note: sell Intel stock (before Build)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mental note: sell Intel stock
Microsoft said May, but not which May...Could be May 2950, 3405, who knows.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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As GDPR looms, vast amounts of sensitive data including credit card data, medical information and patents are still easily found online says a security company. Pffft. Nothing to worry about!
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Have you ever found yourself with an entirely unknown codebase, a new team, and a schedule to take over an application from an offshore team? What do you do, where do you start? "That's when the tear drops start, fella"
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I'm impressed. No mention (from my quick read) of horrid code, bad design, bad architecture, non-normalized database, fields re-used for other purposes, lack of source control, empty catch blocks, spaghetti code, no concept of OOD principles, lack of knowledge of the language, inefficient queries, useless unit tests, lack of bug tracking, no understanding of development-QA-production cycle...
In other words, all the things I would have written about as this is the typical encounter I have with inheriting another team's codebase. 
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According to the company, its renamed Avast Secure Browser (formerly SafeZone) is designed to plug the security gaps that result from users' misplaced protection expectations. Speed thrills or speed kills?
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