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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did they run out of icons to update or something?
No... just another way to bring Clippy back to life
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?
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This...
I'll stop there, because I don't want to get RSI.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite your application from scratch, or is that “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”? Turns out there are more than two options for dealing with a mature codebase. "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)."
Yeah, sorry about posting an item from Medium. I've been trying to cut down
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I miss Roslyn on that list.
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Quote: Should you rewrite your application from scratch
Better question: should you rewrite your application with scratch? Might make it more fun.
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I'm working on software that is in it's 11th year of life. Over that time, well over two dozen programmers have contributed to the code base. And it looks like it (both age and multiple contributors). We deploy updates every four months (for the last 11 years), and it has never had a rewrite. The business rules change every few months, and the database wasn't really designed to accomodate that. As a result, we have stored procs that are THOUSANDS of lines long. Believe it or not, there is functionality to run a series of sql jobs that take almost nine hours to complete. From the website.
If there was any software that needed a rewrite from scratch, this is the one. Frankly, I don't want to be responsible for it, but it has to be done, and with a modern software stack.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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Google said there’s absolutely, positively, nothing to worry about the secret microphone in your Nest Secure smart home hub that it didn’t tell you about. Nope, not at all. Just an oversight, said Google. No need to be alarmed. Everything is just fine. They just 'forgot' to tell anyone about it
I may be a dinosaur, but I still don't really see the need (or use) for these things.
But I'm probably just a dinosaur.
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Techcruunch said: After Google, which owns Nest, realized its customers didn’t like being deceived or having their privacy violated
Um... Wha..?
Say again?
They didn't realise something so central to their core business?
Yeah, OK.Google said: The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs
Yes, be fair.
The tech specs only list important, complicated things like sticky tape, so it's obvious that something as trivial as a hardware element that has to be bought, brought to manufacture, and physically installed (along with drivers and software written to support it) could be overlooked.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, the "We're not evil, just hopelessly incompetent" defense.
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/shrug. It works for governments. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I may be a dinosaur, but I still don't really see the need (or use) for these things.
These things? Home security systems? Give me your home address and I'll stop by to discuss.
If you're talking about the plethora of ridiculous home assistant "smart" speakers... yeah, I totally agree with you. 
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: If you're talking about the plethora of ridiculous home assistant "smart" speakers... yeah, I totally agree with you.
Yeah, those things, sorry. 
TTFN - Kent
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Translation:
It was never intended to be a secret once it became known and went viral.
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you mean its bugged.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Passwords stored in RAM could lead to theft, but the report has to be considered in a risk-based context. You had one job...
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zdnet said: The vulnerabilities were found in software operating on Windows 10 systems.
Hello, Houston? We have identified the problem!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They also discovered that if you place a camera at the users house pointed at the keyboard, that can also reveal passwords. (Or does Google Nest already do that?)
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Study of trial at New Zealand firm finds staff were both happier and more productive Just imagine how happy and productive I'd be with a 0 day work week!
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I read that study when it was first reported and my conclusion was that the firm in question is overstaffed.
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I think you're closer to the truth than the researchers.
TTFN - Kent
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Given that I spend most week nights in hotels, I can only agree.
On one (long) contract, they agreed for me to do four longer days and have a three-day weekend, and it made a huge difference.
(Tip: go for working Tuesday to Friday -- it makes the weekend feel longer, and the work week is almost half-way over after you've done one day)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: (Tip: go for working Tuesday to Friday -- it makes the weekend feel longer, and the work week is almost half-way over after you've done one day)
Not only that... the satisfaction of knowing that is Monday, switching off the alarm and turn around in bed to sleep an additional while... it is priceless.
(Floating time here and the possibility to exchange worked time with free time 1:1. If I do a big weekend where there is nothing special, I usually take Monday off)
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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In New Zealand, they can afford to do these kind of studies.
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I used to work four day a week for a decade - was really good, especially that it enabled me to ask for an atrocious payment to add a fifth day...
(And I do not do more work in five than did in four - but do not tell boss)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains (gTLD) a few years ago. For all you devas
$12,500?!? I guess 'extortion' isn't 'evil'?
(typo intentional)
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