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Greg Utas wrote: Patents should be replaced by copyright
That would be better than is now, that's for sure. Although copyright is a bit crappy too (at least as it is getting handled lately)
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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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I wonder when/if Nvidia is going to turn their APIs for AI, genomics, and drug discovery loose on this problem. Actually, it is not a matter of turning their APIs loose. It is a matter of focusing application development on the problem.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The article opens with: In late December last year, Dr. Li Wenliang began warning officials about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, but was silenced by the police before tragically succumbing to the disease two months later.
I'm sick of reading this item of fake news.
Yes, he was told to shut up, because random doctors going around inciting panic with unauthorised public announcements is a bad thing, during the information-gathering stage of an incident like this.Quote: Meanwhile, almost simultaneously, a computer server halfway across the world started issuing worrying alerts of a potential new outbreak.
Indeed, because it wasn't a secret that the Chinese government was trying to hide -- if they had tried to hide it, you can rest assured that it would have been well and truly hidden.
So I'm not reading further than the first paragraph, because I don't want to risk infection from any other misinformation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So I'm not reading further than the first paragraph, because I don't want to risk infection from any other misinformation.
You still read more than me 
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LMAO. You funny.
#SupportHeForShe
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This article is for software developers who aspire to take up more of a leading role within their organization. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Edit: Fixed the title. My Copy/Paste is full of coughy
modified 17-Mar-20 17:41pm.
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Wrong paste for the subject?
Kent Sharkey wrote: "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Interesting quote 
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Dang, yeah. Fixing. Thank you. (and yeah, love that quote)
TTFN - Kent
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If they are doing things right and doing the right things, why is there a constant barrage of complaints about software project being late and/or failing?
Oh, silly me. It's because the developers are always messing up. Management is never at fault and don't you forget it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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 And also don’t forget that the design docs are all complete and accurate. 
TTFN - Kent
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They likely were at the time of their writing. They are not always updated when requirements change which seems to be almost always.
That is, assuming there actually was a design and it was documented in the first place.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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"Management" is a broad category. In my experience it's the wankers who promise things to customers, not knowing or caring that the schedule will be unrealistic. Bonuses often incentivize them to do this, so that's part of the problem.
modified 17-Mar-20 21:08pm.
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I wonder how is called discipline of doing right things the right way
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True. In the workplace, the right thing can rarely be done by following an approved process.
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Time and time again I see the discussion of Microsoft’s level of investment in VB.NET framed around the same faulty assumption: it’s just too darned expensive and impractical for Microsoft to support two .NET languages How to create (or destroy) a dev community
And even if VB isn't your favourite language, I think it's still a great read as it applies to other "off the narrow path" technologies and languages that may fall off the support trains.
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How he managed to write that without swearing is beyond me.
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Quote: it’s just too darned expensive and impractical for Microsoft to support two .NET languages
I guess this is the reason why F# will never be as big for .NET community as Scala for Java community.
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Isn't the author saying this is a faulty assumption?
> Time and time again I see the discussion of Microsoft’s level of investment in VB.NET framed around the same faulty assumption: it’s just too darned expensive and impractical for Microsoft to support two .NET languages (ignoring the fact that they actually make three); it would take an army of developers and content writers at great expense nearly duplicating all effort across the ecosystem at worst or perhaps 10-30% of the (Developer Tools) division resources at best. Today I want to put that misconception to rest.
If I understand correctly, the author is arguing precisely that it is not too expensive or impractical for Microsoft to support two .NET languages, or even three .NET languages. If there was enough interest in F#, Microsoft could make it as big as Scala.
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I think you've understood it correctly. Just in case I was not challenging the faultiness of this assumption anywhere in my post. Just ranting a bit that F# is underestimated too 
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Some commercial password managers may be vulnerable to cyber-attack by fake apps, new research suggests. We can't have nice things, we can't even have irritating things
Thanks, security "researchers"
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I still think that the best is to have them written down in a post it below your keyboard.
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Not Post-It, attached to the monitor? Dang. I guess I need a security upgrade.
TTFN - Kent
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I go for an algorithmic solution that might very well be publicised. My passords are composed of three parts: Where, who, and security.
The "where" part is a modified version of the resource name. Eg. for FB (if I had an account there), it might be A**book (asterisk used here only to avoid censorship). "Who" might be my login name at a**book. "Security" is one of a small handful of unlikely terms to be known to brute force attackers, like relative's names with national characters, not used for the last hundred years.
I have got a standard series of misspellings/transformatons - obviously, I do not spell the names of my old relatives "correctly". The three parts usually make a 15-20 character password, too long for brute force.
So I use different passwords on different sites (the "where" part). I use different passwords on sites where I access different accounts (the "who" part). And even if you manage to crack my password at one social site (with a simple "security" part), it won't give you any access to my bank account (which is also protected by a OTP chip).
I have few problems remembering my passords. For encrypted documents on my PC which I haven't accessed for months, I might have to try a couple of times (mostly with with various upper/lower-casing alternatives). Yet, I see my current scheme as far more secure than any password manager.
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