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As companies that are used to having workers in the same building struggle to find ways to work from home, one company that has been remote from Day One is GitLab . It recently published a handbook to help other companies who are facing the work-from-home challenge for the first time. Because I understand some folk might be working from home these days
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The gap between a good developer and a great one is bigger than you may think. Here’s what the best developers do to excel at their jobs and lead in their field. Feel free to answer this question yourself
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Kent Sharkey wrote: to excel at their jobs
Don't tell me that doing sheets, macros and VBScript is a requirement to be a great developer  
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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Quote: Personal Projects Show Dedication and Independent Thinking
... And lack of a life.
I do the "busman's holiday" thing as much as anyone, but if a company demanded it of me, I'd tell 'em to st*ff the job.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Constructing a universal quantum computer will be hard but not impossible There you go: now you can build your own
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A blueprint?
What is this, the 1940s?
I don't think I need advice on cutting-edge tech from someone who hasn't even heard of AutoCad.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Showing a crude, but nicely drawn, block chart is NOT a blueprint. It is not a design. It's just more "now magic!"
Using this logic, I can solve all the worlds problems:
Problems->Processing->Solution
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In giving homage to its visual namesake, it offers a watch that does one thing and one thing only: tell the time. Wear with a polyester leisure suit and platform shoes to get the full effect
They were awful back then and "sometimes, dead is better."
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Quis custodiet ipsos horologium?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The great majority of folks loved the new decompilation features in Visual Studio 16.5, but that did not stop me having to field a bunch of important questions about the history of decompilation, and ultimately when this kind of feature should be disabled. "Secret, secret. I've got a secret."
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I understand that posting "Do not rob my house" signs reduces robberies.
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You forgot to say "please"
M.D.V. 
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Despite admonishing directives to refactor legacy code, letting old code be is sometimes the best course of action. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of bad architectural choices, or to raise TDD against a wall of old bugs and by rewriting, end them
Uffdah. I'm done now. That wore me out.
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"Uffda"?! Sharkey doesn't sound like a Norwegian name.
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When I arrived in the USA (as a Norwegian), I was surprised to meet this conception that we Norwegians was saying "Uff da!" more or less all the time, as a comment to anything that is not perfect. Of course I knew the expression, but it is very rarely heard in Norway, at least in modern times. In the Midwest of the USA, everyone of Norwegian descent or who knew any Norwegian-American, claimed that their grandmother and great grandmother always said "Uff da!" to everything. As I understand it, it was more used by females than males.
Maybe it was more common in Norwegian 150 years ago, when Scandinavians settled the Midwest. Dialect researchers often go to the USA to study old dialects that have survived in a much purer form than in Norway. The survival of "Uff da!" may be a related phenomenon.
The meaning of "Uff da" is something like "That's terrible" or "Too bad". To me, it seems as if modern Midwest use is significantly "softer", more like "Ooops!", but that is not the Norwegian use; "Uff!" indicates something that surely is bad. In Norwegian, you will often see it written as "Huff da" eller "Huff a meg" or just "Huff".
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Member 7989122 wrote: saying "Uff da!" more or less all the time, as a comment to anything that is not perfect
Member 7989122 wrote: it was more used by females than males.
I find that quite easy to relate to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Uff da! 
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I grew up next to Minnesota, and it's just a fabulous word to say (IMO).
TTFN - Kent
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The guy's title uses the word "refactor" twice, but all the article discusses is whether to keep legacy code or throw it away. The two aren't the same thing, unless you're ... inexperienced.
Refactoring means making incremental changes to a code base in order to improve some desirable attribute: maintainability, readability, scope, etc. You start with a working piece of code, and you end with a working piece of code that's better in some meaningful way. According to the author, you have two choices: keep the code as-is, or rewrite it from scratch.
Over time, refactoring could conceivably replace an entire body of code with a significantly different one. It's like the story of the lumberjack and his axe. He's using the axe one day, and the handle breaks. He replaces the handle. Over time and repeated resharpening, the head becomes too small to be used and he replaces the head. He still thinks of it as the same axe, even though its constituent parts are completely different from when he started. In essence he refactored the axe, replacing parts as needed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You're right, but I didn't get the sense that he necessarily meant throwing out legacy code. But neither did he define refactoring.
Regardless, I didn't see the article as very insightful, because what it says is fairly obvious.
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For the past couple of weeks, Windows 10 users have been reporting that Windows Defender scans are skipping files due to a configured exclusion or network scanning setting. It's a darned good thing there's nothing out there that attacks Windows computers
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The question now is... what was the bug?
Skipping those files? Or letting the users to find it out? 
M.D.V.
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Good Lord!
Are you saying that there's a problem with one of ms' built-in, not-part-of-the-OS-so-shouldn't-even-be-there programs?!?
Pfft!
Next, you'll be telling us the windows media player, paint, notepad, Internet browser, video editor, camera, mail, calendar, maps, photos, multi-desktop, voice recorder, and screenshot bloatware apps are cr@p, compared to third-party apps!
I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life since the last windows update!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's not a bug, it's a performance enhancement. They skip files so the scan doesn't take so long.
".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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