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My rubber duck was very disappointed at not having been mentioned.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But how can you squash a bug you don’t know how to find?
Prayer, meditation, Tarot cards, crystal balls.
Oh wait, this isn't the psychic forum.
I'm surprised the author didn't mention the #1 reason for not being able to find the bug: the information the customer or tech support person provided for reproducing the bug is inaccurate or inadequate, which translates to the skill set: learn how to ask for better information.
And the #2 skill should be: learn how to use the debugger. It astounds me how many so-called programmers I've worked with haven't a clue how to use the debugger - even setting a breakpoint is "wow, I didn't know you could do that!" Yes, I've actually heard that said.
And the #3 skill should be: look at the data, not the code. Garbage in, garbage out.
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And my coworker just added #4: Is it actually a bug? 
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modified 6-Aug-20 10:46am.
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Harqen's AI platform analyses language to determine a candidate's suitability for a role, potentially making it less prone to bias than video-based recruitment technology. "This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
It couldn't be worse than some recruiters, could it?
Could it?
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That would explain some things I saw / have heard of lately... 
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I don't think recruiters use any kind of intelligence 
My LinkedIn profile clearly states "No recruiters!" and guess who shows up!
Some recruiter from Italy, India or the UK, offering me a job on the other side of the country for a technology I have zero experience with.
I especially like the questions "maybe you want a change?" or "are you still enjoying your work?"
If you could read you'd know I have my own company since about a year!
Zero chance of me just throwing that away because they have "an awesome job in [two hour commute single trip] requiring my [technology I don't know] skills"
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I'm wary of using software to manage people, as it turns into abuse of employees. Productivity tracking software can be used to overwork people for example. This one could possibly screen out candidates with autism/aspergers for example or have some other nasty side effect, and that's not to mention how creepy and orwellian it is. It sounds dangerous because it is. Humans are social animals. Start replacing that interaction with machines as the "opportunity" presents itself, and my first thought is that if done on a large enough scale with enough of our lives, people will start to go mad. We need people.
I'm probably just being paranoid though.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Today we are excited to introduce a new open source project, Open Service Mesh (OSM), which is a lightweight and extensible service mesh that runs on Kubernetes. Because your old mesh had too many holes in it
Bonus marks to anyone that can explain what it does and/or why I should care in words I can understand.
from the article: OSM provides a control plane compatible with the SMI specification, to preserve user choice. Next, OSM uses Envoy for the data plane, due to strong community momentum around Envoy. And finally, the overriding philosophy behind OSM features a “no cliffs” design in order to make OSM flexible enough to handle both simple and complex scenarios using both SMI and programming Envoy xDS APIs directly.
isn't doing it for me.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because your old mesh had too many holes in it
But they were smaller than the current ones... weren't they?
from the article: OSM provides a control plane compatible with the SMI specification, to preserve user choice. Next, OSM uses Envoy for the data plane, due to strong community momentum around Envoy. And finally, the overriding philosophy behind OSM features a “no cliffs” design in order to make OSM flexible enough to handle both simple and complex scenarios using both SMI and programming Envoy xDS APIs directly.
Another day in the fuzzword bullsh1t bingo?
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Included in this list are Git integration including a new merge editor and easy conflict resolution, WPF design-time data, C++ support for 64-bit projects and debug builds, and additional IntelliSense functionality. Because two installs is more fun than one
Actually because it's a slow news day
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And how many breaking changes like the change of precompiled headers in c++ have they included this time? 
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That's for you to find out (the hard way) 
TTFN - Kent
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Bill Gates admitted he’s not the target audience for the popular social media app TikTok, but the Microsoft co-founder, weighing in on a potential acquisition by his former company, told Bloomberg Television that he believes in the tech giant when it comes to data security. My irony meter didn't blow up this time, but it is laughing uncontrollably
I didn't think they could do that
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it comes to data security.
Of course they want the data to be secure... so that others can't access them if it is not by buying them.
About data privacy... that's another history 
Kent Sharkey wrote: My irony meter didn't blow up this time
Do you see? The Insider news training works 
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Nelek wrote: The Insider news training works
Like one of those characters that keeps eating little bits of arsenic until they're immune.
TTFN - Kent
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Read an article (can't find it quickly) in which the author did a deep dive on what data TikTok was collecting and said it was everything possible. He wrote that TikTok went to great lengths to hide this. How did TikTok even get in the Google and Apple stores? It's almost like the two companies don't actually do due diligence.
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Mars remains a long way away. But it seems closer tonight. You'll believe a can can fly
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It what I imagined the space craft looked like in the really truly old book "When Worlds Collide"
On the plus side, your soup will stay hot all the way to Mars in that flying Thermos.
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As confirmed by BleepingComputer, users today are receiving emails titled, "Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus..." that offer details on the two-year class-action lawsuit Google had been litigating because of the Google+ data leak. Buy a nice cup of coffee to celebrate
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James McMurtry Song Lyric: Justice is blind to them that own it
Sadly true.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned private industry partners of increased security risks impacting computer network infrastructure because of devices still running Windows 7 after the operating system reached its end of life on January 14. Are they getting a cut from the upgrade spending?
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Maybe that's the compensation for buying tiktok?
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And don't forget to limit ad tracking. Advisory contains a host of recommendations. Or just get a burner like the other hoodlums?
I mean it works on "Better Call Saul"...
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Quote: Beware of ... NSA ... mobile users
FTFY
I find it funny that the NSA, Facebook and other big "Oops, I got caught doing X" now give advice on internet security and data privacy.
Quite an irony...
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I expect that at least part of it is misdirection. The average joe will be so worried about the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. that they will miss the gaping hole that the NSA could drive a truck through.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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