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Probably tenured. Unless caught fooling around with a student or saying something against the <fatuous idea of the month>, they'll carry him out feet first.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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wait 'til you see what's arriving next: Ousyurdaddie
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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A couple of months ago, we ran into a tricky race condition with the way we were handling temporary files. It took a while to track down, but ended up being a good example of how C#’s garbage collection (GC) works, so I wanted to turn it into a blog post. To dream the impossible dream - to manage the unmanaged object...
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Microsoft looks to be finally moving to a true, single Outlook client, but it may not be available as part of Windows 10 until 2022, according to a new report. One Outlook to find them, One Outlook to read them all, and in the darkness email them
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Microsoft wants to say ‘Windows is BACK’ I guess the icons are all done, time to start over?
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Why am I reminded of this?
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Another Vista, another Metro, another RT ?
Multi-colored multi-font text in a Console Window ? Something more arcane than XAML ?
More pop-ups ?
just say no !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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This blog article uses the fantastic research from the authors of uncaptcha2 repository. The original scientific uncaptcha paper proposes a method to solves Google's Audio reCAPTCHA with Google's own Speech-to-Text API.
Yes you read that correctly: It is possible to solve the Audio version of reCAPTCHA v2 with Google's own Speech-to-Text API.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There’s this idea that having better programming languages will make software development much easier and more productive. "Oh, well, it's hard, ain't it hard, ain't it hard?"
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There’s this idea that having better programming languages will make software development much easier and more productive. Kind of mandatory[^]
or...
Kind of mandatory 2[^]
M.D.V. 
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Regardless of your experience level you can always benefit from improving your ability to work with the other developers. Step 0: Team jerseys!
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Step 0b: Buy good noise cancellation headphones
M.D.V.
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I’ve used the clang based include-what-you-use tool on a fairly large chunk of code — a couple of hundreds of files, containing dozens of includes each. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
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I don't recall who right now: First rule of optimization: Don't do it.
Second rule of optimization (only for experts): Don't do it yet.
M.D.V.
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The time spent battling the harsh element of Mars, with its freezing temperatures, harsh winds and dusty storms, has left quite the impact on the car-sized robot. Apparently it's also a harsh mistress
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apparently it's also a harsh mistress
+5 +  for the Heinlein's quote.
M.D.V.
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An early build of Polaris, a canceled SKU of Windows Core OS, has leaked online. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the other news item
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure that has nothing to do with the other news item
Nahhhh that's only a coincidence... 
M.D.V.
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Microsoft says this is no big deal as the company doesn't rely on the secrecy of source code for the security of its products. ... and ran away, screaming
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Microsoft says: this is no big deal as the company doesn't rely on the secrecy of source code for the security of its products.
But I suppose they will be faster to abuse the exploits than MS to fix them...  
M.D.V. 
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Microsoft has already confirmed next update for Windows 10 will automatically remove Flash Player. Longest goodbye ever
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And the world heaved a collective yawn...
".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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Lithium-ion had a lucky break early on. Successors will need billions of dollars to catch up – if they don't flame out first You might get a charge out of this
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Microsoft officially ended support for its one-time flagship operating system, Windows 7, at the start of 2020. As the year draws to a close, I ran the numbers to see how many PCs are still running this unsupported OS. Spoiler: It's a big number. If it ain't broke, don't break it
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