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In the latest software supply chain attack, the official PHP Git repository was hacked and the code base tampered with. "Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin' Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my backdoor"
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Tools research is still light-years ahead of what’s being deployed. It is not unusual at all to read a 20 year-old paper with a tool empirically shown to make programmers 4x faster at a task, and for the underlying idea to still be locked in academia. "And then my ivory tower toppled, and I tumbled from the sky"
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A former fulfillment center worker says employees also often didn’t get enough rest breaks Did they not pay for the two day shipping on them?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: two day shipping
I think that I've found the problem...
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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I used to work at a grocery store in my younger years and never took a break, let alone a lunch break. Either they need to stop whining or maybe I need to go sue my previous employer. 
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As Project Reunion - Microsoft's latest scheme to tempt developers back to Windows - lumbers closer to the finish line, the company has admitted it made a whoopsie in the deprecation of the Pivot control. Lesson learned - wait until it's been out for a few years before cancelling
You need to make sure people are using it in critical software.
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Windows enthusiast and reverse engineer Albacore has been looking at the innards of Windows 95 and has discovered a hereto unknown Easter Egg in the IE4 Internet Mail app. Please forgive me if I don't try this on out
All my CDs of Win95 are probably coasters at the moment
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The best easter egg was the Excel 2000 racing game. Oil slick. 
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You don't have what it takes to fascinate a stranger of your target sex? An AI researcher tried to help. Hey there - nice GANs
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The space agency announced this week that new telescope observations have ruled out any chance of Apophis smacking Earth in 2068. NASA says we're going to die in 101 years!
This is the part of the movie where the hero(es) let down their guard for an inevitable attack. Best to hit Apophis while it's not looking at us.
And notice they didn't mention comets! PANIC!!!!
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Project Reunion is intended to consolidate the APIs for the various versions of Windows into a single API. Doesn't everyone enjoy a reunion?
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Quote: Let me give you some idea of how old I am ... When I started creating desktop applications using ... Windows Forms
Wow, so old! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, to be fair, I think he means .NET desktop developer. He was a big-time VB dev for quite a while before.
TTFN - Kent
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One of perhaps the strangest idiosyncrasies of the Windows platform is the association of the desktop, the digital workspace that users see all the time, with explorer.exe, the program in charge of File Explorer and file management. "It's a miracle"
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For .NET coders targeting Windows, the choices boil down to more traditional XAML-based solutions or newer options based on web tech. Clear as spaghetti
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“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
William Blake, "The Four Zoas, Night the Eighth"
«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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Employees say they are happier and more productive at home, but decision-makers disagree. Still accurate if the headline is cut to, 'Management still doesn't trust employees'
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More importantly, employees don't trust management to be productive . . . period.
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That's axiomatic, because management doesn't produce anything. 
Those who can't, teach manage.
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Greg Utas wrote: Those who can't, teach try to manage.
FTFY
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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From what I've seen, they're not even trying anymore 
I've worked under... *counts*... 5 or 6(!) layers of management and not even the manager directly above me took the time to get to know the team of five people!
The first time I talked to him was after almost a year and what I heard from one of the other managers was that he asked him "he's on my team, right?" 
Another one of those managers was the "release manager" (in a company that pretended to do scrum) and we had a release planned.
Apparently, the release was a big deal for some people and it had been planned for weeks.
Except I was the one clicking the "release" button and literally no one informed me of anything.
In fact, the architect intervened when I broke some promise they'd made, but never told me
I should mention that the managers weren't all friends, all were external (as was the entire team of 40-50 people), and some kept others on the payroll because they were friends or even directly financially involved.
It was a mess and a relatively small system that I would've build for, honestly, under 100K ended up costing millions 
Anyway, we managed to deliver at least something despite management and certainly not because of it.
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Sander Rossel wrote: It was a mess and a relatively small system that I would've build for, honestly, under 100K ended up costing millions 
Anyway, we managed to deliver at least something despite management and certainly not because of it.
Have been in a similar experience too.
And I hate it, seeing how many resources are literally thrown down the toilette... it makes me go 
I try to do what I think is right (open to get corrected if I am wrong though). But if I am "forced" to do something I not consider right... whatever (regardless not liking it, has become easier)... I get paid at the end of the month anyways.
Having kids is luckily making me more bullsh1t resistant, I do what I can / or am forced to and I go home to enjoy my family and / or to do something at home or a pet project
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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trust no one mr mulder....
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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What about a wearable that can detect how you move as you do a physical activity or play a sport, and could potentially even offer feedback on how to improve your technique? Great. Now I can have sweatpants that complain I'm not doing anything that makes me sweat.
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Having recently gotten "the treatment" from a Gastroenterologist, whey you talk about clothing that can measure "Movement" I get an entirely different picture.
(A lesson in "context is everything").
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