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A former IT pro turned end user explains why blending your work and personal tech was, is and always will be a bad idea for you and your employer. "You're killing me, I'm killing you, and I'm guilty too"
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Google Argentina's domain name was bought by a web designer while the site was out of action for two hours in the country last Wednesday. He should have put some advertisements on it
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I am reminded of when microsoft.co.uk was dropped by Microsoft UK a good many years ago now. Someone registered it and tried to tell Microsoft UK about it but no one in the UK operation would pay him any attention. It was only when he contacted Microsoft in Redmond that action was taken.
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This article, Microsoft forgets to renew hotmail.co.uk domain • The Register[^], seems to suggest that it was hotmail.co.uk that they mislaid. My memory might just be faulty about it being microsoft.co.uk but it could have been both at different times.
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A new publication in Nature Materials has successfully tweaked low cost semiconducting materials, quite similar to the composition of plastic, into conducting electricity more efficiently than before. So we can get stuff to power the recycling bin?
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Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the enterprise version of its Windows 10 Defender antivirus, now comes with support for blocking cryptojacking malware using Intel's silicon-based Threat Detection Technology (TDT). Hardware-accelerated malware detection!
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.NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, and 4.6.1 will reach end of support on April 26, 2022. After this date, we will no longer provide updates including security fixes or technical support for these versions. I predict upgrades in your future
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This seems quite reasonable for the reasons given but I predict it's going to be controversial. 
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Quote: This means that starting May 2022, if a computer has .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, or 4.6.1 installed, it may be unsecure.
Ha ha ha ha....
Pretending it was secure anywhen before.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Over the years, new scientific discoveries have led to softer and more comfortable contact lenses. And now, research bringing together chemistry, biology and microelectronics is resulting in contact lenses that are straight out of science fiction. Except for the part where you have to talk into your eye
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Except for the part where you have to talk into your eye
ROFL!
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Now people can pretend to look at you while you're trying to talk to them (or drive). PROGRESS !
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Why does this remind me of the new eyePhone on Futurama? 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Polling more than 19,000 developers, the new "Developer Economics State of the Developer Nation, 20th Edition," report is out, finding that C# has ticked up a notch in popularity, overtaking PHP for No. 5 on that ranking. In case you don't know what you're working on
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It’s fun to point out that a message like “Hey folks, is it normal for the layout on some pages to be messed up on my phone?” isn’t useful, but perhaps it is more helpful to explain precisely why. Print off and staple to foreheads as needed
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The Unified Modelling Language (UML), developed by Rational Software, and adopted as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 1997, was meant to standardise several disparate pictorial notations in the field of software engineering. No, it's just the architect is still working on the diagrams
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UML nowadays is generated after the fact; it is hardly a planning tool, and not used to transfer ideas, but to be able to say "we use UML".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: but to be able to say "we use UML".
Isn't that the case for many named methodologies...
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Ever heard of "OWL"? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yup. Had a professor swear it be the next big thing after sliced bread.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Interestingly, the article is by someone who was a UML promoter. He thinks its use has declined significantly because software is no longer engineered, largely due to Agile wanting to get stuff done continuously. He says no one has time for formal specifications any more.
Specifications?! I thought UML was for describing designs. Maybe I missed the part that's oriented at specs. I found UML useful, but only for documenting a framework, and only after it was fairly stable. Maybe I'm an outlier, but my implementations often strayed from my designs. When the code speaks to you, the design can change. Until you code, there are details that you won't anticipate, so stop at high-level design. Detailed design is usually a waste of time.
The code--not even its interface comments, let alone a design document or UML diagrams--is the text. The time to update those other things is after the code has stabilized. They should be roadmaps. Trying to make them formal and detailed is a waste of time, because the code is ultimately the only truth.
modified 27-Apr-21 15:54pm.
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Greg Utas wrote: When the code speaks to you, the design can change.
I think that if the code is speaking to you, you might just be in need of some medication. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Has it ever been alive, outside developers magazines and management meetings?
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Has it ever been alive, outside developers magazines and management meetings?
Overly bureaucratic companies you've avoided working for?
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
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