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Ok. I guess it's the topics, but fwiw, it seems like I've never (?) not gotten the newsletter and it just happened again today.
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Is due to interplay of inertial viscous capillary forces—but gravity's less relevant. Now you can drink your tea in peace
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Quote: I’m a little teapot
Short and stout.
Here is my handle,
Here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout:
Tip me over
And pour me out!
I’m a very special pot
This is true.
Here’s an example
Of what I can do.
I can change my handle
And my spout.
Tip me over
And pour me out!
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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LOL, I almost posted a shorter version of that. Does that show our age?
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RFC 2324.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Offtracking a little:
Is the 'teapot' game, or pastime, known around the world? My late mother taught me when I was a kid. I never met anyone else who are familiar with it, but lots of people think it is a nice pastime eg. when we are gathered by the fireplace.
It goes like this: The guy starting off chooses some common word that has several different meanings (the more, the better!) and starts talking around it. He doesn't use the chosen word; he rather says 'teapot'. As he talks, gradually the others will think that they know what the 'secret' word is, and join in the talking, using 'teapot' to refer to the term. The more talk, the more people get it. The last one to get it, to understand what the teapot is, gets to start the next round, with a teapot/word of his choice.
Say, the starter picks the word 'ball', telling that
"For this teapot, you'd dress up".
Another one may ask "Is it political?" (thinking of 'party').
"No, but I guess you have it - a couple of teapots".
"Is it under your foot?"
"Yes, it is."
"Do I have a teapot?"
"I saw you playing with a teapot the other day with your son, a rather big one."
"Yeah, a very colorful one. A beach teapot, right?"
The last speaker obviously got it, and may add further remarks about teapots of different kinds. The more 'skilled' you get in this game, the more clever you will be in disguising what the teapot really is, and mixing different interpretations of the term to confuse those who hasn't yet got it.
I guess this game is mostly for people who love playing with words and language. I have a number of friends of that kind.
Don't ask me why 'teapot' is used as the placeholder for the secret word. I have no idea!
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If you reword your job advertisements to remove this $TECHNOLOGY as a “requirement” and replace it with a “desirable” (or just mention you use it) you will find yourself able to get more, better candidates into your hiring pipeline But what if you really need 15 years experience in that new JavaScript framework?
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He's 100% wrong.
I don't need an expert heart surgeon, just an expert at something.
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Quote: to remove this $TECHNOLOGY
Seems like the article writer is a PHP programmer? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Seems like the article writer is tried to be a PHP programmer?
Fixed that for ya...
".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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Unity has announced that it’s entered a definitive agreement to acquire Peter Jackson’s visual effects company Weta Digital for $1.6 billion. "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We will swear on the…on the precious."
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Apparently, the Brooklyn Bridge wasn't on the market.
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Economics of a platform are important, and are an input into how many developers can be hired, but there are clear reasons that it is important to focus on developer productivity if you work on a platform. "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get"
IMO, this is why I like C#, but your mileage will vary
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Quote: A developer has a set time budget that is fixed.
I disagree with that statement, mainly because the time budget is actually dependent on other things, such as the feature set, the skill and number of developers + non-developers required for various things (management, infrastructure setup and maintenance, data conversion, testing, whatever) that affect the "Gantt chart" of the project.
Rarely have I experienced a project that is driven by a time budget, and if so, what then comes into play is the interaction between the time budget and the project budget. But normally, if the project budget is sufficient to handle a time budget range, then one has some wiggle room regarding things like salaries, # of people on the team and skill, minimal required features vs. nice to have features, and so forth.
It's not a simple picture and I think that post greatly over-simplifies the issues. It's a bit of a mishmash of thoughts, even if I agree with Quote: This is why it is vital that you track developer needs and frustrations and actively get rid of them.
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A new report finds leaders need a reality check when it comes to innovation and protecting their organizations from a cyberattack. But of course you knew that already, Mr. (or Ms.) Smartypants
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While I agree with the "overconfidence", I think that's the wrong word. I would have titled that article "There is a crisis of stupidity in IT." But that's me and my biased, prejudiced, myopic view based on 40 years (eek, it's now 40 years!) of experience in this industry.
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Question: "can you mitagete data breach?"
Answer: Yes - i run 1 man company and read and action 5 hours of data security daily.
Answer: 🤣😂 No 😋😆 have you seen when most people in the office are doing, and the website they go to.
Answer: Yes - because we manage data for customers and we HAVE to say yes regardless of the true answer we know.
Answer: Yes - because I am the IT manager, and security say we pass the 5 quibby wobbies of saftey outlined by the 69 oppi guide
Question: you use low code?
Answer: no because none of our work load fits in that model.
Answer: yes, for that 1 side none critical project used once.
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It's cheaper and safer than burning rocket fuel, but satellites have to be built Tonka-tough. Wheeee!
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Punkin' Chunkin' taken to another level!
"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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I noticed that Visual Studio 2022 RTM install messed up Visual Studio 2019. Our .NET 5 and .NET Standard 2 projects couldn’t be loaded anymore in Visual Studio 2019. Everyone surprised, raise your hand
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Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world's most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals. I'm sure they're devastated at the loss of their lunch money
"Alphabet's Q3 2021 earnings show an all-time record revenue of $65.1 billion and record profits for the fifth quarter in a row at $18.9 billion."
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dotnet monitor is a tool that provides an unified way to collect diagnostic artifacts regardless of whether running you’re running on your desktop machine or in a kubernetes cluster. "Get the machine that goes 'ping!'."
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Nvidia is working on an AI-based tool that can read audio files and create matching facial animations in real-time; no mocap is required. Read my lips: No uncanny valley
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mmmmhhhhh.... it could be funny to troll in a couple of video meetings 
I am sure this is not going to be (ab)used by evil parties...
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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I'd like to see it interpret,
Anti-Nowhere League song, So What - Wikipedia[^].
"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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