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Raymond Chen's opinions are typically well done.
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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The new macOS includes updated apps and some multitasking enhancements. "'Cause the free wind is blowing through your hair"
OK, I only posted so I could post lyrics from that song. Hi Lisa! 
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Does it have rounded or square corners?
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You can’t have a proper OS these days without rounded corners, can you? 
TTFN - Kent
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Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives. Are you positive?
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Negative engineering: the code someone else wrote
Positive engineering: the code you wrote to fix the mess they wrote.
Reading that article, it's like watching the decaying orbit of a satellite - it goes round and round and never gets to the point, eventually to simply burn up in the atmosphere of a planet named "WTF Are You Talking About?"
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Naming things is sometimes said to be the hardest problem in computer science. Now, someone is trying to make that task easier. An 'i' by any other name would iterate as well
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Interesting.
I care about naming in code, precisely for the reason mentioned here: reduce cognitive load.
Code is hard enough to read and understand as it is, no need to obfuscate further.
Be that as it may, a client of mine sends out reports to customers.
One report for each type of research they do.
Now they have one client who wants all their research results in one report rather than separate reports.
I named this variable allInOne and thought that was pretty clever.
A few days later I slapped myself on the head.
Something like combineResults would've been so much more clear.
It's literally what they want, combined results, and it's literally what I do, combine results.
Why didn't I think of that the first time?
Naming is hard.
I've used coding standards, underscores for fields, curly brackets on new/same line, always use brackets for blocks, PascalCase, camelCase, etc., but I've never used naming standards.
I'll think about this and try to incorporate this in my day to day work 
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Remember the two hardest problems in computer science are:
1) Cache invalidation.
2) Naming things.
3) Off by one errors.
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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The inside story of personal computing at the legendary research lab "I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody..."
Although I guess having your company name as a verb does count as being "somebody"
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A new report from Datadog has found that serverless computing could be entering the mainstream with over half of all organizations using serverless on one of the three major clouds – Amazon, Microsoft and Google. I'm using serverlessless, myself
Or maybe servermore, it's hard to tell these days
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Scientists estimate there are billions of free-floating planets in our galaxy, and we should investigate them for signs of "cosmic hitchhikers," one scientist has proposed. Or they might be large ice cream cones according to my "research"
The Puppeteers might be out there, though.
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If you have money, I have some 'research' that says what you want!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The Puppeteers might be out there
I just hope that the Kzinti aren't out there, too. 
EDIT: Kzinti, not Kzin
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 6-Jun-22 15:11pm.
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Building off of the 1.0 release in November 2021, we’re excited to bring several new features and capabilities to the Windows App SDK while increasing its stability & performance. For those who ignored the 1.0 release, now you can ignore the 1.1 release
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The uptick in scammery is so bad that about one in four dollars stolen via fraud is now being reported stolen using crypto, according to the FTC. And that's not counting the people that lost money legitimately with crypto
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Microsoft said this week that Windows Autopatch, a service to automatically keep Windows and Microsoft 365 software up to date in enterprise environments, has now reached public preview. Why break your machines manually?
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Developer burnout is a real problem for developers and the organizations they work for — the companies that rely on them to build the next generation of innovative products. Stop making them fly too close to the sun?
OK, that was more of a 'meltout' than 'burnout'. nvm
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Pizza parties should be good enough for anyone.
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David O'Neil wrote: Free Pizza in LAN parties should be good enough for anyone.
FTFY
And btw... I worked in a company that did that... local director paid for the dinner at LAN parties in the big meeting room.
Pity that they paid so low
I visited them some months ago... it only is a shadow of what it was, because they pissed the hell off all of us (the seniors)
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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Obviously, they didn't give you enough pizza.
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Pizza was enough, the peanuts were not...  
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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The environment the author describes also contains unicorns and rainbows.
Although is would be nice to just be able to power up and have everything already set.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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A free unofficial patch is now available to block ongoing attacks against Windows systems that target a critical zero-day vulnerability known as 'Follina.' I'm sure Redmond will get to it. Eventually.
There are icons to be made first!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There are icons to be made first!
Sad but... it really looks like they wouldn't give a crap about security anymore...
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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