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Quote: Without software developers, there would be no software development industry, a fact well know to them. This leads to a breathtaking sense of entitlement rarely seen in human history, resulting in quite a few colorful problem personalities.
Nah, I've never seen this in real life 
TTFN - Kent
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While I can certainly find myself, managers, and coworkers in this list, there should at least be one "this is actually a good person to work with/for" in the list. Perhaps a dodo bird, as they are extinct?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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USC scientists have demonstrated a theoretical method to enhance the performance of quantum computers, an important step to scale a technology with potential to solve some of society's biggest challenges. Great news for all of you with quantum computers
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Anything referencing quantum computing should here on out be followed by a link to this: The case against quantum computing
Won't happen, but it would help people understand quantum computing better.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Great news for all of you with quantum computers
But it's a theoretical method, so it's great news to me, for my theoretical quantum computer*.
* I've decided that, until I open the box, it exists.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My theoretical fictional method of speeding up a theoretical fictional computer is even better!
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TypeScript includes the latest JavaScript features from the ECMAScript standard on older browsers and runtimes by compiling those features into a form that they understand. For those that prefer their JavaScript with a bit more type
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OK, so the damned thing sparks up with “Did you forget a semicolon?”, so at least we know where Clippy ran away to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In my exploration of Angular, I must say, I'm somewhat dismayed by the realization that I have to choose:
which version of Angular to use
which version of TypeScript to use
possibly which version of .NET Core to use
which Visual Studio plugin to use to support TypeScript and Angular
or ditch VS and use Sublime
or ditch Sublime and figure out all the VS Code plugins I need
possibly which version of node.js to use
and all the other stuff and their versions needed to build a modern desktop/mobile app
and once I start the project with my selected choices (let's say I go with the latest and greatest of all) then I have to keep constant track of all the different moving pieces and hope that if I keep myself current, there are no breaking changes.
I think that requires more time managing the tools than actually using them!!!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Blind asked tech pros to answer the following question either “True” or “False”: “I consider my current workplace a healthy working environment.” Some 52.34 percent answered “False,” while 47.66 percent said “True.” (Some 12,549 tech pros responded.) This is why they have those, "Employees must wash hands before returning to work" signs
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You forgot an important part: "If an employee is not available then please feel free to wash your own hands."
I put up a sign saying that at my favorite local taproom. It is quite popular.
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I have to admit that the first thoughts that came to my mind were about showering more often and hair care.
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A major difference between Go 1 and Go 2 is who is going to influence the design and how decisions are made. Go 1 was a small team effort with modest outside influence; Go 2 will be much more community-driven. We also would have accepted "Go-go"
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they implemented goto ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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A major difference between Go 1 and Go 2 is that one will suck less.
Quote: For the 3-month development cycle...
(Ending in May 2019!)
What a joke.
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Damn.
I was hoping that this would be about the Chinese inventing a new game, because a computer beat their champion.
The second game in a series is usually the best one of the series.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I love the childlike naivety that by trying to engage the community they can do breaking changes without splitting the developerbase.
I hope they can avoid anything on the scale of the Python 2->3 debacle and get >90% of new development onto v2 within a year or two; but companies that aren't filthy rich techbrotard nerdfests generally have better things to do than rewriting working software just for the sake of doing a rewrite; so any major changes are going to result in apps running on the legacy stack for a number of years.
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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Dan Neely wrote: filthy rich techbrotard nerdfests
brilliant, Dan !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Microsoft is modernizing its Office icons as part of a broader focus on design for its various Office apps. Finally they're fixing my #1 problem with Office
"All deck chairs should face East now", some product designer on the Titanic
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Unbelievable. Really unbelievable that they can be proud of, and waste so much time on, such garbage.
The words "bunch", "pricks". "oF", and "useless" come to mind, but not in that order.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The "League of Useless Pricks" takes offense.
Scary part; there's another bunch doing the same thing to Visual Studio. They boasted about their new "lighter blue" design last week or the week before. It's almost as though Microsoft is being run by people who don't actually use their products.
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they must be using apple products more than theirs...
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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Design is not the issue with the Office apps. Personally, I find Word to be unusable. I despise how it forces you into doing things its way because I can't stand its way. Every time I use it I am reminded why many people who deal with massive documents do not use Word. When my wife worked in a law office she told me Word was nowhere to be found there.
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Out of curiosity, did your wife find any common sense there?
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