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Vivi Chellappa wrote: But unfortunately, not forward compatibility with C which was not invented for another two decades and was not anticipated by IBM. So all of you code kiddies can complain about RPG.
1959 - IBM Creates the RPG language in order to keep maintainers of electo-mechanical accounting machines employed. Code Project Insiders immediately condemn it for being insufficiently C-like. This occurs despite the fact that C has yet to be invented.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: An incomplete list
Not just incomplete, but inconsistent. The author heavy snarked at:
#7 Ruby
#9 Java
#10 R
#16 Javascript
#23 Python
While these were given a single shared paragraph at the end
#1 VBA
#2 Ojective C
#3 Perl
#4 ASM
#5 C
#8 C++
And conspicious by it's absence was
#6 PHP
Which I guess tells us what this person's language of choice is. 
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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Short answer: because we said so. It's a feature
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I always thought mistakes were some of the best teachers out there.
The important part is... how big are the letters when you then say "OOPS!!" ?
M.D.V. 
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The most damning bit of the entire cluster elephant, is that even gating new warnings for dangerous code behind eg -W2020, -W2021, etc flags - so the knuckleheads who value 0 warnings above doing work or having safer and less buggy code could be happy, while people trying to maintain secure codebases or starting new projects from scratch could have more detailed warnings of known potential problems to address/avoid - is a bridge too far.
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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Microsoft has been slowly moving functionality from the Control Panel applets to the Modern Settings in Windows 10, but long-time Windows users may be annoyed by the latest change in Windows 10 version 2004 Did it ever work?
At least for non-Microsoft drivers
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Quote: Oh, think twice, 'cause it's another day for you and me in paradise
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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It’s been approximately 12 million years since most of us last used a floppy disk, but apparently, the antiquated tech still plays a critical role in delivering software updates to Boeing’s 747-400 planes. I wonder if they cut a second notch so they can use it double-sided?
Yeah, you couldn't do that with 3-1/2's, but I couldn't think of a joke for those.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, you couldn't do that with 3-1/2's, but I couldn't think of a joke for those.
No, but you could punch another hole to go from 720K to 1.44M. (I probably still have the punch somewhere in my basement.
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Gizmodo wrote: while some systems may only require one floppy disk of updates, others could require as many as eight floppy disks.
Doom came on floppy disks, so you know what that means... Autopilot and Doom! 
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The PORTL device is AI powered – and displays holograms that can chat to you in a booth Is it bigger on the inside?
AI powered. Suuuuuuurrrrre
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Just ahead of its expected public preview of its Dataflex low-cod-no-code platform for Teams, Microsoft has run into trademark issues. Good thing they checked before printing up the T-shirts
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Are they trying to get Google's record on fastest drop of something?
M.D.V.
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Always *fun* to hear something you've never heard of being abandoned.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: low-cod-no-code platform
Sounds a bit fishy to me! 
"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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Google leverages the massive scale of Android to do phone-based earthquake tracking. This earthquake brought to you by YouTube Premium!
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My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...
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Microsoft President and co-author of a New York Times bestseller explained why the world urgently needs a Digital Geneva Convention and a Hippocratic Oath for software engineers. First: do no eval()
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Kent Sharkey wrote: First: do no eval()
That one's gold  
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As if they were not enough Hypocrite yet...
Oh, sorry... I think I missread the word...
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
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Every website I work on has a cookie warning pop-up. What more do they want?
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Curiously, he talks about it specifically for AI programmers.
The article links to an oath drafted by a prof and his students, which contains some things that are vague or even naive.
It's mostly virtue signalling and a waste of time. "Do no harm" is simple, but now people feel compelled to write reams of nonsense. Getting everyone to agree on it would be difficult, but the only alternative is to ram it through. What would happen to anyone who then objected to certain provisions?
It would also make it impossible for many governments to staff certain projects, which would be a big plus. But they'd all be de facto or de jure exempt anyway, so what's the point?
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We need a Hippocratic Oath for company presidents, specifically Brad Smith.
(Hey, Brad, you have a product called Windows. Ever heard of it?)
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