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Currently playing Centurion, defender of Rome.
1991.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: does your ten-year-old code still run?
Not all, but the many of the ones that run, run better than newer fancy programs.
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?
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10 years is nothing... I can't run my code from yesterday 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Finally! A realist speaks up.
TTFN - Kent
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Imagine you’re working for a company who’s about to build a web application for expense reimbursements. Before they do, they task you with building a prototype to evaluate several things including if WebAssembly can be leveraged both on the client in JavaScript and on the server in C#. "How do they get the soft, flowing caramel inside the Caramilk bar?"
They have them everywhere, don't they?
Yeah, I know: invertase. Ain't chemistry grand?
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On August 24, 1995, Microsoft held what's likely to go down in history as its biggest Windows launch in history with Windows 95. "If you start me up, I'll never stop"
Although you'll need a VM to start it up these days
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although you'll need a VM to start it up these days
I tried with 98, but couldn't make it run properly at then end.
I have some old games that wanted to re-discover
M.D.V.
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abmv wrote: imagine if your boss demanded his cut for all the code you wrote ... need to re-watch godfather or move to Sicily ....
Leaving a horse's head in your boss' bed might be fun, but it would certainly be a career-limiting move.
To say nothing about what the Police would think.
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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abmv wrote: need to re-watch godfather or move to Sicily ....
Sicily still has some 1Euro houses available.
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How generous and altruist from Apple... 
M.D.V.
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The research team achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a second (178,000,000 megabits a second) – a speed at which it would be possible to download the entire Netflix library in less than a second. I can't download 55 (Mbps)
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The process of software design often begins on a messy whiteboard that doesn't prepare anyone for anything, according to design advocate Simon Brown. It's time for more upfront thinking. Design documents? Those were great for propping up tables and keeping things from blowing away
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The guy likes UML diagrams.
So do I. For documenting an architecture after it is fairly stable.
I've developed frameworks, and portions invariably deviated significantly from the original design. Once I have a very high level idea of what to do, I start to code, let the code speak to me, and refactor mercilessly. A UML diagram can't speak to me that way, and keeping it synched with the software as it's churning would be an insufferable distraction.
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Until you get into the nuts and bolts, you don't know the nuts and bolts.
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Bill Gates believes tech firms “deserve” the kind of scrutiny they got during Congressional hearings last month, and that the late Steve Jobs was a “genius,” he told the Armchair Expert podcast. Other companies, that is
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That because no polite questions left to ask - only to answer...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Microsoft TileCode is a game creation app that allows you to design, code, and play video games directly on low-cost Microsoft MakeCode Arcade gaming handhelds, as well as in the web browser. Ready Coder One
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The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. It's great for money-laundering
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Quote: Why are they deciding to stop [using blockchain]? Enlightened – and thus former – blockchain developer Mark van Cuijk explained: “You could also use a forklift to put a six-pack of beer on your kitchen counter. But it’s just not very efficient.”
I'm sure I replied with this blockchain explanation video before, but it still makes me laugh!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's great for money-laundering
..., ponzi schemes, inflating asset bubbles, using the bubbles to swindle people out of their life savings via high leverage amounts, illegal drugs/arms dealing, terrorist funding, blackmail, extortion, theft, hiring alleged hitmen *cough*FBIAGENTS*cough*...
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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Exactly - wholesome stuff like that. 
TTFN - Kent
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We reported a month ago that Microsoft appeared to be showing off a new version of the Windows 10 Start Menu with rounded corners which appeared to be based on the latest versions of Fluent Design. Back to Battleship grey everywhere folks, the candy colouring just didn't work for us
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If I want to chunder over pointless UI fiddling, tomorrow morning when I read the insider while eating breakfast is soon enough.
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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