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A simple truth is:
When you absolutely want a response, don't send an email. Pick up the phone, and talk.
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I have performed my own scientific analysis of 5204443 posts in the Lounge. I used advanced artificial intelligence technologies[^] and found that a post has a 42.98% likelihood of getting upvoted if it contains the word "bacon".
Life is too shor
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You got my vote 
TTFN - Kent
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Mission accomplished!
Life is too shor
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Cat videos
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If you work in the software industry, it’s likely that you have heard about the divide and conquer design paradigm, which basically consists of recursively splitting a problem into two or more sub-problems (divide), until these become simple enough to be solved directly (conquer). "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war"
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I don't see the difficulty in that problem.
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Sun Tzu on why the internet of pwned things can never be made secure.
Quote: Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.
The elephanting morons guilty of writing the crapware running them are too fixated on time to market and having a new shiny to convince their vulture capital to fork over more money to worry about even lip service security.
And even even in the unlikely event that they did try to be secure, it only takes a single elephant up for the fortress to fall.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Developers can now use the service to manipulate and recognize image content "All I've got is a picture of you"
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In his memoir, Steve Wozniak offers this recommendation to inventors: “Work alone…Not on a committee. Not on a team.” "Two can be as bad as one."
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As long as the pair programmer / developer understand each other work
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The most effective "pair programming" scenarios I've ever been a part of haven't been two devs sitting together, but a dev and a Business Analyst sitting together.
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I prefer peaches and apples to pears.
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Google Deepmind has developed an algorithm that is able to resolve a notoriously knotty “100-hat riddle.” But did it get the job?
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Quote: The riddle requires such high levels of lateral thinking and problem solving
that my 8 year old solved it in less than 5 minutes?
The only intelligence in that riddle is to see that the meaning of blue and red must be changed for the first prisoner to indicate the oddness of one of the colors...From that this is a mechanical problem that no 'Deep mind' need to solve it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kids are better than adults in some logical games
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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It’s problematic that, a decade after the last DNS flaw that took a decade to fix, we have another one. The only secure system is a dead one (maybe)
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Developers are starting to make up their minds about which new programming languages they like best. "The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise."
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For the past five years RedMonk has tracked the popularity of different programming languages by charting the number of questions about each language asked on the popular programming question-and-answer site StackOverflow
Popularity? How about people trying out one of these languages and getting totally stumped, and going to SO for help?
Seems like someone is jumping to the conclusion that questions is indicative of popularity. I would rather say, questions are indicative of poor documentation and obtuse language construction.
But then again, who reads documentation when you just hop on over to SO and ask a question that should be answered with RTFM.
But what do I know?
Marc
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I guess it would depend on how the metric is done. If they use the questions about a particular language, maybe not so much. But if they use the ones where they're of the sort "how do I use Amazon Web Services in Boo" then maybe it's a good measure.
Otherwise, I agree it's a crap measure.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The Open Connectivity Foundation will seek to define interoperability standards for the billions of internet-connected devices expected to arrive in the next few years. How many IoT standards groups do we have now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How many IoT standards groups do we have now?
The number of groups is irrelevant...In any case all will do whatever they want to sell 'features'! See the history of HTML...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In a surprising announcement, Clement Lefebvre -- head of the Linux Mint project -- said that the Linux Mint website had been compromised and that the hackers were able to edit the site to point to a malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition on Saturday 20th, February. You might have received extra spice with your Cinnamon
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Many IT personnel don't follow the same security protocols they’re expected to enforce according to the results of a new survey of over 500 professionals working in IT security roles. "Do as I say, not as I do"
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Yes, IT personnel tend to be relaxed on security, when they shouldn't be.
I used to work in this one place where the staging area was open to anyone in IT. The sysadmins expected us leave the web.config in there, because they could then deploy any change all at once. Hey, we were all one big happy family! Besides the risk of sensitive data being browsed and manipulated, you had to watch your own stuff too. It took one time of noticing the web.config changed for me to never, ever leave it in there again. I deleted it and if I had a change, I made the sysadmins change it by hand across the farm.
Come promotion time the saboteurs were in full force!
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