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Sander Rossel wrote: Actually, most of the devs I know write crap code in any language.
Over the years, I've written code in about 100 computer languages. Some was good stuff, but yes, I've written crap in about 100 languages. 
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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if i have to write a script on Windows, i always use VBScript.
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VS magazine still exists too? 
Jeremy Falcon
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I thought this was about VBA VB.NET is entirely pointless.
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I love VB!!! Having gotten my start in C and Assembler I found debugging VB a breeze. It seemed for a long while that if you could not do your job properly in the corporate world they would send you to some week long VB school. These places graduated some of the most dangerous people to ever wield a keyboard, and I loved them. I made some of the best money of my life cleaning up after these clowns. A company would spend millions creating the latest app to solve the problems of their world using these bozos and I would be called in later to straighten it out.
Programming is an art form that fights back.
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Google is turning Drive into a much more robust backup tool. Soon, instead of files having to live inside of the Drive folder, Google will be able to monitor and backup files inside of any folder you point it to. That can include your desktop, your entire documents folder, or other more specific locations. You will be able to get advertisements based on the contents of your hard drive, not just a few documents and emails!
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If free, I would never trust my backups on the cloud, nor by Google, nor that the service would last for more than a few years.
If costs $$$, I would never trust my backups on the cloud, nor by Google, nor that the service would last for more than a few years.
I guess I have trust issues. 
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess I have trust issues.
I would rather call it common sense
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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Nelek wrote: I would rather call it common sense
Right, and I use a POP3 email interface. The industry seems to be supporting and pushing towards IMAP, but POP3 puts all of my info on my own machine.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I find these cloud backups very convenient. However, I use them mostly as a convenience, e.g., for tech stuff that I can save and access for new contracts.
Recently, I've started backing up (not to Google) files that I first encrypt.
Kevin
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I wonder how many TBs they will allow for free. Although Comcast has a monthly transfer limit.
John
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That should be convenient. Users can now backup up the YouTube videos and Google Play movies they've downloaded from Google back to Google.
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Ok...just need to download my files...right...five "download" buttons, but which is the real one...
*click*
"Installing Norton...."
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Is this opt-in, or will it just happen by default?
(Like Marc, I think I may have trust issues)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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An artificial intelligence developed by Microsoft achieved the maximum possible score for the game, 999,990. "I love to gobble up those dots. Keep pumpin' quarters in the slots."
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Firefox's multiple content processes don't suck up as much RAM as Chrome, says Mozilla. Multi-proc (and multi-thread) is hard: chapter 54
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Read the fine print before you wonder why it's not working. In addition to needing all your addons to be compatible[^] to get any level of content processes support; using more than 1 content process by default is only being rolled out to 80% of non-addon users for FF54. Those of us with addons are still limited to a single content process unless we fiddle with internal config settings. Since the limit is in place due to bugs with multiple content processes and addon support this isn't recommended. (If you want to try it I suggest giving beta/nightly a spin to get any fixes sooner than the next major release.)
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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Microsoft today issued an announcement warning that current Exchange Server versions don't support the newly released .NET Framework 4.7 and that organizations using the server should block the installation of the new framework for the time being. Hurrah for backward compatibility
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Kent Sharkey wrote: issued an announcement warning [about its own software which it will auto-install on your computer]
You can't make this stuff up!
Microsoft, you can't surprise me anymore. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Exchange Server
People / companies still use this product? 
Marc
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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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Using light for calculations ups the speed, drops the energy use. "All I have to do is let it shine on"
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Starting this fall, with the public launch of the next major Windows 10 update — codenamed Redstone 3 — Microsoft plans to disable SMBv1 in most versions of the Windows operating systems. Now what's going to happen with my WfW clients?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now what's going to happen with my WfW clients?
WTHK? (Who the Hell Knows?)
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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or...
WTHCaM (Who The Hell Cares at Microsoft) :P
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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