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The article, para 2: A new report from Insight claims that UK office workers waste 1.8 hours every year (2.4 hours a week), struggling with the technology they’re given as working tools.
Remind me again, how many weeks are there in a year?  They probably spend all that time looking for the right Calendar app.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Sloth, avarice, low wages, corrupt management, stifling bureaucratic regulations, boredom, drugs were excluded from the study ?
«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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Back in the '80s, we Brits were way better at wasting time at work - lunch-time drinking, POETS day, office golf, incessant tea making ... you name it. We made our own entertainment in those days and didn't have to rely on technology to slow us down.
We may have been poor but we were happy!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The biggest technological time waster is in deciding whether to walk around looking busy carrying a laptop or a tablet, or just sticking with the tried-and-trusted clipboard.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Early this year, we reported about a serious vulnerability in WhatsApp app that will allow hackers to install spyware in your iPhone or Android. Sure is a good thing there aren't any governments that will use this inappropriately
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Kent Sharkey wrote: WhatsApp
What'sThat?
Listen, guys, use something "exotic" like TokBiz or WeChat, eh?
They do the same data reaping, but they DGAF about the data from Western users, so you get security and anonymity via total lack of interest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Researchers collect confusing images to expose the weak spots in AI vision You need to pass a Rorschach test to become SkyNet?
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Can we Please remember that the best AI in the world is still several orders of magnitude thicker than two short planks?
As something of long-term AI dev/creator, I really am so sick of overblown cr@p like this.
Yes, feeding varied images will work, because THE WHOLE POINT is that you feed varied images.
Too many people still seem to believe that AIs see images as if they were images.
They don't. They see ones and zeroes; pixels, at best. No AI in the entire world understands that it's looking at a picture, because it doesn't know what a picture is (except by file extension, sometimes), or that a picture represents a snapshot of a moment in "the real world" (which it also has absolutely no knowledge of).
It would make me sooooo happy if I were to read an article about AI that was written by someone who has a bluddy clue what he's talking about.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Everyone that works in an office (especially in an open office space) will have to deal with daily distractions, and software developers are no exception. It will just be a minute...
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He's singing to the choir.
The real issue is getting your PHB to understand why people who have to think need headphones.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I've sometimes wandered off to an empty meeting room to think.
Kevin
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In this post, I am going to show why I think the internal keyword, when put on class members, is a code smell and suggest better alternatives. Or did someone microwave salmon in the shared kitchen (again)?
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Ah, the "I'm bored so I'll attack a standard language construct."
And pretend that encapsulation doesn't just apply to classes.
And, to fix this error, I'll propose something even more complicated and convoluted.
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Everyone needs a hobby 
TTFN - Kent
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The guy does not understand the "organisational" meaning of "internal".
A public method can be accessed by anyone who has access to that class. That may be a developer who is not in your team - e.g. a user of your API.
For accessing internal members, you need to have access to the innards of that assembly. That applies to a much smaller group of people, and they have also access to the actual implementation, i.e. they have (potentially) far more knowledge about those methods.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I guess the guy never heard of encapsulation and implementation or data hiding. The "internal" keyword is basically like private, but at a module level.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Earlier this year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in its January 2019 issue of Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ), talked about how developers use API documentation when getting into a new API and also suggested a few guidelines for writing effective API documentation. RTFM
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Jeeze, Louise.
To clarify what the article most definitely did not (in fact, it made a confusing mess of it all):
There are two types of API documentation:
0. The in-line documentation, which is written as comments as you write the code (and which no-one but the dev who writes the code has control over)
1. The programming-guide API doc, which has to be written by someone who not only understands the code, but who knows how to construct and write documentation (99.999 of developers need not apply).
Type 0 is used for:
10. Trial-and-error programming, where you know where to go, but you're flying by the seat of your pants, where the possibilities of the API are concerned.
11. Finding details like what parameters are available/must be used, when you've already got a good knowledge of the API.
Type 1 is used for:
20. Getting an overall feel of the API.
21. Seeing API functions in use.
22. Seeing how API functions can be combined to perform complex actions that are performed often, and how to use API calls in sequence to do the kind of thing we do every day with programming languages.
It is clear that the article addresses only type 0, so, from my perspective, only talks about developers who have been given far too little information to use the API.
Ergo, the article's conclusions are underinformed nonsense.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Supertracker is designed to prove a point about email tracking’s pervasiveness Great news for that guy that always turns on email tracking
And then immediately walks into your office to ask if you've seen the email yet.
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Tracking pixels are a very old idea. So, what's new here?
I configured my email program to not load images from external sources (i.e. only embedded images will be shown, but img src="http://bad.tracker/pixel.gif" won't be loaded.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Some startup brotarded ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) s made them a feature in a product they're selling to other techbrotards and made them scary again. 
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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MY GOD!
THAT'S SO SCARY!!!
And it also happens to be one of the reasons why anyone with more than three brain cells set the default e-mail-opening option as plain text, 20-odd years ago.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It might be useful if it can detect when it has been filled.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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