Needs a Virtual Reality reboot.
Duncan Edwards Jones
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Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper that his coworker had a robot set an unbreakable record -
ChatGPT is very clever...but in French it translates to Cat, I have farted
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Smalltalk blew Steve Jobs’s mindHuh - and here I thought NEXT inspired changes at Apple's core... A river has many tributaries
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Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper that his coworker had a robot set an unbreakable recordYup - a demo program for Microsoft Basic.
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Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper that his coworker had a robot set an unbreakable recordYou'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.
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Which tools or packages should be known by a developer irrespective of programming language to be a better developer?Relational databases (SQL) - learn how and when to use them and only then make a decision when/if not to use them. Code profilers - because nobody is as smart as they think they are and the sooner you can see that you are doing something wasteful the less likely it is to make it into production
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"This is a rare event"This message is only shown to the SELECT few...
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Dinosaurs Had Covid!A bronchosaurus?
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I'm fairly old fashioned at times ... but should I embrace unit testing?I use MSUnit but am quite strict about using it to test units, not larger lumps of functionality so broadly speaking there is not much of a maintenance cost to keep the tests working...then it is automated as part of the CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps.
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Yes! I did two goodies today.I was reading that post and thought to myself - there but for the brace of cod go I.
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Duck theoryReproduction: giving a duck
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Best National Anthem?* South Africa - NKosi Sikeleli Africa (African National Anthem)- With Miriam Makeba, Paul Simon, Black Mambazo, etc - YouTube[^] * France - France perform Le Marseillaise at RWC 2007 (Stade de France) - YouTube[^] * Wales - Welsh National Anthem just before Wales beat England 30 - 3.Saturday 16th march 2013 - YouTube[^] * Northern Ireland - The Cranberries - Zombie 1999 Live Video - YouTube[^]
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just play around some web API for real-time dataVery useful list
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just play around some web API for real-time data"Real time" is a bit of a relative term - it depends on What do you mean by “is”?[^]
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Starlink Delays!It seems unlikely - I had not downloaded the app before mine was delivered.
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Starlink Delays!I have Starlink set up here in Dublin,Ireland - the kit arrived about 2 months ago and I think that was 6 months after my order. Speed is good and the kit is rugged (we just had a big storm here but it was not affected) but it is quite heavy and does need a good "view of the sky".
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The Dublin hide-and-seek league is closing downApparently good players are just too hard to find.
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Obscure paths to serious bugsYesterday I found some code making the assumption (for an option instrument[^] ) which was assuming that a strike price of zero was the same as a NULL in that field. It categorically is not - but finding all the impacts of changing it, and any data saved with the wrong value or impacted by it, is going to take weeks. Tiny assumption -> huge mess.
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Why IT leaders should make cloud training a top priorityIt is actually possible - but it may be too expensive a transition to be viable.
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Thought of the DayWe shall defer that question to the in-spectre