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Non working source code is a failure of communicating to the machine what it is supposed to do.
Incomprehensible source code is a failure of communicating to other developers what the machine is supposed to do.
I once picked up a valuable advice: source code should be written for the people who will read it later. The computer always understands.
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Simplifying and Harmonizing Open Source for More Efficient Compliance https://buff.ly/2FB10am
2016: theory and model, 2017: final implementation, 2018: FOSS and promotion of software, 2019: case studies and use cases. Happened as if we planned it that way.
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Good news everyone!
#Python 2.7 has been declared perfect and the developers are going to stop changing it!
It's so rare to see software projects that actually get finished, we should take heart and inspiration. ❤️
A very critical view on #ONAP presented by Intel, with recommendations on what needs to be addressed and how: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/download/attachments/8257582/ONAP-Intel-Learnings-v1.pptx?version=1&modificationDate=1547099796000&api=v2&download=true
Can't delete Facebook from Samsung phones, also on Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-08/samsung-phone-users-get-a-shock-they-can-t-delete-facebook
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so I guess a list of android phones not caving in/selling out to Facebook needs to be made?
The Independent: Facebook deal makes it impossible to delete app from Android smartphones.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-app-delete-android-smartphones-samsung-galaxy-a8719081.html
Why is it BASH 5 and not 4.6? I don't see why there is the version jump...
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Spent all morning wresting with timezones, but if I'd really learned my lesson I would've said I spent all afternoon (UTC) wrestling with timezones
This year's project: finish my article on time/date aspects in network management: standards, tz, DST, BCP, pitfalls. All still a problem for many engineers I am talking to.
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Politiker- und Promi-Hack: Seehofer will Frühwarnsystem etablieren www.heise.de/newsticker/meldun… #Doxxing #Hacker #IT-Sicherheit #Prominente #Security
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In case you haven't heard of Solid. Sir Tim Berners-Lee's project to reclaim the web. https://solid.inrupt.com/
since we are talking about BASH: an excellent starting point is http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
My favourite UTF table website: https://unicode-table.com/en/
If you ever want to test UTF-8, plain text file - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
Bash 5 new (compared to 4.4) feature list: https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS
Just when I learned bash programming, bash 4, number 5 comes out. It never ends ;)
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bash 5.0 was released today. unfortunately, the authors are new to revision control systems, so the entire release was one commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=d233b485e83c3a784b803fb894280773f16f2deb
Starting an OSS project, e.g. on Github, is east, keeping up with demands (once people using it) is hard. I should have known this earlier...
