Feed aggregator
'Stablecoins' Enabled $40 Billion In Crypto Crime Since 2022
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Coursera Saw Signups For AI Courses Every Minute in 2023
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Mark Zuckerberg's New Goal is Creating AGI
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Microsoft Makes Its AI-Powered Reading Tutor Free
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Coinbase Compares Buying Crypto To Collecting Beanie Babies
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Hospitals Owned By Private Equity Are Harming Patients, Reports Find
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Apple's App Store Rule Changes Draw Sharp Rebuke From Critics
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
AI-Generated Content Can Sometimes Slip Into Your Google News Feed
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OpenAI Announces First Partnership With a University
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google Says Russian Espionage Crew Behind New Malware Campaign
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google CEO Tells Employees To Expect More Job Cuts This Year
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Microsoft's Bing Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
A Flaw In Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?'
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
CodeSOD: Get Results as What?
Before RESTful web services and JSON as a serialization format, XML was going to conquer the world. Circa 2001, I remember going to user's groups only to hear about how XML was going to allow legacy mainframes to be connected to modern applications (without discussing the fact that the legacy mainframe still needed maintenance and code support). These days, XML is (nearly) dead, and lighter-weight markup languages have replaced it, including JSON.
Which brings us to this method, from Chris:
public string GetResultsAsJSON() { return base.XmlResultText; }This does, in fact, return a JSON string.
It's a delightful mix of stringly typed data (XML and JSON, I think we can agree, are different types), legacy code not being fully modernized, and fields being re-used. The exact kind of code you see in a codebase you inherit, you groan and grumble about, and then you pinch your nose and get back to work, because you know there are things that are much more urgent than fixing this.
[Advertisement] Keep the plebs out of prod. Restrict NuGet feed privileges with ProGet. Learn more.Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users
Read more of this story at Slashdot.