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Temperatures 1.5C Above Pre-industrial Era Average For 12 Months, Data Shows
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Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated
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10 Billion Passwords Leaked in the Largest Compilation of All Time
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Microsoft's Notepad Gets Spellcheck and Autocorrect 40 Years After Launch
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Microsoft Orders China Staff To Use iPhones for Work and Drop Android
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Gig-Economy Drivers Are Turning to EVs to Save Money - and They Need More Public Chargers
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Russia's Space Chief Finally Admits US Landed on Moon
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Best of…: Classic WTF: XML Anybody?
XML is an absolutely wonderful innovation. It allows us to easily describe and share just about any data immaginable. Of course, there's always gotta be someone (as Tim points out) who has to go and ... well ... see for yourself ...
The code in this screenshot exists in about 20 places. Each time is this style and is customized for the particular set of statistics that that test generated. Recently I was brought on to the project and part of my goal was to improve the projects effectiveness. Since no DTDs or documentation of any kind existed for the XML format(s) I created one. Imagine my horror when changes need to ripple through 20+ "custom" XML outputs. Unfortunately this code still exists but I am trying hard to correct things that make it hard to eliminate (can anyone say tight coupling).
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'Cyclists Can't Decide Whether To Fear Or Love Self-Driving Cars'
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Developer Successfully Boots Up Linux on Google Drive
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Is AirBNB Really Worsening the Housing Crisis?
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UK Tech Overtakes China as World's Second Largest Country for Startup Funding Raised
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Linus Torvalds Tactfully Discusses Value of getrandom() Upgrade for Linux vDSO
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Jeff Bezos's Move From WA To FL Has Saved Him Close To $1B in Taxes This Year
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Shipt's Pay Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back
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$170 Billion Selloff in Cryptocurrencies Friday as Mt. Gox Payout Looms
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15-Year-Old Webmaster Nicknamed 'God's Influencer' Will Be Catholic Church's First Millennial Saint
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Fedora 41 Finally Retires Python 2.7
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New Research Finds America's EV Chargers Are Just 78% Reliable (and Underfunded)
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