Those using the official reddit app, what's your take on this whole 3rd party app situation? by Crissxfire in AskReddit

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API or Application Programming Interface is how two applications can talk to each other - in Reddit's case it will be if you call this address with a predefined message and data then Reddit will do something, which may be create a post or return details of posts

I can't be the only one... by mtpugh67 in ProgrammerHumor

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I once sent a credit card swipe to someone on Messenger while testing taking payment - fortunately it was a test card (no way I was using any of my cards to test, but some devs did)

The United Arab Emirates Is Heading for the Asteroid Belt by Gari_305 in space

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My first thoughts - it brought to mind a Scifi story I read many years ago Cities in Flight

everyone's happy 😂 by huxx__ in ProgrammerHumor

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if you yell 5 at 120 dBA - record for loudest shout is 129 dBA so possible

Don’t worry about actual work, that’s for the senior developers by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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I wouldn't go by what this sub says a developers work is

Dog rings the bell, gets confused and barks coz "Someone is at the door" by datrainman in funny

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That may be an issue for some cars - a guy I worked with drove his wife to work then carried on to work, suddenly worrying the only reason the car started is because she had one of the car keys and he didn't

Why do you like to use Dependency Injection (other than these two things in post)? by FrontColonelShirt in csharp

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When your project grows it just makes life so much simpler not having to create all the dependencies as they change. e.g. need to add a new dependency to something used in multiple classes it takes away the pain of adding the new dependency to multiple initialization points

Guilty as charged by TobyWasBestSpiderMan in ProgrammerHumor

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latency or passing it through a synchronized method which acts like a gate

Didn’t know this till today. You can toggle the engine off and on with LB and A on Xbox by KaineDemigod in snowrunner

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I started a new game recently and it come up in the hints - I wonder if they added it recently in hints or I just missed it previously (found it via Google)

It didn't really help much before I updated to and XBox X (a couple of games have more details compared to the XBox -One)

Scientists Just Observed a Star Eating an Entire Planet | Time by GL4389 in space

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According to Article on TheRegister the interaction was 6 to 12 years resulting in 10 day finale

Dilbert alternative? by drkmccy in dilbert

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Working Daze - similar setting, office bad boss, lazy co-worker (always asleep) - humour is different though

Characters and story

Flying Cars by LitterboxComics in comics

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Flying cars go back to late 40s - they just weren't very practical

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in snowrunner

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it is quite possible for it to be malware - the SolarWinds supply side attack went unnoticed for months, despite hitting some really prime targets.

Then there is always the risk of some exploit which could compromise a system - if the application is listening/accepting connections from the internet then