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So you had a project. You scratched your head a couple of days and came up a really nice and robust design. “The design solves the problems now and it should be able to handle future changes.” You thought that.... Two years later, the ‘future’ has come. What gives you joy in coding?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What gives you joy in coding?
...not corporate firewalls deciding random sites are "suspicious".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Japanese digital device consumers are some of the savviest in the world. So, a report Thursday showing that the Nexus 7 has bested the iPad in market share is worthy of attention.... Not surprisingly, one of the big draws of the Nexus 7 -- which is co-branded with Asus, the manufacturer of the tablet -- is price, according to Nikkei. It's about a $100 less in Japan than Apple's least expensive tablet, the iPad Mini. Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?
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Is the recent drop in Apple share price + the reduced orders for iPhone5 supplies maybe a bit of a clue?
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Following the trend of bell bottoms and the atari 2600... the ipad fad is beginning to fade.
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thrakazog wrote: ipad fad
The iFad?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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In politics we often hear that every vote counts. In Reddit, we can actually figure out how much each vote counts. If I upvote or downvote a post, how far does my individual vote move that post in time? If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 upvotes per hour...
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In the last few years, many of the larger mainstays of the existing database industry have leapt onto the bandwagon. Companies like Microsoft, Dell, HP and Oracle have made many strategic and tactical moves to stay relevant with this move toward big data and nosql databases solutions. However, the leadership is still outside of these stalwarts and in the hands of the open source community. Notice that the results are in a linked list, not a table.
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Firefox is widely regarded as a very secure web browser, and that’s a reputation that Mozilla has worked tirelessly to build over the past eight years — blacklisting extensions, shutting down insecure plug-ins, revoking certificates, and patching holes as quickly as they appear. But even Firefox has some lingering security issues. One of those is the ease with which a third-party application can sneak unwanted (and potentially malicious) extensions into a user’s profile.... All your silent extension installs are belong to us.
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There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What’s the most popular web browser? How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we’ll answer for you. We found over 3500 news posts for you in 2012... and more are on the way!
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The danger of aggregating numbers from multiple sources without doing anything to sanitize differences in methodologies...
Quote: 61% – Share of emails that were considered non-essential.
68.8% – Percentage of all email traffic that was spam.
...so apparently 11% of all spam sent is considered essential.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A parcel containing a camera is sent to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London through the Royal Mail. Through a hole in the parcel, the camera documents its journey through the postal system.
Go to https://twitter.com/bitnk/ to see some of the images (the primary website is being overwhelmed with traffic, so they're using Twitter instead for the time being).
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Shame their all just images of darkness!
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The live feed has been like that for a while, but they had a bunch of images of the package in transit before. If it gets to where it's supposed to be, we should eventually see Assange.
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"if it's behind a paywall, it hasn't been published."
Word.
Reminds me of when ISO 8601:2004 became available. I grudgingly paid about $100 (US) for a copy. I wasn't allowed to give anyone a copy, but I wrote up a summary of the changes and put it on the Yahoo ISO 8601 group.
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Lynda.com, a 17-year-old online library of training videos, just raised $103 million, underscoring the massive online education boom.
http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/lynda.com-leads-the-online-education-boom.html[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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I recently watched a 5-hour tutorial on lynda.com on how to use Adobe Illustrator. It's a neat site; good to see that they are expanding.
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A good--or bad--project manager can make the difference between a project coming in on time and on budget and it being a failure. How can you spot a good project manager? CIO.com talked to experts and IT executives to find out.
http://www.cio.com/article/726888/7_Must_Have_Project_Management_Skills_for_IT_Pros[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Be an effective communicator
All human beings who go out the door (without help) need to be able to communicate effectively. "Look out for that car!"
A good manager:
- Makes sure his workforce has the best tools available
- Makes sure his workforce is happy and eliminates everything that eats at their production
- Knows what a planning is, and knows how to update it (it's not a statical thingy)
- Knows how to prioritize and guard the specs
- is as much a project-leader as a manager
..I could go on, without needing vague tips like "be an effective communicator".
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Quote: Jennifer Lonoff Schiff is a contributor to CIO.com and runs a marketing communications firm
The bold part explains why that article had a whole lot of nothing to say.
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Never mind the article, read some of the comments. Those people are why project managers that don't understand the domain and have no technical understanding always fail at IT projects.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Java, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Why do we still use this software?
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