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I can see a few other uses for it, such as in an academic setting (e.g. A Network Infrastructure class), or for creating an ad-hoc wifi network at a convention or something like that.
There are hundreds of uses for things like this, not all of them are malicious.
Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
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I offer these but you may wish to add your own pieces of really bad advice... Honourable Mention: "Leave the back-up until tomorrow."
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Now, how about 10 pieces of great advice?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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new definition of Maunder Minimum = the minimum amount of rewrites it takes Chris to get something working
Bryce *chortle*
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Now if you'd had you're wits about you, or Mick was around to give you some actual creativity, you would have said "the minimum amount of pints before he's fully lubricated"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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dude that'd have been pointless - we all know that the Maunder Maximum is 1
Universal constant that.
bryce
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Did you noticed an interesting thing, The link you posted is in Page No#: 33813 , If you click on Page number showing 33812 , It will not take to 33812 instead it will go to Maunder Minimum 1
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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Fight for Pareto's law, look for the 20% of effort that will give you the 80% of results.... 10 commandments for keeping software simple and getting it shipped.
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Ok... that's lean...
(yes|no|maybe)*
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The first rule of building on top of another company’s platform: Make sure you play by the rules.
The latest case in point: Ribbon, a Twitter-based payments startup, launched a new product on Wednesday morning, and it looked pretty cool. The main draw was the ability to buy stuff from inside a tweet, simply by clicking on a button and entering your credit card info and shipping deets... long story short, Twitter shut off support to Ribbon’s new feature within a few hours after launch. It takes a certain kind of blind optimism to develop against Twitter's APIs these days.
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Duane Campbell is retiring from Microsoft today, after 28 years as a software developer with the company. Chances are you’ve never heard of him, even if you follow the company closely, and that’s one of the best parts of his story. Rather than following the traditional management and executive path that put some of his former peers into the spotlight, Campbell understood what he loved to do, and he had the courage to stick with it. He loves to code — and he does it extremely well. 7 career tips from one of the most respected developers at Microsoft.
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My intuition and experience is that long test names are good and short function names are good, all else being equal. But why? ... One constraint common to test naming and function naming is that the names should be chosen to optimize readability and comprehension. Your team will invest far more reading names than writing them. This doesn't mean that long names are necessarily good, but that the focus should be on the reader's experience, not the writer's. Optimize for the coder trying to figure out what you meant. That might be you.
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Yesterday Microsoft reported flat Windows revenue from the year before, despite an unprecedented drop in PC sales.... There are several factors that made this possible. As investor relations chief Chris Suh put it on the earnings call, "Non-OEM revenue grew 40% this quarter, driven by sales of Surface and continued double digit growth in volume licensing." So how much did Surface help Microsoft's Windows revenue this quarter? Let's do a rough back-of-the-envelope estimate. But if Windows unit sales don't pick up again, the future looks increasingly bleak.
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Lookout has discovered BadNews, a new malware family, in 32 apps across four different developer accounts in Google Play. According to Google Play statistics, the combined affected applications have been downloaded between 2,000,000 – 9,000,000 times. We notified Google and they promptly removed all apps and suspended the associated developer accounts pending further investigation. All Lookout users are protected against this threat. BadNews masquerades as an innocent, if somewhat aggressive advertising network. This is one of the first times that we’ve seen a malicious distribution network clearly posing as an ad network. What it is, how it works and how you can stay safe.
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No matter what you make or how much you charge, some people will find things to complain about. If you drop your app’s price all the way down to free, people will still complain — just not about the price. They’ll move on to the features, the implementation, the design, the updates, the way you look, or what kind of dog you have. They’ll complain about every facet of your app, and then they’ll complain about unrelated topics just to pile on. 1 star. Unfunny subhead. Needs more cowbell.
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Yup
Some will complain even when beaten with a golden hammer
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Is booze for programmers like spinach for Popeye? The Ballmer Peak, a reference to Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, holds that imbibing alcohol improves cognitive ability, up to a point–a variation of the Yerkes-Dodson law, which shows a correlation between arousal and performance. Anecdotal evidence suggests that optimal programming occurs about two beers in. But what sayeth science? Cocktail coding actually works... to a point.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Anecdotal evidence suggests that optimal programming occurs about two beers in
This is getting framed and put on my wall.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Extensive highly scientific trials have shown this to be true of pool playing. Dependent on genetic factors that seem to be related to scandanavian heritage around 1.25 pints of strong ale makes dramatic and in some cases seemingly miraculous improvements to even moderately good pool skills.
The effect however is temporary fading quickly as alcohol intake increases. Various attempts were made to attempt to sustain the effect by limiting or preventing further alcohol intake. These proved to be disasterous and a number of test subjects were lost.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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jQuery 2.0[^] is now available.
Best new feature? No support for IE 6, 7, and 8. Also because of that, the whole thing is smaller, for faster downloads. They say they'll keep upgrading the 1.x line for a while for those poor unfortunates that do need to support those older browsers.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: No support for IE 6, 7, and 8.
Wow.
Dropping IE6, yes. IE7? Debatable, but iffy. IE8? Still (unfortunately) early, running at 5-6% usage.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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They're open about 2.x not being intended as a dropin replacement for 1.x yet. Dropping the IE legacy support was done mostly to let them clean some stuff up internally (with variants of webkit shipped with android 2.x being the new crap browser albatross). Their current recommendation is to either stay with 1.x or do an if (crapIEversion) loadJquery(1.x); else loadJquery(2.x); construct until all your users have abandoned crap versions of IE.
As a sidenote, with all the IE9 is still unusably broken Hatoraid being spewed across the net, jquery putting the browser in older versions of Android as the webs current crappiest common denominator amuse me greatly.
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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Yeah, I imagine a lot of corporations are still using IE8 as the standard - I even know of a few people *somehow* still running IE8 at that other place (I would have though internal security would have come down on them by now). Oh, and XP users, of course.
Still, it does have issues that they had to code around, and they are continuing the 1.x line, so I think you're fine for a while (and very fine as you're only running 1.6 at the moment).
Like Dan, I'm amused at their comments on Android. Imagine if they had said "Safari" there. The peasants would have been storming the castle!
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Clarification: I'm not amused at them for singling out Android 2.x as being the worst thing since IE8; I'm amused at the fact that A2.x is the worst thing since IE8 when after IE6-8 it's IE9 that gets the most Hateraid from the internets yammerheads while A2.x is never mentioned at all.
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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