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Microsoft is developing a new approach to splatting bugs in software before they take down production systems. It involves wiring up programmers to sensors that record brain activity, track eye movement, and test how sweaty the engineers are. "I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over."
Next steps: a couple of other electrodes for those who break the build
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Next steps: a couple of other electrodes for those who break the build
If I used this, the one breaking the build would be me, as I am the only one working on my projects (I am a self-taught hobbyist programmer), and I don't want a shock when the build breaks.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Researchers find that by touching our phones all the time we’re leaving our biological mark on them. You might want to wash it after reading this
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Apple and IBM have just announced what the companies describe as a "landmark partnership" designed to "redefine the way work will get done, address key industry mobility challenges and spark true mobile-led business change." Put more simply, they're aiming to combine their respective strengths and aggressively tackle the enterprise market. Swipe left to compile the current project
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Open up your wallets - the price king of the enterprise IT meet the price king of the personal IT. If only we can mix in Oracle somehow to make sure it's really out of reach for everyone....
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Oracle is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against Oracle's own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. SELECT * FROM 'everything' WHERE ID='you know, the one I want'
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Researcher uncovers "catastrophic failure" in random number generation. "It's hard times, for an honest man"
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Technical acumen is a decent mark of a good developer. But if you can marry technical ability with communication skills, you’re a huge asset to any company. "Tommy, can you hear me?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: communication skills
The greatest communication skill is the ability to remain silent.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The greatest communication skill is the ability to remain silent.
Well said!
Marc
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I'd say the same as Marc, but I'm trying to be silent.
As a wise man once said about one not so wise, "He has a hearing problem: he can't hear you while he's talking."
TTFN - Kent
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It took a while, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella finally threw a subtle jab at a competitor in an on-stage interview at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference on Monday evening. It's nice when you recognize your weaknesses, isn't it?
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This Microsoft CEO sounds yummy ... Nutella, ups Nudella
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes see the new programming platform drawing plenty of attention. Sigh. Repeat after me, "Tire-kicking is not 'popularity'"
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The first ten years are not indicative.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sigh. Repeat after me, "Tire-kicking is not 'popularity'""Anything sourced to Tiobe isn't worth reporting."
FTFY
All abuse aside, in the next few years I do expect it to largely displace Objective-C in iOS mobile for the same reasons that Java/C# dominate C++ in Android/WindowsPhone apps. 99% of the time the baggage that native code imposes in increased development difficulty isn't worth the minimal performance gain in software with a user/network speed bottleneck.
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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Very true, and I agree with you. But it's Beta 3 , and not likely even baked for months. (read that in a whiny voice)
TTFN - Kent
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When Hotz dismantled the defenses of Google’s Chrome operating system earlier this year, the company paid him a $150,000 reward for helping fix the flaws he’d uncovered. Two months later Chris Evans, a Google security engineer, followed up by email with an offer: How would Hotz like to join an elite team of full-time hackers paid to hunt security vulnerabilities in every popular piece of software that touches the internet? "Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?"
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As public comment on an FCC proposal wraps up, a group of 36 Web companies, including Google, Netflix, and Amazon, reiterates opposition to paying ISPs for so-called fast lane access. "Got those highway blues, can't you hear my motor running. Flying down the road with my foot on the floor"
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"Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln."
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Forty-five years after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, NASA scientists are looking forward to the next giant leap for mankind, and that next leap is likely to be on Mars. To fake putting people on Mars?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: To fake putting people on Mars?
Don't tell us you're a conspiracy theory tin foil hat loony!
Top 10 Apollo Hoax Theories [^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Not me, but there is one notable one here as I recall.
TTFN - Kent
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