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For existing engineers, deepening our understanding of code requires nights and weekends of self-study and spending many hours struggling to contribute to open-source projects. "I have learnt much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my students."
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Survey shows IT budgets rising, but no corresponding gains in outsourcing. What's going on? A little rain in one spot means the cloud is dry elsewhere
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The companies listed in that chart only make up about half the total marketplace; is there a long tail of cloud providers or is the remainder mostly in house solutions?
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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Satya Nadella, a man who is not afraid of change, has been uprooting the legacy culture inside of Microsoft since the first day he took over the corner office from Steve Ballmer. One of his first major shifts was away from Ballmer's device and services strategy and towards the "Cloud First, Mobile First" motto. No where to go but up
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The radios, which don't require batteries, can execute commands quickly. Just in case you need to mount a radio on an ant
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What drives your development processes? Are you a TDD house, where your tests drive development? Or, perhaps there's a chief architect who isn't a very nice person. We call this ADD - A**hole Driven Development. However, this chat was about FDD - Fear Driven Development. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."
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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger and anger leads to suffering - Master Yoda
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Grady Booch, creator of the Unified Modelling Language (UML), chief scientist of the former Rational Software Corp., founding member of the Agile Alliance and the Hillside Group, and chief scientist – software engineering at IBM Research, talks to Mark Collins-Cope about UML, Agile, XP and a bunch of other things. Whatever happened to that guy?
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A few days back, Windows 9 build 9834 found its way to the web and since then, we have gotten detailed views of new features like the Start menu and virtual desktops. One item that seemed to slip under the radar is Storage Sense but that feature appears to be coming too. Knowing what files are filling up your drive? Well, that makes the upgrade completely worth it, doesn't it?
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Meh for the feature, the news item, or the blurb?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Knowing what files are filling up your drive? Cat videos?
Dead code?
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And for the rest of us, there's WinDirStat[^]; every time I want to see that my music and steam collection are eating my HD I just fire its visualization up to prove it.
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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I agree, and that's what I was thinking when I added this - they save you downloading a very small tool. Not a major feature by any means.
TTFN - Kent
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If it makes it Mom friendly it might be useful in a few years when the rest of the family have win 9 machines. Of the 4 windows using members of my immediate family I'd only expect one to be able to make use of WinDirStat. My brother is hardly a computer geek; but by not throwing his hands up in despair when confronted by the need to learn how to use a new piece of software can do a good job of faking it if given a pointer in the right direction.
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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The so-called Internet of things can be up close and personal, and APIs are the key to making it happen. "Only the Piece of Resistance can stop the Kragle and save the world"
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Telling from the article, it doesn't seem to be about technology in general. It's about privacy issues, competitive advantages, and worker's rights. Of course, Europeans seem to take all of them a little more serious.
BTW what does Amazon's free shipping have to do with U.S. tech?
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It is related to tech companies. Shipping has much to do with Order Fulfillment and Order Fulfillment has to do with package tracking, billing, payment tracking and the entire business which runs on top of technology.
So, even though shipping doesn't seem very technical it really is. And Amazon is one of the largest technically innovative companies. They started selling books and now have their own computing devices. Isn't that amazing.
And all of that was built upon this huge IT thing which was initially related only to shipping / fulfillment.
They did it so well because of their IT systems that they've grown and thrived.
However, if you take away some of their advantages, like free shipping, then maybe they are less recognized and wouldn't have been able to get to the place they are at.
This, of course, is a balance, but it has all been built because they were extremely innovative via technology.
If someone regulated them in any one of many ways then maybe they wouldn't have been able to be so innovative and move to the next level.
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Well, but isn't the shipping handled by huge logistics companies?
While you're surely right that they are extremely innovative via technology, it's only one side of the story. They started selling books and now they want to dictate the publishing sector. And all that is also build on exploiting their employees. Let's not forget about this. Competitive advantages like free shipping are only possible because they are so big and get special contracts with their logistic partners, something a small webshop is not able to do and therefore it makes sense to try and protect the small fish from the big ones.
Just my two cents. Anyways, that's not been the point. What I meant is that the love/hate thing is not really about the technology (product) but the circumstancas (privacy, marketing, etc.).
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Yes and no. The actual haul it around on trucks/planes part is still outsourced; Amazon's wins have come from warehouse packaging efficiency, and optimizing the contents of and placement of its warehouses to simultaneously minimize the distance that shipped goods will have to travel (despite living in the boonies, a majority of my purchases are now next day truck freight) along with the amount of stock held waiting to be shipped.
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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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: Telling from the article, it doesn't seem to be about technology in general. It's about privacy issues, competitive advantages, and worker's rights. Of course, Europeans seem to take all of them a little more serious.
Agree
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Wait for UBER-Code to replace your job by providing cheaper code...
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