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Recent high-profile defects do not support the view that open source is less secure than closed source. Stuff happens
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Dr. Dobb wrote: ear that providing the source code to software was a security risk because it enabled hackers to find ways to find exploits.
..the amount of games/windows copied should give an indication how secure that idea is.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Charles Petzold’s book Programming Windows (in various editions) was how a generation of developers learned to code for Windows – 25 years ago when Microsoft’s operating system was the hot new thing. One BSOD at a time?
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According to a report from NBC News, Apple will start paying for the costs of egg freezing for their female employees beginning in January, following in the footsteps of Facebook. "Ethyl, Ethyl, come and freeze me with your charms"
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I better don't say what it first came to my mind, when I read the subject
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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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says Amazon's e-commerce prowess in search takes eyeballs away from the search engine giant. Somewhere, a Bing executive is crying.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Somewhere, a Bing executive is crying.
Not to worry, nobody will find them.
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Indie developers take heed: Heads-down coding is a one-way ticket back to the corporate grind. "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do"
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One word: Cashflow.
That's what killed my solo run
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The problem is that when you alone you not only a developer, but a designer, a manager and sales-representative at the same time, but there is only 24 hours in a day...So despite the advice of the article you are mostly work only on one project and than move on to the other at the beginning... This is not a fixed cash-flow and you have to have some spare to start with...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Not to mention that corporate clients take 3 months to pay you...
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: you have to have some a big spare to start with...
FTFY
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: The problem is that when you alone you not only a developer, but a designer, a manager and sales-representative at the same time, but there is only 24 hours in a day...
However, one $90/hr job is worth a lot more than three $30/hr jobs, even if you only spend 1/3 of the time on the $90/hr job. The point being, you make the same amount of money, but you have 2/3'rds more free time to do other things.
And that is the key, IMO, to a successful consulting business -- to charge enough to pay the bills, taxes, save some money, and have time to do the name-branding sales and marketing.
Marc
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You are right about a running business, however you can not charge $90 at the very beginning or no-one will hire you...You have to build your reputation as one worth of $90, until then you have to have some backup...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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$90 doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Have you ever looked at the hourly rate of a big consulting company... one where you don't have any idea who is actually doing your work? $90 would be ridiculously low.
On the other hand, as an individual, your consulting rate better be at least double your rate as an employee to account for benefits you don't have through the employer. Otherwise, you are selling very short... HR spends a lot more per employee than the salary.
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Those are all excellent points. Good post!
Marc
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Microsoft and Xamarin are looking to broaden community involvement with the .NET Foundation, the group charged with overseeing a number of open-sourced .NET-related technologies. Openness: they has it
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The question is: who will read community suggestion? Microsoft support personnel?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Good question. In that case, they'll be about as good as the round file.
TTFN - Kent
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Heh. Mary Jo's getting old. But then again, so am I.
Marc
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An LLVM for decompilation, Snowman's source code will be released soon The bad news? You get C++
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Even worst - you get C!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Gawd, I'd rather read the assembly code than some horrendous C output. C is bad enough, but without function and variable names to give a clue as to what's going on, I personally consider the assembly code to be much more readable!
Marc
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Yeah. I'm expecting the only real use for this might be to get out of those, "That contractor left us with an EXE and no source" situations.
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: without function and variable names
Potentially not if you start with a debug build executable. I started at a company some years ago and discovered they had never done a release build and their product was going out as debug build.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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