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When does a bug become a bug?
Who decides that it is a bug? "Only about 54% of all defects can be resolved by the engineers"
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It's not a bug, it's ..... a feature
Bug/Feature comparison[^]
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/04/helium_drives_from_hgst/[^]
A 4TB four-platter Cinemastar drive could become a 7TB seven-platter helium drive, and a five-platter 4TB MegaScale, spinning at 5,700rpm, could become a 5.6TB Helium MegaScale with seven platters – at least that’s the theory.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yeah - let's use a dwindling resource[^] that can't be replenished to make hard-drives! Can't see anything going wrong with that plan.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Wow, seems everything is in short supply these days.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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There is plenty of that stuff on the Sun.
Let us just lay a pipeline and bring trillions of cubic feet of that stuff to Earth.
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That's why we need nuclear fusion; to ensure that mankind is still able to talk to each other with funny voices at parties in 5000 years.
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Hardware vendors are to blame for not updating older browsers to properly leverage HTML5, Mozilla's Christian Heilmann says My well-being depends on having drag and drop on my cell phone!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: My well-being depends on having drag and drop on my cell phone!
I would already be glad if I could scroll without interruptions
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The revelation that the NSA has been secretly spying on Google data centers worldwide doesn't sit well with the search giant. Yeah, everyone knows they should only be spying on cell phones (and browsers, and ...)
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Linux creator Linus Torvalds wants comments on a proposal for an entirely bug-fixes and stability release in about a year "You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
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Visualization of the amount of code in various programs 50 Million lines of code in VS2012?!
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The 500 million lines of code for ObamaCare website statistic is bullshit.
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/shrug. Who knows - beyond a few CGI Federal developers and/or their overseers. As the bulk of it is likely generated code, I wouldn't be surprised though.
That's just one number out of many on this list, and even without that one number (two if you count the estimated fix lines), I still think the list is interesting. Finding out that VS supposedly has more LoC than Office, for example.
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TTFN - Kent
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Take a look at this Quora thread, which is being used by current and former Google employees to dish the dirt on working for Big G. Sometimes the free drink coolers are out of Moët & Chandon, and we're forced to drink domestic
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If you were looking for positive news about BlackBerry's future, we'd suggest you look away. Canada's favorite smartphone maker has announced that its $4.7 billion rescue deal with Fairfax has collapsed. "No colors anymore I want them to turn black"
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Data from Strategy Analytics suggests sales of Windows Phone units were up over 275% year-over-year for the third quarter. From 0 to 60 in 24 months
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Despite the efforts of Mark Reinhold and the Java team to involve the community in the roadmap after the Oracle acquisition (the Plan A / Plan B decision), many Java developers feel that Java 7 was "not much of a release". In this article, I'll try to refute this thesis, by exploring the features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8. Preview of coming attractions
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Ben Evans wrote:
Method Handles are simultaneously the most important new feature of Java 7, and the one which is least likely to feature in the day-to-day life of most Java developers.
A method handle is a typed reference to a method for execution. They can be thought of as "typesafe function pointers" (for developers familiar with C/C++) or as "Core Reflection reimagined for the modern Java developer".
Wait, so Java didn't have Delegates "type-safe function pointers" before v7? And yet people still try to claim that .NET is copying Java?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think things have definitely come full circle: Java really slowed down the "innovation", and .NET burst forth with so many shiny toys (dynamics, delegates, LINQ). Java is really trying to catch up now (and they're in the "dammit, we need a different name for their technology" phase).
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“Wet agile”, “the agile waterfall” and “the Agile-Waterfall Hybrid” … this controversial, mixed-method baby has as many names as formats. Some have received a lot of dedicated thought, are fit-for-purpose and manage to preserve the main benefits of the more pure methods. Irritates developers AND management! Perfect!
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You might wonder which professions have the greatest proportion of psychopaths. Well, according to one book, engineers are nowhere on the list. Until they become CEOs, that is. "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
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Or that's what they want you to think.....
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Skype's Desktop API will stop working this December and so will lots of add-ons "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
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Isn’t open source code just great? It gave us all of these Linux distros and great Linux apps, Apache, Python, and the list goes on. If you’re a coder, this movement is very easy to contribute to. But what if you don’t code and still want to pitch in and show your support? We’ve previously discussed eight ways to support open-source projects besides coding, and today I’d like to expand on the first: Donating real, hard-earned cash to support the developers you love, using the online service Gittip. "And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar, and say, 'Man, what are you doin' here?'"
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