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Sean wrote: You cannot stem the tide Maybe they've got King Canute on staff.
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It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity. Definitely not written by a recruiter.
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Sean Ewington wrote: and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity. I can't complain about because I didn't use it so much, but only because something is popular it doesn't necessarily mean that is good.
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Nelek wrote: but only because something is popular it doesn't necessarily mean that is good
I was saying that exact thing to Tim Cook just the other day.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Correlating the number of posts on a web site for solving programming problems is like measuring a man's popularity with women by how many of them kick him in the nuts when he makes advances.
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I was going to say the same thing but with a less colorful metaphor.
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Thank you, thank you! I'm here all week. Try the veal, it's to die for!
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From the what will replace Python section:
Quote: Fun point: Goggle developers are among the highest-paid programmers on the market.
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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On May 17, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona, approved the $800 million development of an enormous data center -- a warehouse filled with computers storing all of the photos, documents and other information we store “in the cloud” -- on an arid plot of land in the eastern part of the city. Kinda makes me want to stream less. Did I really need to watch Hemlock Grove? It's rhetorical -- no one did.
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Earlier this year, a new support page appeared on support.Mozilla.org describing Sponsored Shortcuts (or Sponsored Tiles), "an experimental feature currently being tested by a small percentage of Firefox users out of a limited number of Firefox users. markets." The burner was hot the last time I touched it, but maybe I should try touching it again?
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In 2002, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos issued a memo that has entered tech industry canon. The memo, known as the “API Mandate,” is generally perceived as being a statement about technology at Amazon, and is therefore widely admired by technologists and wholly ignored by executives. And now there's a petition to prevent Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth, so there's that.
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Quote: and is therefore widely admired by technologists and wholly ignored by executives. Oh... surprise surprise... managers and techies not seeing things the same way... what a surprise
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Ransomware attacks are on the rise globally as cybercriminals adopt more sophisticated tactics. Well they SEEMED like trustwory guys. I'm shocked.
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The real question is... were they hit again through the same attack vector? Or was it at least a new approach?
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The trek towards the holy grail of cybersecurity—a user-friendly computing environment where the guarantee of security is as strong as a mathematical proof—is making big strides. "Protection like this has not been possible to date."
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There will never be a 100% secure system... human factor versus usefulness / comfort / lazyness
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Sean Ewington wrote: a user-friendly computing environment I initially thought pencil and paper.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing holding companies back Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. "Well I wouldn't say I've beem missing it, Bob."
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Wired wrote: There’s only one thing holding companies back Willingness to pay the same for less hours even if it could boost productivity?
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I bet these researches are working much more than five hours a day...
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When you get good enough at what you do, hourly rates will start penalizing you. One man's parable about being too smart for your own good.
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Good argument!
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As always, it depends...
There projects things that are doomed to be like the rabbit hole and there are things that you can end with closed eyes.
So the best is to know how to distinguish between them and choose the best tarification for a concrete project.
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His model works well with reasonably competent and mentally healthy clients. Unfortunately all too few of these angels exist.
I have turned down jobs where the client didn't give a good vibe during initial discussions. I even turned down a follow-on project once. I had a university professor who had formed a startup with some graduate students, and I'd written an application for him. A year later he emails me wanting to add a feature to the app. I give him an estimate of like 40 hours, and he says he needs it in a couple of days. To top it all off, the grad students had been mucking around with my app and made all sorts of changes. My internal alarm bells were going off, and I said no.
A hardware guy I know lost $5K in billable charges when the client he was working for went bugshit over some needed design changes. The guy essentially threw my buddy out and told him he wasn't paying for anything he'd done since the last invoice.
Children, this is why you charge by the hour, you invoice monthly (30 days net), and if they don't pay on time you stop working. Never give binding estimates and never, ever go fixed price.
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Microsoft demonstrated its deep and meaningful affection for all things penguin overnight by borking packages.microsoft.com and leaving some Linux fans bereft of the company's wares. It was running on Office365+OneDrive and it was on Bill's credit card that expired, nobody knows the password and the recovery address is an expired hotmail.com
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