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In the last few years, many of the larger mainstays of the existing database industry have leapt onto the bandwagon. Companies like Microsoft, Dell, HP and Oracle have made many strategic and tactical moves to stay relevant with this move toward big data and nosql databases solutions. However, the leadership is still outside of these stalwarts and in the hands of the open source community. Notice that the results are in a linked list, not a table.
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Firefox is widely regarded as a very secure web browser, and that’s a reputation that Mozilla has worked tirelessly to build over the past eight years — blacklisting extensions, shutting down insecure plug-ins, revoking certificates, and patching holes as quickly as they appear. But even Firefox has some lingering security issues. One of those is the ease with which a third-party application can sneak unwanted (and potentially malicious) extensions into a user’s profile.... All your silent extension installs are belong to us.
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There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What’s the most popular web browser? How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we’ll answer for you. We found over 3500 news posts for you in 2012... and more are on the way!
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The danger of aggregating numbers from multiple sources without doing anything to sanitize differences in methodologies...
Quote: 61% – Share of emails that were considered non-essential.
68.8% – Percentage of all email traffic that was spam.
...so apparently 11% of all spam sent is considered essential.
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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A parcel containing a camera is sent to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London through the Royal Mail. Through a hole in the parcel, the camera documents its journey through the postal system.
Go to https://twitter.com/bitnk/ to see some of the images (the primary website is being overwhelmed with traffic, so they're using Twitter instead for the time being).
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Shame their all just images of darkness!
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The live feed has been like that for a while, but they had a bunch of images of the package in transit before. If it gets to where it's supposed to be, we should eventually see Assange.
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"if it's behind a paywall, it hasn't been published."
Word.
Reminds me of when ISO 8601:2004 became available. I grudgingly paid about $100 (US) for a copy. I wasn't allowed to give anyone a copy, but I wrote up a summary of the changes and put it on the Yahoo ISO 8601 group.
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Lynda.com, a 17-year-old online library of training videos, just raised $103 million, underscoring the massive online education boom.
http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/lynda.com-leads-the-online-education-boom.html[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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I recently watched a 5-hour tutorial on lynda.com on how to use Adobe Illustrator. It's a neat site; good to see that they are expanding.
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A good--or bad--project manager can make the difference between a project coming in on time and on budget and it being a failure. How can you spot a good project manager? CIO.com talked to experts and IT executives to find out.
http://www.cio.com/article/726888/7_Must_Have_Project_Management_Skills_for_IT_Pros[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Be an effective communicator
All human beings who go out the door (without help) need to be able to communicate effectively. "Look out for that car!"
A good manager:
- Makes sure his workforce has the best tools available
- Makes sure his workforce is happy and eliminates everything that eats at their production
- Knows what a planning is, and knows how to update it (it's not a statical thingy)
- Knows how to prioritize and guard the specs
- is as much a project-leader as a manager
..I could go on, without needing vague tips like "be an effective communicator".
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Quote: Jennifer Lonoff Schiff is a contributor to CIO.com and runs a marketing communications firm
The bold part explains why that article had a whole lot of nothing to say.
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Never mind the article, read some of the comments. Those people are why project managers that don't understand the domain and have no technical understanding always fail at IT projects.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Java, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Why do we still use this software?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Why do we still use this software?
For the same reason we still have Flash?
(ie. no good reason)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have to since without it connecting to the company vpn at work is a real pain.
John
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Learn about the latest and greatest C++ performance features. All hardware being produced by Intel, ARM and AMD is now mulit-core with each core supporting a rich instruction set supporting vectorization of ordinary C++ that uses 128-bit registers. Additionally, on chip GPU’s are going through their 3rd iteration in many hardware product lines thus making general purpose computing on the GPU important. This talk provides an accessible overview of all the new hardware and how C++ allows the developer to take advantage of it. We start with the engineering of auto-vectorization and auto-parallelization for existing unaltered C/C++ programs, progress to PPL and then tie in the new C++ AMP language extensions. Coding close to the metal.
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Today’s 3D graphics are generated by hardware capable of filling petagazillions of pixels per second, so young readers may not realize that the memory bandwidth at the time made the simple task of filling the screen with polygons more than a few times per second a challenge in itself. Starglider 2 was smooth!… which, at the time, did not mean 60fps like today, more like 10-15 when the screen got crowded. Remember, this was the time where the boink demo was considered extremely cool. In summary, doing better than Starglider meant something like filling two thirds of the screen, having 15 objects on screen instead of 4, and remaining above 10 frames per second. Looking back at the creation of Alpha Waves, one of the first true 3D games.
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When I was first starting out in development, I thought that writing code was pretty easy. It took me a while (and a long learning process) before I realized that writing code is harder than it looks. Looking back on some of that first code, I wonder how it ever worked, how I avoided a serious security problem, and what I was thinking about when I wrote some of that code. Experience is the way that most of us learn how to write code, but experience is a lousy teacher: it gives the lesson after the test. Here are some ways you can improve your code writing right now. Sure, he wrote a PHP book. Don't hold that against him.
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"5. Learn all you can about software development best practices."
So you can avoid them.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: So you can avoid them.
Ah, this is one of the rare moments when I miss voting. So true...
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I've been writing "5" on sticky notes and putting them on my screen.
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