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Why when I was yer age there was none of this darn new-fangled "Web" rigamarole, we didn't even have "servers", we had mainframes and minicomputers. Big heavy power-hungry, dare I say "throbbing", monsters of computing power and storage. And you spoke to them in their language and if you were exact enough in your requests, they would generally comply and allow you access.
Hmmm, I almost make it sound like a hippogryph.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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With enterprises scrambling for the right combinations of tech and business skills, age may be less of a factor in IT hiring prospects. "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance"
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Experience is everything.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Not quite everything: I've known some 20+ year vets that I wouldn't want programming anywhere near me. Experience still needs some brains behind the keyboard.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I've known some 20+ year vets that I wouldn't want programming anywhere near me. Experience still needs some brains behind the keyboard.
Shhhhh! He signs your paycheck.
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Google CEO Larry Page was asked how society should deal with unemployment that may arise from technological advances. Does it involve eating cake?
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Surely society is taking care of it all ready?
but, i'm not going to expand on that.....
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"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines." Bringing new meaning to "Internet of things"
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As long as it's not apes, I'm okay with it.
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One veteran shares his tale of being recognized for using his coding skills to make his military unit more efficient. And no: it wasn't a purple heart
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How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear."
Yes. I am talking about Google, not the Terminators.
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"There's no need to encrypt it, who in heavens' name would tamper with it?"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Top-down implementation of agile is a commonly use approach for agile adoption in organizations. Alternative approaches exist, like implementing agile by stealth, using continuous improvement teams, starting with a quiet phase or taking baby steps by implementing a limited set of agile practices. "So let's act with agility while we still have facility. For we'll soon reach senility, and lose the ability."
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+5 for Tom Lehrer.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Open source MS-DOS alternative lives—but using it nearly killed me. "Those were the days, oh yes those were the days"
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"it nearly killed me"
What a wuss. I spend most of my day in a DOSbox (on Win 7) and I telnet into OpenVMS at home.
If he wants integrated software, I can send him a copy of pfs:First Choice.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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The next time someone says Apples don't get hacked we now know how to respond... Who'd waste their time taking over 64k in this day and age? Aargs! Them's be pirates!
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The regularly-scheduled quarterly security updates for Java on July 15 will not include updates for Windows XP, which is now formally unsupported by Oracle. That should be the final nail in the coffin :rollseyes:
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there have been way too many nails in the coffin so far, don't think people will switch away from windows XP any-time soon, its currently happening super slowly, almost at a glacial pace.
"apparently people get really pissed off when you stop speaking in the middle of a "
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Apple's iOS ecosystem is much more efficient, allowing it to generate more revenue for app builders. "More efficient?" Yeah, that's one term for the Apple "ecosystem"
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I think it's more a matter of iDevelopers being greedy money-hungry more capitalistic and less likely to write open source / freeware / etc.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Very true. I'd love to see a price breakdown of the two (three) stores. I'd bet there are more higher priced ones in the iStore.
TTFN - Kent
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The National Security Agency’s attempts to keep track of people outside the US who use encryption and anonymization software from the Tor Project also apparently captured the traffic of anyone reading a wide range of articles on Linux Journal, according to documents published by the German public television broadcaster ARD and provided by security researchers (and Tor contributors) Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibsom, and Leif Ryge. All that talk of free? Can't trust them.
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If I were a betting kind of guy, I’d bet that most developers don’t consider the inherent security of their chosen programming language(s) when beginning a new project. "When the site was found we laid the foundations down. It didn't take long before they came back tumbling down"
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