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Two years back, Microsoft was on its way to be a SaaS company, today it's about SaaP (Software as a Product) again!
"The core, we're product people. What we do is build a product."
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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From the article:
Quote: If Windows 10 is the Tesla to the Windows 7 Prius, the only question left lingering, though, is what the middle child between these Windows generations, Windows 8, was supposed to be. The Fisker Karma, perhaps?
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It's being completely misunderstood.
First, there was Windows 1, then there was Windows 3, then 95, then ME, then 98, then X(P), then 7, then 8.
This version is Windows 2, to be followed by Windowses 4 to 6, 9, 11 to 94, 96 to 97, 99 to 999, and 1001 onward.
They're just filling in the gaps.
If you don't get this, hand in your developer's badge on your way out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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11 is much better, it's one louder.
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Ted Unangst @ OPenBSD[^]LibreSSL was officially announced to the world just about exactly five months ago. Bob spoke at BSDCan about the first 30 days. For those who weren't there, I'll quickly rehash some of that material. Also, it's always best to start at the beginning, but then I'll try to focus on some new material and updates.
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months 2-5
OK, I still haven't talked too much about we have done since the last update. We've mostly stopped deleting code. There's still some scary code left, but the good news is it's code you need to run. There was a bit of a summer lull, some post hackathon decompression, and then the OpenBSD 5.6 freeze. But progress is picking up again. Dig into a directory, open a few files, rewrite a function or two. Look at all the points where memory is allocated, and then make sure it is freed, exactly one time, no more, no less.
I'm sorry to make it all sound so tame, but avoiding excitement is all part of the plan. The first 30 days were all about revolution. Now we've switched into evolution mode.
OpenBSD gives another update about what they've been working on in de-fubaring OpenSSL. At the end they also briefly discuss their planned sane developer API to wrap the entire mess up so the rest of us don't actually have to understand how it all works to have a chance of using it correctly.
Joel and I have been working on a replacement API for OpenSSL, appropriately entitled ressl. Reimagined SSL is how I think of it. Our goals are consistency and simplicity. In particular, we answer the question "What would the user like to do?" and not "What does the TLS protocol allow the user to do?". You can make a secure connection to a server. You can host a secure server. You can read and write some data over that connection.
A few goals. First, no OpenSSL types or functions are exposed. In fact, not even any ressl internals are exposed. You should never need to contemplate X.509 or ASN.1. Those are implementation details far beyond the level of caring of most developers or users. As a consequence of that, the API is easy for other languges to bind to. The ressl interface could almost equally well describe transport over ssh tunnels. What do you want? Do you want a secure connection? We give you a secure connection.
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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Laszlo Bock (LinkedIn Influencer) - My Personal Formula for a Winning Resume[^]
...I want to focus on the most controllable element of a job search: your resume. The sole purpose of a resume is to get you past that first screen and into an interview...
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
modified 30-Sep-14 8:54am.
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If the title of this messsage includes the fact that Laszlo Bock is the Senior VP for People at Google, and it's his opinion that is linked to ... ?
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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I couldn't agree more. Fixed that
I think Schrodinger's half alive cat also agrees
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Thanks for taking my suggestion positively ! I was about to delete my post feeling that it was really unnecessary.
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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BillWoodruff wrote: Thanks for taking my suggestion positively !
No, I thank you.
BillWoodruff wrote: I was about to delete my post feeling that it was really unnecessary.
Any feedback is good feedback, lucky I'm not the young prick I used to be anymore and tend to listen to others more often
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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theguardian:
A handful of Londoners in some of the capital’s busiest districts unwittingly agreed to give up their eldest child, during an experiment exploring the dangers of public Wi-Fi use.
Apparently they didn't.
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Just sign it and let the lawyers figure it out.
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Or maybe they did, because that's obviously completely unenforceable.
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That's the point. The experiment proves that all such contracts are unenforceable, because they're "signed" without full consent, and (it could be argued) under duress.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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if from the hard copy variant then yes, otherwise no way
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Can it be other family member too?
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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Tired of your wife or your life?
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CPIP preprocessor, implemented in Python, aims to provide developers with a wealth of information about their code. Use python to understand your C++
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National Security Agency is building its private cloud on commodity hardware, open source software. Am I the only one that finds their use of open source ironic?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Am I the only one that finds their use of open source ironic?
Hell no!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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No, makes sense, using open source means they can make sure there are no backdoors in there they don't know about, and can implement their own without developing their own solution from scratch.
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It also means that no external company will know exactly how many servers they have
It wouldn't even surprise me if they were to have their own chip factory to keep that type of detail hidden.
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European investigators are set to accuse Apple of receiving "illegal state aid" in Ireland for more than 20 years. Looks like there's a new ATM in town
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While Oracle has a cloud platform that it’s been trying to spread to the masses for a few years, the biggest deal regarding the new cloud upgrade is supposedly the ability for people to use Oracle’s database in the cloud or on-premise in their own environment. "What is cloud computing? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"
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In a bid to secure even more of the Internet’s websites through the use of secure connections, San Francisco-based content delivery network and Internet security provider CloudFlare has launched a new free service for both its paying and free customers: automatic Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption for any site, without the need to pay for or configure an encryption certificate. And I didn't get them anything!
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