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Gartner next holds a symposium on "how strained metaphors fail us" in which they say they're like armadillos...
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When you look at the current crop of IT Vice Presidents/Directors, we already have no central brain directing the department.😁
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“Better Than Nothing” beta to have speeds up to 150Mbps, latency as low as 20ms. You're going to need a long cable though
{holds fingers to ear} I'm sorry, my producer has corrected me. No cable. Wireless? Is that new?
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The key words being "up to", meaning not more than. But what's the typical speed?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Over the years, the Search feature in Visual Studio has gotten faster and more capable. You might have missed some of the things it can do to help you be more productive and get the most out of Visual Studio. Find that Find function that's been hiding
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Facebook has unveiled a free-to-play cloud gaming service that will let Facebook users immediately play and share high-quality games. The service is part of Facebook Gaming and is now in a beta test for a limited number of users. If you're not paying for the game, you're the game
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Our cities do this, why not our software? Windows 3020: we still haven't fixed Griff's bug report yet Edition
+1 for quoting Vernor Vinge anyway
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I've written software that's still running after almost 40 years. The article's central point is that legacy systems continue to evolve because rewrites often fail. Indeed, the essence of software systems is evolution, at least until the system becomes so messy that a rewrite is attempted or a competitor displaces it. But I still think that describing best practices for rewrites is of great value.
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Are major rewrites (almost?) always a sign of companies too cheap to refactor correctly in the first place? If they are too cheap to to refactor, they deserve all of the pain coming their way. (At least their management is.)
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Indeed. And the two big reasons for not refactoring are
- You need to work on new features (not understanding that no refactoring will make this progressively harder).
- You'll break something (not having automated tests).
EDIT: I would add that the distinction between refactoring and rewriting can blur, particularly when a system is asked to add capabilities that were never anticipated during its original design.
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Developers sometimes try to use feature development strategies to find bugs—and that doesn’t always work. How do we know when our debugging process doesn’t work? and what alternative strategies can we adopt so we can find bugs more easily? debug.log ought to be enough for everyone
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Security on the internet is a never-ending cat-and-mouse game. Security specialists constantly come up with new ways of protecting our treasured data, only for cyber criminals to devise new and crafty ways of undermining these defenses. Maybe they can tell me what finger I'm holding up now?
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The aim was to see how microorganisms like sperm or bacteria swim. "Pushing and a pulling in the great Big Harbour and the great big world is so much fun"
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Optogenetics can now control neural circuits at unprecedented depths within living brain tissue without surgery I need this like I need a hole in my head
Although, I would call drilling a "small hole" in my head surgery.
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The Linux Foundation jobs report finds significant drop in demand for SysAdmins from 49% in 2018 to 35% this year. Linux Foundation survey of Linux users finds Linux popular. More breaking news as it comes in.
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Contrasting to it, there is a wave I hear where organizations are merging QA & DevOps role into Developer, calling it an engineering role. Thus, No more QA or DevOps in the organization, product owning team need to learn and do all the stuff.
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In the distant past, there was a proverbial “digital divide” that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn’t. "People try to put us d-down. Just because we get around"
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Way back in October 2019, Microsoft announced Windows 10X, a modular version of Windows 10 aimed at dual-screen, foldable, and new form factors. The 'X' stands for 'Already eXtinct'
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A revisit to "Windows XP Embedded"?
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I thought XP Embedded was actually useful (ATMs and stuff). This seems more like Windows S repeated.
TTFN - Kent
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I thought the same; I was writing in hope. (Then again, Microsoft may freak out about doing something useful and call it off.)
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