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Kent Sharkey wrote: Avian Carriers Now I know just what sort of pigeons they take us for.
No doubt the birden will fall back on us consumers.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Quote: Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol
Did Trump use taxpayer money to fund another wall I didn't hear about?
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No, all in all it's just another... hole in the wall!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The Linux Foundation has created a new IT certification with the goal of helping newcomers to the IT industry find a beginner-level job. For those that know the value of an MCSE or CNA, but for LInux!
USD300 for 60 questions. Cheaper by the pound!
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A user complains about system problems. Do you advise to:
A) Turn off computer
B) Turn on computer
C) A then B
D) B then A
E) Do A and then take a stroll
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Joe Woodbury wrote: A user complains about system problems. Do you advise to:
A) Turn off computer
B) Turn on computer
C) A then B
D) B then A
E) Do A and then take a stroll
This being Linux, surely the correct answer is: Write it yourself.
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Or try a different distro?
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Microsoft is getting into the holiday spirit a bit early today by offering an MS Paint-themed “ugly” sweater for sale on its online store, with a portion of the proceeds from each sale donated to Girls Who Code. I just don't get the tradition, but here you go
I know, if it's good enough for Mr. Darcy... bleh
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How patronising can you get. Buy an ugly sweater, help a poor little girlie who wants to code. Grrrrrr.
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We take a look back at historic .NET technologies that never made the jump to .NET Core. In memoriam
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GitHub research suggests there is a need to reduce the time between bug detection and fixes. Send. More. Eyes.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Send. More. Eyes. Don't forget the brains...
BRAIIINNNNSSSSS, BRRRAAAAIIINNNNSSSZZZZ... URGGNTTTTZZZZZ, PLZZZZ
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Developers can use a new user interface framework to bring Android apps to Windows 10, macOS and Linux. Now your Windows apps can look like they were designed for a phone-sized screen!
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There’s also video showing the descent of the spacecraft. They found Kubrick's old studio?
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Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air. "Ultimately, protecting someone else’s data protects all of us."
Fortunately, it's patched.
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Microsoft gives Windows 10 users the last non-security update until January 2021. You can now rest easy for a while - your machine won't break itself for a while
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Cloud computing giant Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The sales force is slacking? Fire them all!
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These market valuations are barking mad.
I'm hardly the first to say this but this is surely Dotcom Bubble version 2.0 (3? 4?).
There is no doubt that well crafted social apps have great value in terms of adding value to an end user's business but I do not believe that Slack can be genuinely worth $27.7B. (And to be clear I am not dissing Slack, specifically).
But it's the markets, innit. If everyone believes then it's ok. It's when belief ends...
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markrlondon wrote: But it's the markets, innit. If everyone believes then it's ok. It's when belief ends... True. See: Tesla vs GM/Ford/any of the real car makers
TTFN - Kent
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Tesla is a good example. Its market valuation is surely unsustainable -- it will (surely?) never be able to perform up to it.
It seems to be an example of the emotional, rather than rational, nature of the market.
Then again, only Tesla is prepared for the great Martian car building endeavour, so who knows. I can totally see Tesla Cybertrucks trundling around Mars.
modified 1-Dec-20 17:33pm.
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Nah, Slack should be dissed specifically. It's been losing money at enormous rates. They have a market presence, but aren't doing anything that a relatively small team of engineers couldn't readily duplicate. What is their plan for profitability?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: t's been losing money at enormous rates. They have a market presence, but aren't doing anything that a relatively small team of engineers couldn't readily duplicate
But this is what makes me say Dotcom Bubble 2. They have value, sure, but are overvalued.
Then again, loads of people can say "I could do that", but it was Slack who did/are doing it. Even if what they did is nothing special, they still did it and got there first.
First matters in this industry.
Joe Woodbury wrote: What is their plan for profitability?
None. Their business model is, surely, to be first and to be purchased by a rich buyer who perceives them to be a necessary 'presence' against the likes of, say, Teams.
In this sort of thinking, this fulfils two functions: (1) It plugs a gap in the product/service range, and (2) it fulfils the latest faddish investor expectations.
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We have central wbankers to thank for this, and it will eventually end in tears.
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No, I don't think so. Central bankers have their own ills and wrongs and malignancies but this ill, that of grossly over-valued businesses, is not one that central bankers or governments can be blamed for. It is all about freely decided (well, emotionally decided) market sentiment and of a class of people promoting more of the same class of people.
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That's also true, but when central banks manipulate interest rates to zero and below, it's easy for firms to issue bonds to finance this kind of nonsense. They should know better, but everyone's playing the game. And "investors" are lapping these bonds up with little regard for risk, because at least they yield something. The number of zombie firms--ones that would go bankrupt if they couldn't keep refinancing their debt--is staggering.
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