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After more than eight years of petitioning, the non-profit group Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally won its battle to expand the web's offering of generic top-level domain (gTLD) names. If all goes as planned, the new suffixes will begin rolling out by the end of January. "Slash dot, dash dot, slash dot, dash dot, dot com"
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Just get rid of the stupid things; they were a bad idea from the start.
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Surely microsoft.com, microsoft.co.uk, microsoft.co.jp, microsoft.ru, microsoft.tv, microsoft.ca could all be separate companies, and we have to plan for that? 
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TTFN - Kent
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Only microsoft would be "official"; anything after that must be phishing.
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Shame about the lack of IP addresses to bind them to (at least until IPv6 adoption ranks up somewhat).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As a company, Apple seems to court the naysayers. Of course, it's been about to collapse for the last 25 years, with plenty of examples of things not going to plan, technology that wasn't adopted, products that failed to sell, or that died before version 2.0. "Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
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Coders make resolutions, no? If your to-do-better list is still empty, consider these ideas from other programmers to put to use in the New Year. Even the smartest folks have room to grow. "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"
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I was recently asked for advice on how to go from two week sprints to one. The conversation was one I've had several times. Client: "We are a scrum shop that has two week sprints. We'd like to release faster. Any suggestions?" "An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing."
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Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun announced the statistics on his Sina Weibo account today, revealing that it also hauled in total sales of $5.2 billion, up 150 percent from last year
Just as Samsung's sales begin to plummet. Coincidence?
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How Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible and Bcfg2 have changed the ways CM is set up and run.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there.
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Open Source Initiatve co-founder Eric S. Raymond says bzr is dying and Emacs should move to another version control system, like GitHub.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
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Emacs should move to the circular file system... unless it wants to grow up and be a real IDE.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: be a real IDE
Why the heck would it want to do that? 
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Why the heck not??!!?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Would it be better than the current offerings? Would you use it? Would it still work on legacy systems?
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Who knows? But hopefully it'd be cross platform.
I'd use it if it were "good enough" --- lol.
Again, who knows? But my guess is there would be some incompatibility. Perhaps a "converter" could be provided.
In anycase, I dont like emacs because I find it hard to use, or at least to unfamiliar to make it worth my time to learn. So you can take my comments for what they are worth...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Dogs are sensitive creatures, so sensitive they may be excreting in line with the Earth's magnetic field. Thank you, science
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That's why they turn in circles before dropping. They are getting aligned. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Now you have me picturing them doing a little radar pingy-sweepy thing as they circle.
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TTFN - Kent
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The company stops allowing developers to submit new applications or updates for the mobile operating systems. Predictable enough, I guess
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Global spending on technology will rise 6.2% to $2.22 trillion in 2014, helped by an improving economy and growing interest in areas such as mobility and cloud computing, according to new data from Forrester Research. "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
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The true technologist is a chivalrous knight. Not a crusader. I try to be an equal-opportunity cynic
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According to the latest numbers from Net Applications, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer IE11 tripled its market share from last month. IE11 grew 7.15 percentage points, up from 3.27 percent to 10.42 percent. This sudden growth is due to the automatic update process for IE10 users. IE10 is down 6.45 percentage points to 11.05 percent. You're getting a new browser, and you're getting a new browser!
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I just noticed that the IE 11 About dialog has an "Install new versions automatically" checkbox -- pre-checked of course. Now unchecked.
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