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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The greatest communication skill is the ability to remain silent.
Well said!
Marc
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I'd say the same as Marc, but I'm trying to be silent.
As a wise man once said about one not so wise, "He has a hearing problem: he can't hear you while he's talking."
TTFN - Kent
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It took a while, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella finally threw a subtle jab at a competitor in an on-stage interview at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference on Monday evening. It's nice when you recognize your weaknesses, isn't it?
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This Microsoft CEO sounds yummy ... Nutella, ups Nudella 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes see the new programming platform drawing plenty of attention. Sigh. Repeat after me, "Tire-kicking is not 'popularity'"
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The first ten years are not indicative.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sigh. Repeat after me, "Tire-kicking is not 'popularity'""Anything sourced to Tiobe isn't worth reporting."
FTFY
All abuse aside, in the next few years I do expect it to largely displace Objective-C in iOS mobile for the same reasons that Java/C# dominate C++ in Android/WindowsPhone apps. 99% of the time the baggage that native code imposes in increased development difficulty isn't worth the minimal performance gain in software with a user/network speed bottleneck.
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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Very true, and I agree with you. But it's Beta 3 , and not likely even baked for months. (read that in a whiny voice)
TTFN - Kent
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When Hotz dismantled the defenses of Google’s Chrome operating system earlier this year, the company paid him a $150,000 reward for helping fix the flaws he’d uncovered. Two months later Chris Evans, a Google security engineer, followed up by email with an offer: How would Hotz like to join an elite team of full-time hackers paid to hunt security vulnerabilities in every popular piece of software that touches the internet? "Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?"
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As public comment on an FCC proposal wraps up, a group of 36 Web companies, including Google, Netflix, and Amazon, reiterates opposition to paying ISPs for so-called fast lane access. "Got those highway blues, can't you hear my motor running. Flying down the road with my foot on the floor"
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"Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln."
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Forty-five years after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, NASA scientists are looking forward to the next giant leap for mankind, and that next leap is likely to be on Mars. To fake putting people on Mars?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: To fake putting people on Mars?
Don't tell us you're a conspiracy theory tin foil hat loony!
Top 10 Apollo Hoax Theories [^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Not me, but there is one notable one here as I recall.
TTFN - Kent
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Ah, I had forgotten about the best way to deal with Apollo conspiracy theorists[^]. I'll have to watch this a few more times today. 
TTFN - Kent
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Putting fake people on Mars and getting fat people off Mars.
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Microsoft's cloud strategy could well carry the company for many years. The forecast calls for light, scattered clouds, with a 60% chance of haters.
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"
Wait a minute. Something smells fishy here. Isn't that exactly what Hailstorm was supposed to be? I smell an architecture astronaut.
And what is this Windows Live Mesh?
It's a way to synchronize files.
Jeez, we've had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not.
" -- Architecture astronauts take over by Joel Spolsky Thursday, May 01, 2008[^]
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Many of the greatest companies in the 21st century, including Virgin, 37signals, and IBM have built successful businesses by providing people the freedom to work where they want, when they want and how they want. Because my to-do list is already full?
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No, it's not here, because managers want control and there's this huge mentality that "oh, you can't work from home because then we'd have to let every else work from home and we don't trust anybody." Grr, this whole thing makes me so  --
I used to do consulting for a big communication satellite manufacturer, and the exec's would talk about how the company was facilitating communication, remote access, etc. And what was their internal company policy??? "We do not allow our people to work from home unless there are special extenuating circumstances, your manager and his manager approve it, and then only for a limited period of time."
f****** morons.
Marc
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Yup. Same experience at largish software company: we sell the tools to do it, but we won't. 
Ah well, they did eventually get smart about it. After I left.
TTFN - Kent
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Dragging people who'd been full time WFH back into the office because your facility utilization numbers were looking bad (and impeding the generation of overhead dollars) after a large drop in headcount is even more face palm worthy.
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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Charles Petzold [^] started working-full time with Xamarin[^] today. This lends even more credibility to the C# based cross-platform mobile development platform! 
/ravi
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