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The free, virtual and community-driven dotnetConf is on. Point your web-browser to dotnetConf.com. No registration, manager approval or anything required! The virtual conference is two days long. You had me at free
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Er... I think I just missed just about all of it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Bugger. Sorry about that. Hardly seems useful for tomorrow morning either.
Need more coffee (or gin. or coffee with gin.)
TTFN - Kent
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No problem. Have a G&T for me!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Google hired the noted inventor and futurist to build artificial intelligence that can think like a human. His vision is a computer with a structure modeled on the human brain, giving it a capacity for abstract thought. August 29, 1997 (or maybe next Tuesday at 3:15 GMT)
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"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me..."
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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The thing about the capacity abstract thought - the devil is in the concrete implementation 
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SkyNet wouldn't attack us, would it?
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Building a CPU is not enough. It needs supporting systems like memory and power, it needs IO devices and it needs programming. Next, it'd need a survival-instinct and it would need to be mortal. Otherwise it would not think like a human, would it?
What would a mortal machine with a survival-instinct think of "humans" and their actions? Does that answer your question? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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This new alignment with strategy, customers and product owners is one of the biggest transitions in the ALM evolution that the developers have had to deal with, according to Holler. “You are not just building to a specification,” he said. “You are really tied into the story that rolls up to the business initiatives so developers really have more of a comprehensive understanding of the value they are delivering.” Should we even call it ALM anymore?
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I think the nature of ALM is that it's perpetually in a state of flux. It's not a matter of replacing or rethinking it. Devs just need to pay attention to its natural evolution.
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Google had plenty to announce during the keynote at its I/O conference yesterday. Alongside its big announcements, the company also shared some interesting statistics about the growth of its Android platform. Isn't that about the size of the Windows Phone install base?
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I'm so sick of these Android malware studies and reports and statistics. They're all skewed by the fact that it's the most open and forked mobile OS out there, and that the overwhelming majority of malware instances come from international markets where they're running independent versions of Android out of third-party marketplaces with zero security updates or support for Google.
This topic has become one of the biggest worthless piles of tech article fodder, and publications just keep shoveling it.
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All true. I have actually been trying to avoid putting these in for just those reasons. This one I couldn't resist as it actually showed just how small the problem is (5 million out of 1 billion install base), and for the WP shot.
I will now go back to trying to avoid these stories. 
TTFN - Kent
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Fair enough, I'll admit that on first read I only skimmed the article out of frustration. On a second pass-through it's not quite as bad as most...and a good WP dig indeed.
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In the field of software development, the Pareto Principle can be summarized by saying that most problems are caused by a small number of bad coding practices. Eliminate them and your work will be very much easier and more productive. Bonus #11: basing your code standards on a listicle.
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If eliminating those 20% was that easy, the principle itself would not have existed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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> Avoid words such as receive, which easily be misspelled receive without being obvious.
Certainly not obvious to me... 
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For a while now, many of you have been asking for a better way to access data to build apps that integrate with Gmail. While IMAP is great at what it was designed for (connecting email clients to email servers in a standard way), it wasn’t really designed to do all of the cool things that you have been working on, which is why this week at Google I/O, we’re launching the beta of the new Gmail API. Bu-bye IMAP?
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Why don't they introduce a better IMAP library?
Oh yeah, right. Others would benefit from that, too. Sometimes I think this box-thinking (not only Google, but also many others, my former employer included) ruins a lot of great opportunities and slows any progress down.
The console is a black place
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Exactly. I had to integrate the import of attachments from emails received via IMAP into our software. It was a very terrible job, I can tell you. No really good .Net libraries available, the messages from Exchange Server may differ between versions, problems with emails without date field, missing delimiters after a multipart-part, ...
Just waiting for the next bug to be reported by a customer.
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In an interview with the IEEE Computer Society, the Linux founder lays out the philosophy behind his and his OS's success. Introduce yourself to your code. Maybe wear a nametag.
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The phrase “Facebook at work” usually suggests people frittering away the day on the social network and not actually doing their jobs. But according to an anonymous source inside Facebook, the company is working on a way to put the social network into a more positive light in the office. It is building an at-work version of Facebook. The only thing we need less is a zombie apocalypse
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “Facebook at work”
Isn't that the definition of Yammer[^]?
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Except that no one uses Yammer 
TTFN - Kent
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