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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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IT giants including Microsoft, Facebook and SAP have written an open letter to EU ministers urging them to support better ICT education and encourage more children to learn to code.
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
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..then they should start with giving the teachers a decent education in IT, and by deleting all existing course-material 
If they want a good education, then they will have to co-invest. One who does not pay, can count on no influence.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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This does not belong on Insider News.......See the statement at the top: "The Insider News is for breaking IT and Software development news."
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oh, I try to find other sections but didn't get. will care next time.
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I would say this probably fits in the Lounge better, but even then, I doubt if anyone would bat an eyelid about it.
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Bundled in with today's release, is an update for IE 11 that adds some new functionality to the browser. Well that's it then: I can switch to IE full time now
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For the first time, Microsoft will offer user-based Windows licenses to enterprises, a change one expert called "substantial" but another downplayed as unlikely to have much of an impact. I'm kind of hoping this takes off
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SSL version 3.0 is no longer secure. Browsers and websites need to turn off SSLv3 and use more modern security protocols as soon as possible, in order to avoid compromising users’ private information. "Release the hounds!"
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Recent high-profile defects do not support the view that open source is less secure than closed source. Stuff happens
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Dr. Dobb wrote: ear that providing the source code to software was a security risk because it enabled hackers to find ways to find exploits.
..the amount of games/windows copied should give an indication how secure that idea is.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Charles Petzold’s book Programming Windows (in various editions) was how a generation of developers learned to code for Windows – 25 years ago when Microsoft’s operating system was the hot new thing. One BSOD at a time?
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According to a report from NBC News, Apple will start paying for the costs of egg freezing for their female employees beginning in January, following in the footsteps of Facebook. "Ethyl, Ethyl, come and freeze me with your charms"
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I better don't say what it first came to my mind, when I read the subject
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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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says Amazon's e-commerce prowess in search takes eyeballs away from the search engine giant. Somewhere, a Bing executive is crying.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Somewhere, a Bing executive is crying.
Not to worry, nobody will find them.
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Indie developers take heed: Heads-down coding is a one-way ticket back to the corporate grind. "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do"
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One word: Cashflow.
That's what killed my solo run 
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The problem is that when you alone you not only a developer, but a designer, a manager and sales-representative at the same time, but there is only 24 hours in a day...So despite the advice of the article you are mostly work only on one project and than move on to the other at the beginning... This is not a fixed cash-flow and you have to have some spare to start with...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Not to mention that corporate clients take 3 months to pay you...
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: you have to have some a big spare to start with...
FTFY
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: The problem is that when you alone you not only a developer, but a designer, a manager and sales-representative at the same time, but there is only 24 hours in a day...
However, one $90/hr job is worth a lot more than three $30/hr jobs, even if you only spend 1/3 of the time on the $90/hr job. The point being, you make the same amount of money, but you have 2/3'rds more free time to do other things.
And that is the key, IMO, to a successful consulting business -- to charge enough to pay the bills, taxes, save some money, and have time to do the name-branding sales and marketing.
Marc
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You are right about a running business, however you can not charge $90 at the very beginning or no-one will hire you...You have to build your reputation as one worth of $90, until then you have to have some backup...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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$90 doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Have you ever looked at the hourly rate of a big consulting company... one where you don't have any idea who is actually doing your work? $90 would be ridiculously low.
On the other hand, as an individual, your consulting rate better be at least double your rate as an employee to account for benefits you don't have through the employer. Otherwise, you are selling very short... HR spends a lot more per employee than the salary.
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