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What about retailers selling extended warrantees and such; that's just as bad.
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I'd bet the intersection of people buying extended warranties, and those falling for "David from Microsoft Support" is pretty high.
Lots of crayons[^] to go around.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity."
You omitted the important part of the quote:
"... and I am not sure about the former."
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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A new study suggests that looking down at a cell phone is the equivalent of placing a 60-pound weight on one's neck. And we won't even mention sexting
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I've always wondered about that (the texting, that is...). You see people standing or walking and looking like they have advanced osteoporosis. It's scary.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How is that as compared to the same posture reading a book for hours on end?
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Watch people who read a book: they tend to hold books at a more comfortable distance than is typical for smartphones because it's far easier to read a book at distance given the constant font size and the flow. Pages and apps on smart phones often have varying font sizes, images and a general blockiness (instead of constant left, right, top to bottom flow). It means you need to focus more and actually read instead of being able to easily scan.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sadly, most people don't read.
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The weight of your head doesn't change meaningfully based on its position; the net force on the spine does. The actual study linked to got it right; but whoever wrote it up for The Atlantic managed to screw it up despite the illustration they cropped for their picture explicitly stating that it was the force applied to the spine not the weight of the head. 
I'd be interested in seeing more details of the model itself; the numbers they're reporting are ramping a lot faster than my half-remember freshman physics suggests they should. The discrepancy is not particularly surprising because of how complicated the real spine is vs a trivial force diagram, but I'd still like to understand how/why it's different in more detail.
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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A multiple-choice test can't show who's good at real admin work, but it can show who understands the product well enough to invest in. "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
What about the guy with a note from his doctor?
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If you want to provoke an argument among computer programmers, ask them to pick their favorite coding language. But even more contentious in an environment where engineers literally have agents, is which is the most lucrative. "Past performance does not guarantee future results."
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Seems true. my.Salary == Salary(C#) + Salary(SQL) . 
Bear in mind, though, that Microsoft and others create easy-to-use languages and frameworks in order to drive salaries (and therefore their own payroll) down.
The popular/in-demand languages are at the bottom; aim for those. Being at the top of that scale may decrease your ability to get a job. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you need to play the odds; don't rely on making the low-percentage shot.
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from thousands of American job ads
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Were I a hiring type manager, I could post thousands of bogus job ads for some technology listing very low salaries in order to affect such "research" and decrease the expectations of job seekers.
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better is to focus on being well rounded, with a firm grasp of algorithms, design principles, and the ability to pick up new languages and concepts rapidly.
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They got that right.
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Do we want to try new languages again and again.
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Yes.
Until someone gets it right (or at least better).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Today, Yahoo and Mozilla announced a five-year partnership that would make Yahoo the default US search engine for Mozilla's Firefox browser on mobile and desktop. "Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yahoo
What's Yahoo???
Let me guess. Some ad-riddled ripoff with a klunky user interface?
Way to go FF. You're looking less and less attractive every day. 
Marc
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Goodbye, Firefox.
Hello, Google Chrome.
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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The fight is about who gets to control the default home page of Internet Explorer and the enormous amount of attention that page commands. "It's Rock'em Sock'em Robots time!"
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the default home page of Internet Explorer and the enormous amount of attention that page commands.
Please tell me that's sarcasm.
Marc
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It looks like alot of people need to learn how to set their home page to google 
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And I always thought sandboxing referred to programming.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Before launching into his presentation on the intricacies of building an Azure-based Web site, traffic in an Azure cloud, Microsoft's Jeffrey Fritz explains what caused a widespread Azure outage across most of the northern hemisphere. "Into each life some rain must fall"
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Quote: "It's my cheerful duty to say, I'm sorry. Let's talk about what happened."
Cheerful?!?!?! 
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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