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And we all know that all governments are benign... 
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As we all know: all governments automatically obey the UN
They do. They UN-obey them.
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I agree with the UN position, and probably most of you agree with it.
If you feel that you should have a right to personal privacy (from friends and foes and government), then you should contact your local politician and tell him about that, and in the case he is clueless, explain to him why it is important.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The Windows Store has been slammed for its array of cluttered, confusing and garbage apps. Now, Microsoft wants to clean up its act. Soon to be followed by a news item about how few items are in the Windows store
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They will probably go the route of increasing the fees for app submissions, because higher costs translate to higher qualitry [sic]!
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Funny thing is that if you try to publish an app, expect multiple trips - chances are it will be rejected because you are missing a privacy link, or you application doesn't handle minimize or bunch of other reasons. That is comparing to Google where publishing is a simple case of uploading an app. Even Apple's iTunes with it's fame of being picky is more straight forward then Microsoft.
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Long gone are the days when a tester would sit on one side of the wall and wait for the developers to throw code over. "Stand tall, don't you fall"
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Of course I don't lob my code at them like a hand grenade. Too unreliable.
I prefer to line my testers up against a wall and spray them with code bullets.
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At today's Google I/O developer conference keynote, Anil Sabharwal, Google's director of Photos, announced Google Photos, which is designed to help users organize, store, edit and share their photos and videos. And I'm sure they won't be searched, analyzed, and cataloged
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For years the U.S. Department of Labor has regularly published detailed reports of Labor Condition Applications. "Money don't get everything it's true, but what it don't get I can't use"
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What are the factors that can influence team members and their coding abilities? How can an agile framework breakdown in terms of produced software quality? We investigate academic literature to find the results. "Works on my machine"
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Aristotle wrote: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
I guess those programmers aren't that good! 
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Well, based on another recent Insider post, Agile and sprints promote a culture of working on the low hanging fruit and leaving the hard stuff, the stuff where architecture and good coding practices actually matters, for later, or never. Then you hire someone like me to come in and tell you that what the previous "talent" shop has done is garbage and has to be redone from scratch. Or worse, band-aided at 3x or more the cost of starting from scratch.
I have seen this over and over and over. And the funny thing is, where do I see this over and over and over?
Ruby on Rails projects
Marc
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Estimating time is hard. etc. Bonus #32: Posting a listicle originally from Quora helps on slow news days
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I would call that a list of popular theories about programming that aren't secret, or necessarily correct, but make good for clickbait if you put the word "secret" in the title
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True.
Still, hype aside, rookie programmers will learn something useful.
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Like clockwork, Google lifted the veil on Android M at its I/O developer conference today, an event that's traditionally served as the company's launchpad for its mobile OS updates. Because no one has upgraded to L yet
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Today at its I/O conference, the company announced Brillo, the "underlying operating system for the internet of things," with a developer preview coming in Q3 of this year. "Now that's Brilliant!"
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Wonder if they are planning on releasing a tablet with a witty name... 
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Ummmm...[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Microsoft has said that Windows 10 will be released this Summer and according to the current roadmap, the middle of July is targeted for signoff of the new OS, according to two insiders familiar with the company's plans. Just in time for your summer vacation (so you don't have to help people install it)
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New figures released by the ITU (the UN agency for information and communication technologies) have shown that there will be 3.2 billion people online worldwide by the end of 2015. Is it getting a little crowded in here?
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The web is so 2014.. I'm outta here! 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The best part about statistics is that there are so many of them. The article below this one states that there were 2.8bn internet users in 2014 and the total is growing at 8%/year; which gives a 2015 number of only 3 billion.
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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Mary Meeker, a longtime Internet analyst and current partner at prominent VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, dropped her annual information bomb on the crowd at the Code Conference here today. You are here
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