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A California real estate development company plans to install Tesla batteries in nearly two dozen of its highest profile offices in the Los Angeles area. For $1M a year in energy cost savings I'd install em' too.
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Once again, BlackBerry CEO John Chen, the man brought into save the long-foundering mobile company, has said he's willing to kill BlackBerry's smartphone business. He's been saying that publicly for nearly a year, effectively letting customers know to go elsewhere.
Maybe the idea was to get customers to show their commitment to BlackBerry devices; if so that strategy has backfired -- BlackBerry device sales continue to decline to trivial numbers (now fewer than 3.5 million a year, or what Apple sells in five days), despite a series of new models of every conceivable design in the last two years. Do you agree? Have any CPians actually bought a new BB device recently?
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Never owned a BlackBerry, but people who had them loved them.
I think he should just open source the whole thing! 
Marc
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I recently bought a Blackberry Passport to replace my old Blackberry Curve. The new Passport is amazing, it's much more powerful and easier to use than my wife's Android or my son's iPhone (he is dumping the iPhone and plans to get a Passport). I love it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Of all the investment fads and manias over the past few decades, none have been as big of a fizzle as the craze for nanotech stocks. Nanotechnology never had its Facebook, its multibillion dollar blockbuster IPO that made clear how a new technology is changing the world.
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Media hypes.
Investors who don't understand tech invest.
Rinse, repeat, stocks go crazy, stocks crash.
Marc
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The “Named Colors” section of the CSS Color Module Level 4—the latest specification for color values and properties within the Cascading Style Sheets language—are 141 standard colors. Where do such abstract names come from, and why are they a part of something as methodical as writing code?
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The evolution of accessible radio standards over the last 25 years has led to a plethora of ways to pass information collected at a large number of data-gathering devices (sensors, cameras, microphones) to the cloud, and send commands back from the cloud to act on the information. The evolution of the Internet of Things is still in progress.
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I'm pretty sure it involves tin cans, alot of string, baling wire and some spit...
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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I'm fairly it involves tin cans, baling wire, and spit...
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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In the US, it's Tubes - series of tubes.
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In this article, I’m going provide a glimpse into the future of web development. Gain a new perspective on structuring a user interface, server, and data endpoints.
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Sean Ewington wrote: In this article, I’m going provide a glimpse into the future of web development.
Yes, of course you are. Oh yawn, how many times have I seen "I have the best thing since sliced pickles and you must use it now!"
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One of Europe’s largest publishers, Axel Springer, has stepped up its efforts to protect online advertising revenues by banning readers who use ad blockers from accessing its Bild tabloid website. Bild will now ask visitors to turn off their ad blocker or pay a monthly subscription fee of €2.99
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Who wants to read their crap in the first place? People don't need ad blockers for their site, they need text blockers. It's an insult to every browser to render that content.
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Demand for software engineering talent has become so acute, some of the best-known denizens of Silicon Valley have contributed to a venture fund that promises to turn out qualified software engineers in two years rather than the typical four-year university program. Heck why train them all. That's two years faster!
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Maybe they can teach chickens to hatch their eggs in half the time too. 
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When it comes to web programming just give new students a one week crash course in one of them tools that are popping up that are for generating content and call that development.
Those who wish to take the long route can get a book of their choice of language of the type:
learn 'some language' in three weeks.
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Perhaps they missed the ten year rule[^].
In another context, I heard a senior manager say that 'It takes ten years to become ten-year-experienced. You cannot accelerate that'.
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The real way to learn to program in 21 days.
http://abstrusegoose.com/249[^]
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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The article indicates the 'engineers' will know how the application affects the environment, but fails to indicate if the 'engineers' will understand the basic underlying business principles themselves. I have worked with a number of Computer Science graduates that didn't understand basic business or accounting principles. When they finally took night classes, their rose coloured glasses were suddenly clear and they could grasp what it was they were trying to do all along.
There is no substitute for experience and the article seems to indicate the experience will only leave their glass 1/2 full, but they will still want a full wage for that 1/2 glass.
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There have been some large data center deployments done on ARM servers and the ARM server market entrants have been many. Who said server-side computing was boring?
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Buried in the wall of text actually is something potentially interesting:
Quote: This year both Samsung and TSMC are outspending Intel in semiconductor R&D
It's not clear from the article if that means that Intel's R&D spending has fallen to #3 (in which case I agree that they're in real trouble), as the article tries to imply. or if their lead has simply fallen to less than the combination of the 2nd and 3rd place companies combined; in which case their slippage is worrying but probably not much more than the latest round of hype (at least in the short term).
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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Mindset, and particular strategies we can use. When you get the coffee, you get the bacon. Then when you get the bacon ...
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SQL is neither legacy, nor low-level. Long live SQL.
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