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Excellent point! 
But Crysis is old news now.. we need a new benchmark! Something that can crush the NVIDIA GTX 1080 to dust! :p
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Have you ever asked yourselves what would the world be like if there were only 100 developers in it? There'd be one beer left on the wall?
Apologies for the infographic, but I thought it had some interesting data in there.
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The question is ambiguous. Do you mean "no one except one hundred developers"? Or "three billion people, only one hundred of whom are developers"?
I'm unsure I'd want to be in either scenario.
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I like software development, I really do, but I cannot imagine the "no one except one hundred developers" alternative. That would be a nightmare, yet even worse than that.
Plus, I'm pretty sure that some of these hundred survivors would naturally be inclined to change their activity; becoming nuclear plant operators, for example, allowing remaining developpers to keep coding 
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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They'd get paid appropriately.
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At one point, there were 0 developers in the world, and we seem to have survived that. Then, there were only a handful of developers, mostly working on code to compute artillery firing tables and the feasibility of nuclear bombs (ENIAC[^].) The world as a whole seems to have survived that too. Now we have hundreds of thousands of developers, resulting in all sorts of side effects, like NY State's safe driving program[^] signs.
So, I think the question has always been, and always will be, how will we use these programs, whether there's 1 developer, 100, or 1 million, in the world.
Marc
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At its WWDC developer conference in San Francisco today, Apple chief executive Tim Cook announced the launch of Swift Playgrounds, an iPad app that’s designed to teach people how to code — specifically with Apple’s open-source Swift programming language. Who needs a keyboard to code anyway?
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Anyone who wants to experiment with deploying apps as self-contained miniature OSes now have a UniK, a new software tool to speed the process A standalone executable OS? Well, that's unique.
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Apple announced today that it will be opening up Siri to third-party developers through an API, giving outside apps the ability to activate from Siri's voice commands, and potentially endowing Siri with a wide range of new skills and datasets. Hey Siri, how are they going to maintain the walled garden?
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Apple has announced the next version of OS X — and the first thing you need to know is that it has a brand-new name: macOS. "And that made all the difference"
Universal Clipboard does sound kinda nice.
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Mac OS hold for 16 years, Mac OS X for 11, OS X for 4...Wonder what it fill be next month...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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3.11, 95, ME, NT, XP, Vista, 7, ???
I think Apple has been amazingly consistent - all things considered.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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In the "I didn't see that coming" space, Microsoft have just paid a whole chunk of cash to acquire LinkedIn[^]
This space for rent
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Welp that's $26.2bn down the toilet.  
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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Hmmm... I may need to delete my LinkedIn profile and close my account. It's been good over the years to connect with professional colleagues and friends but all good things must come to an end. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I started having a play around with branded.me[^] - might be the next big alternative (or not  )
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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An old colleague has invited me to join his network on branded.me so I would be very interested in your opinion of whether it is worth it since I want avoid unnecessary "social media" type encumbrances.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's not using a national tld or one of the 3 original general use ones (com/net/org); therefor by definition it is incapable of being taken seriously.
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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That's how I got on there
I've only been using it a week or two - it seems okay, a bit different to LinkedIn but there seems to be quite a few people making the move (at least who I'm connected with).
To be honest, I never spent a lot of time on LinkedIn and ended up disabling email notifications from it because of the endless messages from recruiters.. Hopefully branded.me will handle that kind of thing differently.
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Forogar wrote: I may need to delete my LinkedIn profile and close my account
That was my first thought when I heard the news
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That's a bigger waste of money than buying Nokia. Linkedin is pointless. MSFT is already down 4% premarket. TG I no longer any shares.
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I must confess, I don't get it.
Kevin
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Cramer likes it and says it's better than the Nokia deal. I'm a bit skeptical about that, as well as Cramer! We shall see.
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jgakenhe wrote: Linkedin is pointless.
Not according to some HR-departments.
I'm glad MS acquired it, I hope it goes to rest with Clippy, VB6 and IE4
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well, that was fun while it lasted.
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