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People give bad advice, so buy my book and listen to my advice. It's different!
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DING! DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner *\o/*
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I love this idiots myopic view of what it means to write code. He seems to think that if you learn to write code that's all you're good for. He makes no mention that the ability to write code is a "soft skill" applicable in many many facets of the IT world as well as to just normal users of computers.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: He makes no mention that the ability to write code is a "soft skill" applicable in many many facets of the IT world as well as to just normal users of computers.
I like that view. I have to admit that I never thought of coding as a soft skill (didn't think the alternative either, though). It is a great, and true, view though. I initially posted that article due to his pushing the other soft skills (well, that and this week is a horribly slow news time for some reason), but now I see more of a reason.
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TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, I wish I had known that when my father taught me how to perform an oil change and tune up an engine that I'd only be elegible to become an auto mechanic instead of wasting the last twenty years as a software developer. 
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The HTTP Archive Report has published their end-of-year technology statistics which collate information from 300,000 of the web’s most popular websites. Average page weight has bloated by 32% in one year to reach more than 1,700Kb — or 1.7Mb — and now comprises 96 individual HTTP requests. It’s worse than the staggering 30% increase in 2012! Be kind. Minify and optimize
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Be kind. Minify and optimize
Start with this one[^] 
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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There’s nothing more annoying than a meeting that goes on and on and on. As a manager, it’s your job to make sure people don’t go off on tangents or give endless speeches. But how can you keep people focused without being a taskmaster or squashing creativity? Bonus #0: Ask, "Do we really need this meeting?"
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For Microsoft, 2013 was a disaster. The company's ambitious Windows 8 operating system didn't gain much traction, its foray into tablets was a non-starter and it continued to struggle for phone sales. The discontent prompted CEO Steve Ballmer to announce he would retire within 12 months. Microsoft will end after the "Year of Linux"
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That happens when some wise guy wants to push in the users' faces such changes without any benefits. Same thing happened when Ubuntu users were looking for terminal (actually I was in the same office room with a linux guy - the avalanche of f***s was overwhelming  ). I guess this shows how many users are out there.
Care to guess if Mac OSX will replace Finder with some rectangular swipes? Brrr.
Nuclear launch detected
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Let's not pronounce them dead just yet. For all Microsoft's failures, they've made waves and modest strides with Nokia and WP8. With a new regime and some blod strategies, 2014 is the make or break year. Not 2013.
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Quite the contrary, I said. (In fact my example was about Ubuntu when they changed UI to tablet mode).
Nokia/WP8 is my combo on phone (and I like it, it's the most pro phone among consumer types).
What worries me is less and less interoperability (no Office native extensions, no plugins in IE etc.). Sadly, the rest of the world is doing the same (except Linux), Google dropping NPAPI support putting (almost) nothing equivalent, Apple controlling everything for some time now...
Nuclear launch detected
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An Illinois man could spend the rest of his life in jail for impersonating whole sections of Health Canada as part of a $25-million scam to bilk investors into funding a bogus Star Trek-inspired medical device. Dammit, Jim! I'm a crook, not a government department.
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As Google’s share price soars beyond $1,100, it seems like nothing can stop the Internet juggernaut as its land grab strategies continue to win over the eyes of its users and the wallets of its advertising clients. But an analysis published over this past weekend by The Wall Street Journal’s Farhad Manjoo raises an interesting question surrounding a new business model that could someday lead to Google’s downfall. Do we want an erasable Internet? "I watch the ripples change their size, but never leave the stream of warm impermanence"
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Ding dong, the witch is...erased.
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It's been nearly a decade since Mark Zuckerberg launched what would become the world's largest social network. Since those early days, Facebook's infrastructure and code have evolved, with some of it collecting dust over time. On Friday, the company took a small step in a new direction when an engineer added 5,112 lines of code written in the D language to Facebook's repository. So what's all the fuss about? "Eleven. Exactly. One louder."
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That sounds like my cue...
What's
a
line
of
code?
I looked at D back in the day when it may have had a chance, but then C# took over. One thing a few of us argued for at the time was a true boolean type, but to no avail. I'm of the opinion that every modern language requires a boolean type. Lack of a boolean type is a severe shortcoming of C.
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Ruby 2.1 has many improvements including speed up without severe incompatibilities Gotta love it when a version of something is released "without severe incompatibilities"
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Google says its rivals have “placed a cloud” on the Android eco-system through a wave of lawsuits based on old Nortel patents. Now, it’s filed a lawsuit of its own to defend the Nexus and its customers. "When two tribes go to war a point is all you can score"
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The vicious cycle of patent wars. It'll never end...
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to improve human sanitation, particularly in areas of the world that don't have a reliable water supply. Much of that effort is about reinventing the toilet but the foundation has also challenged scientists to find ways to turn human waste into something useful. Pass me another beer, my phone's almost dead
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Ya know when my dog who has everything a dog could want gets bored, it will also do things it shouldn't.
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This idea is gold Jerry, gold!
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Your programming job is not on the line in 2014 – and neither is Google Glass. "Don't worry, be happy."
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IntelliJ IDEA 13, the Java IDE with the fastest-growing mindshare, includes enhanced support for Java EE 7, better Spring support, new tools for Android development and refined Gradle integration. Now with even more j-related j-ness!
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