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I can't stand it when my kid comes home and says "we're learning to program; we're making web pages" -- there is very little coding involved in typical "web pages", especially the kind they have grade-school kids make.
The big software houses want to flood the market with low-quality developers to lower the "market average" and thereby reduce their overall payroll.
Similarly, don't you think they would rather say "we hire only the top 1% of candidates" than "we hire only the top 5% of candidates"? This way they can make a lower offer, because there's more "prestige" and the candidates should feel more honored.
While the big houses continue to hire only high quality candidates while the rest of the candidates continue to produce dreck and the big houses can extoll the benefits of using the services of a big well-known trustworthy producer rather than trudge through the mire trying to find a good alternative.
Having said that, yes, kids should learn a whole lot of things, including programming, cooking, sewing, drain-unclogging, car oil changing -- but that doesn't mean they should necessarily be thinking about a career in any of those until they're older. But as to programming specifically, they need to learn the fundamentals (datatypes, flow control, etc.) and should not be thrown straight into "web pages".
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The VMs are available for free for the purpose of testing your site on all versions of Internet Explorer; regardless of your development platform. The images are available for Linux, Mac and Windows across the most common desktop virtualization technologies. For your tire-kicking delight
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We want to make it as easy as possible to write apps that integrate with Azure AD, so to help with that we’re going to open source our developer libraries using github.com. Just in case you ever wanted to know what AD looks like from the inside
And if so, you *really* need a new hobby.
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After a record run, Bitcoin prices have tumbled back to earth after the Chinese government announced a series of bans on the currency. Here is a chart and some background. Pop
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Agreed
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TTFN - Kent
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"offers no safe haven for money."
What, like a bank, building society or stock market? Can you really trust those anymore? 
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With sound prudential regulation such as in Australia you probably can trust banks almost as much as Qantas.
Stock markets are and always have been caveat emptor.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Security experts have long opined that one way to make software more secure is to hold software makers liable for vulnerabilities in their products. This idea is often dismissed as unrealistic and one that would stifle innovation in an industry that has been a major driver of commercial growth and productivity over the years. But a new study released this week presents perhaps the clearest economic case yet for compelling companies to pay for information about security vulnerabilities in their products. Wanted: Resolved or Closed
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This idea is often dismissed as unrealistic and one that would stifle innovation
There's too much abuse of the word "innovation".
We should set a bounty on its use.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: There's too much abuse of the word "innovation".
We should set a bounty on its use.
How about just the people that use it? Like Buzzword Bingo, but with more heads on walls.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: We should set a bounty on its use.
Now that is an innovative idea. 
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Quote: After decades of designing software, human beings still build imperfect, buggy, and insecure programs.
And in other news, the halting problem is still impossible to solve.
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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After major gains since 2011, there are now nearly 20 million software developers worldwide -- a third of whom are hobbyists. Congratulations on the 20th anniversary of this (incorrect) headline
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Funny, our local news (Bristol, UK) was today saying the exact opposite. That there is a chronic shortage of developers in the area.
Come over and fill yer boots 
(Actually, the renumeration isn't that great around here unless you get lucky, so it may take a while for those boots to fill)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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McLaren, the British company famous for its supercars and its involvement with Formula One racing, is focusing on fine-tuning the details: windshield wipers, to be exact. The company is reportedly working on a windshield wiper system that would make physical wipers obsolete. Drive really fast, between the rain drops
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They lost me at " it's an "electronic system that never fails" " .
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They had you at "McLaren"? Business must be good.
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I thought it said, "McDonalds". 
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I'm thinking these guys with the loud basey systems in their car have the idea, the rain drops just vibrate of the window and for that matter the whole car.
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cleaning the snow and ice off your windshield could be a completely automated — and easy — hands-off task.
I'm sorry, but there's no amount of sissy high-frequency sound that is going to remove the ice off my windshield after a night of hard freezing rain. The fact that I practically need a jackhammer and have broken several scrapers with my bare hands against the ice is all I need to know that this is ridiculous.
Marc
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Microsoft ships an update to Azure every three weeks. Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's vice president for Windows Azure, reckons it's adding features and capacity in an effort to catch up with Amazon. What's nu with the Gu?
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New data shows that the enterprise apps is most profitable for mobile developers. There are clear implications for both software companies and CIOs. Candy Crush Saga, Enterprise Edition?
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Earlier this year, Microsoft Research employee David Rothschild teamed up with Office to create an Excel app for predicting the winners of the 2013 Academy Awards. In the end, based on examining tons of data, Rothschild was able to correctly determine the winners of 19 of the 24 Oscar categories. "The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen."
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Google begins building its Dart programming language directly into Chrome, hoping a multilingual future will speed up Web apps. But what if Dart apps only work in Chrome? I'll just be dusting off my "Works best in..." GIFs
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