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Ted Neward - Video from the 33rd Degree conference[^]
A bit long (1 hr 20) and occasionally sweary (so headphones advised if you are watching at work  ) but a good overview of why the relationship between managers and developers is so fraught and what we could do to build a kinder, more gentle world...
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Microsoft has focused on how businesses will benefit from its next operating system, Windows 10, not only because corporate customers are its bread and butter, but to prevent consumers from balking at buying new PCs, an analyst said last week. "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?'"
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Isn't PC dead already?
So what is better? Let customers postpone the next purchase of Windows or let them buy some *nix machine?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Software development has evolved a plethora of techniques to identify and eliminate defects. Practices to find out about defects quickly. And practices to hopefully avoid introducing defects. Developers
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Before saying there are defects in softwares, atleast try to understand the pain we have to go through. 
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I know no developer who ever delivered defective software - the problem that the end user using a completely different hardware/software environment than that used by the developer... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Developers try to build better and better software idiot-proof.
The universe try to build better and better idiots.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Universe - Developers
∞ - 0
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Hey, "It Works On My Machinetm"
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 one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The primary cause of defects in software is building software that shouldn’t be built in the first place.
At first I thought that was a ridiculous point, then I thought maybe he's on to something, especially if you consider all the little pieces of code that make an app, then I thought, no, his point really is BS.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Developers
Users.
Marc
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OK, OK. Everyone ganging up on poor widdle me. I put 'developers' there for the simple reason that "if there's a defect in the code, whoever wrote the code must be the one that put it there." But yeah, much of the time it's spec errors, or PEBKAC, or even POOM. That's just not very pithy.
TTFN - Kent
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POOM? Other than something that appears exceptionally vulgar from urban dictionary, Google isn't showing me any potential acronyms when I searched on that.
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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Sorry, we used to use it a lot to explain software errors, but I guess it was local. PooM or POOM: Phase of the Moon. For those errors with no other useful explanation.
TTFN - Kent
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Sum bloggie wrote: The primary cause of defects in software is building software that shouldn’t be built in the first place.
[citation needed]
I thought we are already beyond the "my pet peeve" stage. I might be wrong.
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The emergence of next-generation social, mobile, analytics and cloud technology has sparked a war for developers able to continue the fast pace of innovation. Enterprises that want to remain in business tomorrow would be wise to make the right changes today. "You see me now, a veteran of a thousand psychic wars"
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By nature enterprise application move slowly...the users used to it, as they have additional value of the enterprise...
However social media connection, mobile accessibility is not new. Data analysis, like BI is part of enterprise applications since the very beginning, big-data analysis is also there for years...
So we left with the cloud - in my experience most enterprise users are keen to keep their data close to them and the IT team afraid to loose the influence it has while moving parts of the system to to cloud, and that can be a big obstacle in the near future...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Samsung's developing new Wi-Fi tech that can transfer a 1GB file between devices in under 3 seconds. I'll take two, thank you.
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Today WiFi devices broadcast a relatively weak signal, but do it to every direction. A 'beam' means a powerful signal directed to some specific direction. It may solve the problem for high frequency signals, but what will happened to the materials (like your brain) in-between? Does Samsung test it too?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Good try! That is a wireless network, no big deal! Try something new for bluetooth technology, atleast try to maximize the range of their connectivity.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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You know that saying about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery? It’s total hogwash, at least according to Apple’s Jony Ive. "Plus c'est la même chose"
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Would somebody at ReadWrite please learn how to do HTTPS properly!
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Is that why their site always faceplants from my office? I'd just assumed it was another semi-random glitch from my employers big brotherware.[^]
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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Think so yeah, I have a Chrome add-on to force SSL wherever possible, and when I disable it that site works fine.
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The Linux Foundation, along with leading technology companies, has launched an open-source software initiative for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The Dronecode Project is designed to bring resources and tools to developers in order to help them innovate and advance affordable and reliable drones. Drone on!
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Hell yeah, now I will be able to steal the source code of neighbour developers in the form a digital mosquito!
Thanks linux!
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