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Beauty is in the eye of the be[coder]
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***throwing up***
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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It’s long been suspected that hackers and nation-state spies are using Google’s antivirus site to test their tools before unleashing them on victims. The Law of Unintended Consequences wins again.
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Technology jobs have long been dominated by specialized roles and niche technologies. However, the most employable technologists of the future will likely be the ones who can see the bigger picture, understand business, and adapt to the sweeping changes in tech. "59 percent concerned IT skill set will become obsolete", and the other 41% probably are obsolete
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Industry members stand up against harassment and hateful speech. "What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding?"
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'That YoMomma69 has just been getting under my skin with all his hurtful retorts about my gaming skills and my sexual orientation lately...I can't take it anymore, guys."
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Today, the average size of a webpage is 1.7MB—1MB from images—but change is afoot. "Could you take my picture, 'cause I won't remember"
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We’ve known for a while that excessive screen time is not good for your sleep schedule, but the latest findings are overwhelmingly gloomy – and extend well beyond insomnia. "Harry, no! Don't look at the light!"
Marc (below) recommends Flux[^] as a solution (I also highly recommend it - I use it on all my machines I might be using at night.
modified 7-Sep-14 13:25pm.
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Just gotta keep your screen nice and dirty to help filter the UV's 
Here we go with the carpal eyeball syndrome...
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https://justgetflux.com/[^] -- Nifty little program to change the color temp of your monitor automatically during nighttime -- you can set it manually as well to reducing the amount of blue light during the day.
Marc
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Completely agree - I should have included that utility in the original post. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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If you’re reading this, there’s a better than 90% chance you’ve seen “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” If so, you’re familiar with the Holodeck: a room where 3D interactive worlds can be generated for users. We’re nowhere near those 3D projected light objects, but we are getting remarkably close to the ability to make a room look like just about anything needed. I'm a sucker for a Star Trek reference...
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Fight for the Future and other net neutrality activist groups have set up the Battle for the Net coalition, which plans to launch an “Internet slowdown day” later this month. I'll take minimally effective PR gestures for $200, Alex
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Microsoft concluded support for Windows XP in April. Despite that fact, a large chunk of the global PC market still runs the operating system. And with more than 20 percent share, Windows XP’s piece of the global PC pie isn’t declining very quickly. "You can't kill the boogeyman!"
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If you're still using an ancient browser, it seems like Google is deliberately serving you an older version of the Google homepage from 2011 in the hope that you will upgrade. That's one way to provide backward compatibility
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Maybe the newer versions of their homepage uses Javascript/CSS features which weren't available in older browsers, and by giving you the older version of the page if on an older browser you don't get all sorts of weird errors/popups etc?
It makes sense that instead of making the most up to date version of their site work on all browsers, they just serve you the best they had when your browser was new, actually pretty clever if you think about it, and means that people are less likely to upgrade their browsers, not more! The only way you would even notice this if you were running an new and an old browser side by side comparing Google, and who the hell would do that? A Gizmondo reporter with a deadline and no story, that's who!
From a web development perspective this is super smart, think of the amount of work you do to make sure your site functions the same across as many browsers and browser versions as possible, Google clearly don't, they make sure their website is great on up to date browsers all the time, and if somebody visits on an older browser, they get the best version of the site that Google knows for sure functions on that browser. They must save a fortune in development costs!
But Google iz evil ha! is more of a story I guess!
modified 1-Sep-14 16:11pm.
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Without this news article, I am sure I would not realize that: at home, I use a very old version of Firefox, at work it's version 22.0. I am not sure if there was really a difference at all (can't access my home computer at this moment).
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OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web. For all your "Back to School" needs
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When presented with the idea of Mirah (a language based on the JVM languages but also borrowing heavily from Ruby) it would seem we are being given a more palatable, less enterprise way of looking at Java. A dynamic language built on top of the JVM? Surely they could work yet another layer of fuzziness in there.
Yes, I know it's not really 'dynamic'.
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"For thirty-seven years," reads the opening passage in the book, "the gatherings and conventions of our IBM workers have expressed in happy songs the fine spirit of loyal cooperation and good fellowship which has promoted the signal success of our great IBM Corporation in its truly International Service for the betterment of business and benefit to mankind." Not sure how big the pay cheque would have to be...
"T. J. Watson, we all honor you. You're so big and so square and so true"
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Many of today’s most well-known programming languages are old enough to vote. 10: Do work 20: IF StillWorking() GOTO 10
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ReadWrite wrote: many features have been fixed
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Because those peoples are still working on it and they never died 
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Drinking is supposed to make people look better...can it also make markup languages look more like live code?
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