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Google’s come up with its solution for Dropbox: If you can’t buy ‘em, copy ‘em. The search engine and online advertising giant replaced its popular Google Docs service with Google Drive, a cloud computing storage service designed to directly compete with start up Dropbox. This raises the question, has Google become the new Microsoft? Keep saying it, maybe it will come true one day
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Embattled by hactivists, cyber criminals and foreign rivals seeking to steal proprietary information, U.S. corporations are ramping up their hiring of cyber security experts, with open jobs reaching an all-time high in April. If you don't get a job, you've already got the skills to hack into them and get paid
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Software, Marc Andreessen declared last summer, is eating the world. In the pages of the WSJ, the Netscape co-founder reeled off a list of industries that were once about something else and are now are dominated by software, from Amazon in the bookselling space to Skype in telecoms and Netflix in video. That’s good news for the American economy, he argued, but it also seems to be really good news for Atlassian. "What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, eating as much as an elephant eats?"
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Unlike other Windows 8 products, Windows RT steps away from the Windows legacy code base—which means there's no legacy interface, either—and is largely focused on tablets and devices like them. Like Apple iOS and Google Android, Windows RT users will add applications largely through app stores. However, Windows RT devices are designed to be centrally managed; IT departments can deploy network access controls to keep tabs on user behavior. If that's the answer, what was the question again?
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Programming is not about writing lines of code, it's about completing projects or shipping applications or whatever you do and generally working in a team. None of that is evident in any kind of interview test or whiteboard session. Just use the Thunderdome method instead
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Sensible article.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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First off, I found the article to be egotistical in tone.
One thing about doing a "Let's talk for an hour" is it opens oneself up to huge personal biases. The fact that it wasn't mentioned much is a concern.
The other issue with this type of interview; prepare for lawsuits by those that aren't offered but CAN code and happen to be in a protected group. To defend against this, having and keeping track of some sort of metric will at least help avoid them.
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Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon develop Touche, an interface system where multiple gestures can be added to existing touch screens and other objects, including "smart doorknobs."
"Ohh Touch ah Touch ah Touch ah Touch me"
modified 7-May-12 2:14am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because .COM was already taken?
Copy-paste gremlin?
/ravi
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Yeah, thought I fixed that. Off to check.
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TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft started development on the .NET Framework in the late 1990s, originally under the name of "Next Generation Windows Services" (NGWS).
So why did Microsoft choose the name .NET? Because .COM was already taken?
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Scientists face many obstacles on the path to greater knowledge. But new research suggests how to avoid one of the more common pitfalls: spilled coffee. Don't cry
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Facebook will be valued between $60 billion and $75 billion, rather than the $100 billion that had been widely rumored. [ITworld]
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What's that work out to? 10^4 x forward earnings?
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer
"The failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole'" John Scalzi
"Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson
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Take a minute to contemplate that word "assembled." Those Chinese factory workers aren't making Apple products from scratch; they're putting them together from pre-existing components -- components that weren't built in the same factory, or even in the same country. Curious about how the family tree of a typically complex piece of computer equipment, I decided to try to track down the origins of the major components in that computer -- a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro model. Where did it come from before it got to me? How many parents did it have? The journey travels over much of Asia, of course, but there are also components that come from right here in the U.S.A. [ITworld]
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Yahoo is trying its best to brush off the controversy over CEO Scott Thompson's biography, which credits him with earning a B.S. in computer science from Stonehill College. He didn't. [ITworld]
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Who cares if the CEO has an accounting degree instead of a CS Degree? Is he supposed to write code? Is he supposed to design the site? Or is he supposed to run the company? He did pretty well running Paypal, and actually seemed to have some ideas on how to restore some value to Yahoo. Too bad some shareholder that wants his man in as CEO had to make a big deal of this . That shareholder has probably screwed Yahoo for good, and shot himself in the foot in the process. I'm glad I own no Yahoo stock, as they seem to be the victims of one stupid shareholder block after another.
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer
"The failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole'" John Scalzi
"Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson
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Lately I’ve been asked by more and more people inside Microsoft to help them really learn to do TDD. Sure, they’ve read the books, and probably some blog posts and articles, but they are struggling to figure it out. But with so many people talking about how good it is they are frustrated that when they try to apply it at work, in their day job, it just doesn’t seem to work out. Do a TDD kata every morning and call me in two weeks.
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"Kata - The only way to learn TDD"
Is it? Is it really?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Is it? Is it really?
Er, that would be an emphatic NO!!!
Pretentious git. Him, not you. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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TDD is mostly obsolete, but the original version used 5-bit Baudot code.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Good one![^]  
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Visual Studio Express was never meant to be a free product. When the first version was released in 2005, the Express edition was intended to be an entry level product that cost approximately 100 USD. In order to build up a customer base for the product, and to promote .NET in general, Microsoft said that anyone registering the product within the first year would get it for free. I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a Visual Studio today.
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