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A report that Microsoft will hold back on Office for iPad and Android devices until it’s safely ensconced on Windows 8 tablets and Windows phones illustrates Microsoft’s quandary in the tablet age. Because a lack of Office is what's really holding Microsoft back in mobile, right?
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Radia "Mother of the Internet" Perlman and the ghosts of RADM Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace and every woman who worked in technology for the past 150 years frown upon you, sir. Women may have been invisible, but the work we did laid the groundwork for more visible advancements now credited to more famous men. "Men are credited with inventing the internet." There. Fixed it for you.
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Everyone uses search. If you’re like me, you use it all the time. Which means any time you type a query into that search field, you’re hit with a deluge of messages tangentially related to what you’re looking for. That needs to change, and the best way to do it is to adapt our emails accordingly. Forward this to a friend.
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Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem across the repurposed telephone infrastructure. It was the noise of being part of the beginning of the Internet. Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding
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For several years, the industry, including Microsoft, has been working to roll out a completely new version of the Internet Protocol – IPv6 – across various devices, services, and network infrastructure. Windows releases since Windows XP SP3 have supported IPv6, making the IPv6 transition possible. We have engineered Windows 8 to keep you (and your apps) reliably connected as this dramatic transition takes place. Users should never know or care about this. That is your challenge.
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For the past few years, I have seen tens of sql server boxes added in my work environment every year, meaning more complexity and overhead cost in database administration, I gradually come to a “green” design principle with two points. Less expensive to maintain... and less expensive to run?
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"I think even objects like stored procedure, views etc should be as few as possible"
Hear! Hear!
I'm also considering running a database server on a Fit-PC. 
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If you think you're missing any of the qualities below, don't be offended. I didn't pick these up for a while, either, and many of them came from watching other programmers or reading their code. And if you're not that good, some tips for acquiring good developer traits.
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_beauw_ wrote: contempt for delivery dates
Delivery dates are useless when you can deliver much sooner.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Delivery dates are useless when you can deliver much sooner.
It is also useless when you can convince the boss the whole project is unnecessary.
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What a post. loved it. +5 for making me read this. this is the perfect thing to read at the start of the day.
Every now and then say, "What the Elephant." "What the Elephant" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
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There is a qualitative difference between being a good programmer and being a productive programmer.
You are only going to make money if you are making money for somebody else. -- Marc Maron
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Jeff Atwood recently wrote a brilliant blog post (that was really misunderstood) about how the world doesn’t need more coders. Even though I enjoy writing code, the goal, as Jeff says, shouldn’t be writing code for code’s sake. The lessons for me were simple: focus on understanding/finding a real problem and try to find a different way to solve it. This is often a good way to win. Sometimes breadth of knowledge is better than depth of knowledge.
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The C language's rules for integer operations have some quirks that can make even small programs behave in confusing ways. This post is a review of these rules in the form of a quiz containing 20 questions. How well do you really know int?
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Oh, it's about C99 -- I don't do C99. I first learned C in 1987 (pre-ANSI), then used ANSI C (C89) in earnest from 1994 until 2002. And furthermore, that was all on DEC systems.
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The only person[^] who was able to answer all 20 questions correctly passed away last October.
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The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. I believe that a basic understanding of TTYs in Linux is essential for the developer and the advanced user. Beware, though: What you are about to see is not particularly elegant. In fact, the TTY subsystem — while quite functional from a user's point of view — is a twisty little mess of special cases. To understand how this came to be, we have to go back in time. Terminals, line editing and job control... oh my!
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Soooo... how does that apply to Android? 
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Why would it apply to Android?
See if you can crack this: b749f6c269a746243debc6488046e33f
So far, no one seems to have cracked this!
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob!
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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Minesweeper is a great little game and the only annoying part is that, sometimes, you have to guess in order to continue. It’s not hard to expose a situation where it is a coin toss as to the exact location of a mine. For example, in the image to the right, either of the top two squares could be a mine. There’s no way to find any additional information to disambiguate. So what's the best way to play? You sank my battleship!
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Windows 8 Release Preview includes the sixth release preview of Internet Explorer 10. After several years of beating the drum of standards compliance and freedom from plugins, Internet Explorer 10 has surprised many with the integration of Adobe Flash. That's not the only provocative change the new browser makes... Internet Explorer may be making up for its sordid past.
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At the Microsoft presentation at this year's E3, the company showed its hand in its plans to integrate Windows 8 and the Xbox platform -- perhaps even giving glimpses into its future plans, even with its next-generation Xbox platform completely absent. Xbox Music Service, SmartGlass and "the web transformed for TV"...
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The idea of a former cyberwarrior using his talents to hack a wildly popular consumer device might seem like a lark. But his campaign, aimed at winning a little-known hacker contest last year, points to a paradox of our digital age. The same code that unleashed a communications revolution has also created profound vulnerabilities for societies that depend on code for national security and economic survival. There's a hack for that.
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Now this is actually useful information, not just a stream of useless numbers with no context or history to them. I question the need for delete status dialogs at all, but this is nice.
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