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As is QA.
The smart phone and mobile market exploded, which is a different economy. Now, recruiter looks at his percentages and sees something. Some recruiters might want to reevaluate why we still feed people like them.
FWIW, the Austin Post article cited sounds quite different:
“[Employers] want people who are coding outside of work or committing to open source projects. Saying you’re ‘updating your skills’ means you’re working towards the goal of making money. That may be your goal, but employers don’t want to hear that. They want to hear you’re coding all the time because you love what you do.”
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At Box, we’re very interested in the quality of our code, which is why we’re constantly evaluating our processes to figure out how we can do better. We even have a team of Code Reliability Engineers (CREs) that help others write better code and provide training both internally and externally. Recently, we’ve turned a critical eye towards code reviews and have been implementing a new process called code workshops. Code reviews are often terrible experiences. This idea may make them better.
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The 2013 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit was held April 18 and 19 in San Francisco, California, immediately after the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit. This page will gather the coverage of this event, which was split into three separate tracks. The latest Linux discussions, all gathered in one place.
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In NoSQL: Past, Present, Future Eric Brewer has a particularly fine section on explaining the often hard to understand ideas of BASE (Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent), ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability), CAP (Consistency Availability, Partition Tolerance), in terms of a pernicious long standing myth about the sanctity of consistency in banking. Myth: Money is important, so banks must use transactions to keep money safe and consistent, right? When availability is more important than consistency.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: When availability is more important than consistency.
Clearly this is the policy of every government in the world.
Marc
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Google Glass isn’t available yet. Even so, the technopanic it’s inspiring is rising to full swivet. But I say there’s no need to panic. We’ll figure it out, just as we have with many technologies — from camera to cameraphone — that came before. Remembering the "witch instrument" and "Kodak fiends" of a previous tech revolution.
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Computer science is an interesting discipline. Often, I find myself inadequately trying to communicate why I find it so fascinating. I think I get the closest when describing computer science things that ‘blow my mind’. This post is... basically just a list of computer science things I think are cool. Neat stuff, from logic gates to unfathomable programs.
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Any guesses why netninny is blocking this? Normally it gives an excuse about why it decided to make me wait until I got home to read an article but this one just came up access denied.
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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I was going to suggest maybe because it's a Canadian company, but... er...
No idea why you'd get a warning. I don't see anything obviously objectionable. It's a Unity3D consultancy.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Consultancy for an engine used to write games, playing games in the office; not much of a difference there.  Especially since some my coworkers have used off the shelf 3d game engines for VR type applications. 
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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Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. This means that blue is the color Mark can see the best. In his own words Zuck says: “Blue is the richest color for me I can see all of blue.” Not highly scientific right? Well, although in the case of Facebook, that isn’t the case, there are some amazing examples of how colors actually affect our purchasing decisions. All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who browse are lost...
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In this installment we talk to Oren Eini, perhaps best known for his work on RavenDB. You may know him as Ayende Rahien.
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What's the news?
He states so in the first line of the interview 
Quote: My name in Oren Eini, I am also known under the nickname Ayende Rahien for reasons that are too long to detail here.
Never underestimate the difference you can make in the lives of others.
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You may think that making an OS kernel is easy if you've ever programmed before. Think again. You don't have an established API or library to program with; You have to start from scratch. In this tutorial, we are going to learn about bootloaders and linkers and the basics of programming a simple Operating System. If you have never programmed before, I suggest you read some tutorials and try a few smaller projects first. Why buy (or download) an OS when you can just write one?
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Java performance has the reputation of being something of a Dark Art. Partly this is due to the sophistication of the platform, which makes it hard to reason about in many cases. However, there has historically also been a trend for Java performance techniques to consist of a body of folk wisdom rather than applied statistics and empirical reasoning. In this article, I hope to address some of the most egregious of these technical fairytales. "Sophisticated platform" typically means "I have no idea how it works."
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..."Java Performance" itself.
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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The kind of testing that Visual Studio 2012 provides for UIs isn't going to help here. That testing is intended to prove that the code behind the UI is working correctly. With the kind of testing that Visual Studio supports, "correct" means that the UI is working the way you intended it to work. Unfortunately, the only judges of a UI's correctness are the actual users drawn from the population represented by your personas. Because usability testing involves end users, it can be confused with "end-user testing." You should use end-user testing to test your code because users are cheap and available, and because users have some understanding of the business. PEBCAK is an excuse, not a solution.
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PHP is the language everyone loves to hate. It's filled with design mistakes and inconsistencies.... The goals for this competition is to write a small and portable language with few dependencies. It needs to be very easy to build and install on a web server. Let's do better than PHP! Can you write a better PHP than PHP?
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As Google hires all of the world’s good software engineers and my friends with startup companies fight over the scraps I am left to wonder how everyone could have been so wrong in predicting that the world would be glutted with good programmers and sysadmins by now.... With the rise of the worldwide Internet, open-source, and inexpensive microprocessors, it seemed inevitable that the world would be glutted with technically skilled people. Learning to program is only the first step on a lifetime journey.
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I recently got asked by a friend and former co-worker how I write SQL. At first this caught me by surprise and I assumed there was nothing different, but after a few additional comments on it, it became clear most people have no concept for creating clean readable SQL. So without further adieu here’s how I write SQL, with a built up example query. An older response to a timeless query.
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Nice, but the last time I hand-coded SQL for anything non-trivial was when I was testing my schema -> SQL generator algorithms.
Marc
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I'm kind of in the same boat, I work with SQL databases all the time, but I haven't written a single line of SQL since I took a class on databases. Everything is generated for me.
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We still write all the SQL out for our apps; I like to think we're doing it for the control, but maybe we're just doing it wrong? I'm still not sure how I feel about ORMs or SQL generators.
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IndifferentDisdain wrote: I like to think we're doing it for the control,
Agreed, but given that I wrote my own SQL generator code, I still am in control, and the benefit is, there's a lot of complex joins, unions, etc., that are handled which, given some of the queries were hundreds of lines (formatted as per that blog post), would be a real PITA to write by hand. And then when the schema changes (I tend to work in rather fluid environemnts), who wants to go through and fix each one, touching code in who knows how many places?
And of course I can inspect the SQL - it was amusing to see posts when the Entity Framework first came out, "How do I see the SQL???"
Marc
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The only time I did it recently was on an android app due to the lack of an ORM to hand it off to. As it is, if the project goes beyond the demo/proof of concept stage I'm going to have to spend an afternoon with a DB person to translate some of the post query filtering it's currently doing into SQL itself. 
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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