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I wonder if it accounts for all the new results created by new content announcing the results of the index...(e.g. now there will be a lot more "Java is the most popular language" content, resulting in more search hits for Java, further pushing up its rank)
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Actually, I think Tom below has the right reaction. Java devs just need the most help 
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According to a recently released ranking....
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44% of statistics are made up.
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With a 95% confidence, 19 times out of twenty.
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Only trust into the statistics you faked yourself... 
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An Apple without Steve Jobs? Larry Ellison dismissed the idea with a wave of his hand. Wait long enough, and it's bound to be true
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Not really news. Apple suffered when Jobs left the first time, and appears to be stumbling now. What this tells you is that Jobs was not very good at building an organization that can stand without him. He was apparently a micromanager, and without him at the helm... It appears that Microsoft is starting to also suffer from not having Gates at the helm. However, it has taken longer for Microsoft to suffer than for Apple to suffer. I expect neither company will be around for the next century.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: I expect neither company will be around for the next century.
Definitely agree, in fact I'd say that none of the companies around now will be around in the next century. OK, maybe Sony: it seems no amount of bad judgement can make people move away from them.
Clifford Nelson wrote: What this tells you is that Jobs was not very good at building an organization that can stand without him.
Very true. Total cult of personality, and he bought into it as well. Next machines were nice (so I hear from the two people I've known that had access to them), but the company didn't do much.
People also forget at how poorly the iPhone and iPad were when first launched. Their mistakes just seem to catch the public interest more than others'.
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Samsung, IBM (as bad as that company really is), GM, Toyota, Honda, ...
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OK, I should have said, "tech companies".
Still not convinced about Samsung, but yeah: IBM will likely outlive everything other than head death of the universe.
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Guess IBM does not qualify as a tech company anymore. Sort of have to agree. Apple really is not a tech company either. More a marketing company.
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Actually, maybe some of those tech companies will survive because the government will consider them too big to fail.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: the government will consider them too big to fail
Aw, that trick never works
Yeah, I could definitely see a bailout happening for many of the top line IT shops (I'm looking at you, HP). Then again, I never thought the US government would allow the sale of IBM's laptop division to China.
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The sale of a laptop division now looks fairly irrelevant. Even then, it was hard to make a lot of money on intel computers, only the Mac was really making much money. Seems like if there is not a lot of profit in something, the Americans cannot make if affordably.
If they can make the chips, the rest really does not matter anyway. Getting the the point that the only thing the matters is the software, and that can be written pretty much anywhere.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Getting the the point that the only thing the matters is the software, and that can be written pretty much anywhere.
That's the part that both worries me [1], and excites me (especially as I live anywhere).
[1] I just heard of another couple of internal projects at a customer (not here) heading "away". Fortunately, only one really affects me, but only by allowing me to mock it from afar.
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Microsofts slow demise is easy enough to explain. A tech company needs an engineer to run it.
Apple? That's a design company.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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This morning we released some major updates to Windows Azure. "Brush off the clouds and cheer up"
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Interviewing at any company isn’t easy, but at some companies, the interview process is even tougher. To make things even more difficult, the average length of the entire interview process is increasing, from an average of 12 days in 2010 to an average of 23 days thus far in 2013, according to job candidate feedback shared on Glassdoor. What colour is your parachute?
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I was hired by No 16. on that list. After the interview I had to throw away my shirt - it was soaked with sweat, and it was the end of November 
The actual work there, though, was much less challenging than the interview.
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It can definitely be a nasty process: especially for the dev jobs, I hear. Well done.
I still have no clue how I got past the process. Probably because it was free latte day, so everyone was happy (and my answers came out really fast).
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In a blog post today, Elon Musk revealed plans for his much-anticipated Hyperloop, an innovative transportation system that would move passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes. "Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you."
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Read the CNN version of the artical. Wonder if that goes ever into production..
We are building here something quite big (also trains won't go so fast, standard trains, but still about 250 km/h). It's a 57 kilometers long tunnel across the Alps, and it's almost finished.
http://www.alptransit.ch/en/home.html[^]
I am actually a railway fanatic (hobby) and cannot wait until 2016..
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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A simple learning curve and flexible skill set have JavaScript on the verge of taking over the enterprise. After all, who need performance?
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Think this is BS. JS is a horrible language, which is almost impossible to maintain. Great efforts are gone to bypass. It may become more prevalent under the covers, but this will be hidden from the developer.
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