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If you're looking for a job in corporate IT, you might want to think again. While there are plenty of jobs at technology companies, startups, and smaller businesses, the classic enterprise IT department is laboring under what can only be called a perfect storm that's blowing away full-time positions at a frightening rate. If you don't have to be there, odds are your company doesn't think you need to be there
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I bet that article was originally written in 2001 
Recycling at its best.
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Aw, that's harsh 
Then it was external jobs, now internal. He *did* a search/replace since then.
This was moderately big news a few months back[^] here when the Royal Bank moved their IT work to Bangalore.
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TTFN - Kent
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It might not be 10 years stale, but even outsourcing internal IT jobs is old news. I have a friend who worked for a fortune 500 company until his division was sold at the start of the recession. For a few years prior to that time his internal project passed code back and forth with an outsourced team daily to with the intend of getting an 80 hour effective work week. Shortly after his division was sold the company decided to outsource the rest of their internal development except for a handful of people to supervise/etc the outsourced team.
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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Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s mass internet surveillance is driving development of a slew of new email tools aimed at providing end-to-end encryption to users, and it has boosted interest in existing privacy tools too. "Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead."
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“Can we talk?”
That’s what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a late January call to Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa. But for the lack of a clumsy oaf...
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The world of video games has gone through many changes in the relatively short time it’s been around. First it was cutting-edge with Pong and Pac-Man. Over time, it became nerds-only, then boys-only, and now people from all demographics are enjoying games that range from mobile gaming to Flash gaming to competitive gaming. But recently, there’s been a growing popular trend towards developing video games, not just playing them. "Discovering the object of the game *is* the object of the game."
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CINT is an interpreter for C and C++ code. It is useful e.g. for situations where rapid development is more important than execution time. Using an interpreter the compile and link cycle is dramatically reduced facilitating rapid development. CINT makes C/C++ programming enjoyable even for part-time programmers. There's always something about a C/C++ interpreter that makes me smile
And these make me break out in giggles:
- CINT makes C/C++ programming enjoyable even for part-time programmers.
- CINT is written in C++ itself, with slightly less than 400,000 lines of code.
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Adobe announced today that, for a limited time, it will offer a $9.99 per month subscription package to Creative Cloud as a part of its Photography Program. In related news: GIMP still free
edit: fixed the URL, thanks to Pete
modified 5-Sep-13 11:01am.
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The link you linked to isn't the link you think you linked to.
This[^] is the link you think we should link to, shrink wrapped just for you.
modified 5-Sep-13 10:55am.
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Ta.
Too many tabs open at that point. Sorry about that.
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Most of the time, teaching computer skills to children requires the use of a computer. But a new board game that conveys programming concepts without a screen rocketed through Kickstarter yesterday, securing its $25,000 minimum goal from hundreds of backers in just five hours. "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man"
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There are plenty of valid ways to create an HTML5 game, and quite a bit of material on the technical aspect of each, so for this article I’ll be giving more of a broad overview of HTML5 game development. How “HTML5″ can be better than native, where to start with the development process, where to go when you’re stuck, and how to monetize and distribute games. Let's get some angle brackets in those angry birds
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Android still claims slightly more than half of US smartphone sales, says research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. But look at Windows Phone leap up the charts!
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only 0.5% increase,but hope for the better with MS latest announced news of Nokia take-over!
Shuvro
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Microsoft shrewdly opted not to buy Nokia's mobile patents, thereby enabling another massive patent troll to prey on Android. "You've got a nice army base here, Colonel. We wouldn't want anything to happen to it."
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We are expanding the Windows Azure MSDN benefit to two additional subscription levels: MSDN Platforms and Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN. "The dealer is the man, with the love grass in his hand."
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The abrupt cancellation of Microsoft's TechNet subscription service sparked a sustained protest from IT pros, who had relied on easy, inexpensive access to Microsoft's enterprise software for well over a decade. In a string of announcements today, Microsoft extended an olive branch, but fell far short of reversing course. Too bad, so sad. Have a cookie.
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Microsoft wants to better compete against Google Maps with Nokia's HERE apps Step 1: Copy dominant product. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Cancel product.
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As Nokia have been in mapping since 2007, and offered turn-by-turn navigation way before Google, the copying could be regarded as a two-way-street.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The old skills that have kept enterprise IT humming along are increasingly irrelevant in the new world of the cloud, say tech chiefs on the ZDNet/TechRepublic CIO Jury. For instance: you'll need the ability to blather on about The Cloud
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Taking a nap, we've seen time and again, is like rebooting your brain. But napping may be as much of an art as it is a science. The Wall Street Journal offers recommendations for planning your perfect nap, including how long to nap and when. As long as the meeting lasts usually
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Microsoft is still in the innovation business. If you don’t think so, you haven’t heard about Microsoft’s open source electronics prototyping platform called Gadgeteer. Try it before they cancel it for no one using it
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Don't worry it will not happens
I have a Fez Spider, the best toy I ever bought.
They can't cancel, or if they do, it does not matter.
Gadgeteer is a open source design spec for these pluggable micro controllers, Microsoft doesn't make the components.
GHI Electronics and Netduino takes care of building the real hardware and shipping the modules.
There is a small hobbyist community around these products, it is a great place to be.
I highly advice you to give a try, you'll feel empowered !
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