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Julie Larson-Green, the former Windows executive who most recently led Microsoft hardware development as the top executive in the company’s Devices and Studios Group, is moving to a new role in the company’s Applications and Services Group. Elop couldn't get the CEO job, but at least he got some work
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I read the email. What a pile of poo. She probably had a team of advisers telling her what "in" words she should use. There are definitely some stick-your-finger-down-your-throat phrases in it.
Yes, Julie, I'm so glad to read you are walking side-by-side in time with us all. To the tune of Lambeth Walk perhaps?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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In conversation with Glenn Beck, Google's executive chairman explains that humans can still occasionally be useful -- for now. But we're really working on it
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If you ever have any trepidations about Google, just listen to Schmidt talk for about... 11 seconds. It should put any doubt to rest as to whether or not they are a positively insidious organization.
No thanks.
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The high-speed impact of a wayward space rock on the surface of the moon last year triggered the brightest lunar explosion ever seen, scientists say. "Missed me by *that* much"
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The ubiquitous GIF, a 27-year-old image format that has grown into an Internet artform, is becoming obsolete. Wow. So graphic. Much important work.
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We must expect even more animated spam on web sites. I hope my browser's setting image.animation_mode=none will still be valid with the new crap.
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The imminent death of animated GIFs could only be considered a good thing; I was really hoping it would be vine that swung the headsmans axe. Simply because when someone shares a gif link it's impossible to know if the other end is just a badly saved picture due to operator stupidity or 2 or 5 seconds of video as crappy as it is inevitably inane. A URL with vine.com OTOH is guaranteed to be the latter and thus safe to ignore. An HTML5 alternative otoh could be hiding in any other innocuous seeming link.
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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Quote: ... short for "GIF Format Yoker."
So that's "Graphics Interchange Format Format Yoker", then. 
Yet another case of RAS Syndrome[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I see it less as a death and more as evolution. Same concept, just easier on the eyes.
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Xamarin is teaming up with SAP in order to provide an efficient and cost-effective way for developers to develop native mobile apps that integrate enterprise data and processes.
“We believe that mobile will be a critical part of every business process, and so we are very excited to be taking these first steps with SAP to help companies around the world go mobile,” Xamarin wrote in its blog.
Mobile to rule the world! 
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And what does the body of your message have to do with the title?
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I just realized that! Must have copied the wrong thing. Technology fail 
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Jason Cardoza wrote: Technology fail
No, humans
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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We take a look back at one of the most persisting computer languages of our time. Now legal! (in most states)
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Are you better off coding with Notepad than Visual Studio? Intellisense deemed harmful?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
Yes. But my current job involves SSIS so it's a necessary evil. I also use it for WinForms. But for "real code" I use a text editor (and simple IDE) of my own creation.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Are you better off coding with Notepad than Visual Studio?
No. Notepad sucks; it's only good for XML. 
Kent Sharkey wrote: Intellisense deemed harmful?
Maybe, if you give it too much stuff to work with.
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No: that's just dumb: it's like saying you are a bad carpenter because you use power tools instead of a saw or hammer.
I mean, coding with Notepad might be very macho but it is not going to be very productive unless you have a photographic memory and have read and digested EVERYTHING there is to know about the language you are using.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: like saying you are a bad carpenter because you use power tools instead of a saw or hammer
I disagree. Using an IDE can be more like programming a laser-guided 5-axis robot to build a birdhouse.
"Use the right tool for the right job." -- Scotty et al
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What if they're all the "left job"?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Using an IDE can be more like programming a laser-guided 5-axis robot to build a birdhouse.
And I bet it would be the best birdhouse ever. The one you build with Notepad will fall down in a couple of days. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Any I build would be condemned by the bird housing department.
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: And I bet it would be the best birdhouse ever. The one you build with Notepad will fall down in a couple of days.
Doesn't that depend where you built it? In Seattle it'll probably be ruined before it's finished; but in Phoenix it could easily last a few months.
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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