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SD Times has managed to do something I thought impossible.
Produce more consistently worthless content than infoworld. 
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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# define ITS_NOT_A_TUMAH(x) (x!=0)
if ( ITS_NOT_A_TUMAH ( something ) ) ...
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Of course all these toy languages are nowhere near as obfuscable as C...
Stunning example of obfuscated C![^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Participants will get notice about API changes and early access to new features. "Let's get together, right away. We'll be having twice the fun."
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PC shipments had their deepest decline every in 2013, and 2014 doesn't look much better, according to IDC's latest forecasts. Does this mean that the PC apocalypse is finally upon us? "The horror! The horror!"
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I'm not giving up my desktop computer anytime soon, but then I am not a typical home user.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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The market is saturated, and there is no compelling reason to upgrade any more.
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The decline is due to windows 8 (Some love it lots don’t) and the way people use and don't use computers anymore.
They don't need a desktop pc to surf the web, share pictures, post to face book or twitter, read e-books and play some games.
Lots of people can only afford either a laptop or a desktop now that the general use laptop prices have dropped to the same as some desktops people will get the mobile device instead.
The desktop PC has become a specialty item now.
More used for bigger badder things (multiple graphics cards etc.) rather than a general computer as in the past do to the price of the mobile equipment (laptops, Phones) getting lower and the mobile phone being able to do more like a PC.
We will be getting back to the select few that build their own “PC” to get what they want like in the beginning of the PC boom.
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Both desktop and laptop is declining, but desktops are declining the most and it's becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.
I have my desktop setup for six years and I'm probably not going to replace it because I wouldn't know what to buy next anyway, because the market is too niche to fit my needs.
Nowadays you basically have two options: gaming gear, or hardware designed for the laptop that's modified to fit on a desktop mobo.
The first is super expensive, super noisy, consumes a lot of electricity and usually looks ridiculous, the latter is just pointless because a laptop with a docking station is exactly the same thing, with the added benefit that you can carry it around and use if everywhere.
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you could always build your own or just upgrade the motherboard and then go from there.
I usally start with the processor,then the motherboard. That narrows down the compatibale parts.
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Image service makes more than 35 million photos available for noncommercial use via a new HTML embed tool. "I love to take a photograph. So mama don't take my Kodachrome away"
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This is actually pretty awesome.
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You may not realize it, but the amount of experience you have on your résumé may actually be hurting instead of helping your employment chances. Instead of showing your entire work history, you need to get crafty and adjust that résumé to a perfect blend of truth and obfuscation. "You can't put too much water on a nuclear reactor"
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Wrong. (And the comparison says nothing).
I am what I am. You don't say you're silver when you're top 100 Grandmaster Zerg, do you?
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I dunno - if I see "Anders Hejlsberg" on an incoming resume, I don't think I'd care what job he had after getting out of high school. You can prove Grandmaster Zergdom without mentioning everything.
TTFN - Kent
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Can be true. But if you need someone for an SQL admin, you won't be impressed by my C++ skills alone. But if I do have SQL skills, *that* will matter.
And I think it's not only a list of pieces of "I did this and that", but the whole picture. If someone stays only on a single thing, probably won't be any good of others. It's a collection of things, and every detail matters. My 0.02.
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I think you can definitely have too much experience on your resume. The assumptions made about the type of work you will accept / enjoy are driven from how the manager perceives you. I can't tell you how many times I have been asked "why do you want this job with your experience" and you can't just say because I want to eat.
Thanks
JD
http://www.seitmc.com/seitmcWP
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"Because I want to try something else", maybe?
You know what they say - no matter how beautiful a woman is, there is someone who grow tired of her 
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Yes better answer for sure. I was being a bit sarcastic since I believe the any employer would be wise to use experienced even over experienced workers if that worker is willing to be a contributor. I have hired many people in my time and only once was I sorry I hired an more experienced person. I believe that was because that person was a bad egg not their age or experience.
Thanks
JD
http://www.seitmc.com/seitmcWP
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Plural: Can you have too much experience on your resume?
No.
You can't be "too good" at doing what you do either.
Plural: you need to get crafty and adjust that résumé to a perfect blend of truth and obfuscation.
Which brings us two new things; the tradition of sending a crafted piece o' lie to get you invited, and the practical test when you finally meet a manager.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Major US companies have shared how running the node.js JavaScript platform is allowing them to serve web content more rapidly and efficiently. Your development suffering is spread between client and server sides
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In the current Supreme Court case of Alice Corporation v CLS Bank International a friend of the court brief by Microsoft, HP and Adobe attempts to define patentable software. Here's why they fail. "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
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Quote: But there's a bigger problem: software is inherently an "abstract idea." That's the nature of computing.
Um, no. If it were abstract then you wouldn't be able to implement it. The implementation makes it concrete.
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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In January 2002, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued a memo to all of the company's employees. It offered up Gates' vision of what he called "Trustworthy Computing". Gates felt that Microsoft should work to make "computing that is as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony." And yet we still got Vista. Perhaps they should have stopped it a little longer.
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The mysterious man behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency has apparently been unmasked. An investigation by Newsweek tracked Satoshi Nakamoto to Temple City in California, revealing him to be a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose creation of Bitcoin was a secret even to much of his family. "You're the Dread Pirate Roberts, admit it."
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