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Microsoft's career website is often a treasure trove of information if you are willing to dig through the thousands of job postings the company currently has available. Often, through these postings, you can see the direction Microsoft is taking internally with its products and this helps the observer, better understand Microsoft's vision. "The footprint of these smaller operating systems is in the order megabytes - not gigabytes."
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Verizon today issued its annual data-breach investigations report, a study of what happened in 1,367 known cases across dozens of industries in 95 countries last year, and the most common form of attack was breaking in through Web applications. Before you ask: as opposed to 'web sites'
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What comes after Windows 8.1 Update? Sources say a second update is on its way, and that Microsoft's unified OS group is picking up the delivery pace. Windows, Tuesday edition
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When will people learn, Just because they make it dosen't mean you need it 
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As software takes over more of our lives, the ethical ramifications of decisions made by programmers only become greater. "You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a brilliant idea! Hit the button, will ya?"
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Geez, and here I thought they would be writing about the ethics of missile guidance systems, drone piloting software, heck, violent games that any kid can buy. Not to mention pr0n websites, websites designed for racial and other radical extremists (including working on the Obamacare and IRS websites  ), etc.etc.etc.
The ethics that they talk about (log files? Really?) are absurd in comparison to the dubious things we software and more generally, web/application developers are paid to do.
In the course of my life, I've worked on:
The MX Missile Train security system, a concept I was completely opposed to (not the security of, the stupid idea of putting nukes on trains.)
Laser range gated cameras, easily adopted to use for individual targeting and remote bombing
Adult entertainment club software (undoubtedly to the offense of someone somewhere)
to mention the three most prominent things I've done that raise real ethical questions, IMO.
Marc
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It's infoworld. Organic bovine fertilizer is all that's expected of them.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Organic bovine fertilizer is all that's expected of them.
Now don't be insulting organic cow sh*t. 
Marc
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That's right, organic bovine fertilizer has great value...in my vegetable garden.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Do you do your programming in the garden? There's a place and time for everything; but manure doesn't belong in IT work.
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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That was my point. What is great in the vegetable garden is not so great elsewhere.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Isn't organic bovine fertiliser some kind of organic viagra alternative for bulls?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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For the news-improvement sake, what would be a less fertilizing news source you'd like to see more from?
TTFN - Kent
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All existing sources not named Information World, Information Week, or SD Times. Some of your other regular sources are hit and miss; but those are only relatively frequent ones I've found consistently wretched.
(That and I'm nursing a grudge with infoleak because either their unsubscribe feature is broken or they keep buying my email from some other bottom feeder and start spamming me again; eventually I just started mashing gmail's report spam button to make them finally disappear.)
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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Coolio. Thank you. We'll keep trying to keep them clean and useful.
TTFN - Kent
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How to stop over-engineering in software. Because the problem is the solution to the problem of the solution (repeat as needed)
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Novice coders see every problem through a tunnel. You have what you know and you shoehorn those skills into every solution. It’s helpful in your skill development to bang away at a problem using only your wits and whatever help docs you can find but you’ll definitely be spending a lot of time on each problem. The wheel doesn't need to be reinvented, thank you
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The wheel doesn't need to be reinvented, thank you
Of course it does. Would you want to still be using the wheels from a thousand or even a hundred years ago?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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But they're still a wheel. Everything since then is a refinement, but the core notion didn't need reinvention.
TTFN - Kent
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Maybe, but what colour should they be?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Nice article. Thx for sharing..
A good mentor is difficult to find. Usually (once again... usually) the people that are very good at programming aren't at teaching.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Thank you very much!
Great to get feedback like this between all the cranky monkeys
TTFN - Kent
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Apple is offering to recycle some third-party products for free as well. I wonder if they'll recycle fanboys as well?
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