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I’m in an intriguing position on this subject, because I’m not a developer anymore. I haven’t launched Xcode since last December. Every time I’m out socially with software developers (which is often; I’ve made many good friends in that line of work, and I have no desire to lose them), at least one person asks me if I miss the job. "Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
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More signs of growing worker confidence: Increase in rejected job offers and in employees quitting their jobs. "They'd call us gypsies, tramps, and thieves"
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Microsoft has a massive ecosystem of devices around the world and at its Windows Partner keynote, Tony Prophet, stated that the company has 1.5 billion devices running Windows around the world. That figure is representative of all Windows devices including desktop PCs and Windows Phones. Yeah, that's what I heard: they're totally doomed.
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Developing great apps takes time, but in the age of the customer that time is measured in days and weeks — not months. "Hand-coding is too slow to develop and deliver many of the applications that companies use to win, serve and retain customers." Pardon me while I go kick something with 'Forrester' written on it
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We are at the dawn of the internet of things that don't work very well...
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It's hard to take the author seriously when he misspells company names. Maybe he should have spent more time on the article. 
/ravi
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K2? Yeah's that's an easy one to misspell. Which ones were miffed? I was rolling my eyes too much to read closely.
TTFN - Kent
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Now you have me searching for 'softare'. It's surprising[^] just how many[^] people [^]seem to make that typo.
TTFN - Kent
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I have also seen 'sotware' and 'softwar' (as opposed to hardwar?)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Don't forget the plural form: softwares. Or even better: codes.
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I believe that's spelled c0dez .
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Bert Mitton wrote: c0dez
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar 
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So what they're saying is that we need a COmmon Language that is Oriented for Business. 
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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AAAAAAH! You almost said a bad word! For Shame!
TTFN - Kent
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Passwords are something we all have to deal with on a daily basis, and the advice has long been to use complex passphrases, to use unique passwords for each site and service, and to change them on a regular basis. But Microsoft Research has different ideas. OK then. Back to p@ssw0rd everywhere!
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More passwords and the more complex the passwords, the more likely they are written on a sticky not and stuck to the monitor.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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One password to rule them all
One tool to bind them
One password for every form
And nobody will ever find them
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Good they did not said you can have a blank password 
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Microsoft Research wrote: It's a trade-off between the level of security you want, and the amount of effort you want to put in.
Yes, because those shady websites are surely hashing your password, and not storing it as plain-text. No, they're totally trustworthy, their not going to try and see if you used the same password for your bank.
..and despite Google and MS being able to recognize different IP's and whining that they need a telephone-number, I've had a breach in both when using a relative complex but short password.
My advice is to generate a GUID each time you need a password. You don't need to remember it, just to store it securely.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Microsoft Research wrote: It's a trade-off between the level of security you want, and the amount of effort you want to put in.
Yes, because those shady websites are surely hashing your password, and not storing it as plain-text. No, they're totally trustworthy, their not going to try and see if you used the same password for your bank.
The advice is not to worry about low quality/reuse on low security sites.
Quote: The use and re-use of simple passwords for low-risk websites is not only not discouraged by the paper, but actively encouraged. Strong, difficult-to-remember password should be reserved for sites and services that pose a high risk.
If someone hacks derpblog.com and steals the PW I use for its propriety comment system they could impersonate me on herpblog.org. So what! That's all they could do to me. My banking password is unique; they most they could do with the crappassword is to DoS me by locking my account from failed attempts. Any idiot who knows what my bank is now and can guess what my user name is could do the same now.
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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: generate a GUID
I pick a common word and run it through Base-64.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: and despite Google and MS being able to recognize different IP's and whining
that they need a telephone-number
I don't know whether that practice improves security at all, but it is extremely annoying 
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