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In fact "big company IT" has a number of problems, of which this is just one. I'd write a blog article but it would degenerate into a rant 
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Vendors and analysts would have us believe that the Internet of Things is imminent. But, in fact, it will be years before the obstacles it faces can be surmounted. What a coincidence: I just overheard my light bulbs discussing this with my fridge
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Although it sounds entirely like something dreamed up in a smoke-filled dorm room, whether the entire universe is hologram is a very serious question—a question that gets at the heart of a fundamental problem in physics. A new experiment starting up at Fermilab just might hold the answer. You just blew my mind, man
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"Of course it's happening in your head, Harry. But does that make it any less real?" -- Dumbledore
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We are, yes. A 100% authentic in every testable way but still not real reality.
Is there an experiment to prove that life is not, in fact, an extended episode of "Mr Benn[^]"?
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Web services are increasingly closed even as the software used to build them is increasingly open. Will developers be able to make a difference? "If you're not paying for It; you're the product"
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My boss wants me to develop "store" apps for Microsoft, I told him I thought that Microsoft was soon going to close down outside development of its code base and bring everyone under the umbrella of its own company therefore making all other windows developers that don't like Microsoft obsolete. I'd be working for two bosses, Microsoft and my boss. bully...
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A new analysis of Reddit comments shows which language’s developers seem to be the happiest - and which are the most foul-mouthed. "Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do"
Yes, it's sort of a repost, but I'm desperate today.
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Microsoft’s Internet browser and media player are being targeted in a Chinese antitrust probe, raising the prospect of China revisiting the software bundling issue at the heart of past antitrust complaints against the firm in the West. "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999"
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Microsoft is still busy readying its upcoming technology preview of Windows 9, but details continue to emerge about the company's plans for the future of Windows. WinBeta reports that Windows 9 will include interactive Live Tiles and a notification center. Because the Sidebar was everyone's favourite Vista feature
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Did anyone ask them to? I know I didn't.
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Yeah, had to download the desktop gadget thing from a 3rd party...what a bunch of schitzo dum dums.
I was upset when they got rid of the blinking network lights in the system tray as well...it was a first clue that something was wrong when you were doing nothing and had network activity.
...I have the Network Meter sidebar gadget now...
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They're revamping the desktop? Again?
How many times now? I've lost count.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers! Thanks to your new friend, Fermi
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"Very" and "Enough" will often work when "42" doesn't.
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Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1?"
Google : "No"
Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1+1?"
Google: "No"
Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1+1+1?"
Google: "No"
Interviewee: "I am out of stack space. How will I solve this problem?"
Google: "Search me?"
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I find that a surprising amount of programmers I've worked with, don't know how to use a systematic approach for debugging. Dicsuss
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When I was in school, only Turbo Pascal had a debugger.
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You don't need a debugger for debugging skills (but you knew that).
TTFN - Kent
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Yes. I know that.
And it's a skill that seems to atrophy with use of a debugger.
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Not surprised at all. Using a debugger is not an item on the curriculum of the school. It's not a buzzword in resumes. It is, hence, not a required skill to achieve the degree.
..and there's more gems that are never touched upon in class 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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This seems to fall into the same trap that 99% of the articles of this kind do: Computer Science is about Computer Science, not real life programming.
It doesn't matter that everyone expects it to be a 3 year course to learn to be a programmer. It just isn't.
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When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web 24 years ago he thought he'd created an egalitarian tool that would share information for the greater good. But it hasn't quite worked out like that. What went wrong? "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What went wrong?
Human being was involved?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A number of businesses are choosing not to put their data in the cloud. The leader of an open-source project to allow firms to build a Dropbox alternative on their own servers discusses why hype about cloud services is failing to meet reality. You mean people don't really want to put their business in other's hands?
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