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https://justgetflux.com/[^] -- Nifty little program to change the color temp of your monitor automatically during nighttime -- you can set it manually as well to reducing the amount of blue light during the day.
Marc
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Completely agree - I should have included that utility in the original post. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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If you’re reading this, there’s a better than 90% chance you’ve seen “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” If so, you’re familiar with the Holodeck: a room where 3D interactive worlds can be generated for users. We’re nowhere near those 3D projected light objects, but we are getting remarkably close to the ability to make a room look like just about anything needed. I'm a sucker for a Star Trek reference...
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Fight for the Future and other net neutrality activist groups have set up the Battle for the Net coalition, which plans to launch an “Internet slowdown day” later this month. I'll take minimally effective PR gestures for $200, Alex
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Microsoft concluded support for Windows XP in April. Despite that fact, a large chunk of the global PC market still runs the operating system. And with more than 20 percent share, Windows XP’s piece of the global PC pie isn’t declining very quickly. "You can't kill the boogeyman!"
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If you're still using an ancient browser, it seems like Google is deliberately serving you an older version of the Google homepage from 2011 in the hope that you will upgrade. That's one way to provide backward compatibility
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Maybe the newer versions of their homepage uses Javascript/CSS features which weren't available in older browsers, and by giving you the older version of the page if on an older browser you don't get all sorts of weird errors/popups etc?
It makes sense that instead of making the most up to date version of their site work on all browsers, they just serve you the best they had when your browser was new, actually pretty clever if you think about it, and means that people are less likely to upgrade their browsers, not more! The only way you would even notice this if you were running an new and an old browser side by side comparing Google, and who the hell would do that? A Gizmondo reporter with a deadline and no story, that's who!
From a web development perspective this is super smart, think of the amount of work you do to make sure your site functions the same across as many browsers and browser versions as possible, Google clearly don't, they make sure their website is great on up to date browsers all the time, and if somebody visits on an older browser, they get the best version of the site that Google knows for sure functions on that browser. They must save a fortune in development costs!
But Google iz evil ha! is more of a story I guess!
modified 1-Sep-14 16:11pm.
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Without this news article, I am sure I would not realize that: at home, I use a very old version of Firefox, at work it's version 22.0. I am not sure if there was really a difference at all (can't access my home computer at this moment).
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OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web. For all your "Back to School" needs
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When presented with the idea of Mirah (a language based on the JVM languages but also borrowing heavily from Ruby) it would seem we are being given a more palatable, less enterprise way of looking at Java. A dynamic language built on top of the JVM? Surely they could work yet another layer of fuzziness in there.
Yes, I know it's not really 'dynamic'.
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"For thirty-seven years," reads the opening passage in the book, "the gatherings and conventions of our IBM workers have expressed in happy songs the fine spirit of loyal cooperation and good fellowship which has promoted the signal success of our great IBM Corporation in its truly International Service for the betterment of business and benefit to mankind." Not sure how big the pay cheque would have to be...
"T. J. Watson, we all honor you. You're so big and so square and so true"
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Many of today’s most well-known programming languages are old enough to vote. 10: Do work 20: IF StillWorking() GOTO 10
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ReadWrite wrote: many features have been fixed
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Because those peoples are still working on it and they never died 
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Drinking is supposed to make people look better...can it also make markup languages look more like live code?
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You maybe drunk a bit too much...but HTML IS NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE!!! Never was...Never will be...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It's simply not possible to be a good developer and a good project manager simultaneously. It's true: wearing two hats at the same time looks silly
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A sufficiently empowered and motivated team shouldn't need a project manager - indeed perhaps having a project manager is (like wearing a sling) a sign that you are not entirely healthy?
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That's an interesting notion. I think I agree for smaller groups (maybe up to about a dozen?). But for larger groups, or interconnected teams, there is a need for some external coordinator, me thinks.
TTFN - Kent
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Large teams need managers - to deal with the inter-department side of things and the company admin - but I don't think specifically "project" managers.
With the right tools and the attitude to show everything (online Kanban boards, burn-down charts and test coverage and results) and strong scrum masters you should be fine. With good collaborative software this can be achieved.
(And it is financially worth doing - I think my experience is 1-7 project managers to project workers is the usual ratio)
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The BBC has today introduced a range of computing and coding-related shows, games and competitions for kids designed to help improve their understanding and enjoyment of the subjects. Kids these days! Spoiled! Back in my day all we had was Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant
Mind you, Mr. Dressup was way cool, but Casey was a psycho.
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Microsoft has increased the OneDrive file size upload limit from 2GB to an unspecified new maximum, a new report suggests today. People are posting files larger than 2GB in "the Cloud"? What are they, PowerPoint?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What are they, PowerPoint?
Starting from which version, can you embed virtual machines in PowerPoint?
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Judging from the size of the last few I was sent, I'd say at least 2010. Then again, I have some idi... clients who send me screenshots in PowerPoint, because "they know how to email powerpoint files, but not graphics."
TTFN - Kent
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