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Hell yeah, now I will be able to steal the source code of neighbour developers in the form a digital mosquito!
Thanks linux!
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This could bring stalking or peeping to a whole new level?
Could warrant creating a Drone Restraining Order!
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Of the 1,400 developers who participated in a recent survey, 40 percent said they were either working on applications for connected devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) now or expect to begin work on applications within the next six months. Eventually. Maybe.
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If you think IoT is an end consumer technology you may be disappointed. The "things" are more likely to be smart meters, smart pallets, smart lighting, mailroom robots etc. Things that reduce the cost of doing business.
(But not to worry - these things will probably make your consumer things cheaper)
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Good point, thank you. I know I tend to think in terms of the end user with iot, I need to start thinking in terms of systems. 
TTFN - Kent
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: these things will probably make your consumer things cheaper)
I have yet to see one of those promises come true. What you end up hearing more often than not is "we have to raise prices to pay for all the infrastructure."
And at the end of the day, it's not cheaper for the consumer that has lost his job, replaced by some robot.[^]
The shifts in socio-economics are going to keep coming faster and faster.
Marc
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They are indeed going to come faster and faster, but they are also inevitable so we need to plan for them.
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Most changes can seem marginal until they reach a tipping point, then they can change the world very fast. This tipping point seems to be around 18%.
So if 18% of a certain market gets automated/innovated, the rest will have to follow or die. The first 18% is expensive and evolves slow; you think it'll take forever before it will become important, but once it reaches the tipping point it will suddenly starts to become cheap very fast.
But likewise, if 18% of the population becomes economically disadvantaged because of massive automation, will it kick off a social revolution? I think it's the same thing.
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I'm sure it will make the NSA's life a lot easier.
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Unfortunately, they will also put other consumers out of work most likely, resulting in less consumers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There are the clichés that Apple has promoted through the years, that PC users are corporate drones, while Apple users are freethinkers who appreciate beauty. "Drop the hate, forgive each other"
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Please, less clickbait in the newletter.
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Business Insider has really gone to the dogs!
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I was going to claim that this article was totally content free clickbait with no redeeming merit what so ever; but then I finished scrolling down and saw a link to something about who puts more pepperoni on its pizza; so instead I'll just accuse it of having zero content relevant to being a software engineer. 
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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If you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Nothing new here: I've been doing this for years
Yes, a very old piece, but it is a 'goldie'
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I have no difficulty finding unmaintainable code, and certainly without any weird set of rules to follow.
Just pick just about any repo on GitHub. 
Marc
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I have to maintain a ColdFusion site that was originally written by a noob, which was then handed off to a second noob, which was in turn handed off to a third noob.
Now, I understand that we were all noobs at one point, but it would seem that noob #1 wasn't mentored or monitored at all, nor was he made to correct any of his glaring mistakes, including the multiple hard coded drop downs of states, etc. And I have serious doubts as to whether the other two noobs were mentored either.
But, there is, buried deep in the guts of the site, a template named HandleEverything, I kid you not.
Comments from work:- "Why can't you just do it like everybody else?"
- "Well, we haven't had any complaints yet."
- "I just want to get it into production."
- "It only matters if it’s important to someone who matters."
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Zombie Code Monkey wrote: I have to maintain a ColdFusion site
This is all that is needed. The rest is redundant.
Zombie Code Monkey wrote: a template named HandleEverything
And, ouch. That's... just... ugh.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Sounds like a clever way out of a bad status meeting...
Boss: I've asked every week for a month now, when will it be ready?
Newb: Code complete, HandleEverything!
Boss: It handles everything? Are you sure?
Newb: Yes! HandleEverything.
Boss: Great, ship it!
...
QA: Hi newb, I thought you said it wasn't ready?
Newb: No, HandleEverything! Boss said ship it, so if you don't pass it, it's all your fault.
QA: Boss said ship it? Ok, I'll sign off based on that feedback.
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As developers embrace new programming languages, older languages can go one of two ways: stay in use, despite fading popularity, or die out completely. We predict the following languages will likely die. "The fear of death is worse than death."
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Oh no Visual Basic is set for the chop block, there will be a lot of unhappy campers and then there will be those like me that will say what took so long? Don't let the door...
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No big deal, my language isn't on the list 
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JEFF COGSWELL (Dice.com author) wrote: I personally saw a Flash developer tell off a room of JavaScript developers for destroying his career.
 Too funny.
Thanks for the laugh Kent. 
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IMHO, they are wrong. Perl will outlive the Universe.
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