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...as if the Open Source world was only about Linux 
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Meet CHIP, a $9 single-board computer that is capable of running light Linux-based distros. "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" Oh wait, that's the other site
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If you can't concentrate at work and turn procrastination into an art form, it might not be all your fault. Complete and utter... hang on, I have to read something.
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Redmondologists decide patches will ship as soon as they're ready, a big change from the practice of the past 12 years. But it was always such a great excuse why you got nothing done on that day
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I'm not sure about that, but wasn't Patch Tuesday introduced to avoid the maintainance/deployment mess created by the idea to "ship patches as soon as they're ready"?
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Yup. "Those who do not learn from history..." etc. etc.
TTFN - Kent
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Yup; it'd need a restartless kernel to minimize the impact. And from what I've read about how Linux is implementing it (patching of running application stacks), it's not something that MS could get away with doing because when it inevitably blows up in the face of some clever sunshines of application developers MS will get 1000% of the blame.
I'm personally unconvinced that the article author is right. Every quote in it I saw could be applied to feature updates only.
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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Why the myth of the "10X" programmer is so destructive. "I'm just a regular Joe with a regular job"
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I've come to believe that most people, not just programmers, are just a bunch of bunglers, professionally speaking.
How many people are really interested in their work?
How many people strive to be the best at what they do?
Most people are much more interested in being with their families, going fishing, watching 'the game', doing whatever it is they like doing.
And rightly so I say, we are not defined by our jobs!
But then there are those few who either really love their job or are really smart.
They excel in what they do, be that programming, managing, building houses or cleaning desks.
Those people, in my opinion, are those 10x programmers (or whatever profession).
And recent study has shown they can be much more productive than that (a claim I can't back up as I can't find the article anymore...)!
In fact, having a good programmer, a good DBA, a good manager, a good what-have-you can save many, many hours of fixing bugs, performance problems, overtime... And time is money!
There is just no denying that some people are just a lot better at their jobs than others.
And if those people are not assholes about it they can save you a lot of time and money (if they are assholes they'll drag down the team and their supposed added productivity is negated completely).
It's not the 'myth' that's destructive.
It's the expectation that everyone should be that 'superstar'.
In fact, with good management, even the 'regular' people can shine like superstars!
Yes, let's call it the 'myth of bad management' (because most people are bunglers in that profession too  ).
If the notion of 'superstars' is destroying your company you've got a much bigger problem than superstars...
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There are people inside of Redmond currently working on a Windows cloud client, and when complete, the release will follow the Windows 10 free upgrade president. "If man is still alive, if woman can survive"
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Kareem Anderson wrote: the Windows 10 free upgrade president.
What about the vice-president? And prime minister? 
/ravi
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If Windows will still be relevant in 2020...
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With the release of Java 9 slated for September 2016, it’s not too early to start thinking about what the new release will actually do to your code. Filed under: job security
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"Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10." "The first hit is always free"
Yeah, I use that one a lot, but seems pretty appropriate here (plus, I haven't used it since November)
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The Article Says:
WINDOWS ISN'T DEAD, BUT THE IDEA OF VERSION NUMBERS COULD BE
Right, Windows is dead, but it isn't. But version numbers are. Okay, whatever.
Shakespeare said (almost): What's in a name? that which we call a rose steaming pile of software 💩
By any other name would smell as sweet; putrid
You know you should SUPER UPVOTE for Gratuitous use of hte Poo Char!!!!
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Probably because Microsoft marketing can't count past 2. Actually, we know that to be true, as they went 3 7 8 10.
Marc
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I wonder what the implications will be for the developers (because I'm one). At this moment OS (except for the service packs) is almost the same, but while I can bear colleagues changing sources I'm working on, I'm afraid of making that "final" tested build only to find out that updates changed some OS fundamental system, rendering our product non-functional in one or more ways. 
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Welcome to Linux development...  
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Oh boy.  
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Agh! Come on, we all know it's just marketing trying to show Windows becoming the same idea as OSX's "stable" UI even with new versions (note I'm far from loving Apples myself, but at least that's one good point I can see in their system). I.e. similar to what happened with FireFox after version 3.6. only in reverse.
This time they (marketing dept) thought: Rather than the artificial numbering of some minor change turning the version number to the next whole digit, let's ignore versions totally.
AFAICT what's going to happen is we're going to have to look at the build numbers to find compatibility issues. Remember those times where some programs only worked on W98 SP2? Think same idea only now you'd have to look at those digits only visible if you know where to look.
Sorry "marketing" ... as usual, just because you "say so" (i.e. same OS from now on for ever) doesn't mean it "will be". Never mind if it's even possible. All "your" hot air does is make it even more convoluted, complicated and contradictory than it use to be. It doesn't change anything, it just gives the same turd a different name (or a different number).
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What the whole operating-system-as-a-service thing tells me is that Windows 7 is the last version of Windows.
Learn from history:
- Many machines that ran win 3.1 could not run Win 97.
- Many machines that ran Win 97 could not run XP.
- Many machines that ran XP could not run Vista.
- etc.
The point of an operating system is to give access to the hardware of the machine.
If a new operating system is required to handle new technology, then it's good that new operating systems are being developed to handle it.
However, have a think about what would have happened to, for example, people with XP machines if the OS had been a service.
Their machines would have been bricked by being "updated" to an operating system that would not give them access to the hardware, because it was consuming it all for itself -- an operating system that was almost universally hated, anyway.
The "Hey! What we do is more important than you or your machine! If what we've made won't run on your machine, buy a new one!" attitude of Windows developers has been clear since XP; they seem to truly believe that their code is more important than their users' property.
Already, Weven and W8 machines are being overladen with "updates" that have nothing to do with giving access to the hardware. In some cases, the hardware that the updates are good for do not even exist on the machines that the updates are being forced on, so all they do is cause latency and/or other problems.
And that's just with the version-specific updates. What will happen when their are no more versions?
I foresee a new blue-screen message:
"Sorry, but we've decided that your machine has to be junked, because it doesn't meet the requirements of our latest updates. Go shopping."
Although it probably won't blue-screen machines at all. The screens will just remain black.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The real reason: MS employees who actually got stuff done are becoming tired of the *@~!ing ribbon interface. They have decided to move on to greener pastures, which will leave only those who cannot wrap their head around version control. MS will then be left with nobody capable of incrementing, much less improving, the Windows core.
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Nikola Labs, based out of Columbus, Ohio, says it’s about to debut a new iPhone case that can convert radio frequencies into power to help keep your phone charged throughout the day. "She's a witch! Burn her!"
I suspect reality will be underwhelming
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For a quick charge, simply put it into the next microwave oven. "Group-charging" during lunch breaks possible to save energy.
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