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Demand for software engineering talent has become so acute, some of the best-known denizens of Silicon Valley have contributed to a venture fund that promises to turn out qualified software engineers in two years rather than the typical four-year university program. Heck why train them all. That's two years faster!
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Maybe they can teach chickens to hatch their eggs in half the time too. 
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When it comes to web programming just give new students a one week crash course in one of them tools that are popping up that are for generating content and call that development.
Those who wish to take the long route can get a book of their choice of language of the type:
learn 'some language' in three weeks.
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Perhaps they missed the ten year rule[^].
In another context, I heard a senior manager say that 'It takes ten years to become ten-year-experienced. You cannot accelerate that'.
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The real way to learn to program in 21 days.
http://abstrusegoose.com/249[^]
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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The article indicates the 'engineers' will know how the application affects the environment, but fails to indicate if the 'engineers' will understand the basic underlying business principles themselves. I have worked with a number of Computer Science graduates that didn't understand basic business or accounting principles. When they finally took night classes, their rose coloured glasses were suddenly clear and they could grasp what it was they were trying to do all along.
There is no substitute for experience and the article seems to indicate the experience will only leave their glass 1/2 full, but they will still want a full wage for that 1/2 glass.
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There have been some large data center deployments done on ARM servers and the ARM server market entrants have been many. Who said server-side computing was boring?
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Buried in the wall of text actually is something potentially interesting:
Quote: This year both Samsung and TSMC are outspending Intel in semiconductor R&D
It's not clear from the article if that means that Intel's R&D spending has fallen to #3 (in which case I agree that they're in real trouble), as the article tries to imply. or if their lead has simply fallen to less than the combination of the 2nd and 3rd place companies combined; in which case their slippage is worrying but probably not much more than the latest round of hype (at least in the short term).
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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Mindset, and particular strategies we can use. When you get the coffee, you get the bacon. Then when you get the bacon ...
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SQL is neither legacy, nor low-level. Long live SQL.
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SQL is awesome. C is awesome. SQL embedded in C is awesome wrapped in more awesome.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: SQL embedded in C compiled into stored procedures is awesome wrapped in more awesome
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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That's what all the unhip people say
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JOIN us - there is power in a UNION!
(Actually there isn't really - as the number of processors goes up the pain of maintaining consistency becomes a bigger factor and you need to look at record level locking...but most of the time we aren't near that horizon)
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Boeing has released a video of its groundbreaking microlattice metal, which is "the world’s lightest material," scientists say. Lightest. Metal. Ever.
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That's what she said.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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These are full of hot air!!
More seriously, how sturdy it is!?!
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I know I saw a demo of that a few years ago. Is this the same metal mesh, or a newer version, and if so what's changed?
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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Several weeks ago, Google launched Brotli, a new open source compression algorithm for the web. Since then, controversy broke out over the choice of 'bro' as the content encoding type. Stay awesome
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Silliness.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Dell is poised to strike the biggest-ever takeover in the technology industry by buying a fellow company grappling with swift changes: the storage provider EMC. Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge
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The introduction of a new cell phone app, "Improve Detroit," allows users to easily alert city hall to potholes, illegal dumping sites, abandoned cars, water main breaks, busted traffic signals and broken hydrants. City problems? There's an app for that.
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I wonder how much load testing they did before launch? They're going to to need it! 
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You say that as if 333 users reporting 33 items each is a heavy load.
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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You don't live around here do you?
Try a couple of thousand users a minute! 
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