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Ancient Mars was likely warm and wet, much like Earth. So what happened to change it? Why else would bottled water be so expensive?
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In pretty much every industry, from politics to computer programming, the goal is to eventually become an expert at what you do. ...until you know everything about nothing
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I prefer being an expert in a few fields than ajack of all trades.
While I know that knowing a little about many topics is versatile, many times deep knowledge about a few things is absolutely indispensable. That's why I'm picky about what to learn and stay away from the flamboiantly marketed variations of the same technologies or the flashy "new language/feature of the future" and prefer to learn only the real new architectures, on the low level.
I know this is a hard way and it rewards later - or never if unlucky - but I really prefer it that way. I never learnt Flash and was considered a loser - Flash is ultimately dying and I learnt IA32 in that time. I started using it 10 years later but now it is a valuable knowledge in some fields. I stood away from JSP and... what is of JSP now? PHP 4? In a couple of years it changed completely with PHP5 and now ASP.NET is going strong. C++ instead is still there, still used and necessary.
That's only my opinion of course and I could be proven wrong... I just hope not!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Already Microsoft is far ahead of where it was when Nadella took over in early 2014, the year after the company wrote down excess Surface tablets and Windows 8 flopped. And they don't care who they have to destroy to get that!
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Quote: Microsoft just wants to be loved
When they will understand that a large share of its faithful customers are business, and that they don't want innovation at all cost, and they prefer stability and reliability, MS will certainly be loved much more.
Events like the MS Office menu vanished, or the Windows 8, when they simply ignored all the negative feedback from beta testers, show that didn't care about faithful customers not so long ago.
Last news about W10 automatic spying do not show a lot of respect to faithful customers.
I am bad, it is not my fault, I am that way. Please love me.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest. I'm a Blurb Engineer
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Hear! Hear!
No way in hell can you succesfully engineer this way.
Unless maybe you're Toyota.
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imho a very poorly written article that belabors an insignificant point. Consider:
The Volkswagen diesel-emissions exploit was caused by a software failing, even if it seems to have been engineered, as it were, deliberately. So a deliberate implementation of a fraud is a "software failing" ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I am an Engineer and use that instead of programmer, even if 90% of my job is programming. I have to mix Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Electronics, Telecommunication and Mechanics knowledge to build software for complex integrated systems. When things become heavily multidisciplinary and involve a large amount of designs I think it's better to call it engineering, as that's what it is.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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I agree, Engineers have professional qualifications to pass before being let loose on public work, and can be struck off if they fail to follow professional standards.
If that occurred in software, half of us would be redundant.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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IMHO, companies that build faulty software will go the way of the Dodo. The market weeds out the garbage that doesn't meet the need of the customer. I consider myself an "engineer" because this is how I view software. Bad solutions are not a predicament but a consequence.
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Developers want end users to engage with their applications, and a new way of trying to achieve that is having devices learn from the user and adjust accordingly. This capability has been seen in technologies such as Apple’s Siri, Google Now, IBM’s Watson, and Microsoft’s Project Adam, but has been mostly too complex and too time-consuming for smaller companies or independent developers to implement.
But one company wants to change that. I see you when your sleeping...I know when you're awake.
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The end-goal of a DevOps transformation should be that we stop talking about DevOps. It's the first rule, after all
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Seriously. Do we really need a name for working together as a team?
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With the Open API Initiative, the Linux Foundation and its partners -- including IBM -- plan to make the next generation of APIs easier to find, use, document, and transform. Because that worked so well with SOAP
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As important as they are, software and network security seem so often ignored. Every month I hear about a data security breach even more egregious than the last. What's going wrong? You only have to be wrong once, they only need to be right once
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Every month I hear about a data security breach even more egregious than the last.
I thought the standard was weekly  "Patch Tuesday"
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I've decided to check the first commercial version of Cfront, released in October, 1983 as it's this version that turned 30 this year. Never look at your old code. That way only leads to madness (and sadness).
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Never look at your old code. That way only leads to madness (and sadness).
Anyway, C++ is a write only language. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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APL is a write only language.
TECO[^] is a write only language.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I didn't say C++ is the only one 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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"released in October, 1983 as it's this version that turned 30 this year. "
That don't add up.
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Microsoft is looking to get into the hearables space with a dedicated Cortana device, currently known as Clip. "I am Locutus - of Borg. Resistance - is futile."
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