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Ian Murdock, 42, has died, according to Docker. He will be remembered as the founder of Debian and the creator of apt-get, and his death this week has touched the entire software community. Such a shame. RIP
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The events[^] leading to his death seem suspicious. 
/ravi
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Actually it sounds like he was suffering from mental illness.
Marc
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Microsoft’s chief marketing officer Chris Capossela explained in a recent podcast that the OneDrive saga that reduced users’ free storage from 15 GB to 5 GB and which eliminates the unlimited storage place is his company’s own mistake after making a poor decision a year before. Some people will take you seriously
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They should hire Vickie Guerrero 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Hmm hamster Error message. Lets try again.
Yea they should know better. and anyone that took it to heat should know that they would change their mind also.
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The number of programming jobs in the U.S. will decline 8 percent by 2024, according to estimates by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Maybe. Possibly. (In the US anyway - the rest of us can party like it's 1999)
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And that doesn't even consider the process improvement through Scrum. The CSMs might just eliminate all professional programmers.
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The academic and research books are available as PDF downloads. You can search and filter the list by discipline and topics. "All the time, our customers ask us, 'How do you make money doing this?' The answer is simple: Volume."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "All the time, our customers ask us, 'How do you make money doing this?' The answer is simple: Volume."
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Alas! Stopped.
These links no longer work. Springer have pulled the free plug.
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The first and only book (Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics) I tried after reading your comment worked, for what it's worth.
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I tried two of the books on 'Differential Geometry' books, and both failed.
Maybe it is country-specific - IP addresses from my country India are taken to a 'Buy this Book' page 
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Ho hum.
Glad I got a wriggle-on due to your earlier comment and did get a book I'm interested in. Thanks. 
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You'd normally expect antivirus software to improve your web browser's security, but just the opposite was true for AVG until today. You had one job...
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Credit card users could have their PINs stolen, and merchants could have their bank accounts pillaged, in a set of attacks demonstrated by researchers Karsten Nohl and Fabian Bräunlein at the Chaos Computing Club security conference. That's it. I'm going back to the barter system
How many chickens for Windows 10?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How many chickens for Windows 10?
None, you are the one that got to be paid 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Google is ditching the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android and moving to only OpenJDK, the open source version of Java. "You can go your own way"
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  Nice
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If you want more evidence that software patents are insane, surely you can't, then look no further than the Microsoft slider patent and its lawsuit with Corel for infringing it. Wait until they start enforcing their patent on blue screens
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wait until they start enforcing their patent on blue screens
What ? Windows way of crashing is now a patented technique ?
I already knew is was a feature. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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It must be - they're so good at it. 
TTFN - Kent
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do you think I should put my windows crashing expertise in good place in my resume ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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