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Yeah, but those are Canadian weeks, you need to allow for the conversion.
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I thought Canada was metric 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Only 4% of working time lost due to IT issues. That's great.
But what happened with the remaining 96%?
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And technology itself is resulting in the loss of the other 50 weeks. 
Marc
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In general, astronomy is reactive—we spot something unusual by chance and point as many telescopes as we can manage to try to figure out what's going on. It's rare that we have something pointing in the right direction to catch an event right as it starts. "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are"
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he company whose former CEO once compared open source licences like GPL to spreading tumours is now regularly open sourcing tools, components and even the occasional product, as well as coming out with more cross-platform products than ever – even for Linux. "Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up."
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Imagine a world in which Windows was open source. Jack Wallen believes it is now time for such a reality. As opposed to the earlier million requests that Microsoft open source Windows
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Think they will also trow Office to Open Source ?
So one can put back classical menu
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I would settle for integrating .Net so we're not stuck with Visual Basic for Applications.
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One bad side of open source is that the software tends to stagnate at that point. Boost is stuck in 2003 and Linux in 1985.
(The best open source libraries I've used were written and currently led by just one person, who is very open minded about taking pull requests.)
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How on earth can Boost be regarded as stuck in 2003?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's based on C++03.
Even with a fully compliant C++11/C++14 compiler, when you use Boost, you end up with a huge amount of C++03 code pretending it's C++11 and they don't get along seamlessly. If Boost wants to stay relevant, they need to rebase to at least C++14.
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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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R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS), currently available as a Public Preview release, is a new tool from Microsoft for creating R programs using Visual Studio. Just in case you want a look at the new trendiness
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Here’s the secret to understand hiring: It’s largely random DMPDs deemed dumpy
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Akamai has found that the average global last-mile Internet connection speed has gone up 23 percent year over year. Someone should tell my network connection
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Yeah, me too...still stuck on DSL 5 Mbps...
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In Bangalore, yes it has. I used to have a supposedly 3 Mbps connection with a 12 GB data limit. For same price, I now have at least 15 Mbps connection with 60GB data limit.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Well my ISP's headline speed has gone from 75/10(?) to 120/10 in the last year or so. On the other Elephant, I only ever saw anything near 75 except during offpeak hours and have only seen anything near 120 at minimum usage times.
A decade ago, I could generally figure out when they were planning an upgrade that I'd officially learn about in another month or two because I was suddenly getting a 20-40% faster connection than what I was paying for. 
And OFC, a nominal 120 down is about the practical limit of a 4 channel docsis 3 modem; which was the limit of what they'd support and allow me to use when I bought my current box.
The theoretical limit in the US is 160, real world performance can never actually be that high though; marketing will as always prove that they're lying scum by claiming 173 as being possible. That number would require the larger more widely spaced euro channel layout that's not actually used anywhere in this country; continuing the fine decades old tradition that dates back at least as far as the 56k modem; despite FCC frequency limits meaning that more than 53k was theoretically impossible. 
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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Revised as open source, Swift 2.2 has contributions from hundreds of developers outside of Apple Coming soon: slower hardware for your faster code
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming soon: slower hardware for your faster code
I think you'll find Apple already have that covered nicely.
(At least in bang for the buck department).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: hundreds of developers
I laughed.
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It's only been out for one year and they've already started depreciating stuff. Christsake, can they not make up their minds?
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He's cashed in his chips....
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