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Kent Sharkey wrote: I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Brand recognition as goal?
The meaning of the word 'spam' has shifted, but back in the 90's, any advertisement through forums, usenet newsgroups etc. would be considered spam.
What this guy (and any viral marketer) did could be called creative spam. Creative, but it still makes him a spammer, the lowest of the lowlife to be found under internet rocks.
But if spamming didn't pay off, we'd see a lot less of it.
I clearly remember Amazon being nicknamed Spamazon, just because they took the fact that you ordered something from them as your permission to start e-mailing you their ads.
Back then it made me and a lot of people mad, but when some etailer does it today, all I do is sigh, start searching for the unsubscribe link, and hope it works.
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five-decade-long quest for quality
And he's still searching!
Marc
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Kevin
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A problem happens when you achieve high quality early on, but are pressured to keep changing things -- the quality can only decrease.
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Google Chrome version 50 was released to the browser's stable channel yesterday, and in addition to a handful of new features and security fixes, the update also ends support for a wide range of operating systems that have been supported since Chrome launched on those platforms. Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, and OS X 10.8 are no longer supported. Maybe that will get people to upgrade
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Gosh what will I ever do.
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Chrome 50.
Seriously Google. You've made your point. Yours is bigger than everyone else's.
Now how about some less childish version numbering?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Physicists have just built the smallest working engine ever created. It's a heat-powered motor barely larger than the single atom it runs on. Does it run on diesel, unleaded, or premium?
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The Schroedinger team commented this news as "as for the Oxygen, there's a probability to have a V8-electrons engine..."
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Short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."
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ESA planetary scientist Nicolas Altobelli and his collaborators have now analyzed the 36 interstellar dust grains detected by Cassini; the number might seem small, but it's more than five times that of previous missions. "We have the organism at Wildfire, and we continue to study it."
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More than a third of IT professionals in the UK (36 per cent) haven’t gotten any professional training through their employers in the last three years. Hopefully you have the time to read thi
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Yeah who really liked working to get that certification anyway. School sucks, making money is better.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: any professional training
I find that learning things on the job is a lot more effective. While there's been a bit of kicking and screaming (literally the latter), I've been learn Django, Python, more Javascript, and Backbone, in a (I use the term loosely) practical environment. I get the benefit (supposedly) of the experience of the person who brought all this tech into the company (I would have preferred C#, but many beers on the company owner's boat with aforementioned person convinced him otherwise, and since I'm 3000 miles away, fat chance I had of making my views heard, hence the screaming) and overall, it's useful resume fodder, but I still would never reach for Django and Python for any website that I would build. Good to learn more about Backbone though.
Personally, the most useful "professional training" I've found was, years ago, the TQM, ISO9000, and Dale Carnegie training, and more recently, the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology[^] workshops that I've been taking on my own. I find it a lot more useful to learn how to work with people than any particular tech. The former are skills that last a lifetime (and if I remember to apply them, results in less screaming), the latter typically has a much shorter half life.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I find that learning things on the job is a lot more effective.
It is. The trick is being allowed to learn on the job rather than insisting on your already having six months' commercial experience!
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: rather than insisting on your already having six months' commercial experience!
Indeed. Sadly, many job requirements (and managers) seem to expect more years of experience in a tech than the tech has actually existed! 
Marc
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Yes, I recall quite soon after .NET came out discussing a contract with an agent where they insisted on 10 years' .NET experience.  And the agent said this came from the client, not them. May have been a mistake in translation, of course. Might have been one year but even that was onerous at the time.
Kevin
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“We are realizing that this sort of automatic approach of doing everything to Visual Basic that we’re doing to C#, just sort of automatically, that doesn’t seem like the right approach,” said Mads Torgersen, program manager for C# at Microsoft, during Build 2016. Two roads diverged in a wood, but one of them is looking pretty rutty
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Oh yes, this continued support and development of C# should not be perpetrated upon VB.
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It's a fairly moot point - all coding is done in javascript now, isn't it?
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Nelek wrote: cementery
I like that, a conjugation of the two words "cement" and "cemetery". Gives new meaning to the mob phrase "I'll give you some cement shoes!"
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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I hope they improve C# before they kill VB.NET 
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Don't they flipflop on "different languages, different features" and "same runtime, same core library, must converge the rest of the language" every couple of years. 
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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