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Why and how did humankind become “unusually successful”? And what, to an evolutionary biologist, does “success” mean, if self-destruction is part of the definition? Does that self-destruction include the rest of the biosphere? What are human beings in the grand scheme of things anyway, and where are we headed? What is human nature, if there is such a thing, and how did we acquire it? What does that nature portend for our interactions with the environment? With 7 billion of us crowding the planet, it’s hard to imagine more vital questions. Science is cool.
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With large numbers of Tablets and Smartphones running virtually identical software, the display becomes the single most important way for manufacturers to differentiate their products – that’s been true for Android and the same will apply for Windows devices. A top notch display makes everything that runs on a Tablet or Smartphone look great or as good as possible – including all of the Apps, web content, photos, and videos – looking a lot better than on devices with inferior displays. The ultimate smackdown: Microsoft Surface RT vs. Apple iPad 3 vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
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While Sinofsky was seen as a brilliant figure at Microsoft, his downfall was that he didn't get along with others within the company. He was notorious for picking fights with other executives, including current CEO Steve Ballmer, and even pushed former executives like chief software architect Ray Ozzie to quit. It's not you, it's... well, actually it is you. Seeya.
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I didn't know that Sinofsky read this page. Now I do. Vote countered.
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I agree with Pete.
Why cannot a person post a news story without some uni-voter being an arse?
Uni-nitwit vote countered with my +5
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You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...
Wait, wrong movie. So there's this Maunder fellow...
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Terence me ol' mucker; he's half way round the world, half blind from staring at the sun, brain addled from the unaccustomed heat. You can say what you like about him (or even better, what you don't like about him). We won't tell. Honest. And there'll be no trace anywhere to read.
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For the first time in its 30-plus year history, the person leading Microsoft’s Windows unit won’t be a man. With the departure of Steven Sinofsky on Monday, Microsoft is handing over leadership of its flagship operating system to Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller, both of whom served as top deputies to Sinofsky.... They will have their hands full. For years, the highest-ranking female employee has been HR head Lisa Brummel.
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But the real question is, will they wash my windows? 
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All too often I see programmers trying to solve their problems on the internet by blindly "flipping switches." Change something, hit refresh in the browser. "Why is that cached? What's going on?" Change something else, hit refresh in the browser. "What's the deal?" When coding on the web, remember that effectively NOTHING is hidden from you.
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I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time: [ -~] Any ideas what this regexp matches?
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Hmmmm. What a pretty darned useless regex. The I18n train passed it by without stopping.
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I like Pythonista and I was impressed with the previous update. Pythonista is a well designed implementation of Python on iOS that goes far beyond just being a dumb shell. The developer, Ole Zorn, has a new release out today that raises the bar considerably. This post will serve as an introduction to some of my favorite new features of Pythonista but also as a practical guide to how I use it. A Python interpreter for iOS... for taking your scripts on the road.
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Programming is frustrating because the tools, documentation & processes that we use every day are so bad. It’s not because programmer’s don’t understand logic or how to make algorithms, it’s because they’re still working on getting “hello world” to compile without errors. Or get a simple Facebook function to work for PHP CodeIgniter when you realize that the PHP CodeIgniter Github project has 2 lines of documentation... I’m glad I know what I’m doing because otherwise, I would have quit.
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Robbie wrote: Programming is frustrating because the tools, documentation & processes that we use every day are so bad
You can switch to become a project manager or Business ANALyst then you don't need to debug sh*t code you inherit from your peers.
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In my years of programming in Python and roaming around GitHub's Explore section, I've come across a few libraries that stood out to me as being particularly enjoyable to use. This blog post is an effort to further spread that knowledge. I specifically excluded awesome libs like requests, SQLAlchemy, Flask, fabric etc. because I think they're already pretty "main-stream". If you know what you're trying to do, it's almost guaranteed that you'll stumble over the aforementioned. This is a list of libraries that in my opinion should be better known, but aren't. "Fuzzywuzzy" wins my vote for best-named library.
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When David Schnurman heard Hurricane Sandy was coming to Downtown Manhattan, he says he knew he had to act, and fast. His business had to do more than evacuate— he had to find a way to stay up and running for what was slated to be its busiest three days of the year Know where your servers are.
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Quote:
To complicate matters, the company’s servers were hosted by Amazon’s AWS platform, located in Virginia, another Sandy target. Kicking into emergency mode, Schnurman decided to transport everything to the cloud, a fast-growing option for small-businesses, in a matter of days. The company also relied on voice over IP service, so that team members could work from home.
So isn't Amazon's AWS platform located in Virginia part of the cloud then? The author seems slightly confussed.
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Jan Steyn wrote: So isn't Amazon's AWS platform located in Virginia part of the cloud then?
Yeah, that's correct. I think the point is that he was getting the data to different servers, but, yep, Amazon's AWS is technically part of the cloud.
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Microsoft's emphasis on the mobile nature of Windows 8 and its bold touch-friendly user interface may lead some to fear the software giant has taken its foot off the pedal in terms of security. Hackers, start your engines!
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Since 2000, Intel has done just about everything right in its core business, maintaining its dominance of the market for PC microprocessors and putting substantial distance between itself and competitors in the market for server chips. And yet the company finds itself in a very tough position: computers are going mobile, and Intel’s share of the microprocessor market is falling off a cliff. Still doing great in servers and PCs... which are an increasingly small part of the market for CPUs.
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I'm curious what is and isn't being counted as part of the mobile total. Unless they're excluding lower end phones the >96:1 ratio between PC and mobile isn't plausible; and I can only conclude they're rejecting older non-pc markets for CPUs to make Intel's situation look worse.
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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Dan Neely wrote: to make Intel's situation look worse
Exactly. It's purely a load of marketing tactics/scare mongering.
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Let me be clear, I want Windows Phone 8. And OEMs have introduced some pretty compelling phones with it this fall. But I think I’m going to keep my new device lust in check. At least I’m going to try. Here's why. Most developers didn’t get started working on WP8 apps until the beginning of November.
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