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I agree and disagree. I definitely agree with someone that has been mentored and worked as a junior programmer and then senior level seems to be the best. Those people with that great drive to succeed make sure to do that and continue improving. One of the best IT guys I know is a Devry guy that I don't even think finished his degree, but studies a lot and does the certifications, but then I've run across some consultants with a bunch of certifications that don't seem to know much anything, except buzzwords. Asking them general questions about their work experience, which always seems to say Architect, gets them flustered.
I will say that most IT people I've met with graduate level degrees seem to learn things much easier, quicker, and understand fundamentals a lot better than those with a B.S. or less. Having a M.S. myself, I notice I am always thinking larger and farther down the road than people who do not. Though I have worked with a couple of M.S. people that were barely junior level. I guess they think a degree makes them better than everyone else and don't have to continually improve.
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Quote: Those who have gone through the certification process say it pays off.
Most people who pay for homeopathy say it worked for them too.
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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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Directors of Norwegian browser maker Opera Software said that they were considering selling the company and had hired bankers to help them explore options after the firm missed a second-quarter revenue forecast. Who says you can't buy a good web browser?
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It remained to be seen precisely how fast Windows 10 was compared to Windows 8.1 and the beloved Windows 7. "Citius, Altius, Fortius"
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Nice.
Kinda shows me what I was hoping for - for my needs (at home) there is currently no performance reason to justify leaving Win 7.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Thanks to an 'end of life' vulnerability, almost anyone can kill you off digitally. "You can't kill me, I'm already dead"
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A new patent has been granted for a space elevator that will reach 12 miles high, and it might be the closest we've come to a working design. And I get light headed blowing up balloons
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The guy writing this article is not very good at mathematics or astronomy.Quote: It goes about 23 mph. That means an elevator going that speed would take over an hour to go up
He thinks that an elevator travelling at average of 23 mph will take over a hour to travel 12 miles. He also says the space elevator will be 12 miles high and then later he says it will be 14 miles high - a typo, perhaps?
[Edit: I have just re-checked the article and he actually says the space tower is 12 miles high but will have a 14 mile high elevator to reach the top - perhaps it curves back down and around at the end to create a Las Vegas roller coaster at the top of a building style ride!]
Quote: ...the carbon nanotube string to the moon. Right now, we can make carbon nanotube chains that are as long as 3 centimeters. Only 59,652 miles to go. I'd convert that into centimeters for you, but I don’t have space for that many zeroes. Let's call it 1.4 trillion to round it off.
In addition, he seems to think it is only 59,652 miles to the moon. It's actually around 238,900 miles - which is 38,447,228,160 cm.
His 59,652 miles figure also converts to a little over 9.6 billion cm, which is a lot short of the 1.4 trillion cm he claimed/guessed - He must have run out of fingers to count on!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Considering he uses a Taylor Swift video and something that looks a lot like Wild Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man as examples for a space elevator... I think his lack of math skills are the least of his problems 
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I prefer the explanation of "Limit" I find it cooler
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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IT matters more than ever, which means enterprises need to get serious about developers and the language they speak: open source. "Nine women can't make a baby in one month"
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I'm willing to help them try.
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Based on my 10+ years experience as a software developer I put together a list of actionable guidelines that can help anyone get closer to 10x. If I read it twice, do I become a 100x developer?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: anyone get closer to 10x.
Not with Java it won't.
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They might if you recognise that 10x is expressed in binary...and is little-endian.
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After a gas station monitoring system was hacked earlier this year, Trend Micro researchers Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt decided to take a closer look. Well, I guess that might be one way to save at the pump
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Big data and machine learning are going to be used everywhere, even our operating systems. "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
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In this JAX Magazine preview, testing guru and JAX London speaker Colin Vipurs runs through the strengths and weaknesses of common approaches to testing databases. Mocking mocks
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A group of Israeli researchers have improved on a way to steal data from air-gapped computers, thought to be safer from attack due to their isolation from the Internet. Would this mean I'd get better reception?
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You can finally experience Android Apps on Windows 10 Mobile but be warned, it's not an easy process and can force you to re-flash your device, so move ahead cautiously. This is not the droid you're looking for
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That does not sound like something that would be a good idea. Maybe just get a VM and do it on there? Emulate Android inside another Windows 10 emulator?
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Every time you use WiFi, ask yourself: could I be connecting to the Internet through a compromised router with malware? I thought compromise was a good thing?
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Wired: Adam Rogers 08.06.15 1:24 PM. "Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency"
"IMAGINE AN ELECTION—A close one. You’re undecided. So you type the name of one of the candidates into your search engine of choice. (Actually, let’s not be coy here. In most of the world, one search engine dominates; in Europe and North America, it’s Google.) And Google coughs up, in fractions of a second, articles and facts about that candidate. Great! Now you are an informed voter, right? But a study published this week says that the order of those results, the ranking of positive or negative stories on the screen, can have an enormous influence on the way you vote. And if the election is close enough, the effect could be profound enough to change the outcome." [^]
«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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No, I won't say that is a bad thing, neither is a good thing at all. Google's due a good respect I'd say.
A vote is not the outcome (should not be the outcome) of a Google search, or even Bing search. A vote is how you chose someone to take command of the government. I haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life. Not his Google's life. I'd say a good candidate for any official seat would be someone who takes care of what others have to say about him and doesn't looses his temper. Simple.
At the end, I'd say someone whose vote is so paper thin that it could simply turn 180 degrees after a Google search of opponent doesn't deserve to be given a chance to vote.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life.
Quite difficult to know about that real life. At the end we are speaking about the better actors and liers of the world, oh sorry... about politicians
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Not his Google's life
Do you prefer Facebook'`s?  
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: At the end, I'd say someone whose vote is so paper thin that it could simply turn 180 degrees after a Google search of opponent doesn't deserve to be given a chance to vote.
Altough I agree that statement... Welcome to "like's" world.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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