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Surely a man to follow...
Quote: Microsoft's shares lost 40 percent of their value during Ballmer's 14-year tenure.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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 And they stayed flat around USD30 during his tenure as well. Now they're over USD50.
TTFN - Kent
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Thinking of cancer, I think if Microsoft can get it to be fixed, it would be immortal! — Or maybe that's what Deadpool taught me.
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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A botched security fix released for the Java software framework 30 months ago has left millions of users vulnerable to attacks that Oracle had claimed were no longer possible, a security researcher said. Oracle missed being in the headlines?
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As Bill Gates once ably put it, “measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs.” Faults per fortnight?
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Like any business practice, Agile has evolved and matured in directions the original 17 signatories never imagined. Assuming you feel it once was
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Grumpy Duncan's summarised Agile rant:
1) Agile is not about software, it is about team work (if you have 1 dev you are not Agile - if you have 50 you aren't either.. a team fits in a Land Rover with bench seats)
2) Agile is supposed to predicate retrospectives in which we analyse how the last sprint went (with metrics) and talk about how to improve the next sprint. This should mean that agile itself also evolves - so what it was a decade ago is not what it is now.
3) Before agile we were in a truly terrible place. Software projects were bringing companies to their knees. We aren't in the Elysian fields yet but we also are not where we were - Agile had a part in that.
4) Companies making a big deal of being Agile should be regarded with the same suspicion as you would give to hospitals making a big deal of hand washing. If it works it should be self evident and just done - if it doesn't we should have stopped talking about it by now.
5) Bad processes can't make good product. Bad people can't sustain good processes. Therefore if you have "transformation" money to spend - spend it in HR.
Sunday caveat: I have been drinking
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: a team fits in a Land Rover with bench seats
YUS!!! I've seen many companies implement "agile" with no real concept of what a team is. I think this practical approach speaks wisdom. 
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Your browser’s private or incognito mode can be useful for many reasons, but you should always know what it is and isn’t hiding. For when you're browsing "personal" sites
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If you've been coding for any length of time, you've met at least one mustached fellow riding a fixie and wearing skinny jeans who won't stop talking about Swift. Turns out that's a real stereotype. For the male programmers anyway
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In line with our support policy, starting April 12th 2016 Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support, or hotfixes, for all Visual Studio 2005 products and the redistributable components and runtimes Submit your bugs now if you want them fixed
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Using a series of laser beams, a pair of German scientists successfully teleported classical information without the transfer or matter or energy. Lasers: is there anything they can't do?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: successfully teleported classical information
Did they send in Bach in time?
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You sir, win the Internets today. 
TTFN - Kent
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AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol Just watching 4th match live, Lee Sedol strikes back, and he has won one game back. It also revealed a weakness in AlphaGo (still a prototype), when confronted with unexpected (brilliant) move by Lee Sedol. It also has a worse performance when playing with black stones. This weakness will be likely exploited by Lee in the last match. Lee asked to play with black stones in the match to probe AlphaGo's weakness from the other side. So far the score is 3:1 (out of 5 matches total).
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Today we are releasing our first experimental preview of debugging for the new ASP.NET Core CLI toolset in Visual Studio Code. Develop like it's 1984!
Yay, Turbo Pascal!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Turbo Pascal!
Revolutionary when introduced. A game changer.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Opera says it’s seeing sites load an extra 40 percent faster compared to third-party solutions. Still the best browser no one uses
OK, hardly anyone. Don't shoot the messenger.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Still the best browser no one uses
That's common in tech.
Well, not necessarily in terms of something being the best but in terms of innovation. The first product with "such and such features that are now widespread" is usually either a failure or has a small or tiny market share. It's often the second or third that popularises the features and gets the glory.
I do have Opera installed and use it from time to time but it's not my default. I will check out Vivaldi when released though. I like variety.
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Still the best browser no one uses
No, that's Vivaldi[^]. "New Opera" (actually about 2 years old now), is just Chrome but integrated into Opera's web services instead of Google's. It looks like Chrome, it works like Chrome; and if you like Chrome there's no reason not to use it directly, if you don't like Chrome you'll hate Opera just as much.
Vivaldi is being written by a bunch of ex Opera devs; it also shares the Blink backend with Chrome and Opera; but it works like Old Opera (12.x aka Presto). It's the real successor to Opera's heritage.
And I really should stop dragging my feet and switch my main home use over to it.  Old Opera's been out of support long enough that it's suffering increasing breakage on more HTML5y sites. 
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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When and if colonists ever arrive on Mars, they're going to need something to eat … on a long-term, ongoing basis. No potatoes?
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To grow the potatoes, the first colonists will need to have a lot of diarrhea.
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Speaking at the O'Reilly Fluent conference, Eich also endorsed the Service Workers mobile app technology, WebGL, and Decorators for JavaScript. Because all the hackers will move to it from Flash?
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