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Good thoughts. Alas, we must work if we are to eat. And retirement seems like a distant idea which will never materialize. Welll, that's the good thing about IT. Always something to work on.
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I agree, 40+ hours of coding leads to wretched code. My ex-employer thrived on slave hours due to a jacked up "architecture". If you are working too hard, stop, please stop. There is always a smarter way to do it that adds more value.
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IMO the most disturbing part of that isn't that the average number of hours worked per week is about 50; but that it's 50 despite half of us not working overtime. That means that the average overtime working IT person is doing 60(!) hours/week.
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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Terraserver could have, should have been a product that ensured Microsoft would remain the world’s most important internet company well into the 21st century. I think the last bit of that sentence could apply to a lot of stuff they did
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IMO, sometimes, being too close to the state-of-the-art makes you miss the big(ger) picture.
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Than the service today was called "Microsoft Earth"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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If Microsoft had anything to do with Earth, we'd have stuff crashing into ALL the time instead of all these pansy-assed near misses...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Think about all that work they put into :
Microsoft Encarta
What, you ask, was Microsoft Encarta?
One of the first multimedia encyclopaedias (real spelling )
Then, along comes wikipedia and kills encarta, brittanica, etcetera.
Hmph! Even companies with Billions $ fail. I don't feel so bad.
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Microsoft also owned the handheld device market and then blew it.
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Repeatedly, yes.
Somedays I'm amazed they got as far as they did.
TTFN - Kent
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Apple is destroying design. Worse, it is revitalizing the old belief that design is only about making things look pretty. Shiny doesn't mean good design?
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But it apparently sells a long of thingies.
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Researchers from the University of Rochester have found the Wallis equation in quantum mechanical calculations of the energy levels of a hydrogen atom. More proof on the cosmic importance of pie
Oh wait, this is about the other one, isn't it?
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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(√-1) (2^3) ∑ pi
and it was delicious
Chona1171
Web Developer (C#), Silverlight
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In truth, Waterfall works for certain kinds of projects, but those projects don’t tend to move software around, and they tend to have a predictable process. Because it's going to come to you? (I'm not getting his metaphor there)
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Three blind programmers. Three blind programmers.
See how they code. See how they code.
They all went over the waterfall,
which drowned them in soggy kanban post-its,
They scrambled and scrum'ed
But they weren't agile enough,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind programmers?
Marc
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After a rocky start, open-source and hybrid cloud initiatives have righted the ship. "Wait till the sun shines Nellie, and the clouds go drifting by"
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I can see clearly now the rain has gone
You know what happens when clouds grow too big... it starts raining.
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open-source and hybrid cloud initiatives have righted the ship.
All they've done is put more holes in the ship, you can't tell the ship from the water anymore.
Marc
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Basically, JavaScript is everywhere nowadays and it’s growing, it’s here to stay for the next decades. We have cookies!
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Why did it have to be JavaScript though?
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Yeah, we could have had so much better: VBScript
TTFN - Kent
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Sander Rossel wrote: Why did it have to be JavaScript though?
Not to worry, there's a growing movement of "from language X to Javascript" translators. Eventually, Javascript will become something nobody actually codes in, much like assembly, IL, or VB.
Marc
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