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Interviews with the company’s chief information officer, and with current and former employees, helped shed some light on the way Google works, the rules it sets, and the cool tools it has developed but never released out of the ‘Plex. "Googlers must apply to a manager to get permission to use Windows"
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Achieve code mastery through challenge "Wax on, wax off."
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C++11 is being deployed and the shape of C++14 is becoming clear. This talk examines the foundations of C++. What is essential? What sets C++ apart from other languages? How do new and old features support (or distract from) design and programming relying on this essence? C++: watch++
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Mruby will vie with languages such as Java and C in the embedded space, but Matsumoto sees mruby as a superior language to Java -- at least when it comes to embedded development. He downplayed the usefulness of Java ME (Micro Edition), which is intended for embedded development, saying it was "not really Java." hardware.each do |macro| exec (macro) end
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The third-party cookies used by advertisers and their agencies to track web browsing activity are under attack. Browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer try to block the years-old technology with "Do Not Track," and now internet behemoths are looking to replace cookies with their own tracking technologies. The newest entrant, according to Ad Age, is Microsoft, which sources say is working on a technology that could track users across Windows computers, Bing, Internet Explorer, Windows Phone devices, and Xbox consoles in order to serve highly targeted ads. "Be seeing you"
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The board is narrowing its choices amid preliminary interviews, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Some candidates have declined to be considered, including EBay Inc. (EBAY) CEO John Donahoe, said two people. The board has also solicited advice from Silicon Valley veterans such as Charles Giancarlo, a former Cisco Systems Inc. executive and now a managing director at private-equity firm Silver Lake, said other people with knowledge of the matter. Remember to get your resume in
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Microsoft decided to defend its malware policies via a new post on the Malware Protection Center blog. While the post did not mention the Microsoft Security Essentials interview, Dennis Batchelder, the partner group program manager for the company's Malware Protection Center, stated that it was "fully committed to protecting our consumer and business customers from malware." Translation: It's free. Don't like it? Buy something.
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However, Whitman also said she sees two of the company’s partners, Microsoft and Intel, becoming “outright competitors” of HP as they move onto its turf. "Somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better."
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In the book BUILT TO LAST (James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras) HP included in 18 visionary companies. Microsoft not even mentioned in the book...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Well, yeah, but that was 1994, look at all they've innovated since.
Still, a pretty brutal omission. Bob? Going x.500 while the rest of the world (excluding Novell) went Internet? Start button? Come on, that's vision all right there.
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TTFN - Kent
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By visionary they mean - not created to print money only...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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The videos for the Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Jump Start Jump Start event are live on Microsoft Virtual Academy. This is an entire 9 session course, covering the official ASP.NET MVC certification course material. I could have sworn they had this already
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MongoDB, DataStax and Couchbase all have recently scored huge venture capital infusions. Here's why NoSQL is the new darling of the big data movement. SELECT db FROM databases WHERE schema=NULL
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SQL is hard - let's go shopping.
In fact, I am not a fan of SQL at all - just couldn't resist making a "let's go shopping" joke
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The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Google's Eric Schmidt has a reputation for raising eyebrows with his public proclamations, so this latest episode should come as little surprise — the company chairman declared during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo that Android has a security advantage over Apple's iPhone. And by 'secure', he means, 'makes me more money"
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ASP.NET App Suspend is a big new feature in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. You can read an overview of ASP.NET App Suspend (including a demonstration video) over on the .NET blog. ASP.NET App Suspend is a great feature for shared hosters and Enterprise IT. It enables apps to startup much faster and for each server to host many more apps. In our performance lab, we saw startup time drop by 90% and were able to pack 7 times more sites onto the same machine, when App Suspend was enabled. That’s a unique and welcome combination. "He's not dead, he's just resting!"
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A future of devices and services, go figure To the Cloud!
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Crackers tap new sources to uncover "givemelibertyorgivemedeath" and other phrases. And The Lord set his password to p@ssw0rd, and there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth
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Remember, even a failure can serve as an example of what not to do Don't do as I do, do as I say
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Rather than giving a drop-down listing of every single possible open source license we’ve always include a pragmatic list containing the most popular licenses in use by the community, from permissive licenses like MIT, Apache 2.0 or MS-PL through to different copy-left licenses like GPLv2. Recently the team reviewed the list of licenses project owners can choose from and compared it against the licenses people were wanting to use. It was clear we had a gap and that some developers wanted to publish their projects under GPLv3. So today, GPLv3 has been added as one of the available options in the quick and easy license picker for new projects created on CodePlex. That should blow Richard Stallman's brain (hopefully)
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Microsoft updates Azure, Windows Server and other enterprise products as part of aggressive push into cloud market valued at $2 trillion. Some might even say they're *storming* the enterprise cloud 'market'
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More and more people want to use your web apps on their mobile devices, and the sizes and resolutions of those devices are becoming more diverse by the day. You already know the basics: generally, there are tablets and smartphones with landscape and portrait views. Plus, don’t forget about taking advantage of high-res “retina” displays. Technique #1: Mastering the ability to resize your browser window
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Amazon announced Tuesday a new service called "Login and Pay with Amazon." The service, where enabled, will allow shoppers to check out at third-party retail websites by using the payment information they have stored on Amazon (think of it as Facebook Connect for shopping). It's designed to make checking out more streamlined and secure: Shoppers won't have to enter their payment information during checkout, and they won't have to store that information at an additional site. Oh, *someone* please knock PayPal down
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How is this different from the existing Amazon Payments service?
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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