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Two ears and a tail for that one!
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TTFN - Kent
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Te amo.
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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Microsoft is revealing its latest research project today, a way to use Kinect for gesture-based navigation with Windows. While the company has long supported Kinect for Windows, it hasn't really provided a way for Windows users to navigate using Kinect. A new research project aims to solve that by mounting a Kinect camera above a desk that detects a number of gestures above and around a keyboard and mouse. Brings new meaning to the term "three fingered salute"
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To give people a better Firefox experience, we’re changing the way plugins work. Earlier this year we talked about our plan for putting users in control of their plugins. We are now seeing these plans take shape in the latest version of Firefox Aurora. To give people more control over their browser, Firefox will no longer activate most plugins by default. When a site tries to use a plugin, the user will be able to choose whether to enable the plugin on that site. And now Firefox is also unplugging
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Torvalds isn't yet ready to apologize for giving Nvidia the finger. *This* will lead to The Year of Linux, for sure this time
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The intelligent Python IDE with unique code assistance and analysis, for productive Python development on all levels If anyone can convince Python developers to use an IDE, it's JetBrains
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Can social networking and machine learning make comments worth reading? If Google+ is the answer to everything, should we stop asking?
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Many .NET developers working on the Windows platform don’t realize that lots of existing .NET code can easily be ported to all the popular mobile platforms, including iOS and Android. Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Windows Phone & Windows Store. Getting a case of Mono
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The first fruits of the Microsoft-Oracle partnership are rolling out. But don't think the rivals aren't still going to compete. "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
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Big Data and Apple technologies continue to command outsized salaries because they're not nearly easy enough, but that is changing. And plastics...
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Analyze Github commits to know which convention is popular. Spaces or tabs? I know: stupid question. Everyone knows the right way.
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I'm surprised they don't have a mixed tabs/spaces option for Java since Eclipse revels in vomiting that into any file I edit.
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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Facebook has been testing a feature with a handful of retail partners that would allow customers to automatically enter their payment information into mobile devices via their Facebook accounts. Because Facebook is the first name in online security
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A powerful new Google+ photo app embodies a sticky situation facing Web developers: embrace the Native Client tech for high-performance Web apps and risk sites that only work for Chrome users. Open or optimized? Welcome back to the 90s
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Most problems date back more than a decade and resulted from old versions of Java being run, a company official insists It's easy: people find security holes, they try to fix them. Controlled!
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What are today's main malware threats across PCs and mobiles? F-Secure has just released its Threat Report for the first half of 2013... "As they head down to the water hole, they are unaware of what waits for them."
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Many open-source and cloud-based tools now offer a cheaper and more lightweight alternative to .NET, solutions provider says. However, are they ready for the enterprise? One down, but I imagine there are a few left
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Good riddance.
.net is what you make it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: .net is what you make it
You know. That would look damn fine on a t-shirt. Hopefully this isn't an insult, but you're a better marketer than most of them at the Fish Shoppe.
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TTFN - Kent
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I don't understand this. Developers makes a lot less than lawyers, doctors, and even if you work for an investment bank, you get a lot less than traders throwing darts.
What's wrong with software vendor charging decent sum of money?
And have you seen what financial data vendor like Bloomberg, S&P, Reuters ...etc or vendor in quant finance are charging? USD 1500-2000 per month for a analytical software is very common - that's per desk, per month.
I, as developer, want make more money.
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Huge chunks of the market have been spoiled by OSS, so they assume software (other than theirs) should be free.
Logically I guess I understand it (it's just human nature), but I just don't understand.
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TTFN - Kent
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yes that's complete horse sh*t, "If software should be free, so should the lowly IT consultant"
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Help desk staffers are coveted, but developers are the hottest commodity of all.But developers often do have a choice. Are you hot? Or Not?
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Lists like that are so high level as to be useless. Aside from replacing y2k consultant with mobile app developer is there any difference between that list and one from the late 90s?
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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Sometimes the market drives us to choose one platform (a device, operating system, protocol) over another, whatever our personal technical preferences. We're all pretty well aware of the tech and business issues in a developer's mind when she contemplates which mobile phone to target, if the Windows 8 market is big enough to justify an investment, or if her consulting client insists on integrating an application with Facebook over Twitter. Most of us have to stay in business, or want to stay employed.
But developers often do have a choice. "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn."
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