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Kent Sharkey wrote: As opposed to all those other "Year of Linux" years
I saw a comment on Ars Technica that sums it up quite well: "Half Life 3 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop"
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Just add +whatever to your Outlook.com email address to create an email alias instantly that you can use for sign up forms and any other occasion where you have to enter an email address. This of course doesn't help you if your name is +
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This of course doesn't help you if your name is +
Doubleplusgood.
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iOS 7 comes with a bevy of new features and changes that will greatly enhance the mobile experience for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. Here is a rundown of some of the highlights found in Apple's new mobile operating system. Assuming you're one of the "cool" kids
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Subject copy/paste gremlin.
/ravi
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Oh, that's bizarre. It's right in the form, but I guess I munged it at some point. OK, I'll fix.
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TTFN - Kent
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On June 20th 2013, we decided that our 4-day work week at Treehouse was’t insane enough so we went further: We removed all Managers. "Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things going so right"
Sure, I doubt this could work at a larger company, but I wonder just how many companies this model would work for. Alternately, how many companies have managers just because "it's the way it's done" (aka Cargo Culting).
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A collection of best front end frameworks for faster & easier Web development You know it's going to break somewhere, might as well have a hint beforehand
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Internet Explorer, the browser that has suffered the critical wrath of frustrated Web surfers for years, is finally getting a dramatic refresh with the debut of IE11. An early Developer Preview of IE11 for Windows 7 was revealed in July, but on Wednesday Microsoft is making a Release Preview of the software available to general users of the operating system. Now with 23.67% less suckage!
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Google said today it has created a new company called Calico to make improvements in human health and well-being. Longer life to view more adverts
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Longer life to view more adverts
[Spock] Live long for adverts! [/Spock]
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Page and Brin, billionaires forever. Good for them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google said today it has created a new company called Calico to make improvements in human health and well-being. Ah.. they're gonna distribute free healthy food and clean drinkwater in Africa?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You can enjoy immortality and eternal bliss in just three easy steps!
1) Go to the Google medical center
2) Sign the service agreement*
3) Upload your brain to the cloud
*All the information in your brain, past, present and virtual future, belongs to Google and they may use it in any way they see fit. Pretty standard stuff.
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Want a really easy orchestration tool for Ubuntu on Microsoft's Azure cloud? It's here now with Ubuntu Juju. "Canonical, in conjunction with Microsoft": is it feeling a little cold in here?
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New study suggests a real impact on the business when developers and operations people put their heads together. "Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony"
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While Windows 8.1 is a free update for Windows 8 users, those running older versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system will have to purchase an upgrade to the latest edition. It's not just for upgrades anymore
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Microsoft is investigating a new remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer and preparing a security update for all supported versions of its browser. In related news: it's a week day ending in 'y'
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There's a strain of thought that because of the way Internet culture has changed the way we work and play, we're now a different people, neurologically. We don't just behave differently because of the Internet; we think differently, too. What an elephanting stupid item. Really, who's the moron that picked this?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: who's the moron that picked this? Hey Sunshine, it's your own fault for reading it. There is no reason to blame...oh, wait. Never mind.
All this talk about anger makes me SoMad.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Hey sunshine!!!! Putting obscure lounge memes in a mailing list that mostly goes to people who aren't master debaters is an elephanting stupid idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111oneone11!1eleventyone
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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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has spent nearly two years trying to standardize and implement Do Not Track — an HTTP header that tells advertisers and other third parties not to follow you around the internet — and the many delays and roadblocks that have cropped up since are starting to make it look like its efforts will be futile. "No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind"
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What do a McLaren Supercar, a refrigerator, a camera, a washing machine, and a cellphone have to do with open source? They're all examples of how a good pile of code can take on a new life when it's set free with an open source license. The envelope, please
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It seems that with every passing week we discover new ways that digital encryption and security is being subverted by government agencies [1] domestic and abroad. It stands to reason that encryption can no longer be trusted if the master keys for that encryption become known to others. It's far, far easier to get the keys than it is to crack the encryption, after all. "Are you the Key master?"
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The greater truth to all of this is that “hard” development skills only take you so far. You can be the greatest pure coder in the world, but if you can’t get along with people, you’re not going to get far. You need to have the people skills to get your point across while preserving and building relationships. In an instant, you can do something to lose all the credibility you’re ever had with someone, and that’s often impossible to recover from. "You have a nice personality, but not for a human being."
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