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I am actually not doing any work one hour before my out.
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Any software maker will tell you the same thing; provide detailed steps and a test case if possible to make isolating your issue as easy as possible. If you simply type, “My site doesn’t render in IE9″, you’re making things more difficult. Take the time to really isolate the problem and provide detailed, concise information so that the IE team can properly determine if it’s a bug and even if there’s a workaround. Rey Bango explains how to do it.
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Er, wtf is this error reporting service for?
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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For many of us developers, WebKit is a black box. We throw HTML, CSS, JS and a bunch of assets at it, and WebKit, somehow.. magically, gives us a webpage that looks and works well. But in fact, as my colleague Ilya Grigorik puts it... "WebKit isn’t a black box. It’s a white box. And not just that, but an open, white box." So let’s take a moment to understand some things. What's shared by all WebKit ports, and what you can tweak during compilation.
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Over the year and some, since I've been publishing ebooks, various people have asked about my publishing tools. I've given a few responses via email, or links via Twitter, but never laid everything out in one place. In December of 2012 I published an update to one of my books, here I'll lay out the steps (and tools) involved in writing, editing, and distributing an update to my ebooks. Let's start with the writing. Gutenberg's press, circa 2013.
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"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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The consequences are being played out in the market right now where it would appear that the traditional PC, desktop or notebook is a market that has peaked and is now starting its slow decline. Like any evolutionary platform change, this will not be immediate or quick and will play out over at least a decade. During this period I predict that the mass of computing will move to systems that are deemed good enough for most people, but that drive expert users crazy. What does an increasingly tablet-centric PC market mean to Word, Powerpoint and Excel?
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it means those who need to author excel spread sheet will continue to do so under traditional desktop using a mouse+keyboard!
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Quote: drive expert users crazy Happening already.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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A 30-second video of a newborn baby shows the infant silently snoozing in its crib, his breathing barely perceptible. But when the video is run through an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, the baby’s face blinks crimson with each tiny heartbeat. The amplification process is called Eulerian Video Magnification, and is the brainchild of a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. They caught you on tape and you still got away with it? Whoa!
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Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its peak, the network had well over 100 million users, many in south east Asia. In July 2009, following some technical problems and a redesign, the site experienced a catastrophic decline in traffic as users fled to other networks such as Facebook. Friendster, as social network, simply curled up and died. Asps... very dangerous. You go first.
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Now that we can navigate a computer screen through gestures, could a three-dimensional interface that recognizes gestures be far behind? According to Jinha Lee, who created a 3D desktop when he interned at Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, the future could be closer than you think.
Image what we can use it for...
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I've been a 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade, it's the longest I've worked remotely. Given that I haven't yet been fired, it's fair to say that I'm a pretty good remote worker. Some tips for making remote working work.
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Fantastic post. Thank you Scott.
Marc
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I wonder if having some sort of avatar to represent you in the office would help others feel like you are more a part of the team. There was recently some tech conference where one of the products being presented was essentially a camera/screen atop a pole with wheels. Looked a bit like the screens from the conference room in Demolition Man. The screens show the face of a remote worker (or whoever), and the remote worker can "drive" the screens around to chat with people.
And I just found an old video of something similar: VGo. Basically, video conferencing on wheels.
And an article of another one: iPad on wheels.
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The iPad on wheels is brilliant.
We tried to make a small one with a smartphone and Google+ hangout, but making a little Segway from a Lego nxt controller proved to be tricky. It could stand up and correct himself a little if you gave it a little nudge, but eventually it falls down.
Then somebody pointed out that it would be easier to make one on 4 wheels and feeling stupid we abandoned the project.
Video conferencing is better than e-mail and phoning, especially during standup meetings. But, being an i-pad on wheels or a permanent face on the wall takes it too far imo.
The Segway may be a fun little gimmick at the start, but in an everyday work situation, where people have to plug you in every single day, configure the new wifi settings, getting you unstuck, etc... you're annoying them slightly, in addition to being the weird kid who got special privileges. It seems a little tragic to me.
When working remote, I think It all comes down to the goodwill of the team and the remote worker to make the best out of the situation.
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0bx wrote: where people have to plug you in every single day
The one I saw had a charging dock you just back into (there is a reverse camera, IIRC).
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These are many new improvements of Object Pascal programming language in Free Pascal compiler. I don’t know how much new are they, but at least they are new since Delphi 7 language. What's old is new again.
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At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your Firefox OS phone. It enables you to sell a web app that will run on any open web device by way of the receipt protocol. Non-Mozilla marketplaces can participate in selling apps on Firefox OS out of the box by implementing the receipt format and users won’t notice anything different when running a paid app from either store. Paid web apps? Why not...
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Your hands do a lot of work between the keyboard and the mouse, why the heck are you letting your feet be so lazy? Dossier van D. is putting an end to the podiatric sloth. He built this set of three foot pedals which have gone through two versions of functionality. Tap dancing developers.
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I recently learned a cool technique from Simurai about how to animate PNG sprites with the CSS3 animations' steps() property. The main idea in this technique is to "recreate" some kind of animated GIF but with the tiles of a PNG sprite. As with everyone I know, I played to Street Fighter in my childhood and when I saw this ... guess what popped in my head? Warped. Corrupted. My science twisted to serve gaming instead of the web.
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People want similar mobility on their PCs as they get on their smartphones. It is unlikely that your end goal is just to get connected to the Internet. Instead, connecting to the Internet is a step (or a hurdle) towards what you really want to do, like surf, socialize, or explore, and you would prefer that your PC is connected and ready for you to use whenever you want and wherever you are. We looked at the fundamentals of wireless connectivity and re-engineered Windows 8 for a mobile and wireless future, going beyond incremental improvements. This is a good example of work that requires new hardware to work in concert with new software in order to realize its full potential. People are talking about mobile connectivity in Macs. Windows 8 did this a year ago.
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Some malware cannot be removed from your computer easily, once they get past your anti-virus protection and integrate themselves deeply in your system – sometimes making it unbootable. In such a situation, it may be advisable to use Rescue CDs. A Rescue CD will help you recover your system by removing nasty threat that resist removal by regular antivirus software. These CDs perform a scan and removes computer virus without booting the computer system. You might want to download these *before* trouble strikes.
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In general the best way of knowing that nothing was left behind is to wipe and reinstall the OS.
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When you open the door and walk into the room, it even smells like the 1960s. It reminds you of the old garage where your grandfather kept his twin Chevrolet Corvairs. But those aren't cars you smell. Those are computers. This is the "1401 Room" on the first floor of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California — the room where Robert Garner and his motley crew of amateur technicians have spent the last decade reviving two of the massive IBM 1401 mainframe computers that littered the business world throughout the '60s and on into '70s. This looks like the best job in the world.
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