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Kent Sharkey wrote: Those who do not study history...
... will go on to create Windows 8?
The article raises quite a few points where you can substitute one or two words to get a quote which applies to Windows Store apps:
- "OS/2 ran Windows apps really well out of the box, so they could just write a Windows app and both platforms would be able to run that app."
(Windows 8 runs desktop apps out of the box ...) - "IBM even started paying developers to write OS/2 apps."
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-developers-cash-for-windows-app[^] - "Warp stood for 'warp speed,' ... IBM’s famous lawyers were asleep on the job and forgot to run this by Paramount, owners of the Star Trek license."
(Metro, anyone?) - "Windows application vendors saw no reason to recompile their apps for a new platform, and most of them didn't."
(Don't need to change a single word for this one!)
Doomed to repeat it indeed. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh my. I didn't notice that. That is creepy! Well found.
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TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft Enterprise Library has a long and prominent history. Over the years, it has evolved into a mature collection of application blocks, each focused on addressing specific cross-cutting concern. New blocks have been introduced, while others become deprecated with the evolution of the .NET Framework and other Microsoft technologies. More Microsoft going open(ish)
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The rest of the executive team at BlackBerry will follow former CEO Thorsten Heins out the door. More news I thought already happened (or maybe just 'should have' happened already)
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Motorola has signed a multi-year deal with the first maker of 3D printers and services to build cellular phone parts that can be functionally and aesthetically customized for owners. We might actually get those pluggable cell phones after all
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I like to think of Stack Overflow as running with scale but not at scale. By that I meant we run very efficiently, but I still don’t think of us as “big”, not yet. Let’s throw out some numbers so you can get an idea of what scale we are at currently. A peek inside the kimono
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Nice article - thanks!
/ravi
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A peek inside the kimono
Now we know what your fetish is. 
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I've been found out! 
You should see my collection of candid shots of the CP server closet. Va va voom!
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Google has three different uses for kimonos. All would seem to apply in this case.
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I've got just one question to ask. What is Maunder offering in the way of severance money these days.... 
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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Dan Neely wrote: What is Maunder offering in the way of severance money these days....
Sean's old Mankini; unwashed.
speramus in juniperus
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And what I’ve learned from teaching others. "It never works the first time", and other wisdom
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Why you didn't tell her? It could kill her!!!
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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An examination of the tech skills mentioned most often by telecommuting job listings finds that the ubiquitous scripting language is number one. Free yourself from the tyranny of pants!
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Very cool, and what I really like about that link is that his previous posting is on finding telecommuting jobs! Perfect timing for my recent rant in lounge.
Marc
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Now you've got me all worried I've added something wrong. And/or that my sarcasm detector is misconfigured. 
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Even if the data in the article is valid, the thinking is faulty and the conclusion is wrong.
Javascript is a popular secondary language for people who also use another primary language (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.). Thinking you can increase your chances of landing a telecommuting job by just learning javascript is something we can only expect from journalists who have never actually held a programming job. Most postings that mention javascript also mention another language as the main one you'd be using (regardless of whether or not it's a telecommuting position).
The actual, correct lesson we learn here is that if you want to code from home (or take control of your work life in any other way), the last people you should ask are the journalists who write over-sensationalized, under-researched topics for a living.
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jesarg wrote: Javascript is a popular secondary language for people who also use another primary language (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.).
with the creations of node.js and mvc frameworks like angular this point is no longer true. we are beginning to see complete solutions totally based on javascript.
you want something inspirational??
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Some jobs use node.js, and some jobs are for writing browser Javascript only, but those jobs are relatively rare. If a novice programmer were to ask us what he should focus on to start a new programming career, focusing mainly on Javascript is still bad advice, as there are so few entry level jobs for Javascript as a primary language.
I agree that a lot can be done with Javascript, but the market demand for "Javascript as a primary language" developers is extremely low right now, despite lots of hype in the press. Plus, this article was about advice on obtaining a work-from-home job, not advice on being cool with your development technologies (and, as such, it's bad advice). Most of the real jobs out there are for less cool technologies and languages.
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At the moment, Microsoft has three operating systems for consumers to use in their hardware devices: Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1 and Windows Phone 8. But what happens in the future? Four? Eight? help me out here
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One sealed box with limited capabilities per customer, one scaled down operating system is the future that MS and other two want to impose on us for many reasons. They will own computer centers and internet backbone and push the content in the form of interactive TV. If the other 5% of users want real computer with real operating system then they have to pay a lot for it.
And this is happening when for a price of a tablet I have supercomputer now (CPU + GPU). Why ideas of centralized computing are happening now?
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A newly-surfaced Snowden slide shows the NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malware, according to Dutch outlet NRC. "With friends like that, who needs enemies?"
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