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Do you think the fact that eleventy-jillion people have decided that writing a How to Git article is a good idea might be saying something about gits usability or lack thereof?
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 still on track to deliver a second update to Windows 8.1 in August. But don't expect it to include any major features or to be mandatory. Sorry, no start button for you
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Windows 8.x follows a bad June with a bad July. For those keeping track of all the horse races
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Last week MS Press published a free ebook based on the Building Real-World Apps using Azure talks I gave at the NDC and TechEd conferences. The talks + book walks through a patterns-based approach to building real world cloud solutions, and help make it easier to understand how to be successful with cloud development. Learn clouding with the cloudster
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The European Commission is preparing an antitrust case against Google's Android platform, sources have told Reuters. Regulators have allegedly sent questionnaires to telecom companies and phone manufacturers, trying to get a sense of whether Google is strong-arming them into promoting its own services at the expense of competitors. There must be an easier way for governments to collect money
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...and yet Apple are absolutely fine, no anti-competitive practices such as vendor lock-in, or whatever, at all.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When measuring developer performance, it’s hard to find an appropriate metric to use that doesn’t rely too heavily on anecdotal evidence. I have to agree with this conclusion, "Fixing code quality leads to significant improvements in quality"
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Critics are laying siege to open source, but their arguments both mistake what open source is and how companies benefit from it. Pundits misinformed, says pundit
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PHP scripting language, a critical cog in Web development, codifies its semantics and syntax to minimize divergence. "And that has made all the difference"
:rollseyes:
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It's around three months since Microsoft pulled the plug on support for XP, yet according to a survey carried out by Adaptiva at May's TechEd North America, 53 percent of respondents are still running the old OS in their organizations. "I've heard of you. I heard you were dead."
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BetaNews wrote: respondents
Yeah, 'cause they're so accurate. 
Edit, I can see the question now: "Can you state with certainty that there are no XP systems running anywhere within your enterprise?"
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
modified 31-Jul-14 17:27pm.
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Yes .... Walking dead like VB6
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Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on. Either the results are completely wrong, or Nasa has confirmed a major breakthrough in space propulsion. A microwave-based propulsion system? I think the lunch area is about to get more interesting
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You have a bunch of astronauts on treadmills, see? And this microwave, OK? And in the microwave are Hot Pockets. So the astronauts are racing each other to get the Hot Pockets from the microwave...
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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And it will get faster as they get more hungry (to a point)! Brilliant!
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Unlike the mostly standards-based ‘desktop' web, many modern mobile web pages were designed and built for iOS and the iPhone. This results in users of other devices often receiving a degraded experience. Short version: many developers suck at browser detection (and really, why are we still doing this?)
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Your reading glasses will be so yesterday with UC Berkeley's new technology. These old eyes say, 'Yes, please'
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Hey, Look cool as you code! 
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How soon and better yet how soon could I afford? Much needed!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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No, thanks. I might be able to read the screen, but I couldn't read the keyboard, my notes, the phone keypad...
I'd constantly be putting my glasses on and off.
(My prescription is -7.)
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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-7?! Do you have to have a white key on your keyboard at that level? 
TTFN - Kent
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No, but I need a white cane while driving.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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We've also got some airgapped networks that we weren't authorized to update until late last year/early this year; at which point we discovered that they weren't covered by the standard MS site license 
, and that there was no money in the budget to buy upgrade licenses until the start of the new fiscal year a month ago. 