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Half of developers today feel underpaid, but employment figures are encouragingly high. When do we want it? Next sprint (please)
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A timely article. This is exactly what I'm doing right now. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: remote working options
No, thanks. That doesn't work for me.
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Microsoft's security team has come across a malware family that uses Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) Serial-over-LAN (SOL) interface as a file transfer tool. "Obscure Intel CPU Feature" is my new band's name
"The good news is that Intel AMT SOL comes disabled by default on all Intel CPUs, meaning the PC owner or the local systems administrator has to enable this feature by hand." Well, all-righty then. Never mind.
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Oh, so another one that only works under a full moon after tossing a Porcupine over your left shoulder and then chant a "Certain word" 4 times ?
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Hmmm - a different expansion for SOL than occurred to me.
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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The software giant describes DirectReality as “online computer software for holographic applications” and software as a service. Their answer to Apple's "reality distortion field"?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Their answer to Apple's "reality distortion field"?
Close... since DirectX[^] was such a successful multimedia/gaming API and DirectR[^] was taken by Google... the obvious choice was DirectReality!
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Even simpler than that. DirectX is the fully library of DirectFOO libraries; but since no one outside of Redmond cares about the versioning of anything other than Direct3d DX# and D3D# are frequently conflated.
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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Hmmmm,
Yeah... DirectDraw, DirectInput, Direct3D, DirectWrite, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, and DirectSound (and a few more) were all packaged by the guys over in marketing under the label DirectX.
I personally don't think it really matters what the outside world calls these API packages. I think it was a good move to give them a single marketing label of 'DirectX'. It allows software publishers and hardware manufacturers to seek compliance so they could use the single 'DirectX' logo on the product.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Computer security is now everything security - but protocol isn't keeping up with the risks, warns security expert. I'm not getting the analogy here. Is it a manga thing?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it a manga thing?
Akira? growing and growing until it gets nuts and explodes?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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So that CISSP I just got might be useful? 
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Considering the uselessness of some of the people I've worked with who had one; I hope you got the paper certificate. If you tape it to your wall over a crack it'll help keep the drafts out in winter and save on your heating bill. 
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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I was hired as a DBA.
And a CISSP is a requirement.
No one seems to know why....but they paid for it, so...
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As long as they also let you do the needed coursework on the clock it's their money I guess. *SMH*
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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Yep. I *did* study some at home, but only when it meant I could avoid other things.
What really pissed me off, though, was the bootcamp they sent me to, and the study materials I had, resembled the actual content of the SIX HOUR LONG TEST not at all.
I still passed, of course. But that was mainly due to being in the biz since 1997...ya kinda pick up things along the way.
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Quote: ..and we don't know how to fix it
Switch it off and on again?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Google released Spinnaker 1.0, an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform, which companies can use for fast, safe and repeatable deployments in production. I guess that's better than them cancelling it
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But do you like the cut of their jib?
Shoot, now I'm trying to remember what product I used from Spinnaker Software back in the 80s.
modified 7-Jun-17 20:22pm.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: now I'm trying to remember what product I used from Spinnaker Software back in the 80s.
PFS Publisher, maybe?
The Rotarian - Google Books[^]
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They did some kind of MS Works like package if I recall correctly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: multi-cloud
There's more than one cloud? 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No only is there more than one cloud, there's more than one type of cloud!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: There's more than one cloud?
One for the rain, one for the storm, one for the snow, one for the hail ... 
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