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Microsoft’s Brendan Burns, who literally wrote the book on how to manage distributed cloud systems, now wants to give developers the tools to write apps with distributed cloud computing in mind from the first keystroke. "Take me to the clouds above"
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Because long ago we received our very own C: drive. Remember the grin? That was because now you had all the power. And like a good boy or girl, if you did your backups then that stuff was yours forever. Now kiddies, in the name of both safety of your data and access anywhere they are systematically going to take that away from you and leave you with a 24bit color vt-100 again . Albeit on your lap or in your hand. What's more is now they will have the data and the apps that you used to possess and control. Unless you say no and like a good boy or girl, do your backups and forgo access anywhere, their going to charge you whatever they want, whenever they want for things that used to be right there behind a humble yet all powerful C: drive.
Those who have no control over you love to marginalize you as someone who is dangerous to yourself to get more control over you. - Nuts to that.
Clouds are great. As long as it's your cloud box somewhere on your static ip or dynamic dns ip. I have a server in my house on a dynamic dns ip. I can access that data from anywhere.
You can do this too. And call it the cloud if you wish. 
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Indeed - that's also why I don't sign up for streaming services (music etc). IF I want something, I'll buy a DVD or obtain a download I can store and play independently.
When I buy something, I like to own it.
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Many people still have to attend those soul-sucking, brain-draining, pointless recurring meetings. You know the ones — they’re usually filed under euphemisms like “stand-ups”, “status”, and “check ins” and happen on a daily or weekly basis. Maybe we should set up a meeting to discuss?
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The last AOB item in any meeting should be "should we have this meeting again". The first time the vote is "no" the meeting (and all going forward) is cancelled.
You can easily spin up a new meeting if/when you need it.
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A stand-up meeting is not a status meeting, at least that's what I've been told.. but it is because people don't want to follow the processes put in place.
Like.. when the process owner defines the priority list, but others disagree and complain to management who then brings pressure to rearrange your schedule. Just let the process play out and see what happens.
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I would gladly have a weekly meeting... but that would require some form of management, which we don't have - we have only managers.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Hold on, you can't just jump into this discussion with a pre-meeting planning session.
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if you have daily reccuring meetings, you should just quit.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The most dramatic cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. Beware of more than the creeper
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In working life it's now almost expected that employees answer work-related emails after hours, or take their laptops with them on holiday. But the blurring of boundaries between work and personal life can affect people's sense of well-being and lead to exhaustion. Unless your business is pleasure
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New research shows the power of research to point out the bleeding obvious.
Maybe, just maybe, if some of the multitude involved in these studies devoted themselves to useful activities they could help out the poor people who aren't getting a good work/life balance and there would be no need for these studies.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Internet download speeds grew more than 30 percent this year for both wireline and mobile connections as compared to a year earlier, according to new data from internet speed-test company Ookla. That makes the average download speed 40 Mbps for broadband and 20 Mbps for mobile. Not at my house, it didn't
Oh, sure. I could pay for a faster speed, but where's the fun in that?
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No matter how developers feel about JavaScript, one thing is for certain: the programming language keeps evolving year after year. It's true! 'Boring' is not the word I use to describe JavaScript
I can't use the actual word here.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can't use the actual word here.
Something that's 'Boring' through your colon?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's pretty close to it, yes. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can't use the actual word here.
Jeremy Falcon
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After seven years of development, Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files. "There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves."
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Well that seems wrong. / Got mine! Thanks!
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a 32bit only decompiler is going to be increasingly limited value as time goes by. Am I being overly cynical for suspecting they opensourced it hoping someone else would update it to 64 bit?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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 do think it fits in the category of, "What do we have laying around that we can open source and get some press love for?", yeah.
Works for Microsoft, why not Avast?
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah. The real unanswered questions are:
1) Will they continue to develop the tool?
2) If so will they do so in the open and with community involvement?
In MS's case those answers generally seem to be yes, with abandoned projects be left to rot ignored on internal source control servers. (VB6 fans say hi.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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A team of University of Alberta engineers developed a new way to produce electrical power that can charge handheld devices or sensors that monitor anything from pipelines to medical implants. I've been saying for years that "triboelectric nanogenerators" is the way to go
I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "triboelectric nanogenerators" is the way to go
I mean, yeah, if you're not using the "quadroelectric picogenerators" then the tribos are the way to go. 
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Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them. Is it on the Internet?
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