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Research firm finds businesses led by lower-paid CEOs earn greater shareholder return This is my shocked face
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Remember hearing about how Tektronix, once the top manufacturer of instrumentation, was loosing market share to HP, and the company decided the way to solve this was to pay the board more. Well how many people remember this company. Guess that did not work
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There is something strange about that comparison graph - it shows almost exact correlation between the two lines but with an almost constant rate of expansion of the gap. I can't see what they've done wrong but there should be more noise in that chart (IMO) ?
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Strange that the gap in their graph starts just after the Lehmann Brothers crisis of 2008...
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Our tools will also include a cross-platform, open-source F# 4.1 compiler toolchain for .NET Framework and .NET Core, suitable for use on Linux, macOS/OS X, and Windows. The F-ing language ain't dead yet!
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Microsoft is continuing its 'Bingification' of Office with new Bing Knowledge Graph-powered Researcher and Editor features for Word 2016, along with a new visual-cue feature for PowerPoint. It looks like you're trying to write in passive voice, would you like help with that?
That would have been funnier (or even a bit funny?) if that blurb had been written in passive voice, wouldn't it?
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Do not hear anything about them improving Outlook, which is my biggest grip. Maybe more flexibility on phone numbers, email addresses, etc. with a layout that does a better job of showing address, like why should 4 phones be shown when only one is being used(and they take up so much space), and then only showing one email. Limited in only fixed few labels for phones, and none for emails or web sits. WPF and the Ribbon have now been out for 10 years. Also the location on appointments is just plain stupid. Should automatically or semi-automatically do lookups on contacts, and web for things like restaurants, and also should be able to right click on the location to go to web address or contact, or just plain do a web search. Outlook is basically what it was 20 years ago.
Also, you should be able to select the number of weeks in the calendar are the views, and have it stick instead of having to select again, and week view should allow more than one week, and the hours displayed should be selectedable.
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The attack can be carried out by operators of just about any type of network, including public Wi-Fi networks, which arguably are the places where Web surfers need HTTPS the most. You know, I'm starting to think this web thing might not be that secure
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A newly discovered set of wireless keyboard vulnerabilities can let hachers take over your keyboard and secretly record what you type. It’s called KeySniffer, and it spells death for millions of wireless, radio-based keyboards. Jokes on them: I never write anything interesting anyway
Besides, I'm sure no one will use this for nefarious purposes, right?
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A new startup called Scale, officially launching today, wants to make it easier for businesses to outsource their core processes and tasks that require people, not algorithms, to handle. Now you too can be an API!
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AI taking over the world.
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Outsourcing means also that the knowledge is outsourced and only some "Excel programmers" (MBA) are managing the company. I guess it wont take a good end.
The final goal of outsourcing is an empty office, because everthing is outsourced. Then can the company stop paying the rent and shut down the company. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do.
Because I'm API, API, API, API!
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Nomoreransom.org, a joint initiative between Europol, the Dutch National Police, Kaspersky Lab and Intel Security, offers help in getting encrypted data back. "Release yourself from misery. There's only one thing gonna set you free"
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Pit stop analysis shows ancient travelers were often thousands of miles from home. Admit it - weren't you curious how they went about it pre-2-ply?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Admit it - weren't you curious how they went about it pre-2-ply?
I wasn't, until now.
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Perhaps it was just a fluke?
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The newest version of OpenBSD closes potential security loopholes -- such as its Linux compatibility layer It's the Year of (no) Linux
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You can’t expect good performance from your employees if you are practicing bad management. Other mind-blowing facts: kittens are cute, bacon is tasty
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If the bullshit bandwagon named "agile" gets ostracised, many people will automatically become more productive.
A whole industry has been built around the agile nonsense (agile coach, anyone?). No? How about agile-doombastic master level 2 certification? No? How about a $1800 training for becoming a corporate-agile-project-scrum-enabler? F***ING NO.
PHBs have taken a liking for agile because it lets them interrupt everyone on a daily basis to ask "are we there yet?", and conduct like a million weekly meetings, which probably gives them a sense of importance and lets them prepare different kinds of reports to show it to their bosses as something they've done.
Sure, agile may be suitable for certain types of projects. But then there are also only a number of people who understand agile well and could practice it effectively. When you end up with an agile-tard type PHB who thinks that agile is the only way to build software, it could get quite asphyxiating.
modified 26-Jul-16 3:26am.
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I'm not entirely sure how cultural fit/misfit comes into picture here. It is highly irrelevant to weather agile is being followed in a place because I may (or may not) be able to fit into a given workplace's culture with no regards to what methodology they're practising to build software.
The two points I wanted to highlight in my previous post are:
- Few projects are actually suitable to be executed with agile
- Even fewer people have a good understanding of how to practise agile
Put these two together, and you could get yourselves into a messy place easily where projects may be run solely by playing blame games and politics producing crap quality code (are we there yet?) that's non-maintainable.
The only place I worked at who followed agile very well (and I enjoyed it) was Intel.
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You're entitled to your opinion.
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N_tro_P wrote: Sorry but you are simply dead wrong here
Nope, not wrong at all. Leave alone "dead".
N_tro_P wrote: You can not have a process that does not agree with the culture.
Thanks for making my point for me.
Unfortunately, the shots are called by a small number of people who neither understand agile, nor software development and they thrust this down upon everyone to execute every kind of project. So, in practice, we end up having the agile way of doing things, no matter whether the culture sees it as fit. How many times are the developers being consulted with before this is being shoved down their throats? In majority of the cases: Zero.
N_tro_P wrote: You may be correct on the second one, but you are dead wrong on the first. The only type of projects that should be using Waterfall type approaches are those that require massive analysis of requirement documents, e.g. certified systems.
You're making a very good point here, but you've also unfortunately contradicted yourselves (culture fit, remember?).
For those projects that are suitable to be executed in an agile way, the culture may or may not make it effective. And this isn't considered in most workplaces which results in conflicts between the team.
I hope you're not one of those certified-agile-scrummy-project-executioner-level-4 dude. Because if you were, you'd read the text but won't infer a thing.
You've to be a developer (with experience working in multiple places) to feel my pain. For all good reasons, I assume you are. 
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