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All I can say is that JaxEnter have managed to take a piece of research and horribly generalise it to areas the study itself didn't study.
1. The study only dealt with young adults.
2. The study had f-all to do with programmers, or productivity.
Its the developer's blog equivalent of a Daily Mail headline.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With a useful build of OneGet making an appearance in the Windows 10 Technical Preview (build 9926+) I thought it was a good time to stop and catch y'all up on what the heck is goin' on. apt-get search Where'd-they-get-that-idea?
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OneGet uses camelCase not snake-case.
They're completely different 
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The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for its default web player. So my sole reason for installing Flash is now Kongregate
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That's blindingly good news. I can finally uninstall Flash without my son sulking for ever.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I recently flipped the click to play switch on Flash again; but the number of sites that default to or only (I've got better things to do than poke around looking for a setting that probably requires me to create an account to store) offer flash video is high enough that after 1 day I'm already leaning towards toggling it back to automatic loading. 
Unless most of the random sites hosting video world follows Google's lead and defaults to serving desktop browsers HTML5, I don't think we're going to be able to escape it anytime soon unless Mozilla's html5 powered flash player[^] is a success. It's been around for a while without getting done enough to be useful; but in relation to the war on NSAPI plugins I recently saw them setting targets for later this year about being able to replace flash for all the major video players on the market.
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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Yay! Yippie Kai-ay! Take that, Flash! NoMoFlash!
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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What does it take to become a great—or even just a good—software developer? "Some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them"
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All you need is a CP account...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yep!
To ask for codz plz!
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lol.... you made it more "urgentzzzz" than me 
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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 I was thinking of going there for my blurb, but I figured people would complain I was 'sucking up'
TTFN - Kent
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Coffee.
Software developer is a device for turning coffeine into code.
 
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Details remain murky, but Microsoft's biggest customers will have to pay for a traditional update cadence, say analysts "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
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More responsible business practices and new laws are needed to make the Internet of Things viable, the FTC says. Regulate all the things!
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Despite the good intentions behind the movement to get people to code, both the basic premise and approach are flawed. It's the old literacy? Or is it the new black?
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Coding is obviously nothing like literacy, but there are definitely parallels.
Alan Kay was heavily motivated by using computers in educational settings. Watch a few of his videos and you'll see kids get amazing results from computers. Teaching them to code to code in a non-interactive way (by interactive, I DO NOT mean a REPL, which many seem to regard has the high-point in immediate feedback) will likely scare them off for life though.
Seriously, check some of the videos available on You Tube of his work.
Also worth checking are videos relating to the Self language.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Technology professionals are not only enjoying better job prospects, they're netting -- slightly -- bigger paychecks for their work. "Think I'll buy me a football team"
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I would be happy enough buying me a new car 
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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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is showing the same kind of leadership that Steve Jobs used to rescue Apple. Does that mean that they're going to suddenly triple their prices?
(While removing all the features and/or forcing you through iTunes for everything?)
Does that make Ballmer the Woz?
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Jobs didn't have as dark of a tan...
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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Yuck.
Is it Apple or Microsoft that owns the largest part of the software-market? And what is the long-term outlook for a company that makes mobile phones?
If Microsoft is going to be "rescued" in Jobs-style they'll loose their dominant position and become an Apple.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Legacy code (outdated to the point of obsolescence) is currently being created at a rate never before seen in the history of IT. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
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Hopefully for the ages. At least a few of em....
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