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BillWoodruff wrote: It will then use the information it collects to target ads to non-Facebook users. "Surely ... not moi !
I just shared your message on Facebook. They know you now. They're not happy. You best sleep with one eye open 
Seriously though, I signed up for Facebook about a year ago. I never wanted it because I believed you can't "sign up for friendship" and "I really don't need to know what you harvested in Farmville."
I won't say it's the best thing I ever did, because it isn't (signing up on here did my a lot more good!), but it isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
People actually share fun stuff (besides the kittens and cats, which alone make it worth it) like new music and movie releases, political views, and funny comics. And I get invited to parties once in a while
Surely people also share a lot of rubbish (mostly pregnancies, babies, and "I'm a Disney princess! Which princess are you?"), but I just read past that and filter out the good stuff
As for privacy, "they" know all about me already. Google does, my government does, the American government probably does as well, some other websites, including CodeProject, does. Facebook might as well do too (if they didn't already).
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That's OK; if you weren't blocking it, their like/share button widgets that've been blighting the web since creation already were tracking you. (And so do most of the equivalents for rival platforms.) 
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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Google should get the movie rights and make even more money from Oracle! 
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The US Department of Labor projects that one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. Candy Code Reviews reported unsuccessful.
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"The US Department of Labor projects that one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020."
Putting aside the completely made up number, most the jobs have nothing to do with coding and many aren't very good, though could lead to something good.
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Fixed the subject line for you. 
Marc
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Misconceptions and 'best practices' may have your team spinning wheels rather than continuously churning out productive code It wouldn't be Friday without a judgemental listicle.
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This could be shortened to:
1) Doing Agile
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Why can I only thumbs-up this once? 
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Thank you! Apparently I needed a Project Manager for that.
I'll show myself out...
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Quote: To remediate this, remember that the main goal is to deliver working software, not to follow a recipe; there is no recipe that always works for every project and team. Therefore, let each team adopt their own practices and take responsibility for adjusting and improving them.
This is a wonderful idea as long as your teams are totally rigid and personnel never move between or work in multiple teams at once. In that case, everyone doing their completely different thing makes any sort of staffing agility a nightmarish cluster elephant. 
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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Dan Neely wrote: In that case, everyone doing their completely different thing makes any sort of staffing agility a nightmarish cluster elephant
Not every one but every project. There's a huge difference. You just need to ensure your developers are flexible and adaptable.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Agile practice needs not only organized team members but also the members should know what to do as being a self sufficient. This is very important. Else you will end up with stand up meeting without doing nothing and finally you will deliver your MOM to the client which is a failure.
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Tor developers have been working on the next iteration of the Tor network and its underbelly, the Onion routing protocol, in order to create a stronger, harder-to-crack anonymous communications system. "As far as we know, a distributed random generation system like this has never been deployed before on the Internet." - Tor team.
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Hmm. Interesting. I wonder if it would be vulnerable to substitution of one or more of the networked RNG servers.
#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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Probably not any single server; but when the FBI floods the neetwork with enough that it owns a majority of the distributed RNG....
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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Exactly. If you can do one, you can do many, and then it becomes predictable.
#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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Microsoft has u-turned over changes it made to a pop-up encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 10. We did it!
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My solution still works: disable win update.
will not re enable before w10 is 1 year old and paying.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I'm not clear if what is described in the BBC article is in fact the May 26 re-appearance of KB 3035583. See Woody Leonhard's take on it here: [^].
I know I ain't installing it, though.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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There's a new report out from Bloomberg this week detailing Google's behind-the-scenes efforts to expedite Android software updates. Crack that whip.
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As fast-food workers across the country vie for $15 per hour wages, many business owners have already begun to take humans out of the picture. But can that robot arm sass me? I'll pay extra for a little sassin'
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