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When you are working for someone else, it is really important to spend time working for yourself as well, otherwise you are building someone else’s empire while neglecting your own.
That's probably the single best advice I give to anyone working "for the man" - even as a consultant, I like to have side projects, and most of the articles I've written here are the result of those side projects.
Marc
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Some things I knew from the beginning. I have learned the importance of community, particularly the web. Without the web I would not be as successful. I have also learned by doing articles, and answering questions. It is amazing what you learn when you have to better understand what you are doing so that you can complete an article. Also, learned a lot about LINQ by answering questions.
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What is the forecast for tech? It depends on whom you ask. Mirror, mirror, on the wall...
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"Always have a side project". 
Or several!
/ravi
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I think Tech has been in a slump, but only sort of. What we appear to have is a big bubble that will burst sometime. The governments of the world are overspending, and at some point it will come back to haunt us, and probably only in a few years. So far managed to control spending with artificial maintenance of the intrest rates at appauling low levels. Beleive this has badly affected the economy since riskier businesses cannot get loans. Why put money to work when you really get no returns. Meanwhile the stock market is ignoring the impending doom. When it hits, it may make the Great Depression and Great Recession look minor. I suspect it will be real bad.
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People with knowledge worth sharing will soon be able to monetize their minds through Google's forthcoming Helpouts platform. "And I do appreciate you being 'round"
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The company is actively seeking users affected by one of last week's six problematic patches that freezes some Windows 7 and Vista machines No glory or pay, but you do get to keep using your computer
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I Had a crash problem this year after a "Security update" on a dual boot system Only problem was you could not start the system to uninstal the update.
After running the start up diagnostics it said the problem was caused by a patch, but no where did I find WHich one of the six.
It had to do a system retore from before the Update was installed , so if system retore is not enabled it may be difficult to fix without starting in debug mode and attaching another system to it.
Even Safe mode didn't help.
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Ouch. That's a brutal story. Sadly, all too common. It definitely makes me want to point out Marc's solution[^] more and more (although if you install after the update, you're still in the same mess).
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TTFN - Kent
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Yes I read that one, don't know why if it was disabled why it done the update.
I dumped Win 8 after the developer preview so have no way to test what may have happened.
The only other thing I can think of is those updates that change your settings to what they want them to be and don't bother to tell you.
Like when my UAC kept getting set back to enabled.(for my own protection of course)
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The current solution to this problem has been released: [MS Patch Fix]
(click the link)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Tried it didn't like it.
My first experience with that was better than with Windows 8.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that formation of internet.org, a group whose intention is to make the internet available to the entire world. "Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya"
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..because that's what the world needs; it's not water, food, or safety, or access to basic medical care - it's internetz for every1.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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As long as they can shove the adverts in your face, even if you can't buy anything. 
Wout
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wout de zeeuw wrote: As long as they can shove the adverts in your face, even if you can't buy anything.
and as long as they can count on the marketers being stupid enough to never realize advertising to the too poor to buy anything group could only result in increased theft losses. 
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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Well, it can be seen as a good way to get cheap education to the poorer population; and educated people (in general) will be in better position to make better decision concerning water usage (better agricultural ways), medicine and health decision (usage of condom), ...
I'd rather be phishing!
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 They probably don't realize not everyone in the world has a phone or computer. If they do realize it, they need to rename their domain to NoPoverty.org and redo their mission statement.
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What it really means is that Node.js is not a silver-bullet new platform that will dominate the web development world. Instead, it’s a platform that fills a particular need. "If I had a rocket launcher..."
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That shiny new tech toy might appear irresistible--until you realize its mark-up is obscene. Caveat emptor
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I don't think the statement about there being no difference in digital cables is correct. You'd think digital is either it works or it doesn't, but it's not that simple. The transmission usually has errors, which are fixed using some error correction. The better the cable quality, the less errors, and the bigger chance the signal arrives exactly like it was sent. Sometimes on digital TV you also see these blocky images when there's a bad transmission. Other than that you probably don't notice the difference though.
Wout
modified 21-Aug-13 5:18am.
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Im not sure I completely agree. Sure, bad cables would lead to errors, but I don't see any issues with my current Belkin HDMI cable (about $10 on Amazon), and definitely can't see myself paying for Monster cables (up to $50). Ditto most "reasonable" quality network cables. I think that some companies (Monster being the most famous) prey on people by using the most extreme edge cases (and prices).
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If you act fast and have clear, dark skies you can see it for yourself. Nature has even kindly placed it in a convenient location, high in the east at sunset, with an arrow of stars (the small constellation Saggita–literally, “the arrow”) pointing right at it. "Blow'd up good, blow'd up real good!"
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PowerShell framework for deploying distributed .NET applications to multi-server environments inspired by Capistrano Get your apps out there
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Running Groklaw is impossible now due to government surveillance, according to site owner Pamela Jones But... We've always been at war with Groklaw!
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