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Wow, 5,000 mid-level managers fired. That's a lot of mid-level managers. 
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Only probably another 5,000 in Windows alone. 
They're pretty middle management heavy. "Senior Principal Program Manager", etc.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has followed up his lengthy inspirational memo on Microsoft’s future with a harsh dose of reality, promising layoffs of up to 18,000 employees over the next year.
In a brief e-mail to Microsoft employees this morning titled “Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture,” Nadella explained that the “strategic alignment” of Nokia Devices and Services will account for approximately 12,500 professional and factory layoffs. Microsoft is currently in the process of the first 13,000 layoffs, for which employees will be notified over the next six months and offered severance packages.
But who will build all the Windows Phones they (aren't) selling!?
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Earlier today, Microsoft announced the biggest layoffs in the history of the company, axing 18,000 employees. Out of those 18,000, 12,500 employees are a part of Nokia that came under the leadership of the software giant. However, that's not the only interesting bit in the email sent by Satya Nadella to its employees, he mentioned "select" Nokia X product designs will switch to Windows Phone. RIP: Nokia X - 24 Feb-17Jul, 2014. They will be missed.
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Microsoft has a really cool feature in the pipeline for Skype, and with a bit of luck it will be released in 'preview' later this year. At WPC in Washington, D.C., they showed it off in front of 14,000 partners. If you were not able to watch the keynote this morning but would like to see the real-time Skype translation demo, we were able to record it while we watched the keynote. A little ungefähr gleich, but there is potential. No hovercrafts, nor eels.
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The back-end framework is poised to shake up the development world. For those who hate client-side JavaScript, now you can hate server-side JavaScript too!
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I think Node.JS is quite cool.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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No. JS in the browser is bad enough.
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I mostly agree; but if I have to do buzzword compliant web dev again node would at least let me use VS instead of either having to fight with bean counters to buy me a new tool[^]  or to use an editor although more colorful is less capable than what I learned to program on nearly 20 years ago[^].
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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Meh. IDEs are overrated. I use VS on Windows and vim on Linux and don't see any difference in productivity between the environments.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: I use VS on Windows and vim on Linux and don't see any difference in productivity between the environments.
*locks eyes with Church of VI member, gesturing to the right, while creeping to the left*
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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Our thoughts on JavaScript, APIs, Conway's Law, re-decentralization and much more. "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
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Over 600,000 titles and 'thousands' of audiobooks for $9.99 each month. "A multitude of books distracts the mind."
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I’m in an intriguing position on this subject, because I’m not a developer anymore. I haven’t launched Xcode since last December. Every time I’m out socially with software developers (which is often; I’ve made many good friends in that line of work, and I have no desire to lose them), at least one person asks me if I miss the job. "Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
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More signs of growing worker confidence: Increase in rejected job offers and in employees quitting their jobs. "They'd call us gypsies, tramps, and thieves"
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Microsoft has a massive ecosystem of devices around the world and at its Windows Partner keynote, Tony Prophet, stated that the company has 1.5 billion devices running Windows around the world. That figure is representative of all Windows devices including desktop PCs and Windows Phones. Yeah, that's what I heard: they're totally doomed.
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Developing great apps takes time, but in the age of the customer that time is measured in days and weeks — not months. "Hand-coding is too slow to develop and deliver many of the applications that companies use to win, serve and retain customers." Pardon me while I go kick something with 'Forrester' written on it
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We are at the dawn of the internet of things that don't work very well...
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It's hard to take the author seriously when he misspells company names. Maybe he should have spent more time on the article.
/ravi
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K2? Yeah's that's an easy one to misspell. Which ones were miffed? I was rolling my eyes too much to read closely.
TTFN - Kent
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Now you have me searching for 'softare'. It's surprising[^] just how many[^] people [^]seem to make that typo.
TTFN - Kent
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I have also seen 'sotware' and 'softwar' (as opposed to hardwar?)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Don't forget the plural form: softwares. Or even better: codes.
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