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After major gains since 2011, there are now nearly 20 million software developers worldwide -- a third of whom are hobbyists. Congratulations on the 20th anniversary of this (incorrect) headline
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Funny, our local news (Bristol, UK) was today saying the exact opposite. That there is a chronic shortage of developers in the area.
Come over and fill yer boots 
(Actually, the renumeration isn't that great around here unless you get lucky, so it may take a while for those boots to fill)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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McLaren, the British company famous for its supercars and its involvement with Formula One racing, is focusing on fine-tuning the details: windshield wipers, to be exact. The company is reportedly working on a windshield wiper system that would make physical wipers obsolete. Drive really fast, between the rain drops
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They lost me at " it's an "electronic system that never fails" " .
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They had you at "McLaren"? Business must be good.
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TTFN - Kent
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I thought it said, "McDonalds". 
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I'm thinking these guys with the loud basey systems in their car have the idea, the rain drops just vibrate of the window and for that matter the whole car.
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cleaning the snow and ice off your windshield could be a completely automated — and easy — hands-off task.
I'm sorry, but there's no amount of sissy high-frequency sound that is going to remove the ice off my windshield after a night of hard freezing rain. The fact that I practically need a jackhammer and have broken several scrapers with my bare hands against the ice is all I need to know that this is ridiculous.
Marc
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Microsoft ships an update to Azure every three weeks. Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's vice president for Windows Azure, reckons it's adding features and capacity in an effort to catch up with Amazon. What's nu with the Gu?
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New data shows that the enterprise apps is most profitable for mobile developers. There are clear implications for both software companies and CIOs. Candy Crush Saga, Enterprise Edition?
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Earlier this year, Microsoft Research employee David Rothschild teamed up with Office to create an Excel app for predicting the winners of the 2013 Academy Awards. In the end, based on examining tons of data, Rothschild was able to correctly determine the winners of 19 of the 24 Oscar categories. "The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen."
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Google begins building its Dart programming language directly into Chrome, hoping a multilingual future will speed up Web apps. But what if Dart apps only work in Chrome? I'll just be dusting off my "Works best in..." GIFs
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Microsoft is set to close on a deal to purchase the vast majority of Nokia’s handset business in the first quarter of 2014. The deal will see the software giant become a smartphone OEM overnight, helping its push into the hardware business. People didn't want Windows Phones, they wanted Lumias
And before you type it, yes. Yes, I know Lumias run Windows Phone. Really, I do. So don't type that.
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All our base are belong to Google searches...
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Actually, I switched to Bing recently (and outlook.com long ago).
Took a while to detox my brain (where are the hotels? rentals? news? - I was confused ! only results?), but now actually I can find something relevant.
Nuclear launch detected
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Dear sir or madam pardon me Nokia Lumia is running Windows Phone. Now with a new CListCtrl !
Nuclear launch detected
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That's right up with Motorola threatening to go Windows Phone and begin patent trolling all it's Android rivals shortly before Google bought them. Dirty negotiating tactics to drive up the sale price. 
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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The search goes on -- and on - for someone to take on Steve Ballmer's job. The latest word out of Microsoft: No announcement until early 2014. So, if that's not a new CEO wrapped up under the tree, what is it?
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The DB-Engines site currently ranks Oracle as the top database, but it's losing ground to open source competition SELECT TOP 10 FROM sys_databases
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MySQL is also Oracle 
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Yup, but here they distinguish between databases, not the company. If only Oracle didn't ship Oracle, life would be less complex.
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TTFN - Kent
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Look at the graph[^] from the source. Prior to last month the top 3 databases were all basically flat for a year. Last month they have every database except Oracle and MsSql ticking up; that's clearly a systematic change/glitch in their methodolgy not real data. Possibly they did it for click bait while racing tiobe to the bottom of worthless ranking generation...
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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Today, we released a new version of the Ajax Control Toolkit that contains several important bug fixes and new features. The new release contains a new Tabs control that has been entirely rewritten in jQuery. Lookitthat, they're still working on it (and now in jQuery)
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The White House has named Microsoft's Kurt DelBene the point man in the government's quest to fix the much maligned healthcare.gov, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. DelBene is the president of Microsoft Office Division. Too many people (wrongly) think I'm anti-Microsoft, so I'll just say, "Good luck"
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