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There are certain constants in life, and one of them is a never-ending spate of predictions that Linux is dead on the desktop. It's inevitable that we see these kinds of article popping up every once in a while. CIO has one of the latest examples of this as it tries to make the case that Linux is dead on the desktop.
Linux is dead. Long live Linux.
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Just saw this was posted yesterday! My bad!
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The injustice is that programming has become an elite: a vocation requiring rare talents, grueling training, and total dedication. "You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different."
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"My guidance counselor said I'd be an under-achiever."
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I think that article is spot on.
Marc
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You mean I got one right? Usually the comments tell me what a stupid selection I've been making for the articles. 
TTFN - Kent
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It's not you - I think you make great selections that illustrate what idiots most people are. In this case, I strongly agree with the author, which might simply mean there are two idiots in the room now. 
Marc
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I like your picks, Kent...keep them coming
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Thank you very much (and Marc as well, and everyone else who likes my picks). It makes my panda sad when they're not up to snuff.
TTFN - Kent
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I suspect the real blame lies with an unnamed person whose name rhymes with Mris Chaunder; but it's that the Insider prioritizes having the same number of articles every day over only having links quality articles.
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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In particular this paragraph:
Quote: The civilized platforms controlled by large companies who invested in developer tools are all gone, strangled by the Darwinian jungle of the web. It is hard for programmers who have only known the web to realize how incredibly awful it is compared to past platforms. The web is just an enormous stack of kluges upon hacks upon misbegotten designs. This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: it takes a skilled programmer with years of experience just to build simple applications on today’s web. What a waste. Twenty years of expediency has led the web into a technical debt crisis. To my shame, we are OK with that.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: In particular this paragraph:
Exactly.
Marc
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Agree completely.
Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates [JavaScript]
grossly understates how bad things are.
If I can't do desktop applications I'll do mobile apps. Web development is about as appealing as a management lobotomy. 
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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I think at this stage we need to treat JavaScript the way the 80s treated machine code - yes, it's a thing you can create by hand but you would be so much better using a high level language to do so.
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Until you can debug your compiles to javascript language as the original language in your browser you're just adding another layer of WTF onto the pile.
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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This article nails why I'm working towards getting out of programming.
After using tools like Visual Studio and Silverlight to create awesome applications delivered via the web I'm simply not willing to roll back 20 years of development evolution to work with the dozen or so technologies it takes to get an HTML solution put together. I'm dismayed that goofy selling points actually convinced so many people to invest in the worse development stack imaginable.
If you like the HTML/CSS/JavaScript mess more power to you.
I have a life outside of programming that I'd like to maintain.
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Sometimes the hiring practices of even the biggest and most successful companies can be outright ridiculous. How long is a string?
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I've been asked the "why are manhole covers round" question. I said because the holes are round. I was then asked "what prevents the cover from falling in then?" I answered because there is a lip on the hole to prevent that, which are also done with square holes as well (and I've seen square "manholes" too). Basically construct the hole so that it's impossible to prevent the cover from falling into it. I didn't get the job, but the interviewer was more than satisfied by my answer as it was the most straightforward and simple response he'd ever received. He was actually kind of disappointed that I wasn't nonplussed by it. It was and is a stupid question and does not at all help determine how someone thinks or how good of a developer you are.
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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To keep the Daleks out.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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A square (or other non-round) manhole cover can be rotated so that it falls through though.
TTFN - Kent
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not if the underlying lip is large enough so that the diagonal between two opposite corners is shorter than the side of the square or sortest side of the non-round cover.
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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Back when I was interviewed for a job, the interviewer ask me this, "How can I go to your house from here?". I answered, "via bus Sir."
I didn't get the job because they said I was sarcastic.
Seriously, what's with the stupid question? Will it be a good proof that I will be a good developer? 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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There are so many answers to this question and the one the "interviewer" was probably expecting is the only wrong one - actually a circle is the only shape that can fall into the hole no matter what orientation it is in and this would happen if the manhole didn't have a lip.
Real reasons:
1) Cast iron is really expensive so the less of it you use the better - a round cover uses less metal than any other shape.
2) Cast iron is really expensive - per above
3) Cast iron is really heavy - a shape you can roll is easier to transport
4) Manholes are round because cylinders are stronger than cubes under compression and humans are broadly speaking cylindrical when going up/down a ladder.
5) Tradition/change impedance - there are so many existing round manholes that any attempt to introduce a different shape faces impossible odds
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When did Business Insider turn into Buzzfeed?
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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It has been migrating that way for a few months now. More and more headlines of the "You won't believe what happened next" variety. I keep hoping they're doing it ironically.
TTFN - Kent
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