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Ah, I had forgotten about the best way to deal with Apollo conspiracy theorists[^]. I'll have to watch this a few more times today. 
TTFN - Kent
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Putting fake people on Mars and getting fat people off Mars.
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Microsoft's cloud strategy could well carry the company for many years. The forecast calls for light, scattered clouds, with a 60% chance of haters.
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"
Wait a minute. Something smells fishy here. Isn't that exactly what Hailstorm was supposed to be? I smell an architecture astronaut.
And what is this Windows Live Mesh?
It's a way to synchronize files.
Jeez, we've had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not.
" -- Architecture astronauts take over by Joel Spolsky Thursday, May 01, 2008[^]
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Many of the greatest companies in the 21st century, including Virgin, 37signals, and IBM have built successful businesses by providing people the freedom to work where they want, when they want and how they want. Because my to-do list is already full?
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No, it's not here, because managers want control and there's this huge mentality that "oh, you can't work from home because then we'd have to let every else work from home and we don't trust anybody." Grr, this whole thing makes me so  --
I used to do consulting for a big communication satellite manufacturer, and the exec's would talk about how the company was facilitating communication, remote access, etc. And what was their internal company policy??? "We do not allow our people to work from home unless there are special extenuating circumstances, your manager and his manager approve it, and then only for a limited period of time."
f****** morons.
Marc
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Yup. Same experience at largish software company: we sell the tools to do it, but we won't. 
Ah well, they did eventually get smart about it. After I left.
TTFN - Kent
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Dragging people who'd been full time WFH back into the office because your facility utilization numbers were looking bad (and impeding the generation of overhead dollars) after a large drop in headcount is even more face palm worthy.
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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Charles Petzold [^] started working-full time with Xamarin[^] today. This lends even more credibility to the C# based cross-platform mobile development platform! 
/ravi
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I hope he makes it free.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Me too, hope Xamarin will be free in the future
In code we trust !
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I hope he makes it good.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I hope he makes it documented.
/ravi
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Language’s architect Brian Goetz lays out how OpenJDK 9 will make generics easier to turn into specialized classes.
"Generic quote here."
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TOTally stolen blurb, thank you! 
TTFN - Kent
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I'm still waiting for the language that goes beyond generics into the realm of hypotheticals. You could use the keyword "imagine" 
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Bountysource is a crowdfunding site aimed at open source software developers. It allows developers to offer a “bounty” to developers as an incentive to address bugs, or contribute to a particular feature.
Seems like a combo of Kickstarter and Topcoder for devs.
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The language is called Swift, and on June 2, Apple released a test version to coders outside the company, billing it as a faster and more effective means of building software apps for iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Even then, four years after Lattner first envisioned the language, it came as a shock to all but a limited number of Apple insiders. Hyperbole (noun): exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
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Swift, also referred to [by Apple and Apple fanboys] as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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Wow, that's any illusion of editorial independence at Wired absolutely shattered.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Even though Microsoft still has 90 percent of the PC market, Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner says, the important figure is 14 percent, taking into account the entire world of devices. "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here."
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Ah, so the office is no longer what determines the important figure? 
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If you can get a Bananaman reference in here somewhere then I'll be impressed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This new release makes it even easier for business experts, business analysts and other app imagineers to create powerful custom mobile apps that are connected to enterprise services, major SaaS, and popular web and social services. Now with 50% more Beta, and SharePoint support!
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Like Microsoft Access for the internet age - yay - I wondered where my next decade's overpaid fix-other-people's-mess gigs would come from.
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