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With the arrival of the iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus), this may be a good time to review smartphone market share and usage share trends around the world. So that's who's buying Windows Phone
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Western Europeans seem to love those live tiles...
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As much as developers have enjoyed new options in programming languages, databases, and more, they're increasingly asking for consolidation to simplify development. In the end, they're all just 1s and 0s
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"Shaka, when the walls fell."
(who knows the source of that quote without googling?)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: "Shaka, when the walls fell."
One of my favorites. 
I do wonder how individual words can be translated but not the whole statement.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation 
'Timbah, his arms wide'
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Darmok
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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I found the database ranking that is referred to comforting. Yet Cache is still ranked too high -- it must be wiped out! And where's RDB? Is it combined in Oracle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Rdb[^]
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Back in May, Microsoft announced their decision to openly share their platform roadmap via status.modern.IE. Yesterday, IE team announced another round of updates to their plan. These updates include new ECMAScript, Networking, Performance, Media, CSS, and DOM features under consideration and in development. Coming eventually to a browser near you (or already there if you use the right browser)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: These updates include new ECMAScript, Networking, Performance, Media, CSS, and DOM features under consideration and in development.
Oh, you mean trying to make the sh*t compliant?
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Injecting a bit of code through paper ballots. Sadly, alert('l') didn't win
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It's developer season at my company. Unlike with deer season, we’re hiring rather than shooting, though not all survive the interview process. Blue. My parachute is blue.
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Interview questions reveal quite a lot about the interviewer (and their company). In the example in the article, question 3 translates as "We get errors that have escaped into production and we don't have sufficient diagnostics to know why. Can you help us round up these velociraptors and put them back in their papier mache cages and tell us how you think they escaped?"
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At the same time, "it all went kersplat" is the most interesting troubleshooting case. When you've got a nice error log reporting exactly what's wrong it's an easy fix; hunting down the gremlins when you discover that one of your 3rd party components has a silent fail condition (or some idiot managed to slip an exception eater into production) really is the make or break between poor and good trouble shooting skills.
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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Inforworld.com and interview questions; two of the biggest red flags for a content free article...
...and somehow it manages to be one of the better examples of each category I've seen in years.
*picks jaw up off the floor*
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 hate to be the one to tell you this, but: we, the people of the Internet, have collectively run up a colossal amount of technical debt. Much of our online infrastructure consists of band-aid and/or legacy Rube Goldberg solutions hacked together with bubble gum and baling wire; and the only way to pay back technical debt is to fix it. "We have no kings or presidents. We believe in rough consensus and running code."
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You mean - clean up all the sh*t, like in the fifth labor of Heracles?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yeah. If only we had a handy river to redirect.
TTFN - Kent
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Just seed the cloud to trigger a downpour. 
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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Microsoft is now reorganizing security within the company. On Friday, Net Security reported that Microsoft has disbanded the Trustworthy Computing group and will migrate those functions throughout the company. Well, that's it then. No more trust from me!
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This assumes that we had trust in the first place.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Hardware keeps getting smaller, more powerful and more distributed. To keep up with growing system complexity, there's a growing software revolution—called “reactive” development—that defines how to architect applications that are going to participate in this new world of multicore, cloud, mobile and Web-scale systems. "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that defines how to architect applications that are going to participate in this new world of multicore, cloud, mobile and Web-scale systems.
Yup.[^]
Marc
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http://crashworks.org/if_programming_languages_were_vehicles/[^]
This misses a few of our (anti)favorites; but manages to cover most of the bases reasonably well, and I can't really look at it any call anything out for being just wrong.
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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So BASIC could be a VW beetle or Citroën 2CV. But what about Pascal? Something else French?
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