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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does not look like the best approach to me but for now I am going to leave it as
it is"
Appalled by the lack of the professionalism! In cases like this I usually write something like: "I leveraged the most cost-effective solution here".
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The reference source is open for quite some time already, took quite a while for someone to get the idea to dig out these pearls...  His article is a bit inaccurate because they didn't release that part of the source code recently. Nice findings anyways.
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Mozilla says the new Firefox ad initiative takes a kinder, gentler approach to pitching you products. Finally! The feature that no one asked for
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Glad I never got hooked on Firefox. 
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Firefox will provide users an option to disable the ads, by going into the gear icon in the upper right corner of the New Tab page, and clicking away from "Enhanced."
Well, that's good. But what is "click away"? That sounds like a weird gestures.
I suspect that we will start to see some new ad-free browser appearing soon.
On the other hand, maybe it's time to try IE again. 
Marc
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Switch to Pale Moon[^] ...it's a clone of FireFox optimized for Windows.
Update: Also, I forgot to add that all your old FF plugins like FireBug still work with Pale Moon.
modified 13-Nov-14 19:44pm.
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Quote: The ads are a way for Mountain View, Calif.-based Mozilla to stay relevant at a time when more people are making use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google's Chrome when browsing the Web.
How does putting something unpopular into the browser help to make it more popular with users? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Amazon Web Services today announced Lambda, a whole new web service in the public cloud that abstracts away the infrastructure underlying application code. Because they needed another lock-in point
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As Microsoft makes more of its services and products available on other platforms, there has been much speculation over whether Cortana might also make its way to iOS and Android - a possibility that Microsoft has previously played down. Except on iOS where she'll have a posh accent
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Probe landing attracts allegations that 67P is not a comet but alien object kept secret by Nasa and European Space Agency. That didn't take too long
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 Really? Do these people really have nothing better to do than make up conspiracy theories?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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We all know the aliens paid you to say that!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Sun Microsystems was in a spot similar to Microsoft’s in the mid-2000s. Certainly Sun was much smaller than Microsoft, but the company was still selling servers and some software when the first bubble burst. Without the going out of business part, I guess.
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Former Microsoft CEO makes donation to expand Harvard's computer science department. AI! AI! AI!
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I suppose the marketing hype buzzword train had to loop around sometime.
Next he'll be pitching Client-Server systems.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Harvard
Right town, wrong institution.
Actually, that sounds like giving a Golgafrinchan hair dresser a couple of sticks and expecting him to invent fire.
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And Ballmer - of course - know everything about computer science...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: to expand Harvard's computer science department.
When was the last time anything actually useful came out of a university's CS department?
(And yes, I'm referring to the "degreed", not just the research.)
Marc
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Why do we listen to uncle fester anymore?
He dropped windows 8 on us and now is a hoops team owner.
Someone let him know he is not relevant (anymore?)
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The developer shortage is coinciding with newer, more complicated tools that most workers can't really use. Not everyone can be a rocket surgeon
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And how do employers deal with that?
According to heise.de (see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Fachkraefte-gesucht-Unternehmen-vergeben-viele-Chancen-2444021.html[^]), they rather prefer a less-qualified candidate over an "expensive" highly-qualified candidate.Quote: Doch bei dem Gehalt zeigen sich die meisten Unternehmen wenig flexibel. Sie sind eher bereit, bei der Qualifikation Abstriche zu machen, als bei der Bezahlung Kompromisse einzugehen, so das Ergebnis des IAB-Betriebspanels 2013 mit 16 000 befragten Betrieben. Danach machen etwa die Hälfte Kompromisse bei der Qualifikation, aber nur 21 Prozent bei der Bezahlung
Methinks there's a lack of cheap code monkeys, not of qualified experts. And with the code monkeys, there is no need to invest into sophisticted expensive tools either. Problem solved.
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We are all brain scientists though!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Since enabling community contributions to the compiler in April, then opening up the F# Visual Studio stack in June, the F# language and Visual F# IDE tooling stack has been developed in full partnership with the open source developer community. Don't know how I could have possibly missed this yesterday
Ah well, at least there is still some love for F# in Redmond
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We are happy to work closely with Microsoft to make sure that .NET developers can build native apps for every device on the planet. Just buy them already.
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