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GitHub et al. may be fine for open-source projects, but there is still plenty of proprietary code out there that no-one in their right mind would put on a server that they don't control.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The transition from command line to line-of-command requires a new mind-set -- and a thick skin. "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
Because I couldn't remember the source of, "The easy part was losing my mind."
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In the (slightly depressing) possibility that anyone is actually considering this transition, I recommend the book : Managing Humans[^] (I used it in my brief time amongst the slippy ones)
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The programmer's guide to breaking into management, step by step
- Don't do it.
- See step 1
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Very much this. I did my time as a supervisor. When my boss pulled me aside one day during a corporate "restructuring" and told me that my direct reports were being taken away from me and all of us were going to report direct to him, I was actually giddy. I felt happier about that change than any pay raise I'd ever received.
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Exactly, some need to control people. I enjoy the more difficult task of forcing Silicon to do my bidding.
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It is no longer a matter of whether an organization should take advantage of open-source software; it’s also a matter of understanding, handling and managing all the open-source software coming in. Oh boy, the fun part of software development. 
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Legal issues have been part of software development for a long time now. The major difference between proprietary software and open-source software is the "virality" of some open-source licenses. For example, any software that contains open-source software using GPL must be made open-source.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A new study suggests that Google’s search results are skewed towards its own services, a move that it claims actually harms consumers and social welfare. Do. Know evil?
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Unfortunately the article doesn't mention how consumers are actually harmed.
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Judging from what I've read elsewhere about the study author, because they can't see Yelp reviews often enough. 
TTFN - Kent
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The alternative is Bing, so that leaves us with just one solution... Get that Ask toolbar back! 
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Considering Google's original business model, selling placement, why would one expect an unbiased return from Google searches?
It's sounds like part of the kind of excuse the EU is using to try to subsidize their economies at the expense of US corporations.
One wonders how much these users would be willing to pay per click for unbiased searchers?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yes, but it is oke if we do it.
We do it for their own good 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Supreme Court has declined to hear Oracle v. Google, sending the long-running case back to a lower court where Google will have to argue that it made fair use of Oracle's copyrighted APIs. They couldn't figure out how to vote 5-4 on it, or is it summer break already?
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System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code.
Source code? Where we're going, we don't need source code...
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Drat! Repost by 4 minutes. Kent remains the Fastest Poster in the West.
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If it makes you feel any better I liked your one line summation better.
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In that case, I'm ... "borrowing" it.
TTFN - Kent
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Are you kidding? I was patting myself on the back for beating you once 
Also, I'm totally stealing your blurb.
TTFN - Kent
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At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by automatically importing functionality from other, more secure applications. "You will be assimilated"
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Don't let Watson get hold of this functionality. We'll all be doomed. 
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Microsoft announced today on Somasegar's blog that Visual Studio 2015 will be available for download on July 20th. Just in time for your Apollo 11 celebrations
Assuming it wasn't a hoax[^].
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Wow, so much celebration ahead. First Apollo/VS2015, and nine days later Win10/my birthday.  But, in case of Apollo, it's nothing special - 2019 is the big birthday.
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As we all know how overjoyed Kent was last week with the release of Atom 1.0, I thought I'd spare him distress by supplying the link to a test drive of Adobe's new/upcoming Text Editor. Because there can never be too many text editors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aquNKst6Cto[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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