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The number of on-demand workers in the U.S. is expected to nearly double in the next four years. A solution for the 'codes plz' folk?
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Containers are an important trend in our industry and .NET is part of that. Microsoft and Docker have been working together so that you’ll have a great experience using Docker with .NET apps. You got tzatziki in my chocolate (or vice versa)
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Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo are teaming up to help more young people become tomorrow's programmers. "Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?"
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The bitcoin rally looks like it's finally running out of steam. "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket"
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Personal health information and other sensitive data is left exposed as businesses overlook encryption and network security. But it's on the Cloud! That's automatically secure, right?
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SQL Server? I'm not using insecure M$ apps....I'm going to use MongoDB and put it in the cloud!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But it's on the Cloud! That's automatically secure, right?
Of course! No one can reach that high, except the military and commercial airlines. Scratch that. I don't trust United or the government.
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In accidents or terror attacks which are suspected to involve radioactive substances, it can be difficult to determine whether people nearby have been exposed to radiation. But by analysing mobile phones and other objects which come in close contact with the body, it is possible to retrieve important information on radiation exposure. The glowing might also be a sign
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Uh, radiation from the phone, yes. 
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Those of you with long memories might remember one of the more amusing (or perhaps annoying) bugs of the Windows 95 and 98 era. Certain specially crafted filenames could make the operating system crash. How strange that Windows 10 isn't affected...
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It seems as if every tech firm attempts to find and hire the “10x developer,” a mythical creature who is capable of designing a complex system in the same amount of time it would take twelve average developers to decide on a pizza order. Just sit them on the photocopier until you have 10 of them
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A solo developer will always out-perform a team.
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They lost my interest on "Cash Does Not Guarantee Motivation".
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A recent study found that smartphone users are more likely than PC users to make rational decisions when using their device. I think the research was done on a PC
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smartphone users are more likely than PC users to make rational decisions when using their device.
That's because p*** just doesn't do it on a smartphone. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Don't know. Smartphone + Google cardboard => Immersive p***.
Or so I'm informed
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Most applications we develop are stupidly simple, so almost anyone can do them. Too bad our dev tools don’t work that part of the stack well Jack of all trades; master of none
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I thought "we" were going to ban InfoWorld.
Still, the author makes a point. But he reminds me of Javascript (and his VB6 ancestry) -- too many words to make a very simple point that has already been made by many others much more succinctly.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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You guys will leave me with no sources but Ars Technica if I start that 
I will be trying to limit Paul Krill articles though, and SD Times, and ...
TTFN - Kent
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A new survey of security professionals reveals that 83 percent say colleagues in other departments turn to them to fix personal computer problems. I wonder if they've tried turning it off and back on again?
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At the suggestion of my supervisor, I created a help ticket regarding the horrid performance of my computer at work. Of course, the real problem is the constant disk thrashing, resulting from a paltry 8GB of RAM and a really crappy hard disk that probably also has bad sectors on it. I suggested to the IT dept. in my ticket that they should check the hard drive and if it was possible to add more memory.
After 2 weeks, the ticket was closed with the following reply:
Cleaned up the hard drive and noted that the computer hadn't been rebooted in 9 days.
So, "cleaned up..." meant that they deleted everything in my temp folder, some of which was useful. Granted I shouldn't have put useful stuff there.
But saying the problem was caused by the fact that I hadn't rebooted my computer in 9 days? Seriously?
Morons.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I used to do phone support for a computer manfacrturer, and one of that manufacturer's "features" was that their desktop's would hibernate rather than shutdown when you pushed the power button. Yeah I know, seems naff now, but desktops hibernating wasn't really a thing then, and to hook it into the power button meant people could just "turn off" their PCs and turn then back on and they'll boot almost instantly (as instant as a P90 could) and all their stuff would be there.
Of course we're talking Win3.1\Win95 here and apps where 90% of them leak memory and don't do a good job of resource management. Normally this is fine, but when you're never really rebooting the machine it just builds up to a whole range of bizarre issues. Long story short I spent most of my day getting people to properly reboot their machines and it fixed most issues people were calling about. The rest of the day was "No...double click...the left button....yes, the left button twice...no, a little bit quicker than that...."
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It's an AI that understands exploration. "Malfunction. Need input."
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