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While its drop of market share became evident, there is keen interest in whether or not Microsoft has ambitions as a comeback kid, not with a Windows Phone but with something now being rumored by watchers as a "Surface Phone". They re-invented the laptop?
Without a keyboard.
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I guess they're hinging their success on this? 
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As someone who is totally f***ed off with both Google and Apple, and is only interested in a phone for voice, text, email and a street map app, I may well go for a Microsoft phone.
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What does that mean, actually, to be the “best programmer.” How does one measure that, how does one know he or she is it? When 11 just isn't enough
I'm seeing a theme for my brain this week
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but maybe in a few years, he will want to do something more. That he will adjust his dream to not just be good at one narrow skill called “programming,” but will aspire to have the impact of a 100x engineer.
And therein he skirts but fails to identify the real issue -- motivation. There's a lot of 1X (or maybe they should be called .01X) programmers that completely lack the motivation to "aspire..." To them, it's just a job. Maybe that's OK, maybe not, but it does shift the burden of mediocrity onto those who have to do the testing, code reviews, and bug fixes.
Then there are those that lack the motivation because the corporate culture fails them. It fails to provide training, to provide inspiring work and projects, and to manage a project so that grunt work gets delegated to, if not the afformentioned grunts, then at least to the newbies that need to learn things. Work-life balance, work environment, telecommuting, those are all other factors in the corporate culture. To paraphrase the saying, it takes time and effort to built motivation, and it can be destroyed with a single stupid act.
Like how the TV in the lunchroom was removed because "corporate" didn't want to pay the monthly cable bill. I kid you not. You think I feel motivated to be really be a committed employee with decisions like that?
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Marc Clifton wrote: Then there are those that lack the motivation because the corporate culture fails them. It fails to provide training, to provide inspiring work and projects, and to manage a project so that grunt work gets delegated to, if not the afformentioned grunts, then at least to the newbies that need to learn things. Work-life balance, work environment, telecommuting, those are all other factors in the corporate culture. To paraphrase the saying, it takes time and effort to built motivation, and it can be destroyed with a single stupid act.
Amen to that
Marc Clifton wrote: Like how the TV in the lunchroom was removed because "corporate" didn't want to pay the monthly cable bill. I kid you not. You think I feel motivated to be really be a committed employee with decisions like that?
Or want you to print in black and white because it is cheaper and more ecological, but team leaders drive cars that consume more in one week than my car in half a year.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cargo cult programmers struggle to make meaningful changes to a program and end up using a trial-and-error approach since they don’t understand the inner workings of the code they’re about to change. buuuuuuuuuut, "We've always done it that way."
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Why does he pick on C#???
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Because it isn't as pretty as C♭.
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Carlsberg announced a multi-million-dollar investment called ‘The Beer Fingerprinting Project’ which is focused on measuring and sensing flavours and aromas in beer. Does it pass the Turing test if it still tastes like beer?
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I still prefer a LöBrau, or Old Fortran.
Maybe a St. Pauli Exclusion Principle Girl.
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Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, TypeScript, and C++ all saw big changes in their capabilities. In case you slept through 2017 (like I did)
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A new study finds that nearly a third of the top 10,000 sites on the web are taking ad blocking countermeasures, many silent and highly sophisticated. Time for some anti-anti-ad-blockers?
Or maybe we just need to live with the polite ones?
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Am I the only one who has never even looked at an ad on a web page, let alone clicked one?
They are a waste of my time, and a waste of the business' money.
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GenJerDan wrote: Am I the only one who has never even looked at an ad on a web page, let alone clicked one?
No.
But that's exactly why they are doing them different and more difficult to differentiate from "normal" elements of the sites in a pathetical try to make you bite the bait.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In what can only be described as a sign of the times, the World Health Organization has recognized a new kind of mental health condition. "Play the game, everybody play the game"
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You mean like First-Person-Shooter Syndrome?
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I am actually amazed at "gaming". We used to be addicted for a time, to donky kong and the like as young adults but now I see guys in their 50s bringing in their gaming machines for various repairs. They are married and will alienate themselves from their families to play these games. Absolutely bizarre.
I can't tell you how glad I am that this alternate reality is lost on me and my family.
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I have to admit, I still like a game of Tetris now and again. I must spend maybe 5 minutes a year playing it. I guess I must be addicted to it.
This space for rent
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I loved Tempest. Didn't like any of the other arcade games.
As for computer games...I never got out of level one* in "The Pawn", and haven't touched a game since.
*Actually, I didn't even get far enough into it to know whether it had "levels" as such.
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Wow, having all your hobbies include your family must be...tiresome.
Good for you though, I guess, but if it really bothers you THAT much maybe you should refuse to perform repairs on principle. You know, so that they have to spend more time with their families.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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They really didn't finish their diagnostic bullshit analysis:
Playing game on the cell phone that is permanently adhered to one or the other of their paws.
Why do I sense a costly treatment regimen just a short distance down the road? Possibly a +3 to their Billing Abilities?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "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 |
modified 28-Dec-17 8:40am.
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Perhaps they would prefer the youth going out in the streets, forming real gangs instead of Warcraft guilds and shooting real stuff instead of pixels.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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