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Part of CEO Bill McDermott's plan to be completely rid of ANYTHING Oracle.
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A noble goal 
TTFN - Kent
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I'm a tooth on a cog at SAP and heard him say that at a Global All-Hands.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In the future, everyone will have their own Java distribution
... and lawsuit from whOracle. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Company claims that 19% of pages on mobile Chrome come from hitting back. Because I know the users are always complaining about how slow the back button is in the browser
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In its annual security intelligence report, Microsoft offers up its top tips for blocking out hackers. Have everyone install Linux?
I kid, but strangely they do have stuff to sell you that will help.
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Michael Howard, MariaDB CEO, adds Amazon and Oracle lock in customers. He also wonders if Amazon Web Services might cripple its AWS MariaDB instances to make AWS's own DBMS, Aurora, look better. Workin' in the code mine. Compilin' on down, down.
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And in other news Mongo DB CEO Dev Ittycheria accuses Maria DB of ripping off his companies ranting points.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Was that at the "Whiny Conference"?
Still cracks me up; "Here's some free food. How dare you eat our free food!"
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Psychologists investigated the impact of background music on performance by presenting people with verbal insight problems that are believed to tap creativity. They found that background music 'significantly impaired' people's ability to complete tasks testing verbal creativity -- but there was no effect for background library noise. You'll get my headphones from my cold dead hands (and ears)!
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Did they also fail to mention that people clanking their cereal bowls and munching away on crisps(chips for those in the US), or the one person in the office who is incapable of communicating in any other manner than shouting when the person they are speaking to shouting at is right next to them are more disruptive to creative thinking than listening to music?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Exactly, Guy.
The point of wearing headphones at work is not rooted in any notion along the lines of "listening to X enhances my thought processes", it's quite simply a case of a relatively even volume level being far less distracting than an inconstant one and a single sound source being less distracting than multiple ones.
A while ago, whilst having the headphone debate I started taking noise readings at my desk and saw sound levels varying from 45db to 78db (a huge variation on a logarithmic scale), that's not a good environment to do anything in, let alone write code.
Like most coders, I'm slightly autistic and cannot help but process all available inputs, and one coherent sonic input requires far less processing power than an unspecified number of dissonant ones.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: The point of wearing headphones at work is not rooted in any notion along the lines of "listening to X enhances my thought processes", it's quite simply a case of a relatively even volume level being far less distracting than an inconstant one and a single sound source being less distracting than multiple ones.
Which is why I tend to listen to Bach or more recently Palestrina which while cutting out the 'noise' provides me with something that does not distract me.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'd have to agree, from personal observation. If I'm trying to solve a problem, I like silence.
However, given that C# programming is 90% mundane and boring and 10% (at best) real problem solving, listening to music gives the brain something interesting to pay attention to.
Conversely, given that Javascript programming is 90% pulling hair out, gnashing of teeth and screaming and 10% copy & paste  the solution from SO and 0% real problem solving, music is still necessary to reduce the urge to throw a cup of Java at the monitor.
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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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As usual, psych-types can only associate with verbal skills - and they probably don't have the imagination, themselves, to realize that a lot of creativity occurs in many other forms besides word-games.
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I think we're essentially dealing with people who have never known the hell of an open-plan office!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Quite likely - but then again, who at the level that creates the open-plan office has to actually sit in it? They always plan these horrors behind what their victims would lack: closed doors!
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Quote: there was no effect for background library noise
It looks like they performed the study in a library. Maybe open-plan offices just need someone to go around and shushing everyone who is too loud
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It's called "distraction". Not just limited to verbal creativity.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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We asked Gates to choose this year’s list of inventions that will change the world for the better. After all, has he ever been wrong in the past?
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How can you reinvent something that hasn't happened yet?
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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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At least he didn't go a step too far and predict Microsoft would start testing their software.
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Bill has never been wrong.
After all, who would need more than 640K of memory? 
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The new spec promises up to 20Gbps speeds, but the names are more complicated than ever "Mind if we call you 'Bruce' to keep it clear?"
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People will always find ways to keep Randall's work[^] relevant. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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