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In September 2018, Microsoft officials said Windows 10 was installed on more than 700 million devices. Now that number is 800 million, company officials say. For those keeping score at home
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They're probably counting:
0) How many attempts were made to install Windows 10 before the device finally accepted it
1) All the idiots with under-powered ARM devices that "got it installed".
2) Plus or minus 799 million...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 8-Mar-19 10:38am.
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Never before, in the history of human conflict, have so many been made so bloody miserable by so few incompetent prats.
I'm sure Winnie said something like that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When it comes to DevOps there’s general agreement that a skills shortage is holding back broader adoption. Study by DevOps group finds people like DevOps. I'm still waiting for that study from the chocolate institute to let me know how to feel about chocolate.
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Some call it a skills shortage I call it a "want to" shortage.
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Nonsense; a good programmer is an operator. We pay operators because a programmer can be more productive if not being in the role of operator.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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"DevOps" is just a way for corporations to double the workload a dev already has, without paying him any more to do it, while being able to fire their operators and sys admins.
In normal people parlance, it's called "f*ckin bullshit".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The reason for the high demand is obvious.
There are no such things as "DevOps skills", so no-one can find people with them.
Naturally, skills that are not exclusive to DevOps, and weren't invented for DevOps don't count as "DevOps skills".
Something Spike Milligan wrote comes to mind, about a private mopping the floor in an army base -- Spike called it "rearranging the dirt".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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EditorConfig helps maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers working on the same project across various editors and IDEs. Spaces! Tabs! This time, it's WAR!
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Code documentation — is there anything more exciting than spending your time writing extensive comments? /*article about code comments*/
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Employees bullied by their bosses are more likely to report unfairness and work stress, and consequently become less committed to their jobs or even retaliate, according to a new study. I think we have a winner for, "Most obvious research"
Making it even worse (bold-face mine), "Yang and her co-authors reviewed 427 studies and quantitatively aggregated the results to better understand why and how bullying bosses can decrease 'organizational citizenship behavior'"
modified 7-Mar-19 16:40pm.
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At least one wouldn't doubt credibility of their research 
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Had they reviewed a 428th study, perhaps they would have found that differing viewpoint that says working for bully bosses is all unicorns and rainbows. There is a certain part of the population that we would say are "gluttons for punishment", they would thrive in such a situation.
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I'm pretty sure your boss must have applied pressure to you to write that. (Either that or you are such as boss.)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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OK were agreed on the bullies - what about the rest? 21 Types of Bosses | Monster.com[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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No sh*t Sherlock 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Depending on the employee, they can positively impact the bosses too. Repeatedly, at high velocity.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sudden Impact, eh?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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If this is how they throw time and money away, what they need is a boss who'll kick their @rses for them!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Totally true. I've experienced this. Having such bosses just push you to arrive on time and go home on time, without giving anything to the Company (minimum effort)
Usually a short transaction period where you start browsing LinkedIn to find a new job.
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We’ve all been part of this debate about whether we should have an open-plan office or not. In general, executives would advocate for the open-plan office, while the individual contributors would say, “Please, no!!!” "What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk?"
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Coffee machines, Barbeques to grill bacon...?
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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If they won't build a border wall could we have some of that money to put up some cubicle walls please?
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Have you asked Mexico?
TTFN - Kent
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