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You probably know that to be highly productive you should master your programming language(s), know common data structures and patterns, have a working knowledge of algorithmic analysis, and so forth. "I'm addicted to your charms. You're getting to be a habit with me"
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And the 5th habit:
When writing an article of n items, list them as bullet items at the top of the article so we don't have to wade through all your "I love to hear myself" drivel to get the gist of your point.
Marc
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A wireless charging system that packs enough power to replenish a laptop battery should hit the market in 2016, helping realize the long-held dream of a cable-free desk, Intel said on Wednesday. "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
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Google's fleet of autonomous test cars is programmed to follow the letter of the law. But it can be tough to get around if you are a stickler for the rules. One Google car, in a test in 2009, couldn’t get through a four-way stop because its sensors kept waiting for other (human) drivers to stop completely and let it go. The human drivers kept inching forward, looking for the advantage — paralyzing Google’s robot. I'd like to see how Google handles the streets of NYC.
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Hilarious!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I have almost been run over by a guy driving a truck 23 times. Same person, same truck. Reported him to the police, but he never got in trouble, even though there are pictures and reports from police officers as well.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A team of researchers with Kogakuin University has demonstrated a lithium ion battery which is not only nearly transparent, but can also be recharged with direct sunlight alone. Create a big enough stack, and we'll power the world!
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Road trip?
No, wait, uhm, Apple can finally just ship that piece of glass that they've been aiming for for a while now?
TTFN - Kent
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Nope! We're gonna take over the world! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-xrnIXQ3iQ[^]
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, and Firefox will stop supporting RC4 encryption as all three companies announced on Tuesday. RC4 is a stream cipher designed in 1987 and has been widely supported by web browsers and online services and applications. The musty security technology has been used for the purposes of encryption, but remains highly plagued with multiple vulnerabilities as discovered in the last few years. This cryptographic algorithm facilitates malicious actors to crack services within days or even hours, in some cases as demonstrated by researchers multiple times.
Earlier this year, a new vulnerability was discovered against RC4-based SSL/TLS communications further confirming that the RC4 attacks are becoming easier for attackers. In February, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced that the TLS clients should never use RC4 when establishing connections. Browsers had then adjusted to ensure to only use the cipher when absolutely necessary. However, now the trio of companies owning the popular web browsers has announced to completely disable support for RC4 encryption in the future versions of their web browsers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Happy dev teams write better code, faster. That's a fact. 
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Oh, training them to scale their attention for you according to the monthyl productivity review should be easy.
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The conclusion from the article could better be expressed as "Happier people self-score higher in subjective measures"... of to put it another way "Happier people are happier" 
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So if happier is happier is happier is happier... We will all explode from happiness thus making happier programmers actually non-productive! Counter productive even, as all the non-happy employees get to clean up the mess instead of doing their job... Which, of course, makes them even more unhappy (which, after all, may not be such a bad thing).
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Ma mumma always said: happy is as happy does
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: "Happier people are happier"
Whoa, whoa, there Poindexter. Go a little slower for those of us trying to follow that logic. 
TTFN - Kent
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The genius in the original article wrote:
The numbers say it all.
The happiest employees are:-
180 percent more energized
155 percent happier with their jobs
150 percent happier with life
108 percent more engaged
50 percent more motivated
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Sorry, I guess my joke was funnier in my head. I was trying to make a joke about the logic behind, "Happy people are happy". Alas. I shall try harder in the future. ;(
TTFN - Kent
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It was funny - unfortunately the residual aftertaste of the article itself was still in my system 
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No, happy people are more productive. Someone who is not happy will not be as motivated.
Doesn't mean that you can increase production by increasing happiness though; the mood is often the result of work, not the other way around. It also seems logical that people who are confronted with less problems, less things that explode, and fewer unreasonable customers might be somewhat happier doing their tasks. Someone who dreads to talk to the customer will find an excuse not to pick up the phone today and postpone it.
The thing that was surprising is the idea that we had to wait until the development of "Agile" before we realised this. Good someone invented this "agile" thingy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Happy: working with smart people that are mutually supportive, as opposed to working with idiots that drag the whole team down.
Marc
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There’s nothing wrong with app install ads, but too often now, you click on a mobile search result, and when the site loads, a giant app install interstitial pops up that prompts you to install that site’s app. "Permission to sing boisterously, sir?"
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A simple bug in Visual Studio meant that source code that was destined for a secure and private source code repository was instead published to a public repository. What followed was a sequence of events which left me with a $6,500 bill. "This is my private life. I have no friends to fear."
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