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One of the recurring things that come to bite me and my team is having a less experienced engineer or new joiner work completely alone on a project for weeks or months. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."
Or senior, IMO. It's always helpful to bounce ideas off of someone.
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As often... it depends on the lone ranger and on the team...
Although I can see the point of the quote, there are exceptions (that are more common than they should)
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NASA has granted Nokia $14.1 million to build the first-ever 4G mobile network on the moon. I'm guessing that won't count in my 'free long distance' plan?
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Are they leaving some cell phones too (just in case)?
I wonder if the aliens in the dark side of the moon will get them and start using twitter or whatsapp.
Why did noone think on this before? We could have saved a lot of time and computing power from SETI@Home...
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A bug in the latest release of Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers, is causing random debug.log files to be created on user's desktops and other folders. Testing in production again?
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Now the big question is... is the bug coming from Google or from a Change-Request of Microsoft?   
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Microsoft has announced that it is ending the ability to cross-sign drivers, effective 1 July 2021. This will effectively make it impossible to release new or updated drivers for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 systems, including Server 2012 R2. No means no (support)
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Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are still under Extended Support by Microsoft, and will remain supported until January 2023. Windows Embedded 8 and Windows Embedded 8.1 are supported by Microsoft through July of 2023.
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So… “Sorry, big government contractor… that big, multi-million dollar piece of equipment that you build for the government? We know you found a bug, but we can’t update the drivers anymore, because of Microsoft’s policy.”
Good that my hardware is old enough to have already the newest version available
Quote: One thing with which I have historically credited Microsoft is their willingness to listen to the community, and change their course when necessary.
Does this guy live in a parallel universe? Are we speaking about the same Microsoft?
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Such a universe wouldn't be parallel, it would be upside down and backwards.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Nelek wrote: Quote: One thing with which I have historically credited Microsoft is their willingness to listen to the community, and change their course when necessary.
Does this guy live in a parallel universe? Are we speaking about the same Microsoft?
I think it was historically true but it ceased to be true somewhere around the Windows 8 timeframe. At that point, they began to lose contact with their customer base, even including their key corporate customer base from what I have been able to see.
Oh, and I just realised that Microsoft have announced this for operating systems that are still supported. Well, together with losing touch with what their real, actual customers want it seems that they have also lost the ability to remember and stick to long term published strategies.
modified 19-Oct-20 8:10am.
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Through trial and error, I found that the best way to increase a new software engineer's productivity is by gradually increasing the difficulty and independence level at which they operate. To help you zone out
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One of the worst enemies of productivity is boredom... and that's even more true for people like us
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That's a great article. It speaks of pairing up with another developer where the Junior is paired with a Senior. However, this works the same way if you just try to build an app and then Google everything. Trying to write a new app will put you in the ZPD and then Google can help you through the zone. 
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The best is when the two developers are strong in different areas, so there is a role change depending on what technology is being touched in that moment.
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“Any conflict in space will be much slower and more deliberate.” For those not watching the documentary
(and I mean The Expanse more than that Star Wars stuff)
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AS if there were not enough with wars in earth... 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and I mean The Expanse
Yes! A reference to "Enterprise!" I quite like that show. I'm actually watching the 3 episode "The Forge" right now. 
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It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. Or it's trying to sneak up on us!
Did someone say its name three times?
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I think I'll pass to wait for the explosion.
Good night
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Digital security teams have been under immense pressure to ensure their environments are resilient and secure. Assuming you trust them
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Assuming you trust them
Of course I trust them... with Zero Trust
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New research from Microsoft shows that productive employees won't be enough for businesses to remain innovative. Uh...yeah, can't think of anything. Sorry.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft shows that productive employees won't be enough for businesses to remain innovative.
Oh no, are the new icons in danger? That's not possible... how are we going to survive?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: productive employees won't be enough for businesses to remain innovative.
That all depends on how you define "productive." If by "productive" one means following all the forms, procedures, practices, and spending countless hours each day working on bug tickets, then yeah, what do they expect after all the creativity has been sucked out of us?
Conversely, if "productive" means having 10-20 hours a week where one can discuss, collaborate and experiment with creative out-of-the-box ideas, well, that's where innovation begins.
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