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0bx wrote: For those not familiar with the idea: his is basically a complicated set of paths in a densely grown garden and you hire gardeners full time to constantly change everything all the time to make it as confusing as possible for everyone.
That is a lovely, evil plan. I have to start work on one next year.
Could we put a few grizzlies and mountain lions in there as well to cull the herd?
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TTFN - Kent
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The Holy “Scrum” War blog by Brian de Haaff argues that those who claim Scrum will save your company are wrong. Scrum is good and/or bad for you!
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"Scrum does not explain the “why”"
Exactly. While it's nice to have the developers agree with the "why", it's not necessary and they don't always agree anyway.
There was a project I worked on in which I disagreed with a feature I was supposed to implement (it was needlessly customer-hostile) and the "why" wasn't very convincing (that's the way the legacy system does it). I held off implementing that feature for about six months.
Think of developers as galley slaves on a ship; you just want them to row, they don't need to know where you are going and why.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I held off implementing that feature for about six months.
Was the feature every missed?
I always suspect that these types of features are best ignored until someone notices the need, then they might end up with a better "how" to go with a real "why".
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They kept asking when I'd have it done. I implemented it eventually. Then I had to create a report that would show management exactly how much money they were stealing from their customers each month. 
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Apple’s history with Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn and its sprawling network of suppliers in Southeast Asia is checkered with stories concerning the human rights abuses rampant in the region, and the company has made much progress in the effort to resolve them. Today, a Bloomberg Businessweek report reveals how, following last year’s iPhone 5 announcement, the pressure to produce components for the new Apple smartphone resulted in workers on factory lines being forced into debt and indentured servitude. But it's shiny, artfully designed indentured servitude
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Oracle will no longer be supporting Glassfish Java Enterprise Edition Server business users. Well, it is open source, isn't it?
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Millions of documents stored at the World War II code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, are set to be digitised and made available online. "They've given me a number, but they've taken away my name"
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Where's Office for the iPad? Maybe you're looking in the wrong place. Today, Microsoft released its latest batch of Office Web App updates, pushing its free offering well past the feature set offered by its rivals. Now with Find and Replace!
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Let the search engine do the dirty work with carefully crafted links. Do no code review
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Click. Code. Create.
Everything you need to build great software. IBM wants to help you make beautiful music (and code)
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Bug bounty program rewards security researchers for finding flaws in widely used software that can affect a lot of Internet users. Wanted, dead
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If you're reading this at work in between things you should be doing, or if you like to kill time at the office by heading over to Facebook, Twitter, or one of your favorite blogs, good news: That idle time—in moderation—actually makes you more productive by giving your brain a chance to reset. I am going to be so productive today
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Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today. We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews. With this final release, IE11 brings the same leading standards support--with improved performance, security, privacy, and reliability that consumers enjoy on Windows 8.1—to Windows 7 customers. Get your better browser (on the better OS)
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Thank you for informing Kent, upgraded almost everywhere.
Nice changes in terms of speed! 
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NSA had reverse-engineered many of Google's and Yahoo's inner workings. Only they're allowed to spy on everyone! (caution for kid sister: article contains that real scary 'f' word hinted in the title)
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So their internal network was unencrypted the entire time?
I get it now.
This stormtrooper[^] was an NSA agent all along.
Probably has an USB stick hidden in his codpiece or something.
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modified 7-Nov-13 16:06pm.
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0bx wrote: So their internal network was unencrypted the entire time?
Yup, and still is, except for between data centers. Seems a bit of a half-fix, but what do I know about running a network of that size.
Never trust the stormtroopers. They can't aim, and as they're all clones, they die together.
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when you're running millions of servers even increasing power consumption by 1% for encryption costs real money. 
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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There you go - one of many things I wouldn't have thought of.
Which makes me again wish those barges were going to be floating data centers. Having their butts sitting on ocean water may have been a nice passive cooling strategy. Of course, you'd still have to get the fibre over to the mainland.
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Combining all these technology advances means that for the first time, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers will be able to use the power of graphics processing in the Cloud and OTOY’s ORBX.js streaming technology to deliver high performance games and desktop applications to the Web – using only HTML5 and JavaScript. Bandwidth for high performance sold separately
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It was fun not knowing, but today Google took the mystery away from exactly what it’s doing on a barge in San Francisco Bay, and another floating in Portland, Maine. I was holding out hope that it would be a pirate ship
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Microsoft is not new to the concept of donating software for those in need; every year, the company uses DreamSpark, BizSpark, and their team devoted to “corporate citizenship” to donate software and services around the world to those in need. Microsoft has also been noted to donate to nonprofits and have kept Office 365 free of charge to those who qualify. Now, the team up in Redmond will be adding Windows 8.1 to that list. Well, that's one way to get people using it
Bravo for good corporate citizenship.
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Box trumps Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix ShareFile, EMC Syncplicity, and OwnCloud with rich mix of file sync, file sharing, user management, deep reporting, and enterprise integration. Of course, not to many beat "a hard drive in your own server", but here you go
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As the old saying goes, when they start insulting you, you’re obviously doing something right. And judging by the comments being thrown Google’s way by Microsoft about Gmail, it’s pretty obvious that Redmond is worried. He’s worried enough about Gmail to build a new website and start a public smear campaign. "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
For those who think Google's the only NSA-conduit, I think you're just fooling yourselves.
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