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Hardware vendors are to blame for not updating older browsers to properly leverage HTML5, Mozilla's Christian Heilmann says My well-being depends on having drag and drop on my cell phone!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: My well-being depends on having drag and drop on my cell phone!
I would already be glad if I could scroll without interruptions 
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The revelation that the NSA has been secretly spying on Google data centers worldwide doesn't sit well with the search giant. Yeah, everyone knows they should only be spying on cell phones (and browsers, and ...)
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Linux creator Linus Torvalds wants comments on a proposal for an entirely bug-fixes and stability release in about a year "You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
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Visualization of the amount of code in various programs 50 Million lines of code in VS2012?!
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The 500 million lines of code for ObamaCare website statistic is bullshit.
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/shrug. Who knows - beyond a few CGI Federal developers and/or their overseers. As the bulk of it is likely generated code, I wouldn't be surprised though.
That's just one number out of many on this list, and even without that one number (two if you count the estimated fix lines), I still think the list is interesting. Finding out that VS supposedly has more LoC than Office, for example.
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Take a look at this Quora thread, which is being used by current and former Google employees to dish the dirt on working for Big G. Sometimes the free drink coolers are out of Moët & Chandon, and we're forced to drink domestic
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If you were looking for positive news about BlackBerry's future, we'd suggest you look away. Canada's favorite smartphone maker has announced that its $4.7 billion rescue deal with Fairfax has collapsed. "No colors anymore I want them to turn black"
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Data from Strategy Analytics suggests sales of Windows Phone units were up over 275% year-over-year for the third quarter. From 0 to 60 in 24 months
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Despite the efforts of Mark Reinhold and the Java team to involve the community in the roadmap after the Oracle acquisition (the Plan A / Plan B decision), many Java developers feel that Java 7 was "not much of a release". In this article, I'll try to refute this thesis, by exploring the features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8. Preview of coming attractions
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Ben Evans wrote:
Method Handles are simultaneously the most important new feature of Java 7, and the one which is least likely to feature in the day-to-day life of most Java developers.
A method handle is a typed reference to a method for execution. They can be thought of as "typesafe function pointers" (for developers familiar with C/C++) or as "Core Reflection reimagined for the modern Java developer".
Wait, so Java didn't have Delegates "type-safe function pointers" before v7? And yet people still try to claim that .NET is copying Java? 
"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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I think things have definitely come full circle: Java really slowed down the "innovation", and .NET burst forth with so many shiny toys (dynamics, delegates, LINQ). Java is really trying to catch up now (and they're in the "dammit, we need a different name for their technology" phase).
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“Wet agile”, “the agile waterfall” and “the Agile-Waterfall Hybrid” … this controversial, mixed-method baby has as many names as formats. Some have received a lot of dedicated thought, are fit-for-purpose and manage to preserve the main benefits of the more pure methods. Irritates developers AND management! Perfect!
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You might wonder which professions have the greatest proportion of psychopaths. Well, according to one book, engineers are nowhere on the list. Until they become CEOs, that is. "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
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Or that's what they want you to think.....
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Skype's Desktop API will stop working this December and so will lots of add-ons "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
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Isn’t open source code just great? It gave us all of these Linux distros and great Linux apps, Apache, Python, and the list goes on. If you’re a coder, this movement is very easy to contribute to. But what if you don’t code and still want to pitch in and show your support? We’ve previously discussed eight ways to support open-source projects besides coding, and today I’d like to expand on the first: Donating real, hard-earned cash to support the developers you love, using the online service Gittip. "And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar, and say, 'Man, what are you doin' here?'"
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The old adage of "think before you speak" is never truer than when you're on a job interview. One unwitting slip-up could cost you your dream position, so it's crucial to know what kinds of questions and answers will set off a red flag for your interviewer. "So, when do I get your job?"
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interesting,thx
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Rockstar, a consortium that bought Nortel's warchest of patents during its bankruptcy acution, has launched a series a patent lawsuits against several mobile device manufacturers, including Samsung, HTC, and Google, the latter which Rockstar outbid for Nortel's patents. "How will we stop an army of the dead at our castle walls?"
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Bill Gates is once again speaking out against the internet-first approach many tech leaders have taken to philanthropy. "As a priority? It’s a joke," Gates tells the Financial Times, when asked about how Mark Zuckerberg's plan to bring the whole world online compared to malaria research. Knock, knock. Who's there? Internet access before malaria. No, it must be a different joke.
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So for profit corporations have different goals than philanthropic non profit organisations?
Oh Bill you are so wise! 
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Why not both? Why does everyone have to do the same thing?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere – updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non-Windows environments. Team Explorer Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug-in, a cross-platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom tools that access TFS. Check in ALL the things!
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