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A penny for your thoughts...
Seriously, I feel a bit sad about the thing. And Notch seems rather depressed about the whole big finance thing: notch.net
I think he panicked (or something) and I would have wished for a more graceful exit.
Life is too shor
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I can't feel sorry for someone who has two and a half billion dollars. I just can't.
The guy can do whatever he wants now. He's 35 years old and he can retire in style... Or he can start another game that, just because it'll have "From the creator of Minecraft" on it, will instantly spread worldwide.
He didn't panic. He got the big buyout and realized sticking around wasn't right for him. I would have done the same thing.
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I am not sorry for him personally, but I do not judge him one bit neither.
However I am a bit sorry about the whole thing. Mostly his staff. He already has a few hundred mil USD. He could have given the company to them. I would've, with 100 of that in my pocket I wouldn't crave more.
And I would like to think that he didn't crave it. I think he was
coaxed/pressured/nagged&nagged&nagged&nagged/tired(or yes: panicked or something)/
[
or any combination of similar emotions/circumstances/motivations/etc
{
whaddoiknow maybe his girlfriend said "it's over if you don't",
or perhaps he had a dream where his dead great grandpa spoke to him
}
]
It most certainly is not like he sought the buyers./
What I am saying is that by "panicked or something" I meant much more than "panicked". And do read his last two blog posts. He does sound a bit depressed.
Life is too shor
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Reading some of those blog posts I can totally understand why he wanted out of it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. That's what being famous on the Internet means I suppose. He'll be set for life now, and I'm sure it'll take a whole lot of pressure off his shoulders; let Microsoft deal with all that crap now.
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For existing engineers, deepening our understanding of code requires nights and weekends of self-study and spending many hours struggling to contribute to open-source projects. "I have learnt much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my students."
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Survey shows IT budgets rising, but no corresponding gains in outsourcing. What's going on? A little rain in one spot means the cloud is dry elsewhere
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The companies listed in that chart only make up about half the total marketplace; is there a long tail of cloud providers or is the remainder mostly in house solutions?
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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Satya Nadella, a man who is not afraid of change, has been uprooting the legacy culture inside of Microsoft since the first day he took over the corner office from Steve Ballmer. One of his first major shifts was away from Ballmer's device and services strategy and towards the "Cloud First, Mobile First" motto. No where to go but up
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The radios, which don't require batteries, can execute commands quickly. Just in case you need to mount a radio on an ant
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What drives your development processes? Are you a TDD house, where your tests drive development? Or, perhaps there's a chief architect who isn't a very nice person. We call this ADD - A**hole Driven Development. However, this chat was about FDD - Fear Driven Development. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."
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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger and anger leads to suffering - Master Yoda
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Grady Booch, creator of the Unified Modelling Language (UML), chief scientist of the former Rational Software Corp., founding member of the Agile Alliance and the Hillside Group, and chief scientist – software engineering at IBM Research, talks to Mark Collins-Cope about UML, Agile, XP and a bunch of other things. Whatever happened to that guy?
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A few days back, Windows 9 build 9834 found its way to the web and since then, we have gotten detailed views of new features like the Start menu and virtual desktops. One item that seemed to slip under the radar is Storage Sense but that feature appears to be coming too. Knowing what files are filling up your drive? Well, that makes the upgrade completely worth it, doesn't it?
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Meh for the feature, the news item, or the blurb?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Knowing what files are filling up your drive?
Cat videos?
Dead code?
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And for the rest of us, there's WinDirStat[^]; every time I want to see that my music and steam collection are eating my HD I just fire its visualization up to prove it.
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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I agree, and that's what I was thinking when I added this - they save you downloading a very small tool. Not a major feature by any means.
TTFN - Kent
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If it makes it Mom friendly it might be useful in a few years when the rest of the family have win 9 machines. Of the 4 windows using members of my immediate family I'd only expect one to be able to make use of WinDirStat. My brother is hardly a computer geek; but by not throwing his hands up in despair when confronted by the need to learn how to use a new piece of software can do a good job of faking it if given a pointer in the right direction.
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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The so-called Internet of things can be up close and personal, and APIs are the key to making it happen. "Only the Piece of Resistance can stop the Kragle and save the world"
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Telling from the article, it doesn't seem to be about technology in general. It's about privacy issues, competitive advantages, and worker's rights. Of course, Europeans seem to take all of them a little more serious.
BTW what does Amazon's free shipping have to do with U.S. tech?
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It is related to tech companies. Shipping has much to do with Order Fulfillment and Order Fulfillment has to do with package tracking, billing, payment tracking and the entire business which runs on top of technology.
So, even though shipping doesn't seem very technical it really is. And Amazon is one of the largest technically innovative companies. They started selling books and now have their own computing devices. Isn't that amazing.
And all of that was built upon this huge IT thing which was initially related only to shipping / fulfillment.
They did it so well because of their IT systems that they've grown and thrived.
However, if you take away some of their advantages, like free shipping, then maybe they are less recognized and wouldn't have been able to get to the place they are at.
This, of course, is a balance, but it has all been built because they were extremely innovative via technology.
If someone regulated them in any one of many ways then maybe they wouldn't have been able to be so innovative and move to the next level.
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