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Only if the acorn looks nice, then I'll get a lenovo. 
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I must live under a rock because I have never heard of that program before and it has been around for 2 years 
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Have you heard of Start8 from Stardock? If Win8.1 really doesn't get its act together, this will be on the horizon
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mope i have not heard of that one either. I was put off of Win 8 after the developer and consumer preview.
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It must be a big rock then!
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I try to avoid things to do with windows 8 but sooner or later I will have to learn it to be able to fix customers systems.
To bad they didn't have an extra of those giveaways system that i could use for practice
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Yahoo bumps Google from the top spot on ComScore's list of 50 most-visited Internet properties, a position held by Google since 2008. Yahoo is still around?
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Considering Yahoo objected to the paranoid schizophrenics intrusions, and another did not... people jumped ship. Not to say everything is not "picked up" - but rewards go to entities with a conscience.
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I’ve always thought that everyone should have the option to communicate securely. Once there was little chance any ordinary person would be able to figure out how to do it. Even for me, as a tech journalist who had learned both the theory and practice of secure communication, it was a challenge to get things working. And when I did, who could I talk to? Only someone else who’d traveled the same path. The pool of potential communication partners was too small to matter. We just have to get busy
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If you want to stay sought-after and raise your rate, you should be acquainted with the following technologies. Why listen to me? Because I get a unique bird's-eye view as a developer straddling a management, marketing, and sales roles. My informal survey says: This is the least you should familiarize yourself with by next year. Start with #5
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According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely through a built-in backdoor. Keys to that backdoor are likely accessible to the NSA – and in an unintended ironic twist, perhaps even to the Chinese. TPM deemed not T
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Yes, like anything like this, the US government wants access, and that means others can learn how either through spies in the US government, Microsoft, or hacking the OS. I you want it done right, keep the government out of it.
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Every month, people click the “Like” button on Facebook more than 80 billion times. They post more than 10 billion updates on Twitter, and they write tens of millions of products reviews on sites like Amazon and Yelp. And with every one of these social actions, people declare their affinities — their preference for or desire to connect with other people, products or things. "When two tribes go to war"
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You're not going with, "to affinity and beyond!"?
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Ouch. Good one.
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TTFN - Kent
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Some people do very well with traditional interviews and they should stick with what works for them. However, I’d urge any company to really look hard at what their interview process is screening for. "I want to be a lion tamer!"
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Some of that resonates with my own experience. The current job I'm at offered me a paid week as a taster to see how we get on with each other. I was given a small project which to another developer there might have taken two days but there were lots of things I had to pick up they could take for granted. It turned out well.
I've been here six months now.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Yeah, I had never thought of a system like he (and you) describe, but it's definitely got me thinking. It does solve most of the problems of "does this person get along with the team" and "can they actually do it". Hopefully more than a few hiring managers will take it to heart and give it a try. It won't work with people with existing jobs, but it's a great strategy for people new to the industry.
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TTFN - Kent
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Interesting: I recall not being able to get the word 'singleton' out to describe a, er, singleton. Or other times when they have asked me about things I've never used or may not have done for a while. Plainly, those interviews didn't go well. I hate purely technical interviews, especially the phone one - my voice sounds very flat on the phone (or, as my wife, says, I sound bored verging on suicidal!). I think I'm good at my job and, if you give me a chance to sit down and talk about it with you you'll get my motivation and enthusiasm for what I do. But ask me what widget x does and I may just have never used it or have forgotten what it does. I mean, it's not like I can hop online and look it up an a minute or 2, is it?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Yeah, this. Totally.
I have a friend who's one of the best programmers I've ever met: he's built systems and sites used by thousands daily, and I'd trust him to write the software on my pacemaker. He went to an interview recently, and they were asking him junior-junior questions[1], but because he's been away from those minutiae for a long time, he took "longer than necessary" and didn't get the job (that he's overqualified for).
[1] I can't remember the exact details, but it was one of those, "Swap two ints using only two variables" type of question.
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TTFN - Kent
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WebKit has made some serious news by finally implementing the srcset attribute. As Chair of the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group, I’ve been alternately hoping for and dreading this moment for some time now. It turns out to be good news for all involved parties—the users browsing the Web, most of all. Images on the Web, reimaged
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Microsoft is now simplifying its approach to secondary email addresses on Outlook.com. My new alias: BillG@microsoft.com
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yawn
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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In the last three or four years, with the success of mobile application platforms like iOS and Android, we’ve seen a rise in the expectation that mobile applications (particularly) that run in the browser will be more native-like. Are we trading angle brackets for curly braces?
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A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already
in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be among those who come after.
Ecclesiastes 1:4-11
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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