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Now you've got me all worried I've added something wrong. And/or that my sarcasm detector is misconfigured. 
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TTFN - Kent
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Even if the data in the article is valid, the thinking is faulty and the conclusion is wrong.
Javascript is a popular secondary language for people who also use another primary language (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.). Thinking you can increase your chances of landing a telecommuting job by just learning javascript is something we can only expect from journalists who have never actually held a programming job. Most postings that mention javascript also mention another language as the main one you'd be using (regardless of whether or not it's a telecommuting position).
The actual, correct lesson we learn here is that if you want to code from home (or take control of your work life in any other way), the last people you should ask are the journalists who write over-sensationalized, under-researched topics for a living.
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jesarg wrote: Javascript is a popular secondary language for people who also use another primary language (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.).
with the creations of node.js and mvc frameworks like angular this point is no longer true. we are beginning to see complete solutions totally based on javascript.
you want something inspirational??
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Some jobs use node.js, and some jobs are for writing browser Javascript only, but those jobs are relatively rare. If a novice programmer were to ask us what he should focus on to start a new programming career, focusing mainly on Javascript is still bad advice, as there are so few entry level jobs for Javascript as a primary language.
I agree that a lot can be done with Javascript, but the market demand for "Javascript as a primary language" developers is extremely low right now, despite lots of hype in the press. Plus, this article was about advice on obtaining a work-from-home job, not advice on being cool with your development technologies (and, as such, it's bad advice). Most of the real jobs out there are for less cool technologies and languages.
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At the moment, Microsoft has three operating systems for consumers to use in their hardware devices: Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1 and Windows Phone 8. But what happens in the future? Four? Eight? help me out here
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One sealed box with limited capabilities per customer, one scaled down operating system is the future that MS and other two want to impose on us for many reasons. They will own computer centers and internet backbone and push the content in the form of interactive TV. If the other 5% of users want real computer with real operating system then they have to pay a lot for it.
And this is happening when for a price of a tablet I have supercomputer now (CPU + GPU). Why ideas of centralized computing are happening now?
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A newly-surfaced Snowden slide shows the NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malware, according to Dutch outlet NRC. "With friends like that, who needs enemies?"
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Google’s Chromium team never ceases to amaze. Its latest project is a Chrome app-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) codenamed Spark. Well, I guess it is possible to develop something in Dart
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There’s a lot of chatter about moving applications to the cloud, whether the public cloud such as Amazon Web Services or private cloud offerings powered by open source technologies of OpenStack. "Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd on my cloud baby"
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The past decade shows only trivial progress in improving web app security, according to new vulnerability guidelines in the OWASP Top Ten 2013. "Goodbye, Piccadilly. Farewell, Leicester Square!"
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The chipmaker is ready to turn Android into a full-fledged 'client' operating system, much like Windows has been. To be 'like' Windows? Sure. To be as popular as Windows? Not likely.
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When it comes to malware, Android is pretty much becoming the new Windows.
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Having been one of the founders of id in 1991, responsible for games that include Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, John has been the developer at the forefront of many advances for over 20 years.
But fret not, he's merely ceased to hold positions at both id Software and Oculus Rift, concentrating full-time on the immersive VR technology company that produces VR goggles.
Link: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Doom-Creator-John-Carmack-Leaves-id-Software-for-Oculus-Rift-402932.shtml[^]
Sure beats the 3 monitor, 270° FOV trick for versions upto v1.1.
"doom -devparm -nodes 3 -left"
"doom -devparm -nodes 3"
"doom -devparm -nodes 3 -right"
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In addition to learning how to craft new technologies, undergraduate engineers are learning to not care as much about their fellow human beings, suggests a new study from a sociologist with a degree in engineering. Not that there's any evidence of this in any discussion forums I read
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Here and I thought I was just a bad person. >:
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We'll have all the friends we need when we meet the Vulcans.
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It's almost as if growing up may influence your personality...
What an unexpected breakthrough. Thank God I'm still alive to experience this new insight in the nature of humanity that nobody else has ever noticed before.
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 that great science journal "Duh!" strikes again.
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Cech did not survey a control group of undergraduates in other subjects.
Sure, pick on the engineering students why don't you. I'm sure you'd get similar results with any major
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Jason Cardoza wrote: I'm sure you'd get similar results with any major
I dunno. While the lack of a control is a back-handable offence, I think you wouldn't see a similar result in a group of chemists, sociologists, or most other majors. Part of it is I think selection pressure (a certain subset tend to head towards enginnering/CS), and part of it is the training (isolated for the most part, requiring a certain degree of preciseness). Nature and nurture, if you will.
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Of course, from the link:
There is, though, one big caveat to this study: Cech did not survey a control group of undergraduates in other subjects. So while her results are intriguing, it’s not clear whether engineers in particular come out of their studies with a dulled sense of social responsibility, or it’s just something that happens to all graduates when they start having to fend for themselves in a harshly competitive economy.
Which contradicts the title. The study doesn't suggest anything unique about engineering because of the above.
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While the FAA has cleared the use of electronics on US passenger airplanes at all stages of flight, there's still one major restriction in place: you have to shut off all cellular access. That rule may not exist for much longer if the FCC has its way, according to sources for the Wall Street Journal. But I thought that would cause the plane to automatically crash?
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Imagine up to 300 people chatting for eight hours in an already cramped airline.
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Quick! Buy all the shares you can in "Noise-Cancelling Headphones" manufacturers.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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