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A leaked legal memo reveals a plan for blacklisting pirate sites at the ISP level. If you can't beat them, beat on someone else
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Microsoft today shared some details about the Windows Insider Program. "There's a sucker born every minute."
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When you first learn Test Driven Development, it sounds simple and easy. If you learned it in 1999, like I did, the rule was to simply write your unit tests first. Indeed, we called it Test First Design back then. "To everything, there is a season. Turn, turn, turn."
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But don’t think your success as an independent contractor will require you to become anything like a used-car salesperson. It’s still your skills at the keyboard that will make all the difference. For rent: 1 coder, low miles, compiles great
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Not too sure about that new-coder smell, though.
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Dunno, it's got less of the "gin and stale chips" parfum of the old-coder 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "gin and stale chips" parfum
No no thats just Nagy's working aftershave
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Sigh. Most of that article borders on voodoo. I'm surprised the author didn't suggest prayer.
Marc
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Microsoft Azure Backup is now available for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Azure Backup is a fast and reliable way to backup your data to the cloud. "We gotta get it right back to where we started from"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Azure Backup is a fast and reliable way to backup your data to the cloud.
Given how often Azure has been in the news for being down...
But really, "fast" ??? Come on, I've got close to 300GB of stuff, how fast does Microsoft think that will back up to the cloud over a crappy Verizon DSL connection whose uplink rates are measured in kilobytes!
Marc
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10 months - take or give a few...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Bah! Details! But don't worry, the algorithms are highly optimized to only backup the unimportant stuff first, so when you lose everything half a month into the process, you will remember Azure even more than before!
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On a serious note - we have cloud based backup for our servers (we also have old good tapes  ), but it in fact a two step backup...The provider of the solution installed a large external driver to which the data copied (using backup software) and that device talks to the cloud service of the provider, so we have a local backup that copied to the cloud at a much slower rate...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Mostly it means your ISP really sucks. While the Commerce Dept's report[^] only reported download speeds; crappy DSL will fail there too. Depending on how bad your connection is (<3mbps down or <10mb down), you're in the bottom 2% or bottom 6% of the country.
With a decent connection uploading that much wouldn't be prohibitive. IIRC when I first backed my music up to Amazon's cloud it took <1 day to shove ~20GB though a 1.5mbps upstream pipe (15 down).
With my current connection (75/5), which is still slower than what a majority of the country has available, it would take less than a week to do the initial upload.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Depending on how bad your connection is (<3mbps down or <10mb down), you're in the bottom 2% or bottom 6% of the country.
According to SpeedTest:
Download: 2.42Mbps
Upload: .21Mbps
Pretty pathetic, but then again, living out here in the boonies of Philmont, NY, I'm surprised I get Internet at all.
Marc
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There has never been a better time to be in software, and the hiring trends prove it. According to Dice.com's semi-annual report, tech hiring is at unprecedented levels. For tech professionals, this means that now is the time to ask for a better, higher-paying job. Hopefully good news for those looking for work
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The developers building new applications are very nice people, of course. But the real heroes of the programming world are the developers maintaining and extending existing applications. "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
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After 38 years of glory, the long run of Dr. Dobb's has come to an end. And another great source of content goes belly up
Sorry, "Sunsets"
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That's a shame. I don't go there often as they don't have a lot about .Net or SQL Server, so I tend to forget about it.
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That's sad...I only ever really read Code Project on a regular basis, myself.
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It really is sad. I've spent quite a few quality hours with Dr Dobb's.
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Came a bit out of the blue that one, I've been reading DDJ for over 20 years, and one of the few sources not prone to click bait articles.
(I'd even have lived with some of those if it kept their advertising revenue up and kept them alive).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: one of the few sources not prone to click bait articles
That means less ad revenue. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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I'm so shocked by this. It is in my RSS Reader and I read articles there almost daily. Very shocking. This was a whole group of magazines that provided great content. I'm just so shocked.
I guess StackOverflow (SO) is beating everyone out!!! TERRIBLE!!!!
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not just SO.
There are tons of technical blogs out there that have the same/equivalent content.
I'd rather be phishing!
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