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Chef today launched Habitat, a new open source project that allows developers to package their applications and run them on a wide variety of infrastructures. "What's in the box?"
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A German university student has demonstrated an effective way to get code of his choosing to run on the computers of software developers, at least some of whom work for US governmental and military organizations. Pakcage mnageers considered harmful
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Pakcage mnageers considered harmful
Stupdity considered even more harmful 
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New programmers are programmers no more. Used to huge collections of Lego bricks because they wouldn't be able to sort an array if asked they first search for something already done and don't inspect what they download.
Languages and frameworks for these "developers" became so cluttered that a real inspection is nigh-impossible thanks to impossibly long lists of dependencies, inheritances and interfaces and no real documentation (automatically generated documentation is not documentation, period).
So we have thousands of people doing something they barely if ever understand with tools that make understanding harder beacuse of clutter... these are the results. Say hello to non-programmer developing...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Checked C is an extension to C that adds static and dynamic checking to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. Coming up next: Plaid Java
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Well we all know that plaid is fastest.
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The web is a strange place governed by multiple standards that together define how things work. Alongside the committees, browser vendors are both innovating to win new users and collaborating to push these standards forward. "To Infinity, and beyond!"
No mention of a hand basket in the article
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TLDR: We get more stuff that may or may not be supported by various browsers/devices 
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...better hurry, 2016 is half over...
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New search tool and revamped Sites are aimed at improving productivity You shouldn't pick on someone when they're already down
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A little off topic, but maybe I was wrong to laugh at the Linkedin purchase yesterday. It just occurred to me that Microsoft now controls Linkedin and what Linkedin displays. And we all know Linkedin is HR folks best friend. Thus, Microsoft now controls the technologies that employers and tech people see as important. Plus, Microsoft now has the prime platform in the world to market their technologies.
They might not be down as much as we might think!
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LinkedIn was a great purchase for them, more than partly because it seemed entirely out of left field. The amount, and type of data is perfect for a lot of their Facebook-y ambitions, while keeping it "in the enterprise". And as you point out, it now has a megaphone into corporate HR, and people looking for work.
Announcing it on the first day of WWDC was also brilliant (more proof Ballmer is gone).
SharePoint on the other hand, I still think is a hot mess.
TTFN - Kent
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Using machine learning, researchers from MIT have developed a system that produces sound effects that are so realistic they even fool human listeners. "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
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Researchers use graphene to create a new way of converting electricity into light, delivering the possibility of dramatic speed improvements over today's chips. Because everyone deserves to read "spews out plasmons" today
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Does it run Crysis ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Excellent point! 
But Crysis is old news now.. we need a new benchmark! Something that can crush the NVIDIA GTX 1080 to dust! :p
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Have you ever asked yourselves what would the world be like if there were only 100 developers in it? There'd be one beer left on the wall?
Apologies for the infographic, but I thought it had some interesting data in there.
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The question is ambiguous. Do you mean "no one except one hundred developers"? Or "three billion people, only one hundred of whom are developers"?
I'm unsure I'd want to be in either scenario.
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I like software development, I really do, but I cannot imagine the "no one except one hundred developers" alternative. That would be a nightmare, yet even worse than that.
Plus, I'm pretty sure that some of these hundred survivors would naturally be inclined to change their activity; becoming nuclear plant operators, for example, allowing remaining developpers to keep coding 
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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They'd get paid appropriately.
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At one point, there were 0 developers in the world, and we seem to have survived that. Then, there were only a handful of developers, mostly working on code to compute artillery firing tables and the feasibility of nuclear bombs (ENIAC[^].) The world as a whole seems to have survived that too. Now we have hundreds of thousands of developers, resulting in all sorts of side effects, like NY State's safe driving program[^] signs.
So, I think the question has always been, and always will be, how will we use these programs, whether there's 1 developer, 100, or 1 million, in the world.
Marc
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At its WWDC developer conference in San Francisco today, Apple chief executive Tim Cook announced the launch of Swift Playgrounds, an iPad app that’s designed to teach people how to code — specifically with Apple’s open-source Swift programming language. Who needs a keyboard to code anyway?
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Anyone who wants to experiment with deploying apps as self-contained miniature OSes now have a UniK, a new software tool to speed the process A standalone executable OS? Well, that's unique.
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Apple announced today that it will be opening up Siri to third-party developers through an API, giving outside apps the ability to activate from Siri's voice commands, and potentially endowing Siri with a wide range of new skills and datasets. Hey Siri, how are they going to maintain the walled garden?
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Apple has announced the next version of OS X — and the first thing you need to know is that it has a brand-new name: macOS. "And that made all the difference"
Universal Clipboard does sound kinda nice.
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