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So apple had the black polo-neck, and google has the blackshirts.
I like symmetry.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Enterprises are doing everything in their power to jump on the DevOps bandwagon but this journey is not all sunshine and rainbows, a recent study shows. That people are adopting it?
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It would be really interesting if they did a survey of companies "doing DevOps" and asked them if they even knew what it meant or how to do it.
Marc
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Like many things, DevOps works until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's such a disaster that it if it doesn't bring down any but the largest companies, it will cost them a lot of customers and money.
("...shows that companies’ road to DevOps is often blocked by an issue called the “QA wall.”"
Yeah, get rid of that actual quality assurance testing. I mean Firefox and Chrome don't... never mind.)
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One of the most challenging aspects of selling software to developers is that many, many, many developers think, no matter what it costs, that software should be cheaper. So, 'free' as in 'big price tag'?
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Reads like a mildly-disguised promotion of his site. No truly useful information. He basically just says "You're doing it wrong - stay tuned for more information right here on my website!" 
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That was my take on it, too.
I was waiting for him to start saying "Instead of making this or using open-source for it, you should strongly consider buying this item, from my sponsors"
Maybe he's playing canny, and waiting to pounce in his next "article".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You’re buying support, and innovation, and you’re buying the result of someone’s dedicated and focused time.
[biased, possibly ignorant, response follows]
Oh please. If you want support, you have to buy a support contract, separate from the software. If you want innovation, yeah, sadly, look at open source, or better yet, startup companies, or even better, crowd funding sites like Kickstarter, not the giants in the industry. They don't innovate, they buy the small, often underfunded, often debt laden, innovations, and those they can't buy, they get lawyers to sue for patent infringement.
developers often undervalue software because software sales and purchasing are unnecessarily complex.
Seriously? Who the hell needs to buy software? Visual Studio Express is free. SQL Server Express is free. Whatever flavor your Linux poison is, is free. Need Office-like tools? Free!
In fact, often the free tools are BETTER than the ones you pay for!
Many developers work embedded inside large organizations where they either have no say in software purchasing, or are poorly informed to begin with when they’re involved in the process at all.
Ridiculous. I've never experienced that (not to say that there isn't a point there.) The main thing I've experienced is that, even with all the right software, it's the processes that are hosed, and I don't mean the purchasing processes.
Where does my "computing" money go? Hardware. Laptops, routers, Internet access, peripherals, etc. Otherwise, everything else is either free or really cheap. And if we're talking about a company, you either host your own servers or pay for Azure/EC2/DigitalOcean/whatever, which can of course get expensive.
Marc
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Air passengers could be subjected to a series of "shocking" incidents if security flaws in cabin entertainment systems were abused, say researchers. "Mr. Sulu: you have the helm"
OK, "The only good news is that it did not seem to be possible to cross from in-flight systems to those that control an aircraft." But still: who wrote the security for those systems? Me?
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A new study from Veracode shows while developers’ top concerns are cyberattacks and data breaches, security testing imposes a risk to their development and deadlines. I never would have guessed.
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Smile Vector is a Twitter bot that can make any celebrity smile. It scrapes the web for pictures of faces, and then it morphs their expressions using a deep-learning-powered neural network. "Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"
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You have to be an idiot to not to see those smiles are fake!
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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Absolutely but it's more about where the technology could go than where it's currently at. It really does open a Pandora's box-load of possibilities.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Developers can use Project Wycheproof to test cryptographic algorithms against a library of known attacks to uncover potential weaknesses "Passing the tests does not imply that the library is secure." Oh. Thanks.
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At least they are honest and realistic
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you’re the type of software developer who takes pride in always being the best, then you’ll work as hard as you can be good at your job. Take care that you don’t become pigeonholed, a common pitfall to success for software developers. Stop cooing at work?
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You can also help your company feel confident about your capabilities by creating clean code. If they also believe that you can turn projects over to others, then your superiors may let you move onto other tasks.
That's hard to do when the CTO says code needs to be written in Python so it can be maintained by junior devs. And then when those junior devs are hired, they have no interest in learning the how, what and why (particularly the why, as it guided the how & what) and decide to write a lobotomized monolithic version in F#. 
The flaw in the above quote is then your superiors. How the hell is some moron that calls himself a manager my "superior" when it comes to understanding the reason for a particular architecture and implementation? The only measure he/she has is (as an example, I'm not making this up):
- The software, after being deployed in rather hostile environments (as in gaming floors) works quite well
- And after 2 years, is in fact the only software successfully deployed
- New features and hardware support, slated for the complete rewrite version, are integrated into the "old" version because the rewrite version is delayed, delayed, delayed.
- Revenue was increased by several million $$$ in 6 months simply from transaction fees because of higher usage of the equipment, because customers (gamblers) found it easier to use.
So, as usual, it's not (even) how clean the code is, it's whether there's intelligence at the higher levels to see what's in front of their noses.
Marc
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In my experience, "superiors" don't give a rat's ass about clean code and neither do many (most?) developers, which is a big reason why so much software sucks (and is my main frustration with this career.)
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That's what you get when you send someone through college only requiring maybe 30 hours of computer courses total - most of them not even related to development - and then send them out into the workforce with a rudimentary-at-best understanding of 2-3 languages and the idea they know what they need when they don't even know 1%.
I've said it before but development is not an area fit for the standard college model. It is more akin to a trade-skill and should be treated as such. You should undergo an official apprenticeship and when deemed appropriate by whoever you are under an apprenticeship with you receive the title of journeyman and can go out on your own.
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There's an art to sounding like you know what you are talking about. Once mastered, you will go far.
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There are no superiors - only anteriors and posteriors
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Yet another article decrying expertise.
(The idea of the article isn't bad, but the essay gets an 'F'. Among other things, the author creates multiple definitions of 'pigeonhole', the first of which is a strawman--being considered an expert of the "go to" person is not being pigeonholed. By definition pigeonhole has to do with assignment. A total ignoramus can be pigeonholed [often on the project where s/he can do the least harm].)
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It sounds like Apple's traditional computers aren't getting love from either the software or design teams. Bad news, Chris
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Unfortunately, with the debacle that is the Macbook Pro, I think I've bought my last Mac. I'd buy a Surface Studio in place of an iMac, and I'm hoping the Surface Pro 5 comes with enough battery life for me to hand off this cable-needy, peripheral-hating, driver-deficient piece of crap.
And I so loved my Macbook Air.
I even (and you may want to sit down for this) bought an old Galaxy S5 off eBay and I'm kind of impressed. The fingerprint reader is abysmal, and if Android (or Samsung's bloatware) would stop crashing that'd be awesome, but that phone is pretty nice.
It's like Apple hit a brick wall and no one even slowed down to check if they are all right.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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