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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has spent nearly two years trying to standardize and implement Do Not Track — an HTTP header that tells advertisers and other third parties not to follow you around the internet — and the many delays and roadblocks that have cropped up since are starting to make it look like its efforts will be futile. "No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind"
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What do a McLaren Supercar, a refrigerator, a camera, a washing machine, and a cellphone have to do with open source? They're all examples of how a good pile of code can take on a new life when it's set free with an open source license. The envelope, please
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It seems that with every passing week we discover new ways that digital encryption and security is being subverted by government agencies [1] domestic and abroad. It stands to reason that encryption can no longer be trusted if the master keys for that encryption become known to others. It's far, far easier to get the keys than it is to crack the encryption, after all. "Are you the Key master?"
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The greater truth to all of this is that “hard” development skills only take you so far. You can be the greatest pure coder in the world, but if you can’t get along with people, you’re not going to get far. You need to have the people skills to get your point across while preserving and building relationships. In an instant, you can do something to lose all the credibility you’re ever had with someone, and that’s often impossible to recover from. "You have a nice personality, but not for a human being."
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Before launching into some philosophical musings about what programmers‘ crack addiction to code completion means, a few observations. "Code completion is to IDEs as Outlook is to the PC"
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I am pleased to announce that we released the Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) 1.8 today. This is the fourth update to the SDK since we first released it commercially one and a half years ago. Since then, we’ve seen numerous companies using Kinect for Windows worldwide, and more than 700,000 downloads of our SDK. Kinect-enabled Web pages?! Minority Report time!
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Many people forget that Emacs Lisp was once one of the most used open source programming languages. Viva la revolución
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If they're deluded or oblivious enough not to realize that C and C++ were major influences on Java why should I give any credit to the rest of the graphic?
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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Microsoft keeps getting its timing wrong on mobile strategy, and it's costing it market share. "You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em"
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At Bing, we understand that search is more than simply finding information, it’s about taking action and gaining knowledge. Since Bing’s launch, we’ve talked about doing instead of searching, and how the web has changed from a collection of documents to a constantly growing digital version of life as we know it. At the same time, the devices and scenarios through which people experience the web are morphing at an accelerating rate. We no longer think about search as simply a box that people type into. We ‘search’ on maps using our fingers, ask our devices questions using our voice, use our social networks to figure out what’s happening, and even use our phone’s ‘eyes’ to navigate foreign cities. Search has never been asked to do so many things in so many different ways across so many devices. It’s time to change. Oh, a new logo. Yes, that's why no one was using Bing.
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modern.ie is Microsoft’s offering of tools to test your sites in different browsers; not only old IEs, but also mobile ones. No, that's not a contradiction in terms
I'm sure I (and the others) have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating (regularly)
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If you want to test a page in IE6 you don't need something like that, just use the IE6ify[^] bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){var%20i=0,r=function(n){return%20Math.floor(Math.random()*n)},f=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].getElementsByTagName('*'),o=function(e){return%20typeof(e.style)=='object'&&e.tagName!='SCRIPT'},s=function(){while(!o(e=f[r(f.length)])){}return%20e.style};while(i++<5){s().display=r(2)?'block':'inline';s().position=r(2)?'absolute':'relative';s().margin=r(2)?'0':'1em';s().padding=r(2)?'0':'1em';s().width=r(2)?'':'auto';}})();
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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Brilliant. Works especially well after the third (or so) click.
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TTFN - Kent
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Netflix is following the pirates as it chooses content to add to its streaming-video service. "They're not compatible with my system."
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Last year, contributions from mobile companies accounted for just 4.4 percent of the Linux kernel, according to the Linux Foundation’s annual survey of Linux contributions. Now, it’s more like 11 percent. "The older I grow, the more I value pawns."
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Microsoft and Nokia are undoubtedly still two of the biggest names in the technology space today. Neither are strangers to innovation, with Microsoft having pioneered Windows 95, which became the most widely used operating system in the world; and Nokia once ruling the global handset business, with a market share that was 50% bigger than its nearest rival. (phone) Developers! (phone) Developers! (phone) Developers!
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Django patches denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by large passcodes. Let's keep them under 4K characters, people.
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What a vulnerability. That is kind of funny and kind of scary at the same time.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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After questions from a security researcher, Dropbox says that it opens links in uploaded documents in conjunction with the preview feature. Dropbox also trying to address DDoS concerns. "Be seeing you"
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""While this could theoretically be used for DDoS, we haven't seen any such behavior. However, just to be extra cautious we've temporarily disabled external resource loading while we explore alternatives.""
Translation: "Sh*t! Didn't think of that! Run away! Run awaaaaaaaayyyyy!" 
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Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve declared that proprietary software and closed platforms are gaming's past, its future is open and on Linux. Because of all those great Linux video drivers?
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they been saying linux is the future for a long time
and redhat is not one of the most profitable software vendors
dev
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Is that like saying 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 will be the year of Linux on the desktop?
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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The words "cutting edge" may be crisp and definite, slicing through air like a knife in a bar fight. But few things strike fear in the minds of enterprise IT like the claim that a new product is built by a team working on the "cutting edge" of technology. And they said I was mad for attempting those experiments back at the Institute!
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The increase speaks to Amazon's ability to turn analog sales into digital dollars. Apparently there is more than one person with two turntables (and a microphone)
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