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Very few enterprise development projects are completed entirely in-house.
Two factors have changed the face of enterprise development. The first is economic, the second is technical. "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
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Oracle remains the undisputed king of databases. But what — if anything — is on track to replace it? Data published today by the Austrian IT consulting company Solid IT may offer a few clues. Yeah. Good luck with that.
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Alan Mulally has officially confirmed what the world suspected. He's not leaving Ford to become Microsoft's next CEO. I suppose I could do a lame, "Quality is still job 1" item here, but I'll just say, "THANK you!"
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They should hire a young snarky outsider who has over 20 years of dev experience and who complains about everything they've done in the past 5 years and they should pay him $500 Million a year. Ahem... I am available for hire.
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In an interesting new study that measures consumer brand strength, Microsoft reigned supreme while perennial winner Apple lagged behind. The reason? The Seattle area software giant was deemed just-us-folks, while the Silicon Valley style icon was considered unapproachable. "A lot of the world uses Microsoft products and people relate to it, while Apple is like a prom king or queen, beautiful but not really like us."
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In a demonstration of how insane the Javascript world is, a revolution happened last week and it looks like Grunt was dethroned as the go-to task -runner. But wait you may say, wasn’t the Node and Grunt revolution just beginning? After all Grunt had just managed to find its way to job descriptions. Apparently we weren’t done revolutionizing. Fickleness, thy name is JavaScript developers
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I have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Should I?
Marc
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Hehe, No, only if you're stuck reading all the JS blogs like I do. It's really just yet another example of "All the cool kids are using 'x', we should use 'x'". Two days later, "All the cool kids are using 'y'. 'X' must be crap, let's all switch."
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TTFN - Kent
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Not to worry, its another bunch of workarounds for the fact that JavaScript was rushed out by Netscape as a a non-standard browser extension back in the day.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that’s just as good as human operators. Now its engineers reveal how they developed it. OK, Google, just go self-aware already.
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That was interesting... but no mention of why they selected an 11 neuron deep network, or what method was used to train (probably back propagation... but maybe not?). Actually, no mention at all of the network structure beyond the depth.
No mention either of why they could not scale beyond 5 digits in the street number. Can they not train the network due to a lack of test data, or is the training algorithm exponential in cost, or maybe they have no idea how many levels deep to make the network and it is an NP Complete?
I wish technical writers included technical information 
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Well, there is the linked paper at the bottom of the article, if you want to dig through that. Might be a few answers there.
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With John McAfee’s unpredictable antics continuing to hit the headlines – antics which include the recent release of a video explaining how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus that featured strippers, coke, and guns – Intel boss Brian Krzanich has evidently had enough of the association between the outlandish character and the software he created, telling a crowd at CES on Monday that his company will soon begin a year-long rebranding exercise that’ll see McAfee’s name phased out and replaced by “Intel Security”. "I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet."
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Car makers are beginning to embrace Google Glass, despite an ongoing debate over whether or not drivers should be allowed to wear the eyeglass technology on the road.
Okay Glass, start my car. Okay Glass, drive my car. Okay Glass, pump my gas.
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Okay Glass, find me a good lawyer and a nearby hospital for that crash you just had with that minivan. 
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Okay glass, outrun the cops. 
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Tx allows the use of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) queries on raw event sources. var crashes = from my in logs where result=='boom' select my.excuse;
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Intel is thinking big by going small: The Edison, a full Linux computer built for wearables, is no bigger than an SD card. If the computer is the size of an SD card, where do I insert the SD card?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If the computer is the size of an SD card, where do I insert the SD card?
Where the sun don't shine?
Quote: CEO said Intel plans to offer elements of McAfee mobile security products for free to help guard today's most popular mobile devices and will introduce Intel Device Protection technology this year to improve enterprise security of all Intel-based Android* mobile devices.
That would give Virus a whole new meaning for wearables.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Where the sun don't shine?
Now hey, just because I set them up, doesn't mean you get to knock them down 
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Sorry couldn't resist, you did leave it wide open.
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It's small and cute, I just don't know about that whole wearable craze. Use it for making even smaller devices and I am on board. I can imagine a lot of different uses for a (semi-)stationary, tiny computer that draws very little power. I hope it's cheap too .
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: Use it for making even smaller devices and I am on board. I can imagine a lot of different uses for a (semi-)stationary, tiny computer that draws very little power.
Yeah, absolutely. I would just like to see this as part of a lot of other things, although I could see the baby-stuff they were going with as useful. Hopefully they'll be cheap and easy to get one's hands (and code) on. Sadly, I'd bet they'll be Java-only.
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ntel is working to make the experience of switching between OS as a seamless one. With the push of a button, user will be able to switch to the other OS in few seconds. "Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice"
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In this course, you will learn how to build web experiences that adapt to the different screen sizes and capabilities that mobile devices offer, and how to scalably optimize media for mobile and desktop. Learn Web Development in 21 Days (or so)
Full course isn't online yet, but supposedly RSN(tm)
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