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You can have my Office 2010 when you pry it from my cold, dead hard drive 
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If I understand it correctly, this is a replacement for SharePoint, not Word, and world would be a better place without SharePoint.
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Microsoft is about to release a new kind of search tool that it's been working on for years: Delve. "I want to learn everything about everything. I want to eat it all up. I want to discover myself."
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Quote: It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. At 08:35 a.m. it is 27% complete installing updates. At 11:32 a.m. it runs out of disk space and blue screens.
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And I probably will wish I never did hear of it.
Marc
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Oh a panacea! i just love a good panacea when I can get one.
Remember the Segue scooter? It was going to be IT. Now you can barely find a place to buy one.
Delve... is Bing... is Live Search... is Windows Search...is DOS Find /i "delve" *.ini
From the article
Delve uses "machine learning" and artificial intelligence to show you the documents, messages, and people you don't know you need to see. Microsoft describes it as:
Delve highlights key information of interest to you, based on what you are working on and the actions of people in your network.
Every large software company has only been promising that since the Unix Epoch! 
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With companies operating 24x7 and employees increasingly working from mobile devices, the pressure on IT staff to stay in touch even when they are on vacation is becoming almost an unspoken requirement. "It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same"
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Nope. When I'm on vacation nobody from work can get contact me. The fires can just keep burning till I get back. Or somebody else can take a shot at them.
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That's the best way to deal with them.
I used to work with a guy that just emailed himself a file sized to the Exchange server limits so his inbox rejected everything until he got back. Works wonders.
TTFN - Kent
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The demand of a specific person to solve a problem in any company is a symptom of wrong management...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Absolutely true, but sadly...
TTFN - Kent
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You haven't worked with many small companies have you? In many cases they simply cannot afford skill overlap.
At any rate, being available within reason during vacation isn't a problem for me. I understand why it is for some and I think management and employees just have to expectations set. For instance, when I'm with my daughter the freaking company better be at a stand still if you bother me. Otherwise, I make myself available for at least advice on how to handle something. I avoid logging in do things, but I plan for that possibility.
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tgrt wrote: You haven't worked with many small companies have you?
I worked for five different small companies (in four sectors), in ten years.
tgrt wrote: In many cases they simply cannot afford skill overlap.
Here we strongly disagree; you better prepare to have someone ready to take over each and every line that dev wrote, 'cause he/she may not be there in a week. Accidents, career-switches or even falling in love - people are not constants.
I've never had anyone call during a holiday. Not even whilst working for an industry that worked night-shifts.
tgrt wrote: At any rate, being available within reason during vacation isn't a problem for me.
Nor is it for me, but I'd be billing each hour as a regular working-hour 
tgrt wrote: and employees just have to expectations set
Ehr, my expectations are realistic. Unless you pay for it, you bug me not. If that is not sufficient, then I suggest you adjust your expectations until it is.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Programmer’s Proverbs is a growing collection of coding tips and advice phrased in the form of a proverb. Anyone can submit a proverb as long as it’s an original idea written in the proper style. "'Just ship' is no substitute for design."
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The repost police says look below.
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Waaah, waaah, waah. I forgot to uncheck the 'post in Insider' when I entered this in the system. And of course, now this thread can't be deleted.
TTFN - Kent
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"Eventual consistency = frequent inconsistency"
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Programmers in search of some higher wisdom in pursuit of better code need not trek to a temple atop a Tibetan mountain. A new Zen-like GitHub repository possesses the proverbial enlightenment you seek.
My favorite is: Don't commit on master when drunk.
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Jason Cardoza wrote: My favorite is: Don't commit on master when drunk.
That's genius. It's also true about programming.
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Are you trying to keep Nagy on unemployment indefinitely? 
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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OS currently has no reliable way to detect bogus credentials released into the wild. Can some rocket surgeon please fix certs (either "mechanic-fix" or "vet-fix" works for me)
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Android developers saw a 6% salary increase, but it was only a 1% hike for iOS developers, survey finds. "Get the money, dollar, dollar bill y'all"
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Sure there were a lot of broad statements and platitudes. But reading between the lines of the memo divulges a great deal about where he plans to take the company he has led since February. The future is Cloudy
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Companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce are creating new open source projects mainly as a means of promoting their existing products and services. How dare for-profit companies leverage open source to make a profit! For SHAME!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How dare for-profit companies leverage open source to make a profit! For SHAME!
Indeed. The whole open source model is only viable if there's something that can be monetized, whether it's support, extra features, plugins, whatever.
Marc
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