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November 2014 was a big month for the Web. We saw the release of Chrome 39, the debut of Firefox Developer Edition, and now we’re learning the latest version of Internet Explorer is used by one in four Internet users. Furthermore, the most hated browser version on the planet, IE6, has finally fallen below the 1 percent market share mark. Ding, dong. The witch is (almost) dead
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WOOOOHOOOO!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Anyone know how the major version release of Chrome 39 differs from the major version release of Chrome 38?
Maybe we should have a browser drinking game: everytime a browser manufacturer releases a new major rev you have to take a shot.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As my teacher told me - by learning how to prepare good statistics, you learn how to prove everything you want...
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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Or to put it differently, never trust statistics you haven't doctored yourself.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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In an interview with The Seattle Times, Huawei’s head of international media affairs, Joe Kelly, has revealed the company didn’t make money from its two handsets running Windows Phone, and that "nobody made any money in Windows Phone." But... 4.3% of the market!
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Microsoft’s Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art’s online image library and replacing it with Bing Image Search. Microsoft had clip art?
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Bing Images.
So catchy.
When, oh when, will they rebrand their search engine and give it a non-stupid name?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When, oh when, will they rebrand their search engine and give it a non-stupid name?
Just as soon as they get a new VP?
Mind you, they'll probably go with something even worse. "Just NorthWind it." "Contoso it"
TTFN - Kent
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I'm just sad they didn't go with Microsoft Cloud Search Services 2015. Rolls off the tongue.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Or "Microsoft Cloud Search Services 2015.3 CTP4 Update 5".
Think I'll just call it "Harry Lillis Crosby Jr". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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As time has gone by, Microsoft has developed their search engine, Bing, into quite a competitive alternative to Google. As such, a larger number of people have begun to use the service on a regular basis. Naturally this has lead to an exponential rise in the number of odd requests seen by the Bing engine over the last year. Our society is doomed.
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Intense focus, sharp memory and pattern recognition are some of the traits that a great software tester has to have. It so happens that those traits are prominent in individuals on the autism spectrum.
Who knew? That's pretty cool...
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Yeah because they're always busy sharping their own memory.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I can't buy into this hypothesis: many/most who are autistic have little control over what it is they are "locked in" to paying attention to (albeit in great, obsessive detail) at any given moment; they are often overwhelmed by unexpected sensory input. Depending on the nature of damage to the brain, autistic individuals may have trouble with motor-control, impulse-control, emotional control, etc.
Historically, within the cohort lumped together as "autistic," are rarer individuals who are now referred to as having Aspberger's, or being "high-functioning" autistics, and the modern taxonomy of neural-cognitive disorders carefully distinguishes those persons from other discrete categories within what's now referred to as the "autism spectrum."
Some even rarer few in the highest-functioning levels, like Kim Peek (deceased) [^] (made famous by the "Rain Man" movie), are savants with mental powers that seem almost supernatural.
The (still living) Dr. Temple Grandin is another example of the rare, specialized, gifts that some autistics may have : [^]. Her book, "Animals in Translation," is one of the most powerful examinations of human identity and behavior in the context of "animal life" I have ever read (and I've read it twice, it's so compelling).
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
modified 1-Dec-14 21:57pm.
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Your DSLR can do much more than just take a few nice portraits or the occasional vacation photos – with some DIY magic you can actually turn it into a device which can detect planets outside our solar system – something that 20 years ago was impossible even with the most sophisticated telescopes. Who needs NASA?
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Related question - if two people many thousands of km apart took photos of the moon using this kind of set up would it be possible to turn that into a 3D image?
( On average the moon is 380,000 km from the Earth... would the 5130km between Dublin and New York produce any parallax?)
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Dunno about that; but I suspect taking images taken a few months apart to exploit the moon's libration[^] while keeping illumination levels similar would work better.
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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When it comes to successful software, does it pay to have fast coders? Or does slow and steady always win the race? "The low rider drives a little slower. Low rider is a real goer"
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I found that those who can keep calm while solving urgent problems will give a much stable solution, while those who rush into the work-field will introduce a new bug with every one solved...
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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...*a* new bug?
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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I'm not too good with big numbers 
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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So you're a tribal programmer: 0, 1, OverflowException?
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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Fast coders make happy-path code quickly.
Slow coders make robust code slowly.
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