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I'm coming up on 10 years at my current employer. Still working for the same project I was hired for (~2/3rds of my total time here); and haven't been threatened with prodemotion to management yet. 10 more years of the same sounds quite appealing actually.
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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America is suffering from a lack of tech-savvy workers, and that's one of the reasons that wages are stagnant. It's enough of an issue that President Obama is launching TechHire, a program designed to get citizens into well-paid jobs in the technology sector. "Get a haircut and get a real job"
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Apple's high-end 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition will be a luxury priced item and the most expensive it has ever offered, starting at $10,000 and available in extremely limited quantities, the company revealed on Monday. Also: demand
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Also: demand
Good thing... or the price might get really high.  
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes and inconsistent data collection. So Apple is stepping up to help health innovation with Research Kit, a new iOS app that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. iColonoscopy
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It's open source; so it is good news.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes
That is absolutely false... marketing at it best/worst I suppose.
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Cisco estimates a million unfilled security jobs worldwide. They all seem to be working on the side of the business with profits
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In Germany the companies all are crying for specialists aka "Fachkräfte". Interesting is what our "Fachkräfte" are discussing in chats on such messages like in the most admired heise news.
Too make it a short business case: "Who pays peanut, will get monkeys"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I estimate that 50% of that guess is nonsense.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mine, or theirs?
Mine came complete with a 15s research cycle 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mine, or theirs?
Theirs. It's like a bank claiming that there'll be more demand for financial literate people. As long as a company does not have to waste (!) money on something that does not increase sales, it won't. Yes, it'll be an important topic in the meetings, but it will not materialize during your scrum.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Mine came complete with a 15s research cycle
..often gives a nice impression of what kind of article to expect 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Shortage of security pros worsens
This simply isn't true.
I mean, I am short, but I haven't gotten any shorter.
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Randy Newman - Short People[^] 
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Heed the wisdom of your programming elders, or suffer the consequences of fundamentally flawed code. Just use two bytes for that year field. This isn't going to be in production that long.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just use two bytes for that year field. This isn't going to be in production that long.
Nyuk! Nyuk! That's funny stuff, right there.
I guess because it's true. Who would use software for 100 years?
Most software I don't want to use for 100 seconds.
Where's the update!?!
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That implies the customer needs a new release. It will be expensive 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just use two bytes for that year field. This isn't going to be in production that long.
If your software's still running after 65,536 years...
"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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Yes, one byte is more than enough! 
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I love this quote from the article:
Quote: If we could add up all of the time the world spends recompiling jQuery, it could be thousands or even millions of years.
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A U.S. space probe slipped into orbit around Ceres, a miniature planet beyond Mars believed to be left over from the formation of the solar system, NASA said on Friday. I think it prefers 'planet of short stature'
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Why not "planetino"? 
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 Gets my vote
TTFN - Kent
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Apple's head of design says in an interview that there are emotional reasons why the iPhone needs regular recharging. "You can never be too rich or too thin."
He's too rich, your phone is too thin, apparently.
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I tell that to the customers of my software "You just love the bugs. You just can't wait to start my software and find out what error crashes it this time! Sure, I could fix them for you, but it would take all the adventure out of using my software. What did you say? It doesn't crash all that often? Just wait until the next update! It'll be ehhh... adventurous!"
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