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The iPhone 6 has been more successful than previous versions of the smartphone at drawing Android users away from Google’s mobile platform, and Apple wants to capitalize on that with a new app that makes it easier for them to make the switch. Does it come with a credit card to buy an iDevice?
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Windows 10 is a well-meaning effort by Microsoft to mollify Windows 8 haters and coax Windows 7 loyalists to upgrade — all while stubbornly sticking to its goal of a single OS for every possible platform. Welcome to today's episode of, "Armchair quarterback"
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Or as I like to call them; Software Soaps
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Welcome to today's episode of, "Armchair quarterback"
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It is fascinating that around 1 in every 20 open job postings in the U.S. job market relates to software development/engineering. "The more you understand, seems the more like you do. You never get away, everybody wants you"
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Harvard scientists have developed an electrical scaffold that can be injected directly into the brain with a syringe. "No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself"
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Hard coding is often considered an anti-pattern. "It's hard times, for an honest man"
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He needs Configuration Leason 101[^].
MSDN Configuration files are XML files that can be changed as needed. Developers can use configuration files to change settings without recompiling applications. Administrators can use configuration files to set policies that affect how applications run on their computers.
Wonde Tadesse
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Manu Prakash and his students have built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. It operates at 3 MegaSquirts
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets
That's nothing. Mine runs on hopes, dreams, and caffeine.
Well...indirectly. 
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When they say water droplets, do they mean tears? Mine runs on tears sometimes...
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It provides a full set of floating point instructions, including the all-important SQRT.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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When upgrading to Windows 10, most of your installed programs should still work. The key word, however, is "most." Step 0: Do you have a computer?
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Step 1: Install Windows 10
Step 2: Call support
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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In the last two episodes I did reruns of earlier articles on the technical interview process. I thought I might go into a little more detail about how I structure interviews and what I’m looking to get out of them. "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?"
OK, that one probably isn't a valid question.
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Good article. One thing is clear, I wouldn't like to be interviewed by Eric. I would probably be starstruck in addition to being nervous. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?
"OK, that one probably isn't a valid question.
I don't think I was asked that one explicitly during my interview; but it was implicit in being able to pass the background checks I needed as a defense contractor and I'm almost certain it was part of the paperwork I filled out for them. 
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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Quote: This may come as a shock to you, but people inflate their resumes all the time.
Let me show you my shocked face. 
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What does Microsoft's experiment in installing ads on users' desktops tell us about its future patching proclivities? It looks like we'd like you to upgrade: would you like help with that?
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We want a new AdBlock for Windows 10!
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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There's not such thing as a free lunch!, or in this case upgrade.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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I see Microsoft pushing hard to make this the year of Linux.
Me, I'm looking for some old Kickstart-floppy's.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Office 2016 for Mac is looking pretty good
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The move could be Google's way of attracting more external committers to the JavaScript rival. What will we all do when GitHub goes away/evil/gets bought?
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