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Kent Sharkey wrote: there lived in a silicon valley far, far away in the mountains
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft has pushed the giant button that released Windows 10 to consumers around the world and on the company's campus, they have a large counter showing how many upgrades have been completed. "It's the final countdown"
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Until someone find out there is a bug in the counter and requires windows update !!! 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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16/second sounds impressive until you do the math and realize that at that rate it'll take 2 years to hit the billion user point vs the 1 year MS is targeting. 
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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There are many style guides around the web talking about the coding best practices. Some guidelines are very interesting, some others are not suitable even they are recommended by known organisations.
CoderGears just launched the C/C++ Coding Best Practices Repository to centralize the most known best practices.
The goal of the repository is to vote and comment the C/C++ coding best practices rules to have the most interesting ones and every C/C++ developer will focus more on the most voted rules.
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My best practice is D Language !
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Nah, D is old hat. See Rust (above).
(I've not used either btw but there's always another proposed C/C++ killer around the corner.  )
Kevin
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Looks like a half baked attempt to clone stack overflow looking for a reason to exist to me. 
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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http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/29/lg-made-1-2-cents-in-profit-for-every-phone-it-sold/[^]
The URL really says it all. 
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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That is what happens in capitalism if you do not have an exploitable monopoly.
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Apple has 18% share of smartphone market but 90% share of profits. So crumbs for everyone else.
Kevin
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A research team from Harvard University has made pig-skin lasers. Here’s how they did it—and perhaps more importantly, why. Cells, with frickin' lasers!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cells, with frickin' lasers!
Jedi pigs 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A research team from Harvard University has made pig-skin lasers. Here’s how they did it—and perhaps more importantly, why.
Self-cooking bacon would be my guess
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Steve Naidamast is back with an opinion piece about the danger of technology’s “dark side”. Come to the dark side. We have cookies!
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We lied about the cookies... :evil laugh:
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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Dan Neely wrote: I found myself wondering if you actually read the whole thing.
OK, it's a fair cop. I didn't get quite that far into the article.
Yeah. People make me sad. Some more so. Sorry about that.
TTFN - Kent
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The results of a recent AV-Test involving twenty-one different antivirus software running on Windows 8/8.1 have been published. Unfortunately, Windows Defender Antivirus came last in the protection category. No one writes malware targeting Windows?
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I refuse to use Chrome as a daily driver because if I don't want to elephant my privacy by sending every URL I type to the googleplex I'm forced to elephant searching by either prefixing them or disabling autocomplete entirely. While I'd be interested in seeing what the results look like if using all of the other stuff MS insists is part of it's comprehensive anti-malware suite, sending every URL I visit to MS to use SmartScreen is equally un-elephanting-acceptable. 
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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Mobile apps have become so ubiquitous that it’s easy for most people in tech to assume that creating them is a simple, straightforward process. "You can't get there from here"
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High pay? Check. Job security? Check. But when it comes to feeling that their jobs have meaning, even telemarketers rank higher than software engineers, according to a recent PayScale survey. "Everybody wants to rule the world"
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It is understandable, considering all of the failed projects that occur. I take it personally, when things don't work out for a project.
I will say though I am a bit different than the typical programmer. We don't follow any concrete software development process as I can't get buy in, but the software is very important to the public. I work for law enforcement and my software gets used from running plates, concealed weapons, warrants, missing people, ect... To me it is just software, but when there is a defect, it could be life or death.
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I used to work somewhere like that, but seriously, if they refuse to implement software quality systems and the software could affect lives its time to leave. Don't wait until someone dies as a result. And make maximal noise at time of departure, going public if necessary.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Alternative interpretation:
Software engineers rank highly in freedom from delusion and sharp awareness of human insignificance.
Of the 505 job titles surveyed, most clung tightly to the illusion that their actions had greater meaning beyond the receiving of their paychecks. Even telemarketers largely failed to distinguish between corporate hype and the grim reality of their actual accomplishments.
The corporate world should be grateful to have such a hardy group of individuals, emotionally tough enough to accept reality without unnecessary sugar-coating.
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