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It amused me that when first visiting or refreshing the page, the image shows first as a large VB. Subliminally associating VB with malware?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I’m going to discuss my experiences and insights over the last 6 months as a new manager. This one goes out to all of the developers out there who wonder what it’s like to be a manager, or are considering taking the leap into the realm of Pointy Haired Boss. “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
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I was a software development manager previously in may career and swore I would never do it again. It wasn't a role I signed up for. As the most senior developer on the team my role slowly changed from developer to developer / manager. I became less and less hands on, spent increasing amounts of time in meetings, had to perform team appraisals, became involved in budgets and strategy. None of these were things I was particularly interested in, and all of them kept me away from what I loved the most, which was writing software.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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If, as a developer, you feel the need to (re)test the Peter Principle[^] then I would suggest the path into "Architect" rather than "Manager". At least the world needs more architects.
However if management is forced upon you (as it was me in a past corporate "life") then the book "Managing Humans[^]" is worthy of a space on your desk.
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Overloading can be useful, however Lukas Eder has a handy write-up to ensure that you avoid overloading unless the added convenience really adds value. Not sure where you sit on the method overloading topic? Keep reading. "Reaching overload. Start to explode"
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Create a social network or risk everything.
That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass. How not to create a "Facebook-killer"
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When I first began programming, I wrote code with a blissful innocence. In those early days, I learned by tinkering and experimenting, much like how a child learns how the physical world works by picking things up and stumbling on their own feet a few times. I learned largely by avoiding the boundaries of rules. Do you want a time-out? I'm counting to three!
I was originally going to go with a "spanking" blurb, but Bob decided it wasn't KSS enough. phwoar
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Anyone whose been around web development for a while has seen the web declared dead numerous times. Wired alone famously declared it dead in 2010 and then, years afterwards, assured us in 2014 that it was very much, well, not dead. "How many times do I have to kill you, boy?!"
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"Each time, I rise back stronger like a phoenix".
modified 4-Aug-15 1:22am.
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If you careful enough and do not use Telerik components for web developers it may live forever...
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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dev.theladders.com[^]
"the amount of data available for each page can vary widely. This means we have a wide range of visual states for every element"
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In September 2000, Microsoft was celebrating its 25th anniversary. During an incident at one of the celebratory events that surely would have gone viral in minutes had social and smartphones been available at the time (but was fortunately caught on video nonetheless), then-president and CEO Steve Ballmer stomped and clapped across the stage, working himself (and the crowd) up into a sweaty frenzy as he repeatedly chanted one word: “Developers.” We left? Why did no one tell me?
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Even though, THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP,
I went CRAWLING BACK TO MICROSOFT.
Please take me back. Please, Bill. For the sake of the windows children. Take me back. 
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newton.saber wrote: Even though, THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP,
Which they've been saying for the past decade or so. 
Kevin
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Just "decade", I have a longer memory than you.
(Incidentally, I think Newton's original point was a joke reference to the number of "years of the Linux desktop" we've had so far). According to this[^], the first year touted as such was 1998, but I much prefer olevar's answer....
Quote: The earliest reference we have of "Year of Linux on Desktop" is from Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita by Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494.
He writes:
"Sono sicuro che il prossimo anno tutti utilizzerà Linux"
Incidentally, that means that 2018 will be the 20th anniversary of the first year of the Linux desktop. Sounds like an excuse for a party.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Just "decade", I have a longer memory than you.
I was trying to be generous. 
Kevin
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"We left? Why did no one tell me?"
You may have followed us then 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When he appeared on Conan they showed the "developers, developers, developes" clip before he went on and he was actually quite proud of it
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It’s almost tragic how Microsoft, with a multi-year head start in the mobile phone market, was completely blindsided by the iPhone. Indeed, it’s somewhat easy to forget that Microsoft, going as far back as 2000, was already putting incarnations of Windows Mobile on PDAs and smartphones. "Can't win for losing"
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The article said:
If Microsoft engineers and executives had experienced that same type of urgency, the smartphone market today might very well look a lot different than it does today.
No one at Microsoft stood as a visionary for the product. The thing that Steve Jobs brought to Apple was:
1. A huge interest in making the iPhone - a portable device that allowed you to call, listen to music and surf the web
2. Pain : to anyone who got in his way, or didn't do exactly what he wanted or whatever.
Now, consider most large companies (MICROSOFT) made up of a lot of people who are getting paychecks whether the company makes a cool phone device or not. Also, consider that employees have to be nice to each other.
Microsoft conversation probably went something like this:
Windows Phone Product Guy: Here's what we'll do. Jam some interface on there which looks like Windows, then maybe put somet tiley looking thingies on there and some color. Voila, just like iPhone. No one will know the difference.
Uninterested Employees Who Are Busy Using their iPhones to Check Their Microsoft Stock Value: __nodding their heads without looking up__
One guy way in the back who doesn't like it:
Thinking: "Well, I don't want to say anything rude."
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Well.. you might very well be onto something!! ^_^
Though, I suspect that Ballmer might have been bullish about Windows Phone! At least he seemed to be while talking publicly!
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Automation plays an ever-increasing role in IT and is impacting job and how business is done. Our latest survey digs into the subject and shows that 60% are already automating some IT jobs and another 11% plan to do so. It's true! 71% of this newsletter is automated.
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The first piece of custom (and commercial) software I wrote was for a linen company, many years ago to automate what inventory got put on what truck on what day, for what delivery route. The day I walked in to deliver to product, the owner's very first action, upon seeing me, was to clap his hands and exclaim, "All right! Now I can fire some people!"
I felt really bad about it at the time, but also realized that I was on the right side of the computer automation revolution; control the machines, or be controlled by them.
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71 percent of IT is getting outsourced to ITself.
All of us constitute the remaining 29 percent.
modified 4-Aug-15 0:54am.
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Meanwhile, early data shows that 40% of Windows 10 users are running something other than the default Edge. There are no alternatives! Time to panic!
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