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The UK government today published a draft version of the Investigatory Powers Bill setting out a framework for new surveillance powers. Among the proposed measures is a requirement for ISPs to keep a record of every website their customers visit for 12 months. UK only (for now), but I don't know if I want the government to know how often I visit CP
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Why are companies that target developers suddenly the hottest ticket in town? Maybe Ballmer was right for a change?
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Because there are a lot of developers who can't tie their shoes without help.
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My impression from reading the examples (most of which I have never heard of) of tools-for-devs the article enumerates is that these tools would be primarily used by very few people on a developer-team, or in a company. The few users would be the devs/program-managers who set-up/administer back-up/revision software, group collaboration software, etc.
The question I'd ask would be: does any of this economic "fluffing up" of the value of companies the author talks about really indicate any evidence of generating more jobs for developers ... developers "in the trenches/cubicles" who write code ?
Or, isn't this type of software just another facet of the general trend of hiring sub-contractors on an ad hoc basis, outsourcing whenever possible ... the net effect of this general trend (if you buy the premise here) fewer jobs ... full-time, health benefits, etc. ... for programmers ?
I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts, thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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As a technology team grows it is critical that safeguards and processes are put in place to keep the platform stable and secure. If it ships, it ain't broke?
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All code is good until proven otherwise.
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Having great programming skills doesn’t guarantee you anything. People don’t care about coding, they only care about the end result of coding and the value a program brings to them. Marketing developers! Marketing developers! Marketing developers!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Having great programming skills doesn’t guarantee you anything
It does - it absolutely guarantees you a job.
Presumably the next in this series of articles is "How to get media attention for your nudist beach volleyball event"...
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That depends... is it a developers' nude beach volleyball event? 
TTFN - Kent
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Killjoy! 
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One can play volleyball while holding a cup of ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) ?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Earlier this year, the European Union accused Google of monopolistic practices, alleging that, among other things, it unfairly prioritized its comparison shopping service when users searched for things to buy. Air is free too, and I think someone could take advantage of my use of it
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There are many ways to measure the popularity of a language. But this dataset is a rare way to find out what technologies people tend to dislike, when given the opportunity to talk about them. "And I hate that I love you so"
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I'm happy to see that SourceSafe is still highly hated.
I'd rather be phishing!
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That first graph is illuminating. I guess I have to embrace the fact that I am rather contrarian. I love .NET and C#, can't stand Git (but use it), and I rather loathe duck-typed and dynamic runtime typed language.
No wonder I find it hard to find people that think like me. And to think, I'll probably be coding for a living for at least another 15 years.
[edit]On the other hand, the data may be skewed by the type of people that use SO Careers. The open-source, script kiddie, interpreted, no static type checking, latest unvetted technology, *nix camp people. Sort of makes sense that they'd be looking for work. Well, I feel better now: ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) [/edit]
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I love .NET and C#, can't stand Git (but use it), and I rather loathe duck-typed and dynamic runtime typed language.
There's a word for people like you... "engineer".
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: There's a word for people like you... "engineer".
Feels like a dying breed.
Marc
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I've used commercially or at least to "Hello World" level these languages:
VB (more-or-less all variants)
C
C++
Pascal
Fortran
JavaScript
CoffeeScript
C#
F#
Python
Perl
Ruby
Java
Scala
Eiffel
T-SQL
PL/SQL
PowerShell
Nant
MSBuild
The only one I really hate is Perl.
Kevin
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Marc Clifton wrote: [edit]On the other hand, the data may be skewed by the type of people that use SO Careers. The open-source, script kiddie, interpreted, no static type checking, latest unvetted technology, *nix camp people. Sort of makes sense that they'd be looking for work. Well, I feel better now: [Dance] [/edit]
CP really needs to support :trollface:
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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An open source project called Granular has re-implemented .NET's Windows Presentation Foundation on JavaScript. Yes, that's WPF for JavaScript.! You might be wondering why. Actually, my first question kind of rhymed with WPF.
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WPF For JavaScript = How to get punished for the same thing twice.
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I am still wondering why.
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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Among the best news I've heard since a while ago!
Going to test a bit more in depth, though...
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