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Couvillon et al. show that naturally occurring caffeinated forage tricks honeybees into acting as if nectar quality, measured by bees as sugar content, is higher than it really is. Workers increase foraging and recruitment behaviors, which ultimately quadruples colony-level recruitment, tempting the colony into sub-optimal foraging strategies. Beware of free coffee in your office!
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You’ve heard it before: In space, no one can hear you scream. That’s because sound doesn’t move through a vacuum, and everyone knows that space is a vacuum. The thing is, that’s not completely true. "This garden universe vibrates complete. Some we get a sound so sweet."
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In this past year, HTML5 adoption has gone into overdrive, with more and more companies moving to HTML5 to deliver rich cross-platform web applications. Sorry if you still have to support IE8
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Citizen developers can produce valuable businesses applications quickly, but is speed to market worth the risk of security and compliance considerations flying out of the window? We, the coders...
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I find equating business employees (who don't work for the formal IT center in companies) with "citizens" a bit strange. As I find this excerpt:
" ... Helm Incorporated. It uses a cloud-based citizen development platform called Intuit QuickBase. Michael Wacht, the company’s vice president of operations and a former CIO, says he wants to give business users the capability to develop their own applications to fill the gaps between the applications offered by the IT department. ...
As we are a service business we have lots of unique needs, and we were so frustrated with the backlog of applications we were waiting for that we decided to let our teams develop them themselves," he says. "It turns out we can develop an application faster than we can document a process." "
Is that a good thing ? To have applications cranked out that handle undocumented processes, or to have applications which multiple users may have very different assumptions about the implementation of the process ?
Turns out, if you read further, that Helm has all the employees locked into doing everything in Intuit's QuickBase, and that the IT department can control QuickBase in consistent ways ... that's quite a different scenario than having people cranking out "apps" in C# inter-opping with Excel, etc.
By the end of reading the article, I came to the conclusion that what is described as "citizen developers" is actually "power users" who can pursue limited tasks in a context constrained by the hegemony of the one true application 
Your mileage may vary !
«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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Symantec has uncovered an ongoing campaign in which hackers are using malware to hijack MySQL servers, enrolling them into a botnet specialized in launching DDoS attacks. Don't worry, I read somewhere that Oracle has fixed security
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They enroll them for free, great 
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Emerging from its Windows 8 midlife crisis is a mature company that mixes confidence and forward thinking. Says guy who definitely knows cool (and probably is truly cool)
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They also had confidence in Windows ME and Vista 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Rackspace is getting deeper into the container game. The company today announced the beta launch of its Carina container service. Carina gives developers access to a fully managed container environment that offers bare-metal performance and still allows them to use the same native Docker tools they are used to from their local development environments.
These companies just cannot contain themselves when it comes to Docker.
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Evaluate your organization’s culture and skill and make any necessary changes before starting. Enterprises need to look at cultural tolerance for risk and failure, then make changes in structure, responsibility and authority. Specific skills around APIs, open-source tools and modern DevOps practices are essential ingredients to the success of a microservices initiative. Checklist: A need or want to stop working in a big monolithic app? Check!
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"Halo, a proposed residential airship with a living area the size of four football pitches and an estimated cost of $330 million.
... A 266ft-long prototype flew in 2013 and has received certification from America’s Federal Aviation Administration.
... If built according to current plans Halo would feature 20 bedrooms in addition to work spaces, a spa, cinema and ballroom." [^]
«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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I love Go and I just can’t help it—Go is amazing. Still, in my humble opinion, Go is a terribly, poor designed language, which does exactly opposite to what it advertises. Someone passes (on) Go, does not collect $200
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It's quite well written. I did not know about Go; but I'm not so sure about the "readability" thing of the language.
I never finish anyth
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The author is completely right. The use of 8 space indenting is beyond appallingly awful.
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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William Henry Gates III was born October 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington where he still resides in his post Microsoft years. I bet he's looking forward to that big pension cheque in five years
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You mean Social Security check, right? 
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Yeah, that thing. I can never keep those straight, but I better learn soon. So I can start collecting whatever it's called.
TTFN - Kent
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IBM's Watson AI has been a Jeopardy champion and a very creative chef, next up, Watson the weather man. Well, sort of. IBM just announced that it plans to acquire The Weather Company's products and technology, which includes Weather.com and The Weather Underground, all of which will serve as the backbone of the new Watson Internet of Things unit. The Weather Channel isn't part of the deal, but it will license data and analytics from IBM. Hopefully Watson is better at predicting the weather...
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The technology “can trace a person’s hand as he writes in the air and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy,” "Pink. They're pink."
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They're not going to be happy until we are all roasted like hotdogs in a microwave.
The people wearing the tinfoil hats, they saw this coming...
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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I can't wait for the folks who like to denunciate critical minds with "tinfoil hats"... now suggesting "tinfoil wallpaper".
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Tinfoil wallpaper - what a lovely idea - finally silence those damn cellphones.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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