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I wonder why they didn't call it as "Rewindows 10"...
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More than three decades after the worldwide communications network was born, Clark and Benkler say they’re deeply concerned that the Internet is headed in a dangerous direction that its founders never intended. "The call is coming from inside the house"
OK, maybe that's not quite what they said. But it is a good warning.
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Quote: Looking back, Clark wonders if he and other founders should have left behind guidance on how the Internet should grow up.
“Not constraints, not rules, but guidance, advice — like, ‘don’t be stupid,’” he says.
Yeah. I'm sure that'd've stopped Google, Apple, Farsebook, and 20 bajillion advertising companies you've never heard of from turning the internet into a set of walled gardens where your every move is tracked to shove crap bought by the highest bidder down your throat. 
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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Microsoft and Apple have always been great frenemies, competing aggressively in some areas of computing and cooperating in others. Nice to know there are some people at Microsoft who still can smack talk the opposition
Somedays it seems like they've all changed. Consistency can be nice.
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Google readies developers to build the IoT, starting with its open version of Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. Wait, don't tell me... I'm guessing... there are things involved... (and adverts)
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It just seems like the IoT is going to be an utter mess of incompatible protocols and millions of stupid little open source projects, and thousands of people, each with their own ideas, no coordination, no standards. And of course every durable good manufacturer will want their own proprietary standards, so if you by a Whirlpool refrigerator, you'll want all your appliances to be Whirlpool because otherwise they won't talk to each other. Then the gov't steps in and sets up idiotic rules and regs for intercommunication, and the hackers start to have a field day turning your house into a refrigerator and your refrigerator into an oven.
Oh, and Git will probably spawn a GitIoT.com website (damn, the domain is taken) just for all the drivel. Heck, we might see a "mysite.iot" whatever that thingy after the . is called.
Fun times ahead! 
Marc
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I fear history will show you to be highly prescient. 
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: It just seems like the IoT is going to be an utter mess of incompatible protocols and millions of stupid little open source projects, and thousands of people, each with their own ideas, no coordination, no standards
What do you mean "going to be".. It already is.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I concur with your vision, and I'm happy - the more Chaos the more jobs for us.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Everyone is doing DevOps, but how many are really doing DevOps? Survey shows there's work to be done. Everyone else is jumping off that bridge, why don't you?
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If you are a developer, you will need to build something using the Office 365 APIs, and Add-ins to boost productivity in “every year of your life”. Bonus points if you hack the ribbon out
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus points if you hack the ribbon out
Hope it is also open source  
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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When you apply for a job, you get a coding challenge from the company and if you solve the problem to the company’s satisfaction, you’ll get a guaranteed interview call within a certain number of days. Swipe right for new job?
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Microsoft is rolling out a free version of its R big-data analytics server for developers alongside the rest of the newly rebranded Revolution Analytics servers. A gift, for all the Big Data pirates out there
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The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for the 388th Birthday of Charles Perrault. The Doodle image is getting changed whenever refreshing the Google Home page. It seems it is showing 3 different versions of Doodle images randomly.
Charles Perrault was a French author. Perrault was born in Paris as the seventh child. Perrault is best known for his Mother Goose fairy stories.
He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.
The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for the 388th Birthday of Charles Perrault. The Doodle image is getting changed whenever refreshing the Google Home page. It seems it is showing 3 different versions of Doodle images randomly.
Charles Perrault was a French author. Perrault was born in Paris as the seventh child. Perrault is best known for his Mother Goose fairy stories.
He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.
Charles Perrault Google Doodle
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He was also an early IT professional?
"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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Wangle is a client/server application framework to build asynchronous, event-driven modern C++ services. For << those -> who* don't :: mind using& all #the keys on their keyboard
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Ancient Egyptians used to leave their stories on walls and pyramids by writing in C++.
Thankfully, the new ages changed the way to communicate each other.
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Who ever would think that the benefit of C/C++ performance outweigh the pain of dealing with memory issues in the environment where 99% of the time is spend waiting for the database?
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Users must upgrade to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 to keep getting patches. But not 8.1 for those allergic to Win10
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Users must upgrade to Windows 7 8.1 or Windows 7 10 to keep getting patches.
FTFY
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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Unparalleled distribution strategy is the story. Do you want to install Windows 10? How about now? Now? What about now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Do you want to install Windows 10? How about now? Now? What about now?
No. Can you hear me now? No! How about here? Can you hear me now? NO!
Marc
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Made me think of Adele's Hello - Hello from the otherwise! I must have bugged you a thousand times, to tell you to upgrade.
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Quote: In itself, pre-loading the upgrade was not that dissimilar to how any automatic update, including patches for Windows or a new version of Chrome, are downloaded to a user's device. But the timing of the Windows 10 pre-fetching -- before availability -- was unusual. When software makers wrap up development and release the product, they release it: It makes no sense to withhold it from customers when it's finished, but instead push it to their devices to await an installation date and time.
This might be new in the OS world; but Steam's been doing it to handle releases of games whose downloads can dwarf (ex GTA4 being ~50GB) your OS for years. Pre-load where it downloads the entire game before release (and uses an unlock mechanism of some sort to keep you from playing ahead of the official release date) has been a feature for AAA games for years. Downloading and installing patches in the background (eg while you're sleeping or at work) is available for all games so that when you are ready to play you almost never have to wait for a patch to download and install first.
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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