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Development shops are the powerhouses to creating this software, but to be successful, a developer’s job has to involve more than just code. "I should care but it just doesn't get me"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but ... a developer’s job has to involve more than just code
Like coffee and pizza?
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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A developer's job should probably involve automating anything that isn't code - from CI / CD to 90% of the HR / PM side.
So yes - code, coffee and pizza should be the end goal.
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you forgot BACON
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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I do not know what bacon is (or more precise - how it is)... 
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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It's a heavily flavored slice of a pig's ass (others will deny the anatomical location but they're wrong because I say so).
Smokey, Spicy, and otherwise flavored to hide what it really tastes like.
If curious, it's fairly accurately reproduced in vegetarian[^] form (diary, actually), although it's probably not quite as greasy.
| "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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The artificial intelligence division of Google, DeepMind, has been granted access to around 1.6 million UK patient health records. I'm guessing their Google ads will be even more personal going forward
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How long till the big news item saying all the UK patient health records were stolen by hackers?
I'll wager 50 Quatloos that it'll be in 2 weeks.
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Developers are the key to making enterprises innovate much, much faster. Often, though, organizations don't realize their value. "I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me"
Galileo!
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It's funny what we do with language.
Often, though, organizations don't realize their value.
Now, everyone knows that an organization is a thing, so how can a thing realize anything? Of course we know that "organization" is also a shorthand metaphor for "the people in an organization."
Which makes:
Often though, the people in an organization don't realize their [developers] value.
more accurate. Yes, it's wordier, but it becomes more personal, and one can ask more easily ask, what people, who's responsible for this travesty, why are they so narrow minded, etc.
Our language betrays us. By saying it in the former way, we're hiding behind the mask of an entity, and nothing will be done.
[edit]Granted, that was the headline. The author stated it better in the article itself:
too many within the enterprise think developers aren't relevant to their business.
Nice.
[edit]
OK, I admit it. Four hours of driving today, it's been a long day. 
Marc
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+5 pedant points (virtual)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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The initiative is designed to improve the security of open-source projects and push tech firms to adopt best practices. "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
Yes, I felt contractually obligated to use that quote.
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Despite widespread interest in containers, most developers are unsure how to drive significant benefits from them Guilty as charged
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Guilty as charged
Seconded! Every 6 months or so I look up Docker and the rest to see if I can understand what containers are about. The best I can figure out is that their like a VM that lets you ship a working system to the customer.
Marc
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There are differences (after all, you could ship a configured VM to a customer if you wanted to). The biggest thing is that the Container runs hosted directly inside the host OS, rather than inside a Virtual Machine, so it has access to resources that are denied to it if it were inside the VM. As they don't fire up separate OSes, they are a lot quicker to start than a VM and they also typically consume far less system resources than VMs. Where something like Docker shines is that it's a lot easier to take a snapshot of an OS into a common configuration and then deploy that snapshot out to other environments, so replicating Prod through to QA becomes a lot easier.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: is that it's a lot easier to take a snapshot of an OS into a common configuration
Does that include pre-configuring device drivers, etc?
Marc
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Yes. Basically, what I would do is get the OS to a bare configured install (with drivers upgraded, etc), then snapshot it. This would be the base container I would then put on other machines.
This space for rent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: most developers are unsure how to drive significant benefits from them
Maybe they can not?
For me, they are no more than VMs, so why spend time to utilize them at all...(ah...fashion you say...the shiny new...)
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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An upcoming competition will invite the public to propose and test 'quantum-resistant' encryption schemes Get the cat out of the box?
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Today we’re announcing the preview release of our new documentation service https://docs.microsoft.com, showcasing content supporting our Enterprise Mobility products. For all the content that didn't fit on the other six Microsoft documentation sites?
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I wonder, since you have to pay to play whether it will be any better then all their other docs?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Microsoft content has been pretty much useless to me for years. This is probably not going to be very good since only people who are subscribed can even see it, let alone improve and fix the issues. Since Microsoft got rid of almost all their technical writers 20 years ago, not sure where they are going to find the talent to keep this site up. Plus, Microsoft has not been very good with UX for years (if they had been Windows 8 would have been very different), so what can you expect from a help system without usability being a major input.
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I agree their docs have been pretty useless. When I google I purposely shun their help sites in favor of anything else.
The times I can't find info, for one of their products somwewhere else it seems like you go round and round kinda like talking to a politician.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Since users cannot find anything on MSDN, they can now pay for the privilege of not finding what they need on Microsoft Docs. Sounds like MSFT is not a stock to purchase right now.
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Hey folks, just one quick note here... the docs site doesn't cost money, in fact it doesn't even require you to sign in, so totally free and open as you would expect for our docs.
Thanks for checking it out
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