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You’ve probably heard the conventional wisdom that teams should be aligned around a common goal. But while it’s important to have a shared business objective, the idea that everyone needs to have the same goal is selling your engineering team short. Wrong!
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Finally, a Babel Fish that doesn't feed on brainwave energy To some level of "change"
Still, kind of neat if I ever left my house (or spoke with anyone)
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VulnScan is able to automatically deduce the root cause of the most common types of memory corruption issues. Not that any of you need it, but you might have to deal with someone else's code
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We need a version that'll run on a Politician, analyzing their campaign promises to their in-office actions. However, such may well indeed be too complex yet even for today's supercomputers.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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MacSpudster wrote: We need a version that'll run on a Politician, analyzing their campaign promises to their in-office actions. However, such may well indeed be too complex yet even for today's supercomputers.
Hardly.
bool IsPoliticianLying()
{
return true;
}
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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When cyber spies known as NetTraveler were busy snooping on hundreds of government and military victims in 40 countries a few years ago, little did they know that another hacking group was probably watching them. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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Microsoft will quit its loss-making Surface hardware business by 2019, according to execs from PC manufacturers and a channel watcher. If you read one SWAG today, make it this one
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Make enough guesses predictions and one will be right. (At which point, you only talk about it and not all the wrong guesses you made.)
(Snark aside, Microsoft is very good at hardware peripherals, but not so great at systems hardware. But then again, few are. I use a Surface daily--it's what our customers use for my software--and I've not been impressed. Then again, I barely tolerate my smart phone, so I may not be the best reviewer of tablets.)
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Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful than previously thought before they can beat today's ordinary PCs. Is it in the box with the cat?
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Schrodinger thinks so!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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No, it's the box with the mouse chasing the cat!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse. Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
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Thanks for the link Kent!
Hadn't heard of Light Table, downloading and going to kick the tires...looks freakin awesome!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Only tools use tools. Real developers use their brains.
Do more with less!
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Quote: the reason that we are facing a software apocalypse, is that too many programmers think that schedule pressure makes it OK to do a half-assed job.
Good point. But even worse are the facts: most programmers think that taking such shortcuts is generally OK - write code "just good enough", "it runs on my machine". And that's what most managers expect software developers to do: because it's both cheap and fast.
Only when the consequences of bad bugs are discovered, some guys will stupidly ask how that could happen and be prevented in future, but of course leaving the fast and cheap path is not acceptable...
Welcome, oh software apocalypse!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I guess we need more tools to enforce programming discipline^^
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I thought the article was terrible. For example, the engineers I've worked with have been very expert in their vertical markets. (In one company, the lead engineer and CEO knew the market as well, if not better, than the customer. The sales manager, on the other hand, was a moron.)
A bigger problem with the article is that the author lumps all software and tools to improve that software together. The solution for software which drives actuators based on sensor input is different than software managing a warehouse which is different from software managing a bank and so on.
Then I cracked up when he just accepted the claims that such-and-such system worked. But, he got paid by the word so....
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Most scientists equate tool use with intelligence. Hmmm.
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Shortly after I graduated, I started seeing the second iteration of this technique. I started seeing companies look for a “Rock Star Developer” or “Code Ninja” to join their team in the Web 2.0 era. "Gotta keep on rockin', that boy has got to stay on top"
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OH...  This explains why my recent application got rejected. Being a world-class geek isn't that cool after all. 
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"He heard one guitar, just blew him away"
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Do developers really identify with such inane role titles? Or is it flashy startups thinking this is how you attract the best talent?
I would never go near a role or company that advertised such role titles. At best it shows a level of vanity and narcissism in anyone who actually does identify with such role titles.
"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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The generation who views taking dozens of mugshots of themselves daily as normal instead of an indication of extreme narcissism does. /ElphantItImtooYoungToBeAGrumpyOldMan
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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what is a developer "rockstar"? Putting labels like that IS THE problem. There are in many teams mediocre but super ambitious types, who love to play politics by putting labels like that on the very people who actually do the job.
I have such a mediocre idiot on my team. Every time we sit down to discuss something, he completely avoids his part and immediately starts to nit pick and argue about my part. After arguing for around 15 minutes, I tell him to go f*** himself, things get escalated to the boss, we discuss it again, waste another 30 minutes, then we agree to do it my way and I feel pissed off and exausted.
Now he goes around and tells everybody I'm the rock star.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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The problem isn't hiring "rock star developers", but the expectations of those who want to. Having interviewed at such companies, more often than not, what they believe software can do and how long it takes to do it are completed at odds with reality.
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