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Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. Hmph: everyone knows the *real* hackers use the command-line
Or emacs scripts
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Much has been covered about developer salaries based on coding language, location, job title, and so on. But little has been done to chart the rise and fall of developer salaries over the years - until now. "There is nothing quite as wonderful as money"
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Quote: Are developer wages stagnating?
Looking at the data, we can see that developer salaries are not increasing at the rate they used to. As we head into 2013 through to 2019, the annual mean salary for developers and programmers increased from $92,820 to $106,980, a mere 15% increase compared to the whopping 21% increase experienced in the previous decade.
It's amazing what conclusions you can reach if you can't math. 2013-2019 is 6 years, 2001-2011 is 10 years; all things equal the larger range will have a higher total increase so you can't directly compare the 15 and 21% figures.
Breaking it down to yearly gains which are comparable: 15% in 6 years is a 2.35% yearly raise; 21% in 10 years is only 1.93% more per year. 
Innumerate ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) 's like the author are welcome to ask for pay raises from 10-20 years ago; I'll take more recent rates.
I'll take a wild guess and say the uncaught failure to math was caused by confirmation bias; 20 years ago the author was a junior dev and seeing big yearly raises as she progressed from junior to senior developer and much smaller ones since then due to staying at the same-ish level of ability.
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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Dan Neely wrote: and seeing big yearly raises as she progressed from junior to senior developer
That supposing that he is senior  
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In the latest post from our new Voice of the Community blog series, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Dave Kennedy, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Binary Defense. Hopefully they'll distribute this internally as well?
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Gmail stops 99.9% of phishing attacks from reaching inboxes - but that doesn't stop scammers trying new things in an effort to sneak through defences. Is it my address: Attack.This@aol.com?
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Because you use to click the links in the spam mails?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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That's too easy! We need a big study to check. 
TTFN - Kent
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The scientists found that despite dextrous and visual constraints on the animals, pigs were able to both understand and achieve goals in simple computer games. Don't challenge them to a game of pig-pong, or you might get roasted
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But they can't talk. That means they're nothing but biological automatons.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You obviously never bitten by a pig. They're as intelligent as politicians.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: They're as intelligent as politicians.
I was doubting between two comments...
1) that's not a big deal... 
2) Or even more...
But I think I won't choose one... 
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Pigs in Space ... Invaders? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A masterpiece! Well done.
TTFN - Kent
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We talked with open source developers with years of experience with remote software dev to find out what proprietary developers can learn. "I know it makes no difference to what you're going through. But I see the tip of the iceberg, and I worry about you"
Yeah, no idea why my brain went there. Sorry.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, no idea why my brain went there. Sorry.
Probably because of the "left-pad" or the "water plant" or other news of the last days about remote access and dependencies between software?
I think it is something that is going to blow up when you expect it the less and will screw us all pretty much
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Quote: "Being able to work remote, where folks are in the same time zone, or one or two time zones away, is very different than working with teams that are spread across the globe," he said. "Once you have to deal with time zones, that forces you to go from synchronous to asynchronous in a whole bunch of ways, whether that's email, writing documents or using tools like whiteboarding. That ends up being a big part of the phase shift in terms of going from synchronous to asynchronous."
Overall I think it's a good blog post, but that paragraph made my brain go asynchronous.
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Astronomers discovered the stars closest to our Solar System more than 100 years ago. There’s the three-star Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away and Barnard’s star about six light-years out. Be vewy, vewy quiet - I'm hunting pwanets!
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So.. nothing in it for me? 
Just be glad criminals don't cooperate that way. Yet..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Container-based application deployment and execution has become very common. Nearly all cloud and server app developers we talk to use containers in some way. My .NET install didn't come in a box
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We can't use containers because a) it requires someone to install the supporting software on all of our servers, and b) they're DoD systems, so adding things like Docker are a potential security threat.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft may have been looking to acquire social-media company Pinterest, according to a new report. But why? Because they're a consumer?
Why buy PInterest? Are they trying to corner the market on wedding planning? (Mental note - new feature for Teams!)
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More consumer social networks = more knowledge, more opportunities to sell advertising, more opportunities to sell aggregate (supposedly) data.
There is money in them there consumers.
Free Pinterest with your Windows365 (or whatever it's called) subscription? Etc.
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Because data is information and information is money / power?
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