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An original Han Solo blaster from "Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" is up for auction. If you have $200,000 or more, you could soon be taking on any Stormtroopers in your area. "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
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"Our 'for sale' sign has been taken down and we are here to stay," he [CEO Chen] said in a note published Monday, adding: "In short, reports of our death are greatly exaggerated." Dead man (company) walking
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The argument over which type of code to build our apps in masks the need to update our architecture and provide better analytical tools. It's the data, silly
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I stopped reading when it tried to claim that the difference between mobile and web was use of XML vs JSON.
Because no web app has ever used JSON?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Apparently the web has stopped modernizing a decade ago when IT standardized on IE6. 
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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Guesstimates by analysts put the number of mobile app downloads this year at somewhere between 56 and 82 billion, with the average user downloading somewhere between 26 and 41 apps, with a smaller subset of those apps being used on a regular basis. Other numbers indicate that 95% of downloaded apps are abandoned within a month and 26% of apps are only used once. "Sometimes dead is better."
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Very insightful 
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Knowing how to code — the narrative goes — will help us navigate life, snag a lucrative job, and stay competitive with other countries. And then there’s the digital version of the “teach a man to fish” adage where a software engineer decided he would teach a homeless man to code. Though it caused a vitriolic reaction amongst tech bloggers, the homeless man was reportedly on his way to finishing up his first app. "Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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For older IT job seekers, ageism occurs in subtle ways during the application and interview process. Use this advice from recruiters to tackle the challenges. "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
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Quote: "At Pivotal, we value productivity. I don't want to work in a place where they say, 'Here's your array of Xbox 360s with detachable water guns.' I'd much rather be in a place where I can work a solid eight hours and go home."
This. A million times this.
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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With eight qualified candidates for every 10 openings, today's talented developers have their pick of perks, career paths, and more. "To the victor belongs the spoils"
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Your average American workplace is not always kind to introverts. Trends like open-floor offices and everyone-talking-at-once brainstorming sessions can be draining, and might even convince you that a natural preference for extroversion is the real price of admission for professional glory and success. The meek shall inherit the Earth (if it's all right with everyone else)
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Interesting, but conflating two issues. The introduction has nothing to do with getting recognition, but that the type of work environment favored by extroverts, especially gregarious extroverts, is extremely stressful on introverts. I have serious doubts it's that effective for extroverted workers either.
Several studies have shown that introverts can act like extroverts, but need a disproportionate amount of down/alone time to unwind. This is easy when you come home to an empty apartment. Not so much when you come home to a family, especially if the spouse is an extrovert!
One other point; as an introvert, the problem isn't everyone-talking-at-once brainstorming sessions--I quite enjoy those--it's when there are too many people (and when idiots are involved, though that's not an introvert thing.) The REAL problem are "team building" exercises, birthday party sing-alongs, people directly interrupting you frequently, stupid meetings--oops, off into non-introvert territory again.
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I chuckled at this suggestion;
1. Identify (and Flaunt) Your Quiet Strengths
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The meek shall inherit the Earth
... the bold shall go to the Stars.
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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An approval in the US leaves Microsoft awaiting EU approval over its deal before it can go ahead and close it fully. Regulators in Europe are expected to approve the deal without any conditions, allowing Microsoft to purchase the core part of Nokia’s phone making business. While the deal awaits full approval, Microsoft has not yet detailed how Nokia’s device business will merge into Microsoft’s own hardware division going forward. It’s still not clear how Microsoft plans to integrate Nokia’s Lumia and Asha lines with the company’s internal structure and own Windows Phone marketing. Gentlemen, start your Lumias
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In the case of the pure-legacy Asha and pure dumb-phone (and any other Symbian devices?); I think it's safe to assume the answer is push people to entry level Lumia phone's while winding the businesses down. Eventually I suspect they'll end up selling what's left of the non-Lumia business to a 3rd party because obsolete platform smartphone and intermediate between smart and dumb-phone devices probably have a shorter half life than a pure dumb phones, and because the latter are unlikely to have any meaningful brand loyalty boost if/when users finally do decide to upgrade.
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's wave of spring 2015 updates to its various Windows-based platforms has a codename: Threshold. "The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way"
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Reviews on that one[^] seem to be either 1 or 5. Which way did you land?
Quote was from one of the Dirk Gently books. I was trying to think of appropriate line from Poltergeist and I blanked.
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TTFN - Kent
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Ah, yes, the electric monk.
I like Threshold and I wish the guy would hurry up and finish the trilogy already.
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I kind of got lost at the strap line "Handsome, successful and fabulously wealthy Peter Cory had always assumed he'd make his own good fortune".
If he's already h s & f, surely he inherited his good fortune - if not he's had to bloody work for it!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You have to read the book. 
The back cover actually says more than that.
P.S. As luck would have it, I just bought a new all-in-one printer thingy and needed to test the scanner. Threshold.png (1,038.4 KB)
modified 3-Dec-13 21:28pm.
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Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver packages up to five pounds, to your house in less than half an hour. "Fly my pretties, fly"
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