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I once worked for a company that contracted outsourced developers for the sole reason of using their certificate status to gain partner points at Microsoft. The indian programmer got no real work from the company.
".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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Message Closed
modified 12-Sep-16 1:38am.
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ID10T. Do you realize what you saying. Certification is not bug tracking assistant or defect less software assurance.
modified 11-Sep-16 19:46pm.
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Of course. The concept of certification is useful because it allows to group candidates and reasonably expect the same minimum set of knowledge from each group. Too many groups means there is no meaningful partitioning.
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Computational thinking is going to be a defining feature of the future — and it’s an incredibly important thing to be teaching to kids today. They might have to start with teaching thinking first
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I thought we all working on the next generation AI to teach computers think like human, now I see it is all the way around...
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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Oh, this is all an egotistical rant by Wolfram about how awesome he is. (And trying to ignore why his fabulous "invention" has been ignored by everyone.)
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Alan Kay and Seymour Papert were pioneering teaching coding to children in better ways, 30 years ago.
Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to produce pale imitations of 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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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has finally put out an official starter kit for its low cost microcomputer — offering what it dubs an “unashamedly premium” bundle for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, complete with optical mouse and keyboard in a very Apple-looking shade of white, plus all the cables you need to get up and running. "Any time of the day is a good time for pie."
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I have a Pi up and running, without any starter kit, but what I would really like is a collection of bread-boarding components, e.g. jumpers, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors etc. It is after all an experimental activity, so you don't always want to carefully plan what to buys beforehand.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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Amid more reports of fires and exploding devices, the CPSC is asking Note 7 owners to immediately stop using the faulty device. "No, Not a bah. A bomb."
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So the odd one explodes, they are recalling them all anyway. Why does the government have to make such a big deal about it? I wonder how many officials have iPhones provided for free for "evaluation"? 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The case found itself before the EU court, which ruled that posting hyperlinks amounted to copyright infringement, because the website profited from the traffic that it generated. Yarrr! We be pirates, matey.
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Is there a link to that ruling?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you’re a manager, there’s a decent chance that the subject of coding standards makes you want to bang your head against a wall repeatedly. If you’re a developer, you can probably understand why this is true of your manager, if you think about it. Convince them it was their idea?
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Two devs enter, one dev leaves.
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How to herd cats ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Quote: but after the build integration, their annoyance, if it exists, will be directed at the build. Or, to put it another way, they’ll blame the system instead of each other.
Does the author lack practical experience? It's the fault of that bad guy who set up the build system. "Hey, remove rule xy while we are still in development, it is so conter-productive, we can fix that later..."
Some developers only want to play, but professional work is different from kids' play, a fact which is hard to learn for many people.
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A new trojan coded in Rust is targeting Linux-based platforms and adding them to a botnet controlled through an IRC channel, according to a recent discovery by Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker. See, you can write stuff in Rust
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Singapore Yahoo Finance : September 8 : [^] : Quote: Across the 28-nation European Union, production of books, music, newspapers and cinema is very much separated into national spheres and the commission, led by the federalist Jean-Claude Juncker, is driven to bring them closer.
To do so, the EU will next week unveil a controversial revamp of copyright laws that will include several bold proposals to change the way content, including big ticket sports games, are both accessed and paid for in Europe, according to the draft seen by AFP.
But film producers and sports leagues are dead set against the changes, arguing that entertainment on the continent should not become pan-European, but continue to be channelled through national markets.
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One of the most divisive proposals is a push to make national broadcasters, such as Sky in the UK or RTL in Germany, to provide online content -- including films or sports -- Europe-wide, instead of just at home.
"I can't see how you can abolish geo-blocking and continue to protect copyright," Martin Moszkowicz, of Germany's Constantin Film told the Hollywood Reporter, referring to web users that are denied access to content from their home websites when outside their country.
For broadcasters "it becomes a buy one (EU territory), get 27 for free. It would be catastrophic for all creative industries," added Moszkowicz, a producer of the hugely popular Resident Alien films.
Film producers also warn that geo-blocking is crucial to financing European cinema, which survives on national subsidies that are often financed by the success of Hollywood blockbusters.
.edit ... Bloomberg : September 8:
An EU court has recently ruled that an on-line site cannot use hyper-links to certain content without permission:[^] : Quote: The ruling boosts publishers and other copyright owners fighting internet sites that link to or republish their content without permission. It could also force search engines such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google to tread more carefully when they provide links to other outlets.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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As an American it's quite interesting watching what's going on in the EU - immigration, taxation, copyright, privacy, etc...
Personally I feel like they're heading down the wrong path so it's like watching a slow motion train wreck. It wouldn't be so bad except I see the US following along on many of these trends. I'll probably be dead before it comes completely off the rails but I fear for future generations.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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I would agree with you... but sadly we are not in the soapbox 
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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Yeah, I debated making my post at all (too political). I won't defend it in this forum.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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BillWoodruff wrote: To do so, the EU will next week unveil a controversial revamp of copyright laws that will include several bold proposals to change the way content, including big ticket sports games, are both accessed and paid for in Europe, according to the draft seen by AFP.
This her eis the one reaosn I believe Brexit happened. Murdoch's rag pushed for it to protect his BSkyB revenues for the EPL.
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