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ZDNet[^]:
Figures from the Linux Foundation suggest skills shortages across disciplines and throughout Europe.

Your latest in "Company funds study showing company's product loved"

ZDNet wrote:
Seven out of 10 Europe-based Linux professionals have received calls where they were pitched new positions in the past six months, and a third said they had received more calls than in the previous six months.

Well, there is the problem. There is only 10 Linux professionals in all of Europe.

Motherboard[^]:
Following broad security scares like that caused by the Heartbleed bug, it can be frustratingly difficult to find out if a site you use often still has gaping flaws. But a little known community of software developers is trying to change that, by creating a searchable, public index of websites with known security issues.

I'm sure nothing bad will come of this

Here's a list with all houses that don't have a decent lock..

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Techcrunch[^]:
Google announced a suite of tools this morning for business owners, offering them a one-stop shop to update their business information, add photos, read and reviews and, of course, use Google+.

Be a shame if no one could find your business, eh squire?

Infoworld[^]:
The new programming language is not faring well in some benchmarks compared to Objective-C, but Swift's easier syntax still gets a thumbs-up.

There are four kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, statistics, and benchmark tests.

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Without leveraging optimizations in Apple's Xcode tool set, Splasm found that Swift was between six and 40 times slower than Objective-C, Splasm official Keith Gugliotto said. "

...

Even after turning on the optimizations, Splasm found that Swift ran 10 to 20 percent slower than the original test numbers in some cases and 10 to 20 percent faster in other cases. But Swift was still slower than Objective-C.

0) Benchmarks without the compiler optimizations turned on are worthless. The only value this have is as clickbait. Oh wait...

1) Do "original test numbers" refer to the objective C benchmarks or the un-optimized swift benchmarks? That's a huge difference in performance between the two but the article doesn't tell you which or give an easy way to find out because...

2) It breaks the cardinal rule of web news by talking about splasm's benchmarks but not linking to them.

Splasm's benchmarks[^] are Googleable though. Enabling optimization to both builds resulted in order of magnitude shifts in relative performance; but the closest swift ever came to obj-C was 6.4x slower.

With Android using Java that's only ~2x slower than native code in typical cases, unless Apple can make some really big optimization gains to the toolchain their newest and shinyest has performance poor enough that they risk the internet snark gallery abusing iOS apps as being slow and laggy compared to the competition in the future. D'Oh! | :doh:

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

Schneide Blog[^]:
If it doesn’t benefit the user it should not be done. This can be a new feature, a better user interface, a clearer wording, better performance, robustness, … Not all improvements have immediate value but they must have a value at some time.

Coders of the world, unite!

Hmm, spending a day refactoring code doesn't benefit the user, but it sure as hell benefits the developer, sometimes halfing their Gin intake, isn't that important?

Halfing Gin intake is a good thing?

I say, "NO" good sir!

TTFN - Kent

Aren't the people who work at the distillery users? Confused | :confused:

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

Blog sez:
You need to talk to your users, your fellow developers and other project partners.

That's assuming that the end-user has strong analytical skills and knows the entire proces. In SDM one researches what the user needs, as opposed to asking what he/she wants that week.

..now here[^]'s a manifesto.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Wired[^]:
When Google engineers John Sirois, Travis Crawford, and Bill Farner left the internet giant and went to work for Twitter, they missed Borg.

Borg was the sweeping software system that managed the thousands of computer servers underpinning Google’s online empire. With Borg, Google engineers could instantly grab enormous amounts of computing power from across the company’s data centers and apply it to whatever they were building–whether it was Google Search or Gmail or Google Maps. As Sirois, Crawford, and Farner created new web services at Twitter, they longed for the convenience of this massive computing engine.

"Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply."

First Skynet, now the Borg. Sheesh! There's no messing with them. Big Grin | :-D

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ZDNet[^]:
Microsoft is among the many cloud and Linux vendors supporting the first release of the open-source Docker application-deployment engine.

Uhm. Yay?

IT World[^]:
New data reveals in which countries developers make the most money, and where they can most live like royalty.

Unfortunately, you get paid in chocolate (and cuckoo clocks)

Sorry for the national stereotype.
Yes. That was another national stereotype. Thanks for noticing, eh.

I went to Switzerland once. I have never since felt so poor...nor so individual.

I thought that might be the case: high salary, but higher prices?

TTFN - Kent

Those dollar incomes were calculated with the market exchange rate. One Swiss Franc is exchanged to more than one US Dollar. But go shopping in Switzerland and the US: you'll see that one Swiss Franc buys far less in Switzerland than does one US Dollar in the US. That holds extremely true for items/services produced locally, like food at a restaurant or housing.

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To make the most money as a software engineer, move to ~~Switzerland~~ Singapore

FTFY.

Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64

IE Blog[^]:
The latest version of Internet Explorer is faster, more secure, and has better web standards support than older versions. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, upgrading to Internet Explorer 11 has significant benefits—and enabling automatic updating ensures that users will always be up-to-date.

Maybe if you let us install the newest browser on everything?

Dunno why it's not on Vista (other than not enough market share to care); but for IE9 they dogfooded DX10 2d APIs to GPU accelerate the rendering pipeline. Getting that onto XP would've either required writing the accelerated pipeline twice OMG | :OMG:

or keeping the old non-accelerated version WTF | :WTF:

also for twice the maintenance work while taking just as much abuse for giving XP a cripled version of the new browser as they did for not releasing IE9 on XP at all.

Now days IIRC, from the last time I played with a stats site's data visualization, a large chunk of the IE8 long tail is actually from W7 boxes mis-admined by *cough*idiots*cough* corporate it *cough*morons*cough* who're actively blocking upgrades. In some cases "because facebook/etc are broken on legacy IE so it stops our employees from slacking off", never mind firewall blocks or personal phones with data plans. D'Oh! | :doh:

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

Ah, 'struth about the perf updates, I wasn't thinking of things like that. However, I could live with slower but more security on XP et al.

And definitely agreed on lazy admins.

TTFN - Kent

Building Apps for Windows blog[^]:
If you’re not one of the over 1.1 million people who have used Windows App Studio Beta to quickly turn your idea into an app for Windows and Windows Phone, now is the time to check it out. Our latest release, available this morning, just made it even easier to publish your apps to the Windows Phone Store and the Windows Store.

Now even more... even less... somethinged?