I'm sorry for all the good folks at Microsoft. They should kick out those few idiots making the word "microsoft" synonymous with "evil", and focus on product evolution.
lol, what a blatant marketing stunt attempt. M$ is a dead company, at least until they fully embrace open-source and standards, mainly HTML5. (No-oh our software is too precious to be open-source herpa derp => remote-exploit-flaw-a-month)
What I am switching to from my iPhone 3GS, is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. On the laptop side, there's still nothing (even close) to replace my MBP17", but I'm happy beyond description that I can escape from the iTunes hell.
Because based on various bullshit spit out mainly by the PM and BA asshole types (kudos to exceptions), programmers somehow believe that it's too difficult to run their own companies.
Hey "Matt Smith", if you did this to a person for sending you a spam message, then you lack in empathy. I believe it's plenty to mark his message as spam (pressing "!" in Gmail with enabled keyboard shortcuts).
You know, you can go out to street and have someone offer you a newspaper to buy, which is basically a form of spam.
Will you then start shouting that person's home address, showing picture of their home, printing their family details, and posting what you found on their public Facebook?
This is a serious consciousness deficiency, my friend. I bet you also don't see a problem with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and you think it's actually to protect the american citizen. I don't want to insult you but I assume there's a chance of you really thinking that.
One more thing. I have my FB and Google+ profiles set to public, and I'm not going to change that. I'm not going to live in a false notion of privacy, which never existed in the first place. I believe in an open world, I believe we will get there if we all try. And people like you are not going to scare me to thinking otherwise.
I'm fully aware that a person like you may one day use my public information to attack me for whatever reason, and I'm prepared to handle that in a human and kind way. The same way as if that happened to me on a public street.
Have a nice day.
p.s. don't use Wordpress if you are in the business of attacking people.
I wonder why isn't W3C / Google / whoever doing more to bring / standardize proper video streaming support to HTML5.
I mean the HTTP progressive download support e.g. in Chrome is almost like streaming, but it's not the same.
I like to use the same language on client and server. Especially when CoffeeScript doesn't really address the problem of handling errors thrown in asynchronous callbacks in Node.js. I'm talking about having to try/catch all your callbacks, plus passing another callback to be sure the control returns to the (asynchronous) caller in case of error. I wrote a micro library to encapsulate callbacks using a terse syntax, but it's still something I'd like to see in the programming language itself.
Guy doesn't mention Internet Marketing at all. If you are not on Google, you don't exist. That's why most coders / projects fail - because nobody / not enough people know about them. This is because event the coders that grasp internet marketing find it deplorable to use spamming techniques to compete with search engine spammers.
Thank you 10gen+contributors for giving us the first USABLE ALTERNATIVE to the classic SQL world.
You're gonna get a lot of crap, because it takes a good programmer to write good client code for MongoDB. [I'm not suggesting that everybody who reports problems with MongoDB is an inferior programmer, so don't downvote me bro!]
(I'm looking forward to getting rid of the global-write-lock issue, and I'm sure you are already working on that.)
None of the above. I've never tried ODesk. Tried Elance and Guru. Elance's entry test is like a Rite of passage, and I went to Guru mostly only because I wanted the Payoneer debit card and the US virtual account with it. I'm from an Euro country. So for me it's difficult to even compete with americans, due to the euro vs. dollar exchange rate, and badly high euro cost of living. Now imagine competing with India. But I still did it, I pulled it off. OK, first you have to be a great coder. Next, you have to have a viable strategy. A viable strategy, if you live in the US or in the EU, is to use those portals only to find you a solid clients, and take those clients direct, outside of the portals, once trust is established. Basically if you are good, go for a client with good stats (many completed and paid projects, good turnover, etc. whatever stats are available about them), and use Google to learn about the client BEFORE you spend hours on elaborating a proposal. Many - let me repeat that: MANY - project postings on those portals are just fishing for information. Try to find a combination of a solid client and technically difficult project - and don't look at the price too much - that way you have high chances on your bid being selected, because indians hate to work hard on complex projects (of course not all of them, but sorry, that is my overall general impression). But this is not a rule, for example I've scored this good US client by offering them to do the first project for them for free, because it was quite trivial, just adding few sounds to a charity website. So... think out of the box, and go away from those portals as soon as you can, for they try to eat your soul and skin you alive.
that man DESTROYED the desktop experience and OS evolution progress by using ILLEGAL business tactics to create an OS monopoly. Tactics like threatening computer vendors to ditch Linux otherwise they won't get "discounts" for MS Windows and won't be able to compete. You can only guess to what other practices he'd resorted behind the scenes.
than man tried to KILL alternatives including Linux (via proxy companies like SCO), in which he succeeded to certain extent - for example Linux still doesn't have open source graphics drivers of the same quality as Windows/OSX, which hinders its adoption on the desktop.
Furthermore, Gates invested lots of money into a corn ethanol production, an industry known to raise food prices and put people in poverty and misery.
Next, Gates works hard to reduce Earth's population by providing birth-control vaccines to 3rd world countries, and you can only guess how else.