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Living Room / Science is hot! or at least symphonic
« on: September 07, 2011, 09:01 AM »
The BBC and the Science Channel remixed by the Symphony:

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http://youtu.be/DZGINaRUEkU

Turn up your volume!

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Living Room / Superman's Troubles with Google+
« on: September 02, 2011, 05:44 AM »
Funny and probably true for every superhero out there!

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Living Room / G-Male -- Google's creepy, perfect boyfriend
« on: August 30, 2011, 11:42 PM »


Imagine if Google was your boyfriend: G-male (you can imagine the same for a girlfriend). It would be amazing: such a great listener, he would answer your every need, the perfect boyfriend!

Oh wait, he would also know your every secret, would tell you what you need, what you should do...

Watch this 3 mn video, it's one of the most amazing videos I've watched so far about Google. And it's hilarious (and very scary, too).

How can we give you everything you need if we don't listen to everything you say?
Google: We are very good listeners...

source: Comediva ~ http://goo.gl/QQaUs

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Living Room / Even the best of us burnout on the things we love doing
« on: August 30, 2011, 11:07 PM »
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Even when you do something because you love doing it, it doesn't mean that you can't burnout on it. Open source developers talk about the stress of coding in the Linux world.
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-community-burnout-1.html
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"Hang around the free and open source software community for any length of time, and you can't help seeing examples of burnout. A colleague takes on too much, and suddenly they're working harder for fewer results. They have a hard time concentrating on their work. They neglect their personal life. When challenged, they become defense and unusually hostile. Eventually, they withdraw -- and, sometimes, they don't come back."

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Developer's Corner / Lost Programming Skills
« on: August 07, 2011, 10:59 AM »
Daniel Dern makes some good points on What today's coders don't know and why it matters
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/190213/lost-programming-skills

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a Drupal extension, create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and run DOOM on their car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there's a lot that their predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

Some of these skills aren't likely to be needed again, any more than most of us need to know how to ride a horse or (sigh) drive a manual-transmission vehicle. But other skills and "lessons learned" may still or again prove relevant, whether developers are banging their heads against legacy systems, coding for new mobile and embedded devices... or other devices and applications we haven't yet thought of.

Here's what some industry veterans and seasoned coders think the younger generation doesn't know ... but should.

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