Fwd: Daily News - Why bad software succeeds

Industry News BitTorrent opens alpha for Maelstrom, its new, distributed, Torrent-based web browser P2P FTW? Source: Techcrunch Microsoft, Google, others threaten to sue Adblock Plus creator "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Source: Softpedia Google's Eric Schmidt: Don't fear the artificially intelligent future "Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain" Source: Wired Microsoft tells US: The world's servers are not yours for the taking Everyone knows tramping over people's privacy is the business of corporations, not government Source: Ars Technica Apple and IBM launch their business invasion with new iOS apps With these two cooperating, nothing could possible go wrong {/sarcasm} Source: The Verge Developer News Orion's lesson for IT: Test your systems, then test again (and again) Testing. That's what users are for. Source: IT World Why bad software succeeds "Only the good die young" Source: Press Up Using C# and Wix# to build Windows Installer packages Because the world needed another installer builder (no, seriously, it did) Source: InfoQ The Infamous Windows "Hello World" Program Mr. Petzold doesn't take the blame for your writer's cramp Source: Charles Petzold ReSharper 9 is Released along with dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2 and dotPeek 1.3 Many dots. Much happy. Source: JetBrains

Fwd: CodeProject | Daily News - Java SE and OpenJDK 8 land March 18

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Fwd: CodeProject | Daily News - Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on his new role

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CodeProject | Daily News - For the first time, hackers have used a refrigerator to attack businesses

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Industry News

Why 'One Microsoft' may be better with two CEOs

"Two can be as bad as one. It's the loneliest number since the number one"

Source: ZDNet

NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep

OMG! DIS iz so important, cn U rED it NSA?

Source: The Guardian

For the first time, hackers have used a refrigerator to attack businesses

Not counting that time with William Perry and the all-you-can-eat buffet

Source: Business Insider

Amazon hosting most of the net's malware, says security firm

I'm glad someone is making good use of "the Cloud"

Source: The Guardian

Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text

Have we learned nothing?

Source: Computerworld

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Developer News

Rust 0.9 Released with revised threading model

All the curly braces you love, with none of the null pointers

Source: InfoQ

Google's latest Moon shot is a smart contact lens for diabetes patients

I wonder if they can work a video camera into there as well?

Source: re/code

Leader abandons Node.js project for NPM riches

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

Source: Infoworld

Google brings Dart to Runnable, gives developers an easy way to try it

For those curious, but not curious enough to install it

Source: Techcrunch

Dart 1.1 features up to 25% faster Javascript

Not "faster than", just the outputted JavaScript is faster (still, I guess that's good)

Source: Dart Language

Code Project Discussions - Your say!

Developer Market Tech Trends Webinar

So... what are you thinking about? Now you can find out.

Source: CodeProject

Are your former companies still around?

"And you shall know us by the trail of the dead"

Source: CodeProject

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