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Comment SDK for third-party devs (Score 1) 1

by jwinster on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @07:16PM (#29830063) Attached to: Verizon Denounces Network Neutrality

Although not the point in the summary, TFA also mentions an SDK for their broadband TV services, which I haven't heard of a major teleco doing before. "In part, that will come through a new software development kit (SDK) that he said Verizon plans to ship for developing apps for broadband-delivered TV. With the SDK, Verizon will begin opening the platform to third-party developers. "

Submission + - Google partners up with Twitter for search (indiblogger.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @06:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to the Google blog, it has partnered up with Twitter to bring tweets into its search results in the next few months. While this is an exciting news, how the feature is going to present itself is a huge question. Indiblogger presents a comprehensive list of how it should be. Quotting from the article, the points discussed are: relevance of tweets with the search term, twitter and Google advertising, even a Google-Twitter API.

Submission + - Verizon Denounces Network Neutrality (internetnews.com) 1

Submitted by darthcamaro on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @06:13PM

darthcamaro writes: There are a lot of opinions in the U.S debate over network neutrality. The FCC is set to announce their ruling tomorrow but today Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg came out with a stinging attack against it. Speaking at the big Supercomm conference in Chicago, Verizon's chief blasted network neutrality as a burdonsome regime that that could put the U.S back into a full blow recession.
"If a burdensome regime of network neutrality is imposed on all parts of the Internet industry, it will inject an extraordinary amount of bureaucratic oversight into the economy's main growth engine to the future," Seidenberg said."We can't create a smart economy by dumbing down our critical infrastructure. "We can't move forward by pitting network providers and applications developers against each other when the real promise of broadband is an expanding pie for everyone."

Submission + - How to deal with a know-all jerk programmer? 5

Submitted by boxlight on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @10:44PM

boxlight writes: I am working with a know all jerk programmer who can't keep his nose out of everyone's business. For example, he's responsible for the object-persistence layer only, but he's always mouthing off to everyone about how they are "supposed" to be doing their work (UI programmers, application server guys, DBAs, and so on) when he's not in charge of anything. Basically he's micro-managing everyone when he's not even the manager!

At one time or another everyone on the team has complained about him, and because I work very closely with him people often come to me to ask me what his problem is.

Whenever anyone confronts the guy he flies completely off the handle. It's like he has a screw loose and is unable to accept other people's ways of doing things; it's always an all-or-nothing approach with him; he either gets his way, or he gives a reluctant eye-roll and a "whatever", only to bring up the issue again in a week or so until, ultimately, the other person give in just to shut him up.

The other unfortunate piece of this is he's always in the boss's office doing a song and dance about how hard he's working and how wonderful he is at solving so many complex problems. So he appears to have the boss's ear. Like, when the boss wants to take the temperature of the project, he goes to this guy.

So far I've managed to keep my cool and keep the peace by pretty much giving in on things he wants; . But I feel like there's an anger in me that's simmering under the surface and I'm afraid one of these days I'm going to freak out on him and them *I'm* going to look like the source of the problem to the boss. I don't want to get into daily shouting matches, and I really don't want to lower myself to his level and start sucking up to the boss for perceived credibility either.

Also, I don't want to quit because everyone else at the company are great to work with and the project is fun and the money is good.

So my question for Slashdot is, how do I deal with this??? Please help!

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