Comment Sendgrid, Mandril, or Amazon SES. (Score 1) 405
I really think you shouldn't have to use one of these, but it would solve your problem: Sendgrid, Mandril, or Amazon SES.
Comment Less False Positives (Score 4, Interesting) 743
Sure this technique has tons of false negatives, but I think it has fewer false positives than many other interview techniques. False positives are a much bigger problem then false negatives when hiring.
Comment 50 character encrypted password? (Score 1) 1155
The article says "encryption password" which makes way more sense.
Submission + - Microsoft eOpen site down for nearly a week so far (microsoft.com)
mauriceh writes: "Since last Monday, Dec. 7th, the Microsoft eOpen license website has been mostly "Down for Maintenance".
When we do not see this message, we still do not see most of the normal functionality.
As this is Microsoft's main channel for managing and installing licenses for products such as Server, and fo open License products for business,
this makes the company effectively "closed for business" !
Attempts to connect to:
https://eopen.microsoft.com/
Are redirected to:
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/sitemaintenance.html
For those who wish to activate Microsoft Business Solutions software need to obtain Software Registration keys,
and these also can not be obtained, as the site:
http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/MBSRegistration
does not resolve, instead one gets a Microsoft Search page when we attempt to go to the Registration Keys site!
Telephone calls to their support numbers for the licensing program yield either busy signals, or a message saying one should "call back later!!"
When we do not see this message, we still do not see most of the normal functionality.
As this is Microsoft's main channel for managing and installing licenses for products such as Server, and fo open License products for business,
this makes the company effectively "closed for business" !
Attempts to connect to:
https://eopen.microsoft.com/
Are redirected to:
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/sitemaintenance.html
For those who wish to activate Microsoft Business Solutions software need to obtain Software Registration keys,
and these also can not be obtained, as the site:
http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/MBSRegistration
does not resolve, instead one gets a Microsoft Search page when we attempt to go to the Registration Keys site!
Telephone calls to their support numbers for the licensing program yield either busy signals, or a message saying one should "call back later!!"
What Can I Do About Book Pirates? 987
peterwayner writes "Six of the top ten links on a Google search for one of my books point to a pirate site when I type in 'wayner data compression textbook.' Others search strings actually locate pages that are selling legit copies including digital editions for the Kindle. I've started looking around for suggestions. Any thoughts from the Slashdot crowd? The free copies aren't boosting sales for my books. Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions."
Comment Games! (Score 1) 531
When I was a 4th grader in the 1980s my dad worked for HP. He was a middle manager. On our school's career day, he would bring a bunch of computers from work and set them up with games (moon lander, artillery, etc..). I don't remember any talk about careers or anything else, but I still remember playing the games and thinking that computers were cool. And voila, now I'm a programmer.
Obviously now-a-days most of those kids have computers at home and have games better than anything you have at your company, but I think the core thing to do is to give the kids something to have fun with that is vaguely related to where you work. Forget about the details of your individual job.
Feed Wired: The Subtle Pleasures of Building a Dungeon (wired.com)
Dungeon Maker confronted me with how damn hard is it to build a good video-game dungeon to lure the most lethal and interesting monsters into battle. I now wish that more RPGs offered the ability to design your own levels -- because as I've discovered, architecture can be a weirdly enjoyable pastime.
Feed New York Times: Microsoft Says Test Shows Vacant Airwaves Usable (nytimes.com)
Microsoft disputed the Federal Communications Commission’s recent finding that prototype Internet devices caused static on existing broadcasts.
Feed Linux.com: Vyatta releases 2.2 beta (linux.com)
Vyatta has announced the availability of its 2.2 beta, codenamed "Camarillo." This release includes a number of enhancements, new features, and more than 100 bug fixes for Vyatta's commercially supported open, flexible router (OFR) distribution.
Journal Journal: AT&T Co-operating with NSA 2
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFFF) has uncovered more documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T's Internet traffic.
Some of information was already publically available, but after negotiations with AT&T, EFF has found new documents describing a secret, secure room in AT&T's facilities that gave the National Security Agency (NSA) direct access to customers' emails and other Internet communications.
Feed Lenovo pays Microsoft $1.3bn for software (theregister.com)
The more the merrier
Lenovo will pay up to $1.3bn over the next year to pre-install Microsoft software on its computers. Of course, it is not really doing the paying: it is a Microsoft OEM and so is reselling passing the costs on, along with a little margin for itself, to its customers. So the more it pays Microsoft, the more it is making in PC sales and Office apps sell-throughs.
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