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Submission + - TechBeacon Article is Making a Breakthrough in Smalltalk Advocacy 3

Submitted by horrido on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:24PM

horrido writes: This TechBeacon article is poised to break through the 20,000 views barrier in a matter of weeks. It has done more for Smalltalk advocacy than any other article in memory. TechBeacon says it's the second most popular app dev article of 2016. And Smalltalk evangelist, Richard Eng (aka "Mr. Smalltalk"), has been making a great deal of hay out of it on Twitter (#MakeSmalltalkGreatAgain). Can we expect great things from Smalltalk in 2017?

Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland 476

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 09, 2009 @11:36PM from the blood-from-a-stone-middleman dept.

David Gerard writes "The Microsoft Certified Partner model is: an MCP buys contracts from Microsoft and sells them to businesses as a three-year timed contract, payable in annual installments. Iceland's economy has collapsed, so 1500 businesses have gone bankrupt and aren't paying the fees any more. But Microsoft has told the MCPs: 'Our deal was with you, not them. Pay up.' The MCPs that don't go bankrupt in turn are moving headlong to Free Software, taking most of the country with them. (Warning: link contains strong language and vivid imagery.)"

How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? 675

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @12:43PM from the slashdot-is-not-a-lawyer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I have been in a software engineering position at a large company for approximately seven years. Recently, for a variety of reasons, I accepted a new job working for a local software company. I have given my employer three weeks' notice, instead of the standard two, as a courtesy. In return, it has been implied that, in spite my record of above-average performance appraisals and promotions, I will be marked as leaving the company 'on bad terms' if I refuse to extend my departure date further. With only three weeks remaining, I am hesitant to rock the boat by contacting our HR department, but this concerns me and seems like an extremely unethical practice. I live in an 'at-will' employment state, so I know that they have no legal recourse to keep me. I am concerned about the references they could give in the future; having spent a large majority of my career at this company, I will be dependent on them for references to verify my career experience. Has anyone ever run into this kind of situation before?"

Why Game Developers Should Support OS X and Linux 283

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 05, 2009 @05:31AM from the good-faith dept.

kevind23 writes "Although Mac OS X and Linux have a small (but growing) market share, Jeff from Wolfire Games argues that supporting non-Windows platforms can lead to a huge increase in game sales. Using their popular game Lugaru as an example, he shows how less-popular platforms, or more specifically, their userbase can be a powerful advertising force. This can lead to a dramatic increase in popularity and exposure, which usually means a large boost in overall sales. The short article is an interesting read, especially for those working in game development and sales."

Comment Re:Slow down there (Score 1) 179

by rplacd on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @07:42AM (#26057977) Attached to: DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve

Data point: using axfr-get to download approximately 63,667 records from a host 16 hops away takes about nine seconds. The file 2.7MB in size. Most zones aren't that large, so the IXFR thing isn't a real problem.

Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online 349

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @11:33AM from the play-the-drinking-game dept.

farkinga writes "For those of us that no longer have a television, live TV events can be a challenge to watch. Fortunately, tonight's Presidential Debate has attracted the attention of most US broadcasters, many of whom will provide online viewing options. Leading the way is Hulu, a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp, who will stream the Fox-branded feed tonight — assuming they worked out the bandwidth issues that came up during the second debate!"

Comment TERM environment variable make a difference (Score 5, Interesting) 115

by payam on Monday June 09, 2003 @09:10PM (#6157259) Attached to: Decent Terminal Emulation on Mac OS X?

The TERM environment settings for Terminal.app make a big difference in its behaviour. Normally with Terminal it's useful to have the TERM environment variable be 'xterm-color'. This will enable lots of interesting things, amongst them ANSI color. But, as described, this has it's drawbacks, including the fact that scrollback doesn't work as expected. Sometimes it's useful to launch any apps that need that functionality prefixed with 'TERM=vt100'. I run screen this way( 'TERM=vt100 screen') and it works much better as a result.

Alas, this doesn't affect speed but it does enable improved functionality.

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