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Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory

There's a story I read on one of the Stack Overflow type sites a couple of years ago about a "duck". It was an answer about terms people have invented in the world of programming, and it went like this.

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Corona SDK is now Free + Mac/Win Desktop Apps + GDC | Corona Labs

This week, to coincide with GDC, we’re making some very exciting announcements! Corona SDK is completely FREE First, Corona SDK is now completely free! Starting today, anyone who registers on our site will get the full power of Corona SDK (existing users can just logout and then re-login to the Coro…

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Stephen King's "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes"

"I really am going to tell you everything you need to pursue a successful and financially rewarding career writing fiction, and I really am going to do it in ten minutes, which is exactly how long it took me to learn."

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Bill Gates tops Forbes rich list

Bill Gates is declared the richest man in the world for the second year running by Forbes magazine's annual ranking of global billionaires.

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Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity - bitquabit

I’ve pretty much always been a DVCS apologist. I know quite a few people who’ve been using DVCSes since Mercurial and Git, and a few who go back to BitKeeper, but I can totally out-hipster you. I was there for Monotone. I actually remember struggling to grok tla, and being happy that someone took th…

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Uber Database Breach Exposed Information Of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms

Uber announced today that its database was breached by an unauthorized third party last year. The company confirmed the breach in a company blog post..

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Hello, world!

Hello, world! February 26, 2015 When a programmer picks up a new language it is customary to write the timeless Hello World application to ease your way into a daunting codebase with an overly-simplistic view of its syntax.  I’ve personally done this at least 20 times throughout the last 13 years of…

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