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“I had lunch today with a friend who runs a software company here in the Boston suburbs.  “We like to hire people fresh out of undergraduate Computer Science programs,” he said.  “This year we are getting them for 20 percent source...

“The cuts are driven by poor sales for Creative Suite 4, which includes core Adobe products like Acrobat and Photoshop, which was released in October. This shouldn’t be a huge shock — with the economy in the tank, and copies source...

“I'm not a techie. Maybe you think I am. No... I live in the mountains. I plant Redwood trees, grow grapes, make wine, learn French, watch the wildlife (the coyote, deer, and a lot of wild turkeys this week), the source...

“Apple has always adopted a smug attitude towards security. For many years, its major defence against malicious software was the fact that Windows was both exponentially more popular and leaked like a sieve. Enough operating system fundamentals were different that source...

“DTNRG members research aspects of delay-tolerant networking in a number of ways including academic publications, technical specifications, several active mailing lists, and code (reference implementation) development. DTNRG holds semi-regular teleconferences for software developers and occasional fa source...

“ Click on the above image to watch the screencast Highbrow juggles all of the web browsers on your Mac so that the one you want is the one you get. Normally your Mac only knows about one browser at source...

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“ Wrong! Last week on Thursday August 7, 2008, MoGo, a software program running on borrowed supercomputers (stuffed with 800 4.7 ghrz processors with 15 Teraflops of storage), beat a US Go professional. According to the American Go Association MoGo source...

“ In the past decade, Jeff Bezos's online bookstore has exploded into an enterprise that sells everything — snowplows, canned goods, you name it. More recently, Amazon.com (AMZN) has ventured into selling its own back-office software to other e-commerce businesses, source...

“That's the topic of a report released Monday by tracking firm Directions on Microsoft, an independent analysis company located in Kirkland, Wash., almost within spitting distance of the software titan's sprawling Redmond, Wash. campus. The brief report is entitled "Five source...

“The extension of that is that many people may not even have thought about what their priorities are. Consider how often you'll see a question, such as at Stack Overflow, that asks "What's the fastest way to do X?" Most source...

“Lately I’ve been doing a bit of Cocoa development. To be perfectly honest, Between an ABM Simulation Framework I’ve been working on (I’ll talk about this a bit more in a future post) and the iPhone development class that I’m source...

“Gamers, VoIP and video conference users beware. The leading BitTorrent software authors have declared war on you - and any users wanting to wring high performance out of their networks. A key design change in the P2P application promises to source...

“Looks like you need to shore up your anti-virus software if you run a Mac. The bad guys are trying to booby-trap Mac sites. But on the other hand, anti-virus software isn’t effective, if you’re to believe FireEye chief, Stuart source...

“ There are many untold stories in the world today.  From saving lives to sacrificing your self for the greater good.  Stories are past down from generation to generation and I want to make sure there is another story that source...