hall of shame

Just stumbled upon a fancy banner by Microsoft that advertises its Embrace and Extend from the childhood program.

For the record: the only reason Microsoft supports this "Coding in classroom initiative" is because they want to push their products through kids. It's a problem, but a bigger problem is that Microsoft have long striven to make computing an elite profession by introducing inconsistencies and complexity for the most basic abstractions: a character, a file, a block device... their products are designed to fail pupils who want to understand how computers work. And this design is intentional, because the less people understand computing, the less competition their business has... and higher are the profits.

Thus, taking money from Microsoft to promote coding in the classroom is akin to taking money from Philip Morris to promote healthy lifestyle. Shameful.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:26:33AM -0400, Abdullah Rahmoyan wrote:
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> For a well known financial institution, I am currently looking
> for a senior Java developer to take part in a 6 months project.
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> The requested skills are:
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> - BACK-END AND FRONT-END with level SPECIALIST
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> - DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE with level SPECIALIST
> - BUILD TOOLS, WEB SERVERS with level SPECIALIST
> - AND DATABASES with level SPECIALIST
> - DESIGN REST SERVICES with level EXPERT
> - AND API'S with level EXPERT
> - JAVA EE6, JAVASCRIPT with level SPECIALIST
> - ANGULARJS,POSTRESQL with level SPECIALIST
> - FULL DETAIS TO BE SENT with level SPECIALIST
> - BY EMAIL with level SPECIALIST

Here is an excerpt of the Legal aspects of free and open source software workshop notes. Every phrase is a masterpiece.

"When the public agency has decided that open source requirements are particularly important for a specific software acquisition case, the process described in this section can be followed. This process would end in the agency downloading open source software itself, with no fee paid whatsoever. Separately, commercially provided services and support, if required, may be acquired by publishing calls for tender. Note that this process can be abandoned at any point - for instance, if the software cannot be found easily, or evaluated, or once downloaded is found unsuitable for any reason. At that point, the other approach described in the next section can be followed, namely, publishing a call for tender for open source software."

Our super-duper high-tech IT-savvy EU commissionner Neelie Kroes messed up EU-Azerbaijan relations recently, first claiming that the computers of her collbarators were hacked during an official visit to Baku, then silently sending the two people involved in the accusation on holidays.

It looks like the two "collaborators" of Neelie Kroes stumbled upon the "suspicious activity" popup window while connecting to their email accounts from Azerbaijan.