[Pdx-pm] Fwd: Code Today: Outsource Yourself, iPad Potty Seat, and Old Skool Pop Q

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   Greetings
Developers,

The annual tech toy fest that is the *Consumer Electronics Show* is over,
leaving thousands of dazed revlers wondering how the world ever got along
without a iPad-connected potty
seat<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z48vnho6sn4jjudtc88eq36p97eos8d6diom100o>
.

But amid all the hype and iPhone cases, do you think that there was
anything that really will make a difference? Are *phablet*s the next hot
mobile platform? Will ultra-HD displays make TV more real?

We wonder:* Did you hear of anything at CES that made you take notice?* Let
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federal prosecution for allegedly stealing research papers from a digital
repository at MIT. Swartz was a true prodigy, and a vocal advocate for open
access to research and government data. He is missed.

Open Source Datacenter
Facebook, Intel, and Rackspace were just a few of the computing giants
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famous piece of graffiti that complains of the lack of bathroom facilities
at an inn?

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your answer. The first correct respondent is welcome to choose a free
ebook from the O'Reilly catalog.

*LAST TIME*, *Taper Wickel *knew that you could find an assortment of
oddball characters in the anime series "Urusei Yatsura" (Those Obnoxious
Aliens).
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The Year That Was
[image: signpost]<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z6evi7uoumbtgr219muhrr7n83rs2t8m6a10b82g>Last
week, we asked for your 2012 highlights. As always, we regret that we can
only reprint a small sample of your responses here.

Let's begin with our favorite, care of *Jason Cameron*, who makes our day
by responding that he doesn't mean to be a suck-up, but that "OSCON was my
highlight of last year. Learning about open badges, SLC, and other advances
in edtech was awesome!" We love you, Jason.

"The world didn't end," observes *Rich McGee*, "and my company didn't force
us to switch to Windows 8!"

*Dewald Esterhuizen* merely became immortal last year. He reports: "I
changed completely from maintaining ultra high privacy online to completely
embracing social media. Within a short space of time I literally flooded
the internet with my true identity . . . . Once something/someone becomes
part of the internet it becomes virtually impossible to erase those online
references. I am part of the internet, I am therefore immortal. . . ."

The Olympics were *Jose's* favorite part of last year; *Nishant* "created
and successfully deployed an enterprise point of sale app for a major
fashion retailer in U.S."; *Moshe* welcomed a new grandbaby;
*Ntaskas*cites a "new, 4mm-thick 55-inch, OLED 3D HDTV that's thinner
than a
smartphone"; and *Dave* says that his highlight "was moving completely off
the Windows platform."

A fine year was had by all!
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her job may be outsourced to India or China. One enterprising developer
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By overnighting his SecureID token to a consulting firm in China, he was
able to keep 80% of his salary for himself, while sitting around all day
working on personal projects and surfing the web. Meanwhile, the Chinese
company churned out his code for him.

Alas, his scheme was foiled when corporate security noticed twice-daily VPN
connections from his computer to a network in China, but before he was
caught, he had managed to create a reputation as one of the best
programmers in the company.

All the story needs to be completely ironic would be to find out that the
Chinese company was outsourcing it back to an unemployed American
developer, but no such luck.
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   - OSCON Call for Speakers
   - Yes, Virginia
   - Old-School Tagging
   - The Year That Was
   - Inter-Continental-Tele-Commuting

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