PowerShell Architect Retires After Decades At the Prompt
Jeffrey Snover, the driving force behind PowerShell, has retired after a career that reshaped Windows administration. The Register reports: Snover’s retirement comes after a brief sojourn at Google as a Distinguished Engineer, following a lengthy stint at Microsoft, during which he pulled the company back from imposing a graphical user interface (GUI) on adminis … ⌘ Read more
AI Boosts Research Careers But Flattens Scientific Discovery
Ancient Slashdot reader erice shares the findings from a recent study showing that while AI helped researchers publish more often and boosted their careers, the resulting papers were, on average, less useful. “You have this conflict between individual incentives and science as a whole,” says James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago who … ⌘ Read more
‘White-Collar Workers Shouldn’t Dismiss a Blue-Collar Career Change’
White-collar workers stuck in a cycle of layoffs and stagnant wages might want to look past the traditional tech, finance and media job postings to an unexpected source of opportunity: the blue-collar sector, which faces a labor shortage and is seeing rapid transformation through private-equity investment. These jobs are generally less vulnerable … ⌘ Read more
Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US ‘Extraordinary’ Artist Visas
The O-1B visa, a work permit reserved for individuals deemed to possess “extraordinary ability” in the arts, has become the pathway of choice for social media influencers and OnlyFans models seeking to build careers in the United States. Immigration attorneys told the Financial Times that influencers now make up more than half their … ⌘ Read more
People of Dubious Character Are More Likely To Enter Public Service
A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master’s theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside.
John Liu and co-authors analyzed 6 million dissertations from CNKI, a … ⌘ Read more
Warren Buffett Retires As Berkshire Hathaway CEO After 55 Years
Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 95, ending a 55-year run that reshaped how generations of Americans think about investing. “The 95-year-old, often referred to as the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ and the ‘billionaire next door,’ will relinquish the title after a career that saw him turn a failing textile firm into one of the most … ⌘ Read more
Cybersecurity Employees Plead Guilty To Ransomware Attacks
Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware to extort American businesses throughout 2023.
Ryan Goldberg, a 40-year-old incident response manager from Georgia, and Kevin Martin, a 36-year-old ransomware negotiator f … ⌘ Read more
I quit LinkedIn
I recently quit LinkedIn. Ironically, the post I made about why I was
quitting was probably the most viewed thing I ever posted. Haha.
If you need to see my CV it’s right here on my website:
This is what I wrote back in November:
I’m terminating my account on LinkedIn next week. This is possibly
some kind of career suicide.I’m very seldom visiting LinkedIn, so I’m probably late to the party,
as usual. Perhaps there has already been a lar … ⌘ Read more
US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists
The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March – less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands of tech workers out of their jobs.
The program will primarily recruit early-career software engineers an … ⌘ Read more
Latest move in colourful MP’s career gets mixed reviews from voters
There are mixed feelings amongst voters in the New England electorate as they digest the news that local MP Barnaby Joyce has defected from the Nationals to One Nation. ⌘ Read more
Birds of a Feather star Pauline Quirke’s son sets out on 140km dementia charity walk
Charlie Quirke’s fundraising walk will take in “iconic” locations from his mum’s life and career. ⌘ Read more
Sixers down Strikers in final-ball thriller to secure WBBL finals berth
Ellyse Perry produced one of the best knocks of her career but the Sydney Sixers took until the final ball to see off the Adelaide Strikers and land a WBBL finals spot. ⌘ Read more
Caught-and-bowled king Neser feared his Test career was over
Bowling all-rounder Michael Neser is back and taking vital wickets after beginning to think he had played his last Test match for Australia. ⌘ Read more
Paralympian returns to sport after 25 years to help next generation of athletes
When Mellissa Dunn was starting her wheelchair basketball career in Darwin in the 1990s, she felt she had to do everything on her own. Three decades later, the silver-medallist Paralympian says the support now being offered to the next generation of para-athletes is “life-changing”. ⌘ Read more
Alas, poor Usman: Ashes injury may end Khawaja’s Test career
After another slashing partnership between openers Travis Head and Jake Weatherald, the future of Usman Khawaja in the Test arena appears to be getting murkier. ⌘ Read more
**Memorable O’Sullivan moments as snooker great turns 50 **
As Ronnie O’Sullivan turns 50, BBC Sport picks out 10 great moments from his career - and it could have been many more. ⌘ Read more
‘You can’t get sent off in boxing’: Why Asofa-Solomona walked away from NRL
Former Melbourne enforcer Nelson Asofa-Solomona reveals how he fell out of love with rugby league and turned down lucrative contract offers to pursue a career in boxing. ⌘ Read more
From labourer to Shakespeare’s King Lear: The career of Colin Friels
Colin Friels, the award-winning actor known for Malcolm and Water Rats, reflects on his 50-year career on stage and screen as he approaches what might be his final role. ⌘ Read more
Fuzzy Zoeller, who beat Greg Norman to win 1984 US Open playoff, dies
Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf’s most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, has died aged 74. ⌘ Read more
Judge dismisses 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump
The abandonment of the Georgia case is the latest reflection of how the US president has emerged largely unscathed from a spate of prosecutions that once threatened to imperil his political career. ⌘ Read more
‘We Could’ve Asked ChatGPT’: UK Students Fight Back Over Course Taught By AI
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:
James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at the University of Staffordshire last year, hoping to change careers through a government-funded apprenticeship programme designed to help them become cybersecurity experts or software engineers. But afte … ⌘ Read more
A ruddy brilliant career
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Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, who invented the scale, tells New Scientist about his 50-year career in planetary defence ⌘ Read more
The dramatic moment that sank the rape case against Geelong midfielder Tanner Bruhn
Bruhn’s lawyer said the footy star had been “to hell and back” fighting allegations that jeopardised his career and liberty. ⌘ Read more
Geelong midfielder Tanner Bruhn revealed as player cleared of rape charge
Bruhn’s lawyer said the footy star had been “to hell and back” fighting the allegations that had put his career and liberty in jeopardy. ⌘ Read more
Geelong midfielder Tanner Bruhn revealed as player cleared of rape charge
Bruhn’s lawyer said the footy star had been “to hell and back” fighting the allegations that had put his career and liberty in jeopardy. ⌘ Read more
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away. ⌘ Read more
Former nurse turns ‘absolute passion’ for lavender into 35-year career
Annemarie Manders reflects on how she became a lavender farmer in the Yarra Valley. ⌘ Read more
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Uh, that actually looks not that terrible. Somehow, I remember Swing GUIs being way uglier.
As for Visual Basic, I only had to use VBA once in my life. That was in the beginning of my career when I inherited a project from a leaving coworker. Fuck me, was that awful. Just alone the damn compiler error dialog box popping up in my face all the time while editing and the compiler already trying to parse the unfinished and hence of course uncompilable code. Boy, that left a lasting impression on me. I ported everything to Java very quickly. Luckily, the code base wasn’t all that large at that point in time. I had to add a bunch of new features after that, so I was very glad that I convinced my workmate/project manager to do that first. We didn’t even need a GUI, the button in Excel was transformed to a command line program that just generated the large file.
But I cannot comment on the VB GUI designer, I never used that. Your screenshot looks very similar to the Delphi one, though. Only towards the end of my Delphi days I found out about the possibility to make the widgets snap to window edges and corners (I don’t remember how that was called), so that resizing the windows was actually possible without messing up their entire contents.
Switching to Linux, Delphi wasn’t an option anymore. For some reason I couldn’t use Kylix. Maybe it was already dead by the time I changed OSes. Or I couldn’t get it to run. I just don’t remember. I just recall that the unavailability of Delphi was the reason it took me a while to actually settle on Linux. I then fully switched to Java. The GridBagLayout was my absolutely favorite Swing layout manager. I reckon I used it 98% of the time, because it was so powerful and made the windows resize properly, just as I had learned to do in Delphi shortly before.
Up until discovering Swing, I used Java’s AWT for a short amount of time. That was very limited I think and I hit the limits fairly quickly. Later at uni, we had one project making use of SWT. Didn’t convince me either. I could be wrong, but I think there was also a SWT GUI designer plugin for Eclipse. If there really was, that one wasn’t in the same street as Delphi’s (there must be a reason I forgot about it ;-)).
25. Monetizing Your Skills Beyond Bug Bounty
Turn your hacking expertise into a thriving career beyond bounties.
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Optery (YC W22) – Hiring Tech Lead with Node.js Experience (U.S. & Latin America)
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Report shows action to improve gender equity linked to career gains and better business performance
A new report out today shows that companies taking action for gender equality see lower staff turnover, more women in leadership and better shareholder value. ⌘ Read more
Cumquat may, these farmers are enjoying ‘anti-retirement’
When Roslyn and Pat McCarthy readied themselves to leave their careers, they were uninspired by spending their “twilight” years on golf courses or bowling greens. Instead, they put their faith in cumquats. ⌘ Read more
How to thrive as a junior engineer: tips and insights
Plus, ways teammates and leaders can be better mentors for their new counterparts.
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Exciting Cybersecurity Careers That Don’t Require Coding
Do you believe that cybersecurity is only for programmers who are bent over keyboards, typing code after code to ward off hackers? Rethink…
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10 Strange Things Science Has Taught Us About Our Preferences
The things that people like and dislike lie at the heart of their personality, shaping everything from their choice of friends to the lifestyle they live and their career. Yet preferences are also shrouded in mystery. Tracking down the influences that lead to people’s tastes and opinions is a challenging task fraught with uncertainty. Still, […]
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Date variety discovered by outback horticulturalist now grown globally
Mitakoodi man Glen Oliver has nurtured a huge variety of plant species over the years, but the highlight of his career in horticulture has been discovering a new date palm. ⌘ Read more
The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Career in Cybersecurity
As a newcomer to cybersecurity, you’re going to encounter a lot of difficulties, and at times, you’ll feel overwhelmed and frustrated.
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Cracking the code: How to wow the acceptance committee at your next tech event
Want to speak at a tech conference? These four practical tips will help your session proposal stand out—and land you on the stage.
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I should quit IT and start a career as a fortune teller.
Last night I dreamed that the neighbouring buildings were on fire. Now guess where the firefighters have just showed up.
Best Cybersecurity Certifications for Beginners and Experts in 2025
Cybersecurity — has fastly become one of the critical fields in Bigtech, making certifications essential for career advancement. Companies…
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10 Male Heartthrobs Who Became Known for Something Else
Plenty of actors, singers, and athletes were dubbed male heartthrobs over the years. In many cases, this label continues to define their public persona, but occasionally, male celebs will go on to do something that overshadows their sexy image. A career change may alter the public’s perception of them. Sometimes, they might become famous for […]
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anyway re: girl doxxing for wonyoung. this is real wonyoungism. i can only dream of being that iconic. for context wonyoung gets so much hate and she is literally my age and has been doing this idol shit since she was 13 and has gotten called all sorts of horrible things since then because people are jealous of her. so imo doxxing in her name is OK and justified i DON’T CARE there are youtubers in south korea who have made a career out of hating on her and are now getting sued by her for defamation
10 Famous Artists Who Radically Switched Styles
All artists have to begin somewhere. An artist usually achieves fame using a signature style instantly recognizable as their own. The contemporary world of painting boasts multiple genres of realism and abstraction, the result of bold pioneers experimenting with their craft in the quest for more meaningful self-expression. Often, these painters began their careers conservatively […]
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10 Unexpected Jobs of U.S. Presidents Before Politics
Before becoming leaders of the free world, many U.S. presidents worked in surprisingly unusual and unexpected jobs. While some followed the traditional paths of law and military service, others held positions that seem entirely out of place for a future commander-in-chief. From working as a bouncer to wrangling alligators, these early careers shaped their character, […]
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Teacher turned florist proves it’s never too late for a career change
More than a decade of teaching has taught Natalie Brock a thing or two, but her biggest life lesson has been to “do something you love”. ⌘ Read more