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Khalid Abuhakmeh wrote: Now what happens when I change void to return this, or the instance of the object that I am using?
If I'm not using fluent interface, I won't win a thing... I'm with Brisingr Aerowing[^]
like the idea (I like fluent interfaces  ), but it depends...
(yes|no|maybe)*
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Unless you really, really think your code is going to be chained together, YAGNI.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: but if I don't expect a single result back, I am most likely going to want to inspect the object itself
Why? To ensure that the state of the object is correct? That's the job of the object itself.
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After a delay, the software development kit (SDK) for the Pebble smartwatch is now live. On Friday, the watch maker publicly released the SDK and documentation, which was originally scheduled for when the watches started shipping. This means that owners of the Pebble watch — one of the hottest KickStarter projects in 2012 with more than 68,000 backers — can soon look forward to applications for their timepiece.... For now, the SDK appears to support custom watch faces but will be expanded for functional applications. What time is it? Time to code.
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Once upon a time, we maybe started out with Logo to understand simple command sequencing, or BASIC – both, you’ll note, frequently provided with interpreters or REPL-type environments which are great to learn in. For a while, PASCAL was a popular learning language on University courses – in fact, it was designed by Niklaus Wirth precisely to help educate people about the whacky ‘new’ ideas that we should organize our programs in structured blocks, with subroutines, and loops and things. What should a learning language offer today?
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So, what it really boils down to is, I really should give a F#(c,k).
Maybe it is time to hit the new F# project button again and just see where that takes me......... 
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It might take you to Full Stop
Ranjan.D
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It’s important to note it’s of utmost importance that when we capture Important Business Logic, we do so with gravitas and sincerity; this means doing so in a language that the business owners and customer representatives (and most of the marketing department) can understand. So, it’s with a grave and sincere demeanor that I present to you an important language in your .NET programming toolbox: LOLCODE. HAI. CAN I HAZ CODEZ NOW? RETURN CODEZ. KTHXBYE.
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Why aren’t there more high quality mobile web apps that have the look, feel, and performance of their native counterparts? I don’t think the reason is a technical one. Granted, some apps must be native: OpenGL-based games, for example, or apps that access hardware capabilities that are not yet exposed to the browser (a shrinking list); but I don’t buy the argument that native SDKs allow you to create interfaces that are inherently better, smoother, more dynamic — or more delightful — than what is possible via HTML5. Some lessons we’ve learned about making web apps work well on mobile devices.
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The web platform has advanced out of all recognition, and continues to evolve at a frankly bewildering pace (I’m paid to keep track of all this stuff, and if I take a fortnight’s holiday I scramble to get back on top of it). Four years ago, if you wanted to access your device’s GPS information, you pretty much had to use a native app; now, the W3C Geolocation API is available in all browsers, on most classes of devices. The advancement of what the press likes to call “HTML5″ (but mostly isn’t just HTML5) is closing the gap between the capabilities of native and web. But it isn’t there yet. You can do a lot with web technology. What more would you like it to do?
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Unicode is supported everywhere, but font support for Unicode characters is sparse. When you use any slightly uncommon character, you have no guarantee someone else will be able to see it.... So what characters can you count on nearly everyone being able to see? To answer this question, I looked at the characters in the intersection of several common fonts: Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, and Droid Sans. My thought was that this would make a very conservative set of characters. I U+2764 Unicode (most of the time).
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Have a plan to steal millions from banks and their customers but can't write a line of code? Want to get rich quick off advertising click fraud but "quick" doesn't include time to learn how to do it? No problem. Everything you need to start a life of cybercrime is just a few clicks (and many more dollars) away. Malware is big business. And now it's going retail.
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Back in the fall of 1994, Bill Clinton was nearly midway through his first term, Ace of Base was at the top of the charts, and the Web was in its infancy. Businesses were just waking up to the power of the Internet as a commercial platform. In California, the staff at Hotwired — the Internet offshoot of Wired — contemplated how exactly to pay the writers it hired. The idea arrived to create a dozen sections that would carry “banner” advertising. This wasn’t entirely original. Early Web service Prodigy had used similar methods, although it placed its banners at the bottom of the screen. (This led to the first ad blocker; a piece of plastic affixed to the bottom of monitors to obscure the dreaded advertising.) Other 1994 notables: Tonya Harding, OJ Simpson, Boyz II Men and Ebola Zaire.
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The problem is that Wordpress allows unlimited amount of login attempts on the admin account. There is a plugin to remedy this, but it really should be built-in to the core.
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Clickety[^] [The New Yorker]
Intelligence analysts said that the announcement gave rare insight into the inner workings of North Korea’s missile program, which until last year had been running on Windows 95.
/ravi
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I wouldn't have wanted to be the helpdesk person trying to translate swipe in from the left into Korean.
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I do. I was trying to start the newsday with a subtle spot of levity.
/ravi
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So... the whole thing was a google advertising stunt?
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Where stawt button?
How stawt war with no stawt button?
Where my F%^&in pworgwam?
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Ron Anders wrote: How stawt war with no stawt button?
You are using the peace edition of Windows.
Wait... Windows has always to be tamed -.-
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To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite. You get fat paychecks, people bring you free gourmet food, drivers shuttle you around town. Coders here are really treated much like talented entertainers would be down south in Hollywood. It’s a thought not lost on Altay Guvench, a coder himself who has become one of the first agents for software developers. Don’t groan. It was only a matter of time. Never work with children or animals, and make sure you get a piece of the merchandising.
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We're not developers, we're an "agency".
I'm not a consultant, I'm a "developer agent", or should we say "agency agent"? 
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What's in a string? That depends on who you ask, apparently; a lesson that Fedora recently learned when it unexpectedly ran into a problem with the release name for the upcoming Fedora 19, "Schrödinger's Cat"—and all of the unusual characters contained within. Typographic oddities might seem like a trivial reason to upend the distribution release process, but a validation tool in the bug reporting system objected to the name, so Fedora developers found themselves asking whether it was more practical to stop and fix all of the utilities, or to change the release name itself. We cannot tell whether the cat is UTF-8 or not.
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Ha! We are in 2013 now, and Linux still can't handle that?
More than a decade ago, I tried to backup some files with non-pure ASCII characters from a Linux file system to a CD - and the names were broken. Well, somewhere on the web I found the information that it was not a bug, just a difference in the character sets of the file systems... Oh great! And now, more than a decadce later, Linux does still händle poor ASCII characters only.
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Quote: Peter Robinson proposed the project go right for the goal and choose "DROP table *;".
If they're going for broke, shouldn't it be something like: sudo rm /*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Alice and Bob are crossword enthusiasts. Every morning they rush to complete the Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword. One morning Alice finishes the crossword and telephones Bob to gloat. Bob challenges her by asking for the solution to 21D as proof that she's completed the entire thing.... So Alice's dictionary procedure is a 'one way function': it's easy to go from a word to another in one direction, but very hard to do so in the opposite. Such one way functions are widespread in computer security. Computers are faster and do this with math, but the principle is the same.
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That's a great link we should give to all those people asking how to "decrypt" passwords.
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Notice Alice and Bob don't rush to complete Dalek Dave's CCC in the lounge every weekday....
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APIs are great, they allow companies to expose parts of their engine for inclusion into the products of others to increase adoption and to facilitate the development of features and products around a common set of data. In theory APIs are a win-win, both for the party that exposes the API as well as for the party that uses it and since the mid 90’s APIs have become more and more common.... In practice though, APIs are a double edged sword, both for the exposer as well as for the user. In this article I’ll try to outline what the shadowside is of exposing an API, and why this is a potential problem for any users of that API. If your business depends on someone else's API, you don't own your own business.
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A desktop PC used to need a lot of different chips to make it work.... As chip manufacturing processes have improved, it's now possible to cram more and more of these previously separate components into a single chip. This not only reduces system complexity, cost, and power consumption, but it also saves space, making it possible to fit a high-end computer from yesteryear into a smartphone that can fit in your pocket. It's these technological advancements that have given rise to the system-on-a-chip (SoC), one monolithic chip that's home to all of the major components that make these devices tick. Cortex the Killer: these mobile chipsets are conquering the desktop.
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Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done with your digital assets when you die or can no longer use your account. Welcome to the Past Lives Pavilion.... brought to you by "Google Death."
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Teso, who has been working in IT for the last eleven years and has been a trained commercial pilot for a year longer than that, has combined his two interests in order to bring to light the sorry state of security of aviation computer systems and communication protocols. By taking advantage of two new technologies for the discovery, information gathering and exploitation phases of the attack, and by creating an exploit framework (SIMON) and an Android app (PlaneSploit) that delivers attack messages to the airplanes' Flight Management Systems (computer unit + control display unit), he demonstrated the terrifying ability to take complete control of aircrafts by making virtual planes "dance to his tune." Smartphones on a Plane: Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the fright.
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The International Space Apps Challenge is a technology development event during which citizens from around the world work together to solve challenges relevant to improving life on Earth and life in space. You may be earthbound, but these challenges will take you to infinity and beyond!
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I can’t help but think, though, that the first signs that the PC market might be maxing out came in early 2007, before Windows 8, the iPad or even the iPhone had any influence on the business. That’s when Microsoft released Windows Vista and an enormous number of consumers and businesses responded by saying, essentially, “No thanks, we’re perfectly happy with Windows XP.” Even today, almost a dozen years after XP’s release, the company is trying to convince a fair chunk of the PC-using world that it didn’t perfect the PC operating system back in 2001. Are PCs finally good enough, or are tablets better... and taking the industry by storm?
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Sales of personal computers were very nearly twice as bad as previously expected and experienced their worst year-on-year decline ever in the first quarter of 2013, according to the market research firm IDC.... Worldwide PC shipments came in at 76.3 million units in the first quarter of the year, amounting to a decline of nearly 14 percent. That’s much worse than the firm’s forecast, which called for a decline of 7.7 percent. The findings also amount to the fourth consecutive quarter in which sales declined compared to the previous quarter. This can't be good news for the Linux desktop, either.
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IMHO, around 4-5 years ago, PC hardware became 'good enough' for most consumer and business users. Hardware is no longer the bottleneck of productivity. I know lots of people still using Win XP on 7+ year old hardware. The user experience is not great, but acceptable. As a power user, my typical replacement rate over 14 years has been about 3 years. My main development workstation and laptop are both nearing the 3 and a half year mark, and I see no reason at all to replace either one in the near future. On the OS side, when seasoned Windows users are posting questions here like 'how do I get to the desktop' and 'how do I shut down', it's no wonder consumers and businesses are holding off on moving to Win 8.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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This mirrors my experience. A story, to illustrate:
I worked at Microsoft during the Win95 > Win7 era, and it was interesting to be on the leading edge of adoption much of the time. I recall keeping a Win95 system running for games (3DFX!) and hating it, because my Win2K and XP boxen were so much nicer to to use.
Later on, we were urged to start using Vista early on. It was terrible. OK, conceptually not bad, but in practice it really got in the way of getting work done. I went back to XP and stayed on it until, eventually, something work-related absolutely positively required that I run Vista. Sad trombone.
After that, I installed the first stable internal build of Win7 and have been running that ever since. It's quite good, I'm comfortable with it and my software. I run a (probably quite old by now) version of Office that does everything I could ever want (and probably far more than I can imagine). It just works. Why would I want to mess with that?
Not a judgement, just an observation: Apple has maintained more or less the same Mac OS UI concept since 1984, with subtle refinements and additions along the way. Without nitpicking details too much, I've found Win7 and OS X to be nearly identical is usability. In fact, with a little tweaking (fixing Alt-Tab on Mac, command keys remapped on Windows, Sublime Text as my editor everywhere...) I can be on any of my boxen and barely have to think about keyboard shortcuts, apps or workflows.
Did we reach desktop state of the art in 2008?
Mobile UI is something different altogether and IMHO it's still early days to be crowning a winner there....
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Let me guess... "Get Lucky" is not mentioned?
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Nope. Which is actually now that you mention it supposed to be at the number one spot. The others DO help, however.
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Danny Severns, IT Director for Dunn Tire and knee-deep in COBOL business systems. Danny is bridging COBOL apps to Java, and it's pretty interesting stuff.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: bridging COBOL apps to Java, and it's pretty interesting stuff.
Wait, are you serious?
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In the five years since Apple released its first iPhone, touch-screen smartphones have become thinner, lighter, faster and more capable. But through it all, battery life has mostly stayed the same.... Because battery capacity hasn’t improved much over the years, the batteries themselves have gotten bigger, limiting how thin and light phones can be. Meanwhile, technologies like 1080p screens and wireless screen mirroring have been hamstrung by batteries that can’t keep up. Kids, there's a reason cell phones used to look like a purse, and it wasn't fashion.
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Let's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deep space travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage, the Oculus Rift promises to deliver VR gaming to the yearning public. Join us as we take a peek inside the Oculus Rift and its hardware. One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend... disembowled for your morbid curiosity.
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