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Ding dong, the witch is...erased.
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It's been nearly a decade since Mark Zuckerberg launched what would become the world's largest social network. Since those early days, Facebook's infrastructure and code have evolved, with some of it collecting dust over time. On Friday, the company took a small step in a new direction when an engineer added 5,112 lines of code written in the D language to Facebook's repository. So what's all the fuss about? "Eleven. Exactly. One louder."
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That sounds like my cue...
What's
a
line
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code?
I looked at D back in the day when it may have had a chance, but then C# took over. One thing a few of us argued for at the time was a true boolean type, but to no avail. I'm of the opinion that every modern language requires a boolean type. Lack of a boolean type is a severe shortcoming of C.
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Ruby 2.1 has many improvements including speed up without severe incompatibilities Gotta love it when a version of something is released "without severe incompatibilities"
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Google says its rivals have “placed a cloud” on the Android eco-system through a wave of lawsuits based on old Nortel patents. Now, it’s filed a lawsuit of its own to defend the Nexus and its customers. "When two tribes go to war a point is all you can score"
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The vicious cycle of patent wars. It'll never end...
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to improve human sanitation, particularly in areas of the world that don't have a reliable water supply. Much of that effort is about reinventing the toilet but the foundation has also challenged scientists to find ways to turn human waste into something useful. Pass me another beer, my phone's almost dead
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Ya know when my dog who has everything a dog could want gets bored, it will also do things it shouldn't.
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This idea is gold Jerry, gold!
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Your programming job is not on the line in 2014 – and neither is Google Glass. "Don't worry, be happy."
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IntelliJ IDEA 13, the Java IDE with the fastest-growing mindshare, includes enhanced support for Java EE 7, better Spring support, new tools for Android development and refined Gradle integration. Now with even more j-related j-ness!
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer team always celebrates the holidays with a new web browser benchmark site that has a seasonal theme. "What a sight, making things with Lite-Brite!"
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The funny thing that the new benchmark unable to run on IE 9. No 'gracefully degrades' option, nothing...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Not that I'm surprised or anything, but that is a little sad.
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TTFN - Kent
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Not really surprising. That sort of bench is designed to make your old browser look like elephant droppings so you upgrade to their new one. Graceful degradation would get in the way of that by making IE9 seem to suck less.
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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Hi,
The benchmark there is using some new features that were not present on IE9. In fact HTML5 was still a working draft 'HTML5'[^] when IE9 was released. Even though it was still a working draft IE9 had a partial 'HTML5' implementation[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Alan Turing, the World War Two codebreaker who later killed himself after receiving a criminal conviction for his homosexuality, is granted a Royal pardon by the Queen. Sometimes, the right things do happen (eventually)
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We have a lot to look forward to in 2014, including some big plans that we think customers are going to love. I'm going out on a limb here: new iPhone and iPad...
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The so-called "Internet of things" has gotten a lot of hype lately. The idea is pretty simple, albeit logistically complex: Companies can put chips in inanimate objects—cars, thermostats, refrigerators, lightbulbs—that allow those objects to be connected to the Internet and controlled remotely. "Assemble the Minions!"
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Like a juggler walking away with dozens of objects suspended in the air, Steve Ballmer is leaving his successor at Microsoft not only a tough act to follow but an even tougher act to continue. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
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Microsoft is on the verge of massive change. CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his retirement, and the software giant doesn’t have an immediate replacement waiting in the wings. After 38 years with just two CEOs, the company is searching for its perfect match — someone to move software out of traditional boxes and into service efforts, an individual who can steer towards new a hardware push. "They're the people that you meet, while you're walking down the street"
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In today's crazy economy, self-employment or entrepreneuriship may be the best way for IT professionals to go. Yeah, but you'll still hate your boss
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Microsoft will face a rebellion of long-time partners at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) when OEMs introduce Windows personal computers also able to run Android mobile apps. "Don't be trapped by old concepts, Matthew, you're evolving into a new lifeform."
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RSA has issued a statement denying allegations stemming from Friday's bombshell report that the encryption software provider received $10 million from the National Security Agency (NSA) in exchange for making a weak algorithm the preferred one in its BSAFE toolkit. Never have we not accepted nothing from no one
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