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Low-code application development platforms are designed to enable rapid creation, quick setup and deployment of applications with a minimum of traditional “hand coding.”
Low code? More like, "o0o0o0o, drag-and-drop GUIs." You can take an application out of the code, but you can't take the code out of the application.
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I'm cranky about SD's switch to so many pages per article.
I just wanted to say that out loud, and to explain why I haven't posted their stuff recently. Maybe they'll read this and consider a "view all pages" link.
TTFN - Kent
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True, I've found the new paging annoying as well. It is nice to read articles on a site that doesn't look and function like it's from 1998 though.
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I see your point, there really isn't enough content there to warrant 3 pages
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The usual response to these articles is that we need to "use the right tools" and the test for this is: are you making a nuclear power station, an office block or a tree house?
If you are making a nuclear power station (mission critical systems) then you need a lot of design, a lot of engineering and an excellent process. This will be slow and expensive, and your replacement timescales need to reflect this.
If you are making an office block you need some architecture but can drop in a large amount of prebuilt or pre-specified stuff. You can add in some significant flexibility too.
If you are making a tree house then bash it together as quick as you like. If you don't like a bit, tear it out and rebuild it. It will only last the summer before you discover girls and motor bikes anyway.
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That idea is so RADical I'm sure I've never heard it before. 
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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A small team of engineers at a stealth startup called Viv Labs claims to be on the verge of realizing an advanced form of AI that removes [Siri's] limitations.
Best case scenario=Samantha from Her. Worst case=V.I.K.I. from I, Robot
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Today Leaning Technologies announces the first stable release of Cheerp (formerly known as duetto), a software that compiles integrated C/C++ applications into JavaScript code for the frontend, and native code backend. Cheerp can be used to port desktop applications to the Web, or to develop interactive Web applications from scratch. Of course the world needed this.
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Cheerp wrote: Cheerp can be used to port desktop applications to the Web
Yeees, nice headline.
Still it won't be a usefull conversion; brown-field desktop applications tend to rely on the WinAPI. To point out the obvious again, the WinAPI isn't available on the Web. So porting is a no go, it'll always be largely rewritten.
So, please enlighten me on the usefullness of a C/C++ language for greenfields that can be transformed to JavaScript, where one could write plain JavaScript - effectively eleminating a (useless?) dependency.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft has been working on ways to make any regular 2D camera capture depth, meaning it could do some of the same things a Kinect does. So you'll have an excuse for all those hand gestures you make at your computer
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Quote: it could do some of the same things a Kinect does.
Turns them into a paper weight?
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: any regular 2D camera
Yeah, by dismantle it and rebuild it with new/different parts...so it's not that regular 2D camera anymore...
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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The next major version of Microsoft Windows — called “Threshold” — isn’t set to come out until next spring. But that has not stopped the company from testing out some very touchy-feely tag lines for it. You had me at, "The world doesn’t need another operating system".
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From the people who brought you the "I'm Sexy and I Know It" Surface Pro 3 parody, comes...
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... asking whether it was possible to power the diminutive Raspberry Pi™ computer from a solar panel. ... I can wholeheartedly say "Yes!" to the question, because I've done it-- very successfully.
So what do you do with an off-the-grid computer?
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Oh please. I can run my laptop on my 160W panel with power to spare.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: my 160W panel
So that's at least 1m², right? (That's for a pretty high efficiency panel. The new ones on my home are about 180W/panel and about 1.4m².)
And how big is the inverter?
Isn't one of the points of the Raspberry Pi to be small?
Dr. John Silzel's panel is a little less than 0.5m² and about 30W/m². (Not very efficient, but cheap to manufacture, apparently.)
So, his solution is smaller, portable (easily? He does propose that smaller panels can work), and provides enough power to charge a battery for night operation.
And it is pretty much "homebrew", which seems to be another characteristic mindset of the Pi aficionados. 
Disclaimer: Dr. John Silzel is a friend of mine. We have worked together in the past.
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Matt T Heffron wrote: The new ones on my home are about 180W/panel and about 1.4m².)
Yeah, mine is an old panel, probably 10 years old by now.
Matt T Heffron wrote: Isn't one of the points of the Raspberry Pi to be small?
You bring up some great points. I stand corrected. 
Marc
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If you’re interested in moving to product management in the future, here are three critical steps to make the transition. Cerebrotomy not included
With apologies to bright product managers for maintaining the stereotype
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In a class at the company’s internal training program, the so-called Apple University, the instructor likened the 11 lithographs that make up Picasso’s “The Bull” to the way Apple builds its smartphones and other devices. The idea: Apple designers strive for simplicity just as Picasso eliminated details to create a great work of art. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"
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From analyzing the way you walk to your heartbeat, these futuristic authentication systems could be here soon. Until these authentication methods get hacked, that is
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Er, yeah.
If someone manages to crack your password, you change your password.
If someone manages to fake your biometrics/whatever, you... um... get a different body?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft announces a new dumb phone, known as Nokia 130, which it calls "the most affordable mobile phone with video and music player". Why does that phone have so many buttons?
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I ask myself, if someone want a phone, why one buys a "video and music player"...
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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