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Microsoft Corporate Strategy Vice President Jeff Teper talks about Microsoft's thinking on everything from its Minecraft acquisition, to how the leadership team is evaluating what's core to the company. Is it Turing complete?
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Java has a major head start, and Microsoft's limited open source strategy could be too little too late. Yeah, *no one* will ever use that stuff
Don't forget your eye-roll protection before reading.
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That's just stunning, ask a bunch of Java proponents their opinion, and guess the responses.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I really enjoy some of the graphics that this site collects from around the web, and the site itself is not cluttered with ads: [^].
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Website is currently offline 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Which, itself, is a perfect illustration of the disadvantages of Cloud-based computing. Very clever.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It loaded for me a minute ago. I looked at the 1st chart and it's clearly elephant droppings. 69% currently using the cloud, another 18% will within 12 months, and the last 13% of holdouts will within 3 years. Or in 3 years no-one won't be using the cloud.
Have another couple of infographics on the cloud. I think they're a more accurate representation of it's[^] current[^] status[^].
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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Well, you certainly wouldn't want to trouble yourself to read the content that describes the graphic where it clearly states that the figures used are based on "organizations surveyed," and think about what that could mean.
I mean that would distract you from browsing random graphics, wouldn't it ?
Of course, you would not want to go to IDG, and see if you could find information about what the sample size was, how survey participants were selected, and other information like that which would enable something called "critical thinking:" another big distraction, there.
cheers, Bill
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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I know for a fact that there are businesses who have to keep all their data in house for regulatory reasons; meaning that even if every CIO/CTO/etc had drank cloud koolaid the percentage of businesses that are or expect to be in the cloud within 3 years must be less than 100%. The details of how the creator either misstated the data or how the surveyor collected a non-representative data set are irrelevant to proving that they're all wet.
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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TagHelpers are a new feature of ASP.NET 5 (formerly and colloquially ASP.NET vNext) but it's taken me (and others) some time to fully digest them and what they mean. That would make this article a TagHelperHelper
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Entitled “Artist with Anna and Elsa,” the tutorial introduces students to basic coding concepts like loops and conditionals, with appearances from the leading women in Disney’s blockbuster animated feature. Just in case you haven't heard 'that song' often enough yet
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This feature can help you overcome any inertia in getting started writing unit tests. Is the test smart enough to write the code to make it pass?
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It assumes your existing code is 100% right.
While rarely 100% true: Most of the code in a working application should be correct; and when working with a currently un/poorly tested codebase; "does this change I'm making affect anything else" is probably the most important question to answer. And this tool looks like it should answer that.
Since one of the .net applications I'm working on has a very old code base which mostly hasn't had test coverage added after the fact, this intigues me enough that I'm strongly tempted to setup a VM to see what this tool is able to produce.
The tool itself appears to be an outgrowth of Code Digger/Pex[^] which was a tool that would generate a complete set of test inputs for functions in portable class libraries that MS Research demoed a few years ago.
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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Very interesting, although I'm afraid it won't be quite that easy as the example shows. Happy to see it though - it will help show a lot about what should get covered, and just how to do so. 
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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The devices will plug into smart TVs and monitors. Fonzie would be pleased
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Heyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Well I wanted to be the first.
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The software craftsmanship movement talks about practicing as a way to to develop programming skills to become software craftsmen. "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne."
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Er, isn't that called 'experience'?
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InfoQ: In his blog post Steve provides five main areas for software development apprentices to become craftsmen:
Before all the five points, first understand and think what is required, Then ...
Wonde Tadesse
modified 20-Nov-14 20:53pm.
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Wonde Tadesse wrote: Before all the five points
Ask in QA, give me codez, plzzzz
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Google's open source tools allow it to use Android code on iOS and the Web. Write once, run 70% of it everywhere
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