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When Windows 8 entered beta and Microsoft showed off its new apps and design style, they called it Metro. But after some legal headaches, the company stopped referring to them as 'Metro' apps and went with 'Modern' apps instead. When in doubt, rename. That will fix it.
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A unified sensor interface will allow Windows 10 devices to support a slew of new environmental, biometric, proximity and motion sensors. Finally you'll be able to answer the question, "What's the airspeed velocity of an operating laptop?"
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To sum up the article:
"Windows 10 will be released with a bunch of new drivers that won't work properly until service pack 3."
Pretty much a normal Widows release, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Along with an SDK available today, Facebook’s new Messenger Platform will enable developers to integrate apps and services directly inline in the Messenger composer. "Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us."
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We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome. Our new web strategy puts us on a path to deliver the features our users need to be more productive building web apps with Dart. Missed the bullseye. Try again.
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Built for embedded computing and streamlined for real-time, here's why Java is the language of IoT. I think I've seen this movie before
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As long as Java does not solve the install/update problem developers will look for alternatives...
(The main reason for HTML/CSS/JavaScript popularity is not that those are so perfect, but the fact that the end user need not bother himself with them)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wow - my memory must be faulty. I really didn't remember that Java was built for "embedded computing and streamlined for real-time"... I mean, it is an interpreted language with garbage collection?
(Those words do still mean what I recall them to mean?)
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 I was originally going to go with, "Real-time. Java. Are we talking the same real-time?"
"Hardware paused for GC", doesn't strike me as 'real-time', or at least as I understand it.
TTFN - Kent
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It does depend, of course, on how complex a "thing" your T in IOT is, but I tend to think of really simple things.
(In some use cases, I'm going to flush them down the drains or glue them to trees...)
These things could probably be programmed using a single-threaded, integer only, no recursion, functional language. Ideally something provable...
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It's very irritating to watch a group try to redefine a term, especially related to technology:
"Oracle has promoted Java SE for real-time systems, suggesting that Java SE has been enhanced sufficiently to meet soft real-time requirements."
"Soft here has at least two distinct related meanings. One is that requirements have to do with average behavior;"
"...it's good enough that an average bank transaction will post within 300 milliseconds."
"This is in contrast to hard real-time requirements, such as the requirement that a particular locomotive-switching solenoid close at worst within one-and-a-quarter seconds of the application receiving a specific alarm."
300 milliseconds and 1.5 seconds are reasonable for desktop, web and mobile apps.
The deterministic requirements for the real-time systems that I have worked on were in the realm of micro-seconds to 100 ns.
Maybe their interpretation of real-time is that it happens so fast you don't need to display the spinning hourglass icon...
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Paul M Watt wrote: "...it's good enough that an average bank transaction will post within 300 milliseconds."
"This is in contrast to hard real-time requirements, such as the requirement that a particular locomotive-switching solenoid close at worst within one-and-a-quarter seconds of the application receiving a specific alarm."
So the implication being that worst-case Java execution could take more than one-and-a-quarter seconds to call a function with a boolean parameter? I believe it. 
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WinBeta has learned that Microsoft is planning to launch a successor to the Surface 2 soon, however it won’t be a Windows RT based device. Retired Technology
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Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to make the core viewing and editing features of Office free for devices with screens of 10.1-inches or smaller. I predict a number of companies will be upgrading to small screen machines soon
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Servers and VDIs? With no screens? 
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I think that counts as <10 inches! Start installing!
TTFN - Kent
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MSN wrote: The work is part of an effort to bring extinct species back from the dead
Did they not learn anything from Jurrasic Park? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft is hosting a small conference this week to help key partners and developers get up to speed on Spartan and how to best work with the new browser. Fingers crossed for Marquee to make its comeback!
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I just found out yesterday (maintenance on some -very- old code) that Firefox still recognizes and properly displays marquee tags. 
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I'm not sure what's more frightening - that it does actually still work, or that you had code that tested that. 
TTFN - Kent
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The most eye-punching thing after <blink> and Comic Sans!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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A flaw in Android could allow apps to be modified or replaced by malware, Palo Alto Networks said. "We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
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New research emphasizes the need for software developers to better understand how languages and operating systems carry out tasks in order to improve performance. I forget when this applies though
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That test seems dubious to me. That sounds more like string concat vs non-string concat rather than in-memory vs disk write. The "disk" version of the code likely wasn't concatenating strings, so there was no GC activity. I wonder if they had tried StringBuilder (or whatever its Java counterpart is) if the results wold have been different?
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