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Now what if I upgrade my four year old notebook when Windows 10 comes out but the supported lifetime of the device - in this case a notebook PC - is defined as only being, let's say... three years? I'll never get updates from the start? Help!  But wait, I see! Now it makes sense the upgrade is free - what's it worth if I cannot update it?  And if it really was just three years, do they really expect everybody to ditch their perfectly working PC and buy a new one just to get an up-to-date OS? Do they really want to introduce this insanity from the mobile smartphone world to PCs?
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Debates about the present state of C++ in the programming world divide the participants into two camps: some dislike C++ and predict it’s soon death, while others believe that it will persist as it has before. "Too many dreams have been laid at her door, but the modern girl will ride on"
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Camp three:
some dislike C++ and believe that it will persist as it has before
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I'm definitely, and sadly, in camp 3.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The problem with C++ is the slow compilation. And unfortunately it's templates are build in way that require a lot of code generation and because of that make fast compilation impossible.
Slow compilation makes it difficult to prototype and try various approaches in C++.
So we can add tons of features to C++ - lambdas, default templates and what not - it will still be less productive than C# and Java because of very slow compilation.
Nick Polyak
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You do get a lot more free time while the build happens though 
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The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. "Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash."
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 Nailed it, IMHKNPDBO. Unfortunately, I can't send this link to those who actually need to read it.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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What can happen when spaghetti code is relied upon to operate mission-critical systems? It's the carbs.
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Microsoft has opened a special office in Brussels that will allow European governments to dig through its source code in search of any backdoors that could allow foreign spy agencies to intercept information.
I am looking for a government job in Europe now.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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PoWiFi, short for power over Wi-Fi, tricks routers into sending out a constant signal that’s captured and converted into DC power by a harvester. "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
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Quote: Using PoWiFi, researchers were able to charge a super capacitor connected to a small camera, located 17 feet from the router; every 35 minutes, the super capacitor collected enough energy over Wi-Fi, enabling the camera to take a picture.
W ∝ r-² ...great idea...
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I was thinking exactly the same thing - but not anywhere near as concisely.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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AC adds beamforming; depending on how well it works that could improve a bit over the baseline solution. That said, I really wish they'd've said something about the current harvest rate itself.
I don't see this being suitable for much in the way of consumer devices (maybe a TV remote?); but there're various ultra low power embedded devices/sensors that only need nano watts of current to function. Some form of ambient power harvesting could work for them. Between wifi routers being semi-ubiquitous and cheap to install in places they're currently not present and except for near the transmitter offering higher ERP then cellular/broadcast radio/broadcast TV towers; I could see this being a more feasible implementation.
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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Good, makes stealing power a lot easier.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The next major release, EF 7, is being rewritten from scratch, freeing the codebase from the 10 year old cruft that inevitably makes its way into mature, complex software projects. "Now you're a man, a manly, manly man"
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I've looked at the current pre-release and design documentation, and I'm actually surprised it was considered a release in that state. Worse, its the default EF version in VS2015 if you add EF to a project via nuGet, you actually have to select the last stable version (6.x) to get something useful. As it is, it was just utterly unusable.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Android isn’t just the core of Google’s booming smartphone and tablet business; it’s also core to the company’s next phase, as they move into what Pichai described as “connected devices” or the internet of things. Everyone complains about it (but uses it anyway)?
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Default parameters are a pain in terms of compatibility. Just in case you forgot
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The U.S. government agency that collects personnel information for federal employees said on Thursday a cybersecurity breach had compromised the data of about 4 million current and former federal employees. Uh, that's not what people mean when they ask for openness in government.
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The problem is, consenting will also mean PayPal and its partners can call and text you whenever they want about whatever they want, including with advertising. "Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...' "
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I've always been a fan of Tchaikowsky's 'Another one bites the dust'. In this case though I instantly hope Aziraphale will be proven correct when saying 'It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion'.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Still my favourite book of all time, that one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If you came from the direction of Terry Pratchett and haven't yet read the other novels from Neil Gaiman then you absolutely should, especially American Gods and Anansi Boys! 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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