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...Compiles to javascript for runtime and debugging in the browser. Yup. Still turtleselephants all the way down.
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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Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. My bar for "fun" is set a little higher
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Languages that use $ always remind me of BASIC.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Languages that use $ always remind me of BASIC
That's the least of the problems with Perl.
Kevin
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A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Who needs a Setup Wizard now? We've got an interactive window!
I kind of thought we already had that, but I guess this is different from the Immediate window.
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Yay! Finally support for K&R style[^] in C# properties/events/accessors. I don't know how many hours I've spent wasted just to get the parenthesis of those members "right". This feature alone is worth the update.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: K&R style
Blech. I'm an Allman guy. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm an Allman guy.
Nothing wrong with it.  The good thing is that the IDE doesn't get in the way of K&R people anymore and now kind of respects whatever style we prefer (or have to obey due to guidelines). It's an improvement that has long been overdue.
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Physical distance determines how the bad behaviour of managers spreads to employees, research shows. Not true! I sit 420km from my nearest boss, and I'm a lousy worker.
What a strange coincidence about that distance...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I sit 420km from my nearest boss
No wonder you get so much done. 
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Not true! I sit 420km from my nearest boss, and I'm a lousy worker.
No, that is the point, you work your way and it is efficient. No need to work the way your boss says.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Quote: "If someone kicks a dog right in front of you, it’ll make you very mad," said Gijs van Houwelingen, a researcher at the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.
"But if you hear about someone somewhere in the world kicking a dog, you probably won’t feel as mad about it."
Can you take anything a Pysch/Sociology researcher who has never heard of a social media lynch mob says seriously? I can't.
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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Code is for communication. Good code is clear code. Clever code is crap. "Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Code is for communication. Good code is clear code. Clever code is crap.
Unless you work alone and even then, often true.
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True - in that case you're communicating with yourself in six months (when your - or at least my - usual reaction is, "What idiot wrote this code?") 
TTFN - Kent
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Six months? How about six minutes between the time you write and the time you debug it?
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Forgetaboutit! I've seen places where coding by obscurity makes you a "lead architect". Hell, when no one know what the f*** is it you wrote, it makes you indispensable.
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SD Times[^]: wrote: Code is for communication.
No it is not. Code is a representation of the steps needed to solve a particular problem in a definite time, which must be read from a machine. Whether this is a multistep execution (code->compiler->linker->loader) or a single one (machine code) the substance is that.
Documentation is for communication, not code.
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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The UN agency that oversees communications and IT development today published its annual global survey charting progress across developed and emerging markets. Congratulations to Luxembourg for being so connected
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Congratulations to Luxembourg for being so connected
Why single out #6 (#5 in Europe) for special praise?
From the article itself...
Quote: Interestingly, the list does not necessarily correlate with how fast an economy is growing or the impact it may have on the wider tech market as a result of that. Mainland China, for example, which is such a crucial market for the likes of Apple and others, ranks at number 82 in the ITU’s index, moving up only five places in the last five years. And India is at 131, having moved down six places.
... the internet isn't the overwhelmingly dominant factor in driving economic growth?! This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone other than a tech crunch editor. 
Quote: While we’ve talked a lot in the past about a digital divide between rich and poor nations, the ITU is finding that the gap at the moment appears to be between middle-ranking countries and the very poorest.
“Over the past five years, there has been a widening of the gap in IDI values between countries ranked in the middle and those towards the bottom of the distribution,” the ITU notes. “In the LDCs, the [ICT development index, or IDI] grew less compared to other developing countries and LDCs are falling behind in particular in the IDI ‘use’ sub-index, which could impact on their ability to derive development gains from ICTs.”
So growth is occurring fastest in the richest countries that have low penetration levels while the poorest ones are still stuck at extremely low levels. Again something that shouldn't be surprising to anyone but a techcrunch editor. 
From the ITU data itself, I'm wondering if the overtake by the percentage of people with a mobile phone of the percent living somewhere with at least 2g coverage is due to people who have to go somewhere other than their home to get a signal; or due to double counting of people with multiple devices.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Why single out #6 (#5 in Europe) for special praise?
Partly as they really stood out for me on the list (I guess because they're such a small country), but mostly because I really like saying, "Luxembourg".
TTFN - Kent
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As long as you had a good reason...
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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PowerApps lets anyone build a cross-platform mobile application -- no software development experience required. Well, it's been a great career while it lasted. I guess we're done now.
[/sarcasm]
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