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When Microsoft misses language parity for a third time in a row (this time with .NET Core) you have to take the hint.
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About elephanting time. Unfortunately (without looking at the list), it's probably being replaced with equal shyte, like Ruby, Python, or Javascript.
Marc
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You're psychic! Looks like Perl and Ruby moved up about the same amount VB went down (that, and Java)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You're psychic!
One of my less advertised talents.
BTW, I knew you'd write that. 
Marc
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I find Python quite a nice language, and a powerful one at that. There are some packages that aren't all that good, but the majority of them are well written and work. Yes the Whitespace-based-scoping is a bit odd, but it makes programs easier to read as a result.
I still agree with you on JS and Ruby, and with Kent on Perl. Those languages are WTFs. (Perl is good for extracting data from text, though. And you can do some pretty impressive things with Perl one-liners. The language is still very confusing.)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I find Python quite a nice language, and a powerful one at that. There are some packages that aren't all that good, but the majority of them are well written and work. Yes the Whitespace-based-scoping is a bit odd, but it makes programs easier to read as a result.
Yes, I find Python fine in my very limited exposure to it. Whitespace-scoping is OK after you get used to it. F# has this as well and it doesn't seem to get as many complaints, though that might be because it's more specialised.
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I still agree with you on JS and Ruby, and with Kent on Perl. Those languages are WTFs. (Perl is good for extracting data from text, though. And you can do some pretty impressive things with Perl one-liners. The language is still very confusing.)
Perl is truly awful, though I agree with you that it's impressive in what it can do.
Kevin
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I find Python quite a nice language
I definitely like using Python for doing stuff with a Beaglebone, as there are a lot of cross-OS libraries out there that work equally well in Windows, so I can develop most of the Python code in Windows and write interchangeable pieces for the stuff that is custom to the OS/hardware.
But I still can't fully embrace the idea of writing a major application in Python. Maybe that view will change as I work more with it. I appreciate the endorsement though, especially from a respected member -- most of the Python code I've been subjected to that others have written looks like VB spaghetti code.  Unfortunately, it taints my appreciation of the language.
Marc
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I guess those 'developers' were converted from VB. They never learn.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Marc Clifton wrote: most of the Python code I've been subjected to that others have written looks like VB spaghetti code
Unfortunately you can write spaghetti code in pretty much any programming language 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Salsa delivers many improvements over the existing JavaScript language service such as improved module support, full ES6/ES7 syntax coverage, and JSX support. Mental note: don't dip the computer chips in this salsa
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It converts a desktop Windows installer such as MSI or exe to an AppX package that can be deployed to a Windows 10 desktop. Take your old app that runs on Windows, and convert to a new app that runs on Windows
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The most important customers to Windows 10's success are those who buy new PCs, analyst argues Because a five year old computer is sad?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because a five year old computer is sad?
I do not know about the computer, but the hardware/software companies behind the new PC (that didn't sold) definitely are!
The only reason to measure the capabilities of any such device (PC, laptop or note) in years is to push toward new purchasing - but in reality age has nothing to do with happiness of the user (or the computer)...
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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This Carolina Milanese (might be misspelled since the site didn't allow me to copy text from it) is obviously around 6 years old (mentally) since the only use he/she sees for a personal computing device is social media and watching cat videos. It is sad that people making decisions or influencing decisions are such shallow people who have obviously never had a real job where things like spreadsheets, word processors (real ones, not just a text box used for 140-character badly-spelled statements), database analysis and graphic design, etc. need a proper PC and these five-year old PCs can still do just as well as anything newer.
I saw an ad recently where some teenager was jumping for joy because they were going to get a new iPhone every year with some phone plan or other. So every year you have to get used to a new device that definitely won't work the same way as the last one and the old one will get thrown in a drawer to rot forever.
No wonder most marriages in the USA don't last. Every one wants to trade in everything for the new model!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you take a look at the Windows 10 features roadmap site, Microsoft mentions “July 2016” when referring to new features arriving to Cortana. Mental note: don't volunteer for support desk duty in July
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Less than a month after a critical Flash vulnerability allowed an attacker to take control of a Mac, Adobe has issued an emergency update for yet another critical flaw. In related news: Pope still Catholic
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"As tech behemoths and a wave of start-ups double down on virtual assistants that can chat with human beings, writing for AI is becoming a hot job in Silicon Valley. Behind Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are not just software engineers. Increasingly, there are poets, comedians, fiction writers, and other artistic types charged with engineering the personalities for a fast-growing crop of artificial intelligence tools."
"Virtual assistant start-ups garnered at least $35 million in investment over the past year, according to CBInsights and Washington Post research (This figure doesn’t count the many millions spent by tech giants Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft). [^]
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Blocked by an ad-blocker blocker therefore didn't read. I shall probably never read another "Wired" article again. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Same here. ABP's anti-blocker subscription can't handle it and the 2x5min I've spent failed to figure it out either. (I suspect I'd need to go the no-script route and turn them on one at a time until finding the one that triggers it; but can't be elephanted to make that sort of effort.)
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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It seems like it's a stark contrast, but, really, what ARE the differences between a junior and senior developer? More importantly, how can both sides gauge the progress of a developer into more senior territory? About $30K a year?
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From personal experience - knowing:
- what Visual Studio is and how to use it
- how to debug code
- how to write code that is testable through a test fixture
- wait, even before #3, the concept that you have to test your code (true story)
- how to tease apart requirements into an architecture that abstracts where things need to be abstracted, etc.
- how to write a specification so someone can write the code for it
- oh wait, before #6, how to write/communicate. (I got hammered as a kid for using "it" and "that", a lesson I took to heart many moons ago)
- etc.etc.etc.
But ultimately, the true difference between a junior and a senior developer is:
The ability to say, and the frequent use of, the word NO
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: The ability to say, and the frequent use of, the word NO
If you use the word NO as a junior you'll never get a chance to become Senior. How's that for a Catch 22?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: If you use the word NO as a junior you'll never get a chance to become Senior. How's that for a Catch 22?
Good point. Still, someone who constantly says yes is definitely junior. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: The ability to say, and the frequent use of, the word NO
Very true, but I'd go further, to say "The ability to say, and the frequent use of, the word NO whilst being able to justify your reasons in a way a project manager can understand."
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