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I disagree. The thing that's impressive about movies like Minority Report is not the eye candy or the weird hand-waving, it's the instantaneous response and precision of the user interface. There is no "oh crap, I meant squigle not squagle", or "dum-dee-dee-dum, I'm waiting for 100Gbytes of jpegs to load". I think the author of that article completely misses that point.
Marc
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All those nice glowing panels on the bridge. bleugh!!!
A holodeck now that would be nice.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
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Marc Clifton wrote: it's the instantaneous response and precision of the user interface
Our computers might be fast enough for that if they were hooked to some precogs.
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Personally, I think the Star Trek TNG interface is still the best.
Not so much the strange panels, but the voice command.
The computer doesn't have a personality like the AI's in most sci-fi movies; because that would be inefficient. But it is just there whenever they need it and it just does what is has to do.
Instead of waving your arms around like an idiot, you simply need this:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tallest+mountains+in+the+vincinity+of+K2[^]
Except even better.
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I'd prefer the Andromeda AI, especially if it came with the avatar, Rommie.
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If you’ve ever been to a code-focused conference before, you can surely attest to the fact that the number of live-coding talks is incredibly low. The reason why is obvious: they’re super, super hard! Imagine coding on stage in front of hundreds of people, when, all of the sudden, something goes wrong, and your code breaks! In real life, a few minutes of debugging is a non-issue. On stage, even a single moment of silence is a speaker’s nightmare. So, should we never attempt such talks? Absolutely not! You simply have to prepare in the right ways.
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C++ + REST
REST + C++
No, sorry. I just can't get my head around it, but if you want to GET, PUT, and PATCH really fast, then head to Casablanca[^].
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TTFN - Kent
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Adobe Systems has released yet another emergency security update addressing three vulnerabilities in Flash, two of which have already been exploited by hackers.
What's new? 
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For a reasoned debate, see this[^]
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I watched a few of his videos, and he seems to be a guy who just likes to talk moreso than intelligently research topics. I suspect he read a variety of sources (that he did not fully understand) and then compiled them into a single video; he makes some valid points, although I doubt he truly understands the valid points he made.
For a video of him embarassing himself, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vva61qqKh_4[^]
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One of the comments seems to sum it up:
"Another no-education self-educated web developer who thinks programming == web development? Sigh..."
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Yeah, I saw this video along with his rant on CGI everywhere. It's pretty clear that he really doesn't understand the technology he is talking about. NodeJS is far from a cure-all... but it does *VERY* well for the things it's actually being used for the most.
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Michael J. Ryan
http://tracker1.info/
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Wierd 'Al' Yankovic wrote a song about this dude.
Waffle King
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Not a lot of good if you can't afford their extortionate amount to pay to get their compiler
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They do have a free version[^]. It's limited - of course - but certainly enough to learn off of, and to learn if there is a market for your app.
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Anyone familiar with CSS knows that classes are generally reserved for controlling how an element looks (font, color, size, etc) and rules are generally reserved for where the element is positioned on the screen. The reason for this is that rules correspond to the id attribute of the elements on the screen and if you are using well formed html, you can only have one element on the page with any specific ID. That is, IDs are unique. However, ASP.NET uses that exact same feature of IDs… that they are unique.. to ensure that an ASP.NET control or an HTML control with the runat=”server” attribute set also have unique IDs, and this is where all the problems start... Unique IDs, unique problems.
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Sound's like someone's never heard of the ClientIDMode property[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Today, I finally got my first Windows 8 app into the marketplace. It was certainly not for a lack of trying, however. I actually failed my first FIVE attempts, but I chalk most of that up to inexperience more than anything else. This post is meant to shed some light on the issues I faced, so that you might be lucky enough to avoid them. Windows App Certification Kit is WACK.
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I would add 2 more:
- Make sure to include privacy page in the windows charm/settings
- check if your app runs in docked mode, and even if it does, cross your fingers and hold your breath.
Overall I found Win8 store certification much more capricious and unpredictable then even iTunes which should say a lot.
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I once got them saying that I had submitted my app to the wrong category and then when I resubmitted, it was fine.
Steve Maier
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Annual reviews are a reminder that your reputation matters. For most of the year, software engineers don’t care at all what anybody else thinks as long as they’re getting the job done. Then annual reviews come along and we realize we might have rubbed some people the wrong way.... What makes it more difficult for software engineers is that we deal so much with code that we sometimes forget how important it is to deal with people. Do you have any idea what your reputation at work is right now?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Do you have any idea what your reputation at work is right now?
PM says he is glad to have me in the team.
Boss says he likes working together with me 'cause I can adapt new facts very fast (Let's be honest: It is called learning by doing).
Ex-Boss from the other department is still missing me.
I think I can say that I have built-up myself a respectable and solid reputation - Even though I am still an Apprentice.
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I want to be known as the kind of software engineer who is happy with his job and paycheck. 
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