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Microsoft has spent significant time and resources to promote developer interest in C++. The company's "Going Native" program has emphasized C++ development but what continues to be missing from this initiative is support for modern C as defined by the C99 standard. While compiler support for C99 varies across the industry, Visual Studio stands out by providing limited to non-existent compliance. Y'all can't get there from here
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C99 is too new; I think I'll stick with C89 for now.
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Nokia and RIM are in similar boats. Both have suffered extensive market cap losses and share drops, and both are struggling in market share statistics. Which company will fall first? Oh, how the mighty have fallen
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I'm thinking RIM cause Nokia has Microsoft as their partner. Who's RIM got?
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PHenry wrote: I'm thinking RIM cause Nokia has Microsoft as their partner. Who's RIM got?
Well, a couple of billion in the bank, but I think you may still be right.
Their latest (a virtual keyboard when their main claim to fame is their physical keyboard) just makes me gnash my teeth in sadness.
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re gnash my teeth
DOH! ESPECIALLY when their latest commercial where the girl talks about writing a THOUSAND emails a days says to try doing that on a touch screen?.....haha and then THAT'S what they're coming out with?!?!? DOH! Talk about a MIXED message!
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Friday ended the copyright phase of the Oracle vs. Google trial with the jury stating that it couldn't reach a unanimous decision on one of the four questions it needed to address. Judge William Alsup instructed the jurors to think things through over the weekend, but to no avail: the jury has informed the court that an "impasse has been reached" on the one issue they couldn't agree on. The jury has turned in its partial verdict on the three questions it was able to agree upon. In the battle of these heavyweights, we're all going to lose
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A topsy-turvy world like the one in which we live offers us tremendous opportunities. But to tap them, we must remove the barriers within ourselves. Once upon a time...
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Tim got a college degree to prepare him for a life in business. Then he realized that he could have saved a lot of time in learning about deal-making by watching movies, instead. It's amazing what can be done with horses these days
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Even as Android still continues to be the disruptive story in mobile marketshare, some industry analysts are pointing out the popular open source platform's biggest weakness: monetization. [ITworld]
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With optimism on full blast, here’s 5 reasons why I’m excited about the future of Web design. Sure, standards still move slowly, Flash, IE 7 and IE 8 still exist and Chrome keeps crashing on me, but what the hell — things are still going pretty damn well. <blink> is making a comeback?
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While my reasons are hardly rare, there are also many more that drive people into freelancing. I will try to present a summary of the main reasons that motivate a person to become a freelancer. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
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Google’s come up with its solution for Dropbox: If you can’t buy ‘em, copy ‘em. The search engine and online advertising giant replaced its popular Google Docs service with Google Drive, a cloud computing storage service designed to directly compete with start up Dropbox. This raises the question, has Google become the new Microsoft? Keep saying it, maybe it will come true one day
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Embattled by hactivists, cyber criminals and foreign rivals seeking to steal proprietary information, U.S. corporations are ramping up their hiring of cyber security experts, with open jobs reaching an all-time high in April. If you don't get a job, you've already got the skills to hack into them and get paid
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Software, Marc Andreessen declared last summer, is eating the world. In the pages of the WSJ, the Netscape co-founder reeled off a list of industries that were once about something else and are now are dominated by software, from Amazon in the bookselling space to Skype in telecoms and Netflix in video. That’s good news for the American economy, he argued, but it also seems to be really good news for Atlassian. "What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, eating as much as an elephant eats?"
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Unlike other Windows 8 products, Windows RT steps away from the Windows legacy code base—which means there's no legacy interface, either—and is largely focused on tablets and devices like them. Like Apple iOS and Google Android, Windows RT users will add applications largely through app stores. However, Windows RT devices are designed to be centrally managed; IT departments can deploy network access controls to keep tabs on user behavior. If that's the answer, what was the question again?
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Programming is not about writing lines of code, it's about completing projects or shipping applications or whatever you do and generally working in a team. None of that is evident in any kind of interview test or whiteboard session. Just use the Thunderdome method instead
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Sensible article.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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First off, I found the article to be egotistical in tone.
One thing about doing a "Let's talk for an hour" is it opens oneself up to huge personal biases. The fact that it wasn't mentioned much is a concern.
The other issue with this type of interview; prepare for lawsuits by those that aren't offered but CAN code and happen to be in a protected group. To defend against this, having and keeping track of some sort of metric will at least help avoid them.
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Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon develop Touche, an interface system where multiple gestures can be added to existing touch screens and other objects, including "smart doorknobs."
"Ohh Touch ah Touch ah Touch ah Touch me"
modified 7-May-12 2:14am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because .COM was already taken?
Copy-paste gremlin?
/ravi
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Yeah, thought I fixed that. Off to check.
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Microsoft started development on the .NET Framework in the late 1990s, originally under the name of "Next Generation Windows Services" (NGWS).
So why did Microsoft choose the name .NET? Because .COM was already taken?
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Scientists face many obstacles on the path to greater knowledge. But new research suggests how to avoid one of the more common pitfalls: spilled coffee. Don't cry
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