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The first thing I did, which presumably all of you have already got covered, was to learn about computers, the Internet, and Internet culture. I read a bunch of books, I read enormous numbers of web pages, and I tried stuff. First I joined mailing lists and tried to understand the discussions until I felt comfortable jumping in and trying to participate for myself. Then I looked at web sites and tried to build my own. And finally I learned how to build web applications and I started building them. I was thirteen.... RIP Aaron Swartz, RSS spec contributor, Reddit co-founder, hacktivist.
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It's really sad about his suicide. I'm really proud of that young boy who has done such a tremendous job in his early ages.
Sadly I came to know about him just 2 days back. There's lot to learn from him, Below is what I was just reading about,
Aaron Swartz is a contributor to the MusicBrainz project, especially its metadata initiative. He is also a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group and a co-founder of SWAG: The Semantic Web Agreement Group. You'll likely find him in the RDF IRC channel, working on some interesting new Semantic Web software. His website is at http://www.aaronsw.com/
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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Quote: Swartz was eulogized by his friend and sometime attorney, Lawrence Lessig, calling his prosecution an abuse of proportionality and noting, "the question this government needs to answer is why it was so necessary that Aaron Swartz be labeled a 'felon'."
Quote: Alex Stamos, CEO of Artemis Internet, is a computer forensics investigator employed by the Swartz legal defense as an expert witness. On January 12, 2013, he posted a summary of the expert testimony he was prepared to present in the JSTOR case, concluding, "I know a criminal hack when I see it, and Aaron’s downloading of journal articles from an unlocked closet is not an offense worth 35 years in jail."[48]
I agree with both of these. The Government and MIT overreacted.
Quote: The government, however, has interpreted the anti-hacking provisions to include activities such as violating a Web site's terms of service or a company's computer usage policy, a position a federal appeals court in April said means "millions of unsuspecting individuals would find that they are engaging in criminal conduct."
That is a good thing. The government went nuts. I am wondering if someone at MIT has something to do with all these allegations and things... hmm.....
I also saw earlier that the government said that only Swartz was guilty in that interpretation, which reeks of foul play. Just have to find where I saw that. (Chrome crashed and deleted my history, so I can't find it through that.)
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Thanks for the info.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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So, during the Summer of 2002, several bloggers and tech websites speculated that Dave must be bringing Chimera to the Mac. Except that Chimera was already a Mac application and didn’t need to be ported. So what the hell was Dave doing at Apple? Building another Gecko-based Mac browser? No one knew. And none of this made much sense. Which is probably why the rumors subsided so quickly. But people would remember all of this when Safari debuted at Macworld in San Francisco on January 7, 2003... Team leader Bob Melton tells the story behind building and launching Apple's Safari browser.
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Let me express the only feature I really desire in the next version of Visual Studio: Replace the format of all project and solution files with PowerShell scripts. I hear you groaning – just hear me out. I have many reasons for wanting this – too many to list all but the highlights here. In a nutshell they all boil down to the notion of simplicity. What new features would you like to see in the next version of Visual Studio?
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More options in its formatting preferences, e.g. always put a SPACE before a semi-colon, don't put a SPACE before empty braces, brackets, or parentheses.
I do a lot of my development at the command line and I create files for my library in a hierarchy. I do use Visual Studio when I have to  and I have a Library project that is supposed to include all the files in the hierarchy, but of course it's often missing the latest files. Finding and adding such orphan files within VS is tedious. I have written a utility to try to add them to the project file, but I forget to use it and there's always the fear that it will corrupt the project file. I would like VS to be able to find and add orphan files.
The ability to build and run (and debug) a simple console app without requiring solution and project files -- like Turbo languages and Quincy*. A year ago I finally got around to writing a simple editor that will do that (except for the debugging part); I have it configured for C, C#, and VB.net.
Trim trailing whitespace on save and load (my editor does this too).
* I assume Quincy[^] still doesn't require project files, but I haven't used it since last millenium. Hmmm... same with Turbo... 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The ability to build and run (and debug) a simple console app without requiring
solution and project files
You do know you can run the C# compiler from the command line, right? Open one of the .NET SDK command prompts and use the CSC command.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The Powershell scripts look interesting, espeically if you can debug them. It also means that it is possible to use modules.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What new features would you like to see in the next version of Visual Studio?
The performance, fast load time, and simplicity of Visual Studio 97.
Color.
Normal menus, not SHOUTING menus (yes, I know those can be changed back)
A lean & mean IDE. I don't need a server explorer. I don't need a WPF editor. I don't need ASP.NET. I don't need wizards up the wazoo for things I never do. Hell, I don't even need a form designer most of the time. I don't need all that refactoring crap. I don't need integrated unit testing. Make the IDE truly component based so it loads only what I tell it to load and not all this bloated, implemented better by third parties, functionality.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I don't need a server explorer
No one does.
Marc Clifton wrote: I don't even need a form designer most of the time
Nor do I, which is why I usually use a simple text editor and compile at the command line.
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That is why I like SharpDevelop. As it is open source, it can be tailored to the needs of the person using it. I have done that, and I am using its code base to create a simple, embedded scripting IDE. (Which may take some time, as I still have to learn more about WPF and stuff).
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What new features would you like to see in the next version of Visual Studio?
Speed.
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I second the PowerShell thing.
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I think I will try to hack SharpDevelop to do something like that and see how it works. Might be useful.
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If the PowerShell thing fails, how about PowerShell for pre- and post-build events? THAT would be a useful thing.
I might just make some scripts and just execute them in the meantime.
Or use PSake[^]
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Microsoft was quite literally founded on Basic. Few of us who were doing software development in the 90′s could argue that Visual Basic successfully lowered the bar for entry such that just about anybody could write a simple program. I would even go so far as to say that Visual Basic was a key to the success of Windows in the 90′s and 00′s. Old languages never die... and they don't seem to fade away much, either.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: lowered the bar for entry
Which is a very very bad thing. Would you want the bar for brain or heart surgeons lowered? I think not.
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The requirement for developers isn't the same as a neural surgeon. In a free market you get what you pay for and if customers want to pay less for crap, it's their choice.
With a surgeon you can't afford to take this risk, but if an 18 year old highschool graduate could perform surgery with the help of advanced robotic tools, then it doesn't really matter.
To reduce overhead for highly qualified staff, a lot of jobs in the medical sector are already being replaced by mere operators who control a machine and the doctor just sits in his office analyzing the data that comes back.
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JavaScript is not the answer. The problem with Visual Basic is when they did a complete redo for .NET. Somebody thought that VB should parallel C#. The result is a language that is not as easy for beginners.
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Yes. It justifies the existence of managers. Especially managers who hire VB programmers, replacing their C#/C++ staff, because they are more plentiful, cheaper, and don't use complicated architectures that the rest of us use. (Yes, that was actually the reason given to me.)
Marc
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why not? 
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Did it ever need VB?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled code quality content to raise awareness about a recently-disclosed, critical security vulnerability in Rails. On Tuesday, a vulnerability was patched in Rails’ Action Pack layer that allows for remote code execution. Since then, a number of proof of concepts have been publicly posted showing exactly how to exploit this issue to trick a remote server into running an attacker’s arbitrary Ruby code. This post is an attempt to document the facts, raise awareness, and drive organizations to protect their applications and data immediately. If you're running any Rails apps, get them patches ASAP!
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