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That would be very clever (so I might have trouble believing it from that company).
With Elop in charge of Nokia (at least the phone division), I'm not sure. He might have made Microsoft think he was going to switch, but I don't think they had it in them. They had re-tooled from Symbian not very long ago.
Bankruptcy on the other hand: yeah, that was a good possibility.
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And the new name is Micro-phone? 
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Robotics engineer Taylor Alexander needed to lift a nuclear cooling tower off its foundation using 19 high-strength steel cables, and the Android app that was supposed to accomplish it, for which he’d just paid a developer $20,000, was essentially worthless. "This is Radio Clash from pirate satellite"
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In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take a moment to consider how we got here and what influence it’s having on interface design as a whole. You can never be too flat or too thin?
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We can develop and deploy the equivalent of a cloud-connected security expert on every computer -- and stop the bad guys cold. Step 3 is Profit!
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"Let us be your bad guy. It's better the bad guy you know rather than the bad guy you don't know."
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By leveraging MVVM, some other common design patterns, and a few tricks, you can write a cross-platform presentation layer that will work on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, as Brent Edwards explains. YMMV, but FYI on MVVM. OKdOK?
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The ASP.NET Framework has been around for over ten years, and the platform has enabled the development of countless Web sites and services. As Web application development strategies have evolved, the framework has been able to evolve in step with technologies like ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API. As Web application development takes its next evolutionary step into the world of cloud computing, project Katana provides the underlying set of components to ASP.NET applications, enabling them to be flexible, portable, lightweight, and provide better performance – put another way, project Katana cloud optimizes your ASP.NET applications. "That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword."
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By purchasing Nokia’s smartphone division, Microsoft has killed its signature strategy. Well, that's it folks. They've called it. Time to put away VS and brush up on those Linux internals
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I don't know man: some random guy at Slate says they're dead, they must be dead. Game over man, game over. 
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The Nokia that remains after it sells its phone business to Microsoft will be a considerably smaller and lower-profile company. Like the highly valuable galoshes market
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What's that programming language? There are some messed up language designers out there
Alas, I only got 33%
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I got 39.44%. Some of them are completely crazy. Also, how am I supposed to distinguish between Scheme and Racket for such a small code sample?
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The fact that you've heard of something called Racket impresses me. Or is that the kind of thing the kids learn these days?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or is that the kind of thing the kids learn these days?
I am interested in Scheme, and Racket was originally just a Scheme implementation. Kids actually do learn it at some universities, sometimes even as the first language.
But there are many languages on that web site I haven't heard of: I, J, K ... there seem to be a programming language named after each letter of the alphabet.
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Inform 7 is almost as verbose as COBOL!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you've ever purchased physical books from Amazon, you'll soon be able to buy those same titles for your Kindle at virtually no cost. Buy books, get books
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I don't care about dead tree books, give me dirt cheap electronic ones.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Love it. Knowing it's available for a particular book will make me MORE likely to buy the physical book. Much like the mp3 downloads of Audio CDs I've purchased.
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It is a brilliant move on their part. Basically no real cost, and the good will they get (not to mention potential Kindle sales) is huge. Almost makes me want to buy a few books, but I'm too hooked on the library at the moment.
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Sorry, Key Lime Pie. Google announced on Tuesday that the latest version of its Android mobile operating system is called Kit Kat, named after the branded chocolate bar. Queue lawsuit in 3... 2...
Or would you rather have a break?
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Microsoft has no excuses from here on out. It has all the pieces it will ever need to succeed... or fail. "Everyday, something hits me all so cold. Ya find me sittin' by myself. No excuses that I know."
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The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is going to show that two-way laser communication beyond Earth is possible, broadening the possibility of transmitting huge amounts of data. A satellite with frikkin' lasers on it? To the volcano base!
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The software development community is a strange one. Despite its low unemployment rates, high salaries, and excellent prospects, it's apparently always in danger, in decline, or in desperate need of warning. Some developers see the latest boom in software development as just the portent of a future decline and write fatalistic fiction to warn the community of impending doom. I don't know. I've already been replaced by a robot.
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