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Wasn't Java initially called Oak?
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It was, and that was a little confusing (to me) when I first heard of this language. Seems like it's just a case of recycling though (or perhaps like all the languages named D) as this is a variant of C#.
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Quote: Finally, as part of its rapid, interactive style, Oak wants to be able to flash messages at you from the continuous compilation system in the background, so Oak wants Growl for Windows, a notification system that will pop little messages to you onto the desktop (such as MSN Messenger used to) when events happen—such as a successful or unsuccessful build in the background.
If this means what I think it means they lost me here. Any attempt to compile something mid-code edit is going to barf; and while I'm fine with red squiggles or marks on an overview bar from something like resharper because they're trivial to ignore if this is going to vomit popup type notices to tell me that **Incomplete sentence error** the half typ**Incomplete word error**ed line of code **Incomplete sentence error** I'm working on **Incomplete sentence error** doesn't compile there'll be **Incomplete sentence error** laptop shaped dents in the wall/ceiling in**Incomplete sentence error** short order. **Sentence complete**
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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Microsoft is recycling inactive email accounts for its Outlook, Hotmail and Live services, potentially exposing users to previous owners' private information, according to a new report posted by Dutch website Webwereld. Oh great, now someone else will get my BillG@hotmail.com
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OT: There's a member named hotmail???
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I don't see what all the fuss is about.
In what way is recycling an email address any different to recycling a domain name. Register a previously used domain name, set up a catch all email, bingo, no idea what you might receive...
All those cyber squatting emails that die will be available for use by folks who actually have a need for them.
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Sure, but you have to admit that a domain recycle is far less common than two people wanting the same email address?
I'm pretty sure it's already happened with an old yahoo.com address I had. I know in the past I had received emails for someone else that obviously thought they had that account. Now, I'm sure they do, and may get whatever mail I had going to my yahoo account (I think it was my "just sign up" account, but it's been a while).
DaveAuld wrote: All those cyber squatting emails that die will be available for use by folks who actually have a need for them.
Yup, this is definitely the good side to it.
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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: All those cyber squatting emails that die will be available for use by folks who actually have a need for them
I have the same problem with a domain name. I own a large software consulting company (well, not that large... fairly small actually... Ok, it's just me, alright?.) but the name of the .com domain I want for it was being used by someone else - actually they hadn't updated their unfinished webpage in two years and it expired. Great! So now I can get it...but, no, someone had "parked" it and wanted a large amount of money if anyone wanted to transfer it. This situation lasted for nearly 90 days while I waited for no-one else to buy it off them and for it to become available once more (it's an unusual name ending in "soft" which happened to have a different meaning in a foreign language). At around 89 days the original user refreshed it somehow and unexpired it so now it is in use - although the website backing it has completely gone away so it is a "dead name". I cannot use it, they are not using it but are occupying it (at least until it expires again next year). What do I do? I don't want to change the name of my company as I have been using it for years and it is on all my software and utilities, etc. The other domain names ending in ".org", ".biz", etc. are all available but I wanted the ".com" one.  wah!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmmm. Will adding them to the list of accounts gmail polls for messages automatically suffice as a keep alive; or do I need to log into the website itself every once in a while to maintain my bugout accounts (for if Google manages to elephant me with enough privacy abuses to justify the pain of switching services).
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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Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC Corp. about adding its Windows operating system to HTC’s Android-based smartphones at little or no cost, people with knowledge of the matter said, evidence of the software maker’s struggle to gain ground in the mobile market. Please, please, please, with sugar on top?
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Web Essentials extends Visual Studio with lots of new features that web developers have been missing for many years. Get all the good stuff for Web development that isn't in the VS can
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Freeseer (pronounced free-see-ar) is a free, open source, cross-platform application that captures or streams your desktop. It’s designed for capturing presentations, and has been successfully used at many open source conferences to record hundreds of talks (which can be seen at fosslc.org). Though designed for capturing presentations, it can also be used to capture demos, training materials, lectures, and other videos. Need an alternative to Camtasia
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JavaScript Allongé provides recipes for using functions to write software that is simpler, cleaner, and less complicated than alternative approaches that are object-centric or code-centric. JavaScript idioms like function combinators and decorators leverage JavaScript’s power to make code easier to read, modify, debug and refactor, thus avoiding problems before they happen. Learn JavaScript in as many days as you'd care to
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Five functions to fill. One ticking clock. How fast can you code? "Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking"
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It was one thing when Google's Chrome apps managed to break out of the browser and become real, offline apps, but clearly that is not Google's real long-term play. A recent update to the developer version of Google Chrome basically runs Chrome OS inside of Windows 8. Now you can have an expensive (and ineffective) way to run Google "apps"
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Good. I like what they are doing...If I could just get my damn employer to wake up and smell the coffee and get rid of this IE9 and let us have Chrome. I feel my productivity and creative streak is being supressed by living in IE9 world.
Having to rely on an remote desktop connection to a server at my ISP to do anything interesting really sucks.
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The OpenID-related vulnerability could have allowed attackers to impersonate users on websites using Mozilla Persona authentication I thought everyone enjoyed a good impersonation?
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One day before the anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, The New York Times Magazine has published a captivating recollection of the terrifyingly stressful two-year development of the first iPhone. The piece is an excerpt from journalist Fred Vogelstein's upcoming book, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, and it includes insight from Andy Grignon, the senior engineer in charge of the radios in the original iPhone, among other former Apple employees. Grignon told Vogelstein that he was so impacted by his work on the iPhone that he gained 50 pounds and was left emotionally exhausted. "It was very dramatic," Grignon said. "It had been drilled into everyone’s head that this was the next big thing to come out of Apple. So you put all these supersmart people with huge egos into very tight, confined quarters, with that kind of pressure, and crazy stuff starts to happen." All because of one man's nasty reading habit
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From October 4th to October 6th, Microsoft has made everything normally reserved only for Xbox Live Gold members — apps, multiplayer gaming, etc. — free for anyone with an Xbox 360. The goal is to entice folks into signing up for a real Xbox Live Gold membership, but even if you have no plans to sign up, you can still snag these three free days. Assuming you don't have something better going on
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When Microsoft Security Essentials started falling behind in effectiveness tests, we stopped recommending it. Microsoft is now officially saying that they've shifted their focus and establishing MSE as a "baseline." Shocking ... no one?
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Since they're claiming that the reason they're last is that they're giving 100% of their work to the competition for free to build on and not that MSE is garbage, one would expect that the fraction of malware MSE is blocking should be holding steady over the last few years while everyone else's protection level is increasing. Is that the case, or is the competition holding steady while MSE's block percentage has been steadily falling?
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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While Ray Ozzie's time at Microsoft is widely regarded with disinterest by those Windows watchers who even remember him, it's clear now that the erstwhile Chief Software Architect was simply rowing against a tide of internal calcification. And if you look at Microsoft's belated move into devices and services with any sense of perspective at all, one fact becomes clear: This is the path the Ray Ozzie first pleaded Microsoft to take almost a decade ago. And the company's senior leadership simply ignored him. Ray was right (not counting Notes)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: (not counting Notes)
And Groove 
Anyway, Ray is busy with a new startup[^]. We'll see how that goes.
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/shrug I dunno. I kind of liked Groove. It was way too intrusive on a machine, but I liked the idea behind it. OK, maybe that's it - I liked the idea, but definitely not the implementation.
Could there be more newspeak in that business description?
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