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It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform got off to a much slower start than many had hoped. But with a couple years now behind the platform, there is solid proof that Windows Phone is growing and that Microsoft's marketing efforts are paying off. "Just what makes that little old ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant?"
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It's also a lousy name for a great idea that is doomed from the start. Here's why. Just look how long it's taken us to get a standard mobile cable
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"The phenomenon is arising in an industrial environment of powerful companies that each want an unlevel playing field in their favor, or that have strong and mutually exclusive ideas about how the industry should work."
- CORBA, remoting, REST...
- Proprietary blobs via TCP/IP, SOAP, JSON...
Give it time - it will happen. 
/ravi
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CESG, the UK government's arm that assesses operating systems and software security, has published its findings for ‘End User Device’ operating systems. The most secure of the lot? Ubuntu 12.04. Assuming you follow all the instructions in 'man SECURE-SYSTEM', add the .nohack parameter in /etc/lib/protectsystem, and compile the kernel with the -ED209 switch.
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What I think is important is that as you mature as a developer that you look at whatever is happening in the community and be open to why something is new and what new ideas are being proffered by the new technology. A few thoughts for the .NET folk
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For .Net folks, the fact that it's the buzzword compliant web platform that's recently gotten Visual Studio Support[^] should be the top reason.
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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Rust, the Mozilla-backed systems programming language, has released version 0.9, bringing with it a host of improvements as the language progresses towards the 1.0 milestone. Rust has been undergoing significant changes as it evolves into a language ready for long-term support and stability. Rust's creator Graydon Hoare has said the language targets “frustrated C++ developers” as it focuses on its goal to be a modern replacement for C/C++. All the curly braces you love, with none of the null pointers
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Google’s smart contact lens project is designed to measure the glucose content of the wearer’s tears, once every second. Theoretically, it could be a noninvasive way for diabetics to keep their blood sugar levels in check, rather than pricking their skin to sample their blood multiple times per day, or wearing a continuous monitoring device that’s stabbed into their side to tap into subcutaneous tissue. I wonder if they can work a video camera into there as well?
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There There, you're bringing very interesting news.
5 for it. 
Believe Yourself™
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Maybe not the employees, but the UofW researchers who were working on it, yes. I wonder if they 'stole' them, or if Microsoft moved on?
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TTFN - Kent
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As Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer celebrates 14 years at the software giant's helm, a new boss is slated to land in the next few weeks. But what if there were two? "Two can be as bad as one. It's the loneliest number since the number one"
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Why not?? It worked so well for RIM didn't it??
If Microsoft can so easily be split up and run by two CEO's then I suspect the next argument would be that the company should truly split itself and make tons of $$ for it's stockholders.
you want something inspirational??
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Dennis E White wrote: Why not?? It worked so well for RIM didn't it??
Ouch! That's going to leave a mark.
If Microsoft can so easily be split up and run by two CEO's then I suspect the next argument would be that the company should truly split itself and make tons of $$ for it's stockholders. I used to lean that way myself, but that would definitely put the resulting two companies at a disadvantage in a marketplace containing Google, Apple, and IBM (and others) who can merrily push OSes, dev tools, and services without government intervention.
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Kent, your one-liners after your quote from the articles kill me. I literally laugh out loud at most of them.
thank you
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And thank you!
I wouldn't be doing this if I weren't amusing some people.
But I'm not sharing my pay cheque. 
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TTFN - Kent
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Isaac Schuleter defects to his own Node-related commercial outfit, raising questions about his ambitions and Node.js itself. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
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Dart, Google’s JavaScript competitor, launched its 1.0 version last November. While Google’s Go language has quickly caught on with developers, though, Dart has been struggling to attract them. In an effort to get more developers on board, Dart today became the first project to host its framework on one of Runnable‘s recently launched Code Channels. For those curious, but not curious enough to install it
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I've just been writing a sidescroller in Dart with my 10 year old son, and it's a pleasure to use.
I find the standard packages mean I don't have to spend so long evaluating languages which are simply there to address language deficiencies in JavaScript. It also isolates me well from browser differences.
I can develop and test in Dartium, then once happy compile to JavaScript and use in every major browser - so far with no hitches at all.
It actually feels like a well thought through language that encourages best practice in programming.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dammit, now I have to look at it more closely. I had been dismissing it as Yet Another Foo-to-JavaScript language (or a Google playground, take your pick of excuses).
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Sorry about that. But having Lars Bak (v8 and Self VMs) and Gilad Bracha onboard was enough to make me want to investigate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Security researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered the very first wide-scale hack that involved television sets and at least one refrigerator. Not counting that time with William Perry and the all-you-can-eat buffet
How's that for a 90's reference? Or was it 80s? Too lazy to head to Wikipedia.
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Google Dart co-creator Lars Bak and Mozilla ECMAScript project editor Allen Wirfs-Brock each have strong arguments for their languages in writing larger, more complex web apps.
ECMAScript 6 is coming in December. Can it fix all the holes Dart is poking in JavaScript?
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Another leaked document from Edward Snowden reveals the NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweeps.
Another day, another damning Snowden document.
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