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JavaScript is a swamp. It's the most important swamp in all of professional programming right now, and if you're a developer, you should have a professional mastery of it. But it's a terrible foundation for an enterprise codebase. "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp."
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All I can picture is Shrek as JavaScript and Lord Farquaad's Duloc as the castle. And now that song is stuck in my head again...
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It's more like building a submarine from alka-seltzer. 
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On August 5, 2012, 10:18 P.M. PST, a large rover named Curiosity made a soft landing on the surface of Mars. Given the one-way light-time to Mars, the controllers on Earth learned about the successful touchdown 14 minutes later, at 10:32 P.M. PST. As can be expected, all functions on the rover, and on the spacecraft that brought it to its destination 350 million miles from Earth, are controlled by software. This article discusses some of the precautions the JPL flight software team took to improve its reliability. Writing code to run 225 million km away from the nearest support tech
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Especially being sure the application can interpret the accent of the phone-monkey hired for cut-rate outsourced tech support.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: tech support
If you can call it that! 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I tried to read the article... honestly, I did! However, when the weight of curiosity was expressed in kilograms on both Earth and Mars, I stopped reading. Kilograms is an expression of mass, not weight. And, to express distance in miles, but then switch to speed in km/h...
Do I think the article could have some substance? Yes, I don't doubt that, but, like an article on CodeProject, if you can't get people to read past the initial paragraphs, you've lost already.
Tim
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Really? That got you fed up enough to stop reading?
Click to edit signature
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I haven't read it yet, but if they can't get trivial stuff right: Why would I trust them to get the parts I can't sanity check correct either?
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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Supported Windows XP will live on inside the payment machines for another five years. OK, your ATM will keep working for a while
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In other words, "THERE, FIVE MORE YEARS! HAPPY NOW?? PRETTY PLEASE DON'T SWITCHED TO THE GOOGLE AND VMWARE-HOSTED WINDOWS..."
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What astounds me is that they launched a new XP based version of windows embedded in 2009 (the one whose 10 years of support runs to 2019).
The fact that this products existence is going to require they continue to provide security fixes for most of the XP codebase for five more years makes me even more cynical than usual about the decision to charge businesses significantly more for post cutoff security patches than they did with previous versions of windows and to deny any access to them to consumers at all.
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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Since the first beta leak.. well.. since the first pre-beta image leak, Windows 8 has had a mixed reaction. Some believe that the new Metro-- or Modern-- interface has seriously affected their workflow, whereas some accepted the Start Screen as a welcomed addition and replacement to the cluttered almost 20 year old Start Menu. "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other."
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Quote: the antithesis of a power user
Seriously? WTF is he smoking? That's certainly not been my experience. I have found windows 8 to be better, faster and more reliable than windows 7. And windows 7 was by far their best OS to date; windows 8 is even better. I personally have found it to be very power-user friendly.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I'm assuming/hoping he means, "Metro is the antithesis...".
Win 8 hasn't really been that bad, once I turned off that charms menu as much as possible, and learned, "Windows key, start typing" to run apps. You're also right: it's been faster (startup mostly) than previous Windows, and at least as reliable as Weven.
TTFN - Kent
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But have you been able to upgrade to 8.1? I haven't yet.
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I updated my win8 netbook/tablet without any problems (excluding those caused either by its wifi sucking or downloads speeds being heavily throttled while the windows store app was in the background) several months ago. IIRC I did it between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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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From what I've read, the majority of upgrade failures appear to be centered around desktops, which is what I have.
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My (old) desktop's still running Win 7. When I ever stop procrastinating and get around to it, I intend for my new one to be running Win 8.1 (needed for mixed DPI support after I buy a 4k monitor and for the win9 upgrade path).
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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Yep! Very easy. Works like a charm!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Mine didn't. 
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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He's talking about the new UI. Its hardly brimming with features. You can't even edit a text file easily.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Underwhelmed by the latest version of your favourite black slab? You're not alone – here's where the smartphone makers should really be focusing their efforts. Here's a thought: how about making something that works well as a phone? (with great battery life)
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Fine by me. My 2 year old phone works fine, I hope it lasts another 30 years! I'd say good news, less waste produced.
Wout
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