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Ever seen a birdhouse spontaneously combust? 
Oh, the birdanity...
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If it actually got hot enough outside for paper to ignite, I'm certain I'd've seen articles about people fleeing to the southwest to escape the treespam. 
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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You mean those nasssty leaveses that poeople in other climes have to rake up? Yeah, I'll remember to include that as another benefit of desert life.
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No. Tree-spam is delivered by the USPS to your snailmailbox. It consists of catalogs and paper bills you throw away because you shop and pay for things over the internet.
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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Oh, no escape from that.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
Yes.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Are you better off coding with Notepad than Visual Studio?
Don't know why would anyone use Notepad for anything. There are perfectly usable text/code editors out there, and of course, there is the Editor[^] for real programmers, although I've heard of people using this crazy thing that some consider an editor[^] as well 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
No, it makes me a more productive programmer.
/ravi
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If you are working on a big project with a GUI, 10 custom libraries, with scores of classes and a hundred methods, you can't program in a text editor. Intellisense is very useful, but sometimes I turn it off, so not to get distracted.
I do all my web-stuff in PHP, then notepad can be used, if one uses many separate files, but I rely on Notepad++ to work efficiently with PHP.
A good .net programmer should be able to make a WPF application in Notepad, though I've only done so in a classroom setting.
Anyone swearing to a simple text editor for professional .net development are wasting a lot of brainpower
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Programmer isn't about the tools (languages too) but about the knowledge of using them...
Using better tools (and IDE is better than text editor that better than notepad) is a sign of will to done the job well...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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If you're not going to use an IDE then you certainly want to use a text editor that's better than Notepad at the very least!
Kevin
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I can also not see the harm in using an IDE. If you're trying to insinuate that having the IDE do checks and "autocomplete" function/variable names and even show you what arguments to use where - is going to adle your brain when learning to program: I can only shake my head.
Those things are simply time savers. I would have loved them when I started writing Java code - basically wrote the code on one half of the screen with the html help open on the other half - swapping pages every few seconds. No way in hell I could remember the entire Java API. These days Java's got some fine IDE's, as do most other languages (especially DotNet's C#/VB).
 For that matter, if you feel an IDE is being soft ... then you probably feel no-one should be using any libraries either! No DotNet using clauses - you should re-write everything in each CS file (including all the functionality for strings/arrays/integers/reals/etc). If you're doing C++ you're doing it wrong - because it's an object orientation library on top of C. If you're using C, I hope you're not chickening out and making use of the stdlib! Come now, don't be a wuss! Reinvent every single wheel from history. And just to be clear, you should NEVER use any 3rd generation language, even C is to good for you. Actually, why the hell are you allowed to even use ASM? You should be prodding switches to write directly in binary after you've welded the PC into existance from scratch using only a fire started by rubbing 2 sticks together! 
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After company's plea, users point out that upgrading XP to Windows 8.1 is 'impossible' "Can't get there from here"
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"Microsoft has also said it is possible to upgrade straight from XP to Windows 8.1 with a "clean" install that retains nothing because it involves wiping the hard drive"
I can do that too.
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Microsoft is completely adrift
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'"Wait. Wait. Wait just a minute here," wrote someone identified as "nephilim" in a comment added Thursday to a Microsoft blog. "You are suggesting I upgrade people from XP to Windows 8.x? But that's impossible. There is a major problem with [Microsoft's] suggestion. You (Microsoft) have made Windows 8 and 8.1 incapable of upgrading from Windows XP. I simply can't upgrade anyone, including myself, to Windows 8. It's impossible."'
True, but the vast majority of consumers who use PCs, who may move from XP, will do so by getting a new PC with 8.1 preinstalled. Few actually upgrade on their existing boxes and chances are their existing boxes running XP aren't up to spec. anyway.
Kevin
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IBM's Cloudant purchase will bring the CouchDB NoSQL database into IBM's SoftLayer global cloud In related news: interest in CloudDB decreases
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Bookmarked!
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Nokia X and X+ have just been announced by the Finnish handset maker at their Mobile World Congress 2014 press conference. The devices are the first Nokia handsets to run Android, although it is a forked version of the operating system. Nokia's worst kept secret becomes official
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Nokia XL was also announced in the Nokia X family line.
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WhatsApp to Start Offering Internet Phone Calls[^] [NYTimes]
WhatsApp announced on Monday that it would start offering voice services later this year - diversifying beyond its main messaging service into phone calls. WhatsApp’s voice service is expected to be available first on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems, then expand to others like Windows Phone and Blackberry.
/ravi
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For Hints at Apple’s Plans, Read Its Shopping List[^] [NYTimes]
The company has avoided jaw-dropping takeovers in favor of a series of smaller deals, using the companies to buttress or fill a gap in products that already exist or are in development. ... And while the deals may be small - particularly given Apple’s nearly $160 billion cash hoard - they offer a window into where the secretive company is headed and which products and services it is trying to build or improve.
/ravi
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Gmail users who get frustrated trying to find the "unsubscribe" link that's often buried in small type at the bottom of promotional emails may instead start seeing it before they even open the message. "They say that breaking up is hard to do."
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Ray Kurzweil, the man who promises "Singularity" between man and machine, speaks of it as being a wonderful thing. But is it? Even remotely? Way ahead of you there
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I'll be in trouble I don't like Captain Crunch?
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