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And the Gas Nozzle 
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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Your organization may be unintentionally biased against free software. "Free your mind and the rest will follow"
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A recent Future of Open Source Survey [7] found that 72 percent of respondents use open source software because they believe it provides better security than proprietary alternatives, and 80 percent believe it offers better quality than proprietary software.
And 99% of that software is most likely the Chrome engine or Firefox. The remaining 1% is probably the entire remaining landscape of open source apps & OS's.
Marc
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I was at a one time, a Windows-centric developer, purchased tools (mostly Microsoft) and despised open source...fast forward 10 years. My entire tool chain, development environment, IDE and soon operating system (Ubuntu is hard to beat -- it's what Google uses) are all open source, of the GPL variety.
I assure you that open source proponents, pundits, evangelists, whatever you want to call us, use more than just Chrome -- unless I misunderstood your remark. 
OSS is the future of everything outside of the bubble known to many as Microsoft. PHP is one example of open source success, which Drupal, WordPress, Joomla (and about 1000 others) are built on. Combined, these CMS frameworks power something to the effect of 30% or more of web sites.
Apache still holds like 60% market share in HTTP hosting...
I am proud to say, closed source, proprietary software is a receding practice...open source will eventually win out. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or next year or next decade, but mark my words, it's going the way of the dinosaur...
p.s-The numbers or stats I provided were ball parked or quickly Googled...
Consider Windows developers defect to Linux and open source...but I have yet to meet an open source Linux guy make the reverse decision. :p
Regards,
Alex
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A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward a 2015 rendezvous with Pluto has captured an amazing video of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. If you squint, it kind of looks like a planet
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I see Bob! I see Bob!
Marc
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Was that a comet towards the end?
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Yeah, I too was wondering what that was.
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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The technologies that bring the biggest paychecks. Keep writing code until you either get bought or run out of cash?
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And follow only the very latest acronyms, Patterns, and Best Practices.
Be sure not to forget the ping pong table and latte machine in the break room.
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I set out to build tools to make it easier to develop ASP.NET applications on my Mac. I have tried to identify the features I most missed from Visual Studio and how tooling could make my life easier. "If we plant the virus directly into the mother ship, it would then filter down into all the corresponding ships below."
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Step 1: Install Windows on Mac
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Low-code application development platforms are designed to enable rapid creation, quick setup and deployment of applications with a minimum of traditional “hand coding.”
Low code? More like, "o0o0o0o, drag-and-drop GUIs." You can take an application out of the code, but you can't take the code out of the application.
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I'm cranky about SD's switch to so many pages per article.
I just wanted to say that out loud, and to explain why I haven't posted their stuff recently. Maybe they'll read this and consider a "view all pages" link.
TTFN - Kent
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True, I've found the new paging annoying as well. It is nice to read articles on a site that doesn't look and function like it's from 1998 though.
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I see your point, there really isn't enough content there to warrant 3 pages
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The usual response to these articles is that we need to "use the right tools" and the test for this is: are you making a nuclear power station, an office block or a tree house?
If you are making a nuclear power station (mission critical systems) then you need a lot of design, a lot of engineering and an excellent process. This will be slow and expensive, and your replacement timescales need to reflect this.
If you are making an office block you need some architecture but can drop in a large amount of prebuilt or pre-specified stuff. You can add in some significant flexibility too.
If you are making a tree house then bash it together as quick as you like. If you don't like a bit, tear it out and rebuild it. It will only last the summer before you discover girls and motor bikes anyway.
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That idea is so RADical I'm sure I've never heard it before. 
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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A small team of engineers at a stealth startup called Viv Labs claims to be on the verge of realizing an advanced form of AI that removes [Siri's] limitations.
Best case scenario=Samantha from Her. Worst case=V.I.K.I. from I, Robot
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Today Leaning Technologies announces the first stable release of Cheerp (formerly known as duetto), a software that compiles integrated C/C++ applications into JavaScript code for the frontend, and native code backend. Cheerp can be used to port desktop applications to the Web, or to develop interactive Web applications from scratch. Of course the world needed this.
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Cheerp wrote: Cheerp can be used to port desktop applications to the Web
Yeees, nice headline.
Still it won't be a usefull conversion; brown-field desktop applications tend to rely on the WinAPI. To point out the obvious again, the WinAPI isn't available on the Web. So porting is a no go, it'll always be largely rewritten.
So, please enlighten me on the usefullness of a C/C++ language for greenfields that can be transformed to JavaScript, where one could write plain JavaScript - effectively eleminating a (useless?) dependency.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft has been working on ways to make any regular 2D camera capture depth, meaning it could do some of the same things a Kinect does. So you'll have an excuse for all those hand gestures you make at your computer
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Quote: it could do some of the same things a Kinect does.
Turns them into a paper weight?
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: any regular 2D camera
Yeah, by dismantle it and rebuild it with new/different parts...so it's not that regular 2D camera anymore...
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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