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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Excuse me Mr. Adrian Bridgwater, but who told you that programming sucks?
Marc's 10 reasons why programming sucks:
1. The minute I step into web development
2. The minute I open Eclipse to do some Beaglebone development
3. The minute I try using Ubuntu et al.
4. The minute I realize the only language available on the Mac, until recently, was ObjectiveC
5. The minute I have to touch someone else's crap Ruby, PHP, HTML, CSS, C#, Java, Javascript etc. undocumented, uncommented spaghetti code
6. The minute I have to use any duck-typed language
7. The minute I have to touch one of those purported "awesome" j  frameworks.
8. The minute I have to deal with someone else's inane decision making (like using PHP on a Windows Server connecting to SQL Server. Why????)
9. The minute I open VS2012 and am confronted with a SCREAMING menu (yes, I already regedited that fix) and a monochromatic solution tree.
10. The f***ing nanosecond I have to touch Windows 8.
Bonus:
#11: The picosecond I have to use Git.
Marc
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Glad I don't have to deal with any of that.
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You need a natural language programming language.
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Usually when I see something referred to as a "suite of tools" the first thing that comes to mind is a "cluster sunshine".  I was nice this time.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Development doesn't suck; suites of tools for development suck.
"intelligent graphics engine powers built into the chipset itself."
I'm pretty sure my Alphas don't have that; certainly my VAX doesn't. So does "native applications across architectures" mean "native applications across Intel architectures"? If so, how about Itanium? I still want an Itanium-powered server to flush out my OpenVMS museum.
"use Intel INDE within the IDE they prefer"
LSE?[^]
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Arm is supported; dinosaurs are not. It means across current widely used architectures.
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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My first immediate internal association to this was the phrase "write once, run anywhere" popping up in my head followed by my "inner ear" hearing Buddy Holly singing:
"That'll be the day whoo-hoo ...
That'll be the day -hey -hey when I die."
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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Quote: • Setup: To target Windows platforms use an existing Visual Studio environment. For Android target systems, users have a choice of Android development IDE's: Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse and Android Studio.
"So if you've been developing for the Windows platform, the Android plugin for Visual Studio allows you to leverage your existing Windows development expertise over to the Android platform. Or if you're only developing for Android, Eclipse might make sense for you," said McVeigh
Huge question here: Will this let me open, use, and modify Eclipse projects in VS umolested; or will I have to create a .sln if I want to do Android in VS? The misery of trying to maintain one java project with my using InteliJ and a coworker using Eclipse was worse than using Eclipse myself. Second huge question; how nicely will their VS plugin play with all of Google's Eclipse or Android IDE centric tooling?
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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Over the past few months we have seen several new USB dongles offering different features, including the ability to run Android apps, beam video content from your phone and other mobile devices to a big screen and more. Intel has something cooler up its sleeves. The company has launched a Bay Trail Atom powered dongle that is a full-blown x86 PC. Is that Windows in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a full-blown x86 PC
Hmm... install SQL Server?
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It's an HDMI stick, not a USB stick ?: [^].
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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It's also not "launched by" Intel, its manufactured by Shenzen Apec Electronics, but was given out to attendees at a conference run by Intel. I guess some people don't realise that "Intel Inside" does not mean "produced by Intel".
Don't blame Kent for that one, it was the headline of the original article.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is that Windows in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Ask her if she likes the three-finger salute.
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It's funny, but I remember reading about CSS when I was about 30, and HTML before that, and I looked at what was going on in the nascent web world and thought how horrid all that markup looked -- arbitrary, confusing, contradictory, and most importantly, always always always lacking completeness, requiring the most arcane workarounds.
I made a the semi-conscious decision to not get anywhere near that cesspool, and I've managed to too pretty damn well, finally plunging into Ruby on Rails (to which I now respond with a whole-hearted ) three years ago. It's been insightful, if only that the only insight of significance is that, after 20 years, what goes on in the web world is even more arbitrary, confusing, contradictory, and lacking completeness.
I sometimes regret that semi-conscious decision, because I am now by now means an expert in all this cruff[^], but in other ways I am delighted to have only taken a glancing blow with regards to web "technologies" (and I use the term loosely.)
Marc
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I agree whole-heartedly. It seems many people celebrate the state-of-the-art today only because they don't realise how much we've lost.
This interview with Alan Kay brings a lot of this stuff into focus, including such gems as:
"They have no idea where [their culture came from] — and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."
Binstock: Still, you can't argue with the Web's success.
Kay: I think you can.
Binstock: Well, look at Wikipedia — it's a tremendous collaboration.
Kay: It is, but go to the article on Logo, can you write and execute Logo programs? Are there examples? No. The Wikipedia people didn't even imagine that, in spite of the fact that they're on a computer. That's why I never use PowerPoint. PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime. That's why I always do, not just dynamic stuff when I give a talk, but I do stuff that I'm interacting with on-the-fly. Because that is what the computer is for. People who don't do that either don't understand that or don't respect it.
There's lots more there, but I recommend more people read it to get some true perspective. And when he mentions Englebart, for example, look up what he did.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: This interview with Alan Kay brings a lot of this stuff into focus, including such gems as:
Great interview. Thanks for posting that!
Rob Grainger wrote: And when he mentions Englebart
Engelbart, BTW
While I knew about his classic demonstration of a mouse and graphical user interface, I do not know much about the rest of his life, so I still looked him up.
Marc
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Thanks for the correction, noted.
I'm glad you enjoyed the interview - I seem to post it fairly regularly in various places, it seems to cover a lot of ground.
Another one worth checking is the Stroustrup, Ungar and Hewitt interview I posted in the news feed a while ago: Linkety. Really makes you think about concurrency properly. One of the reasons I've been learning functional programming properly recently is to prepare myself for the upcoming many-core world.
Incidentally, which language (if any) do you concentrate on in the book you link to?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Incidentally, which language (if any) do you concentrate on in the book you link to?
Since SyncFusion is a Windows 3rd party control provider, the book focuses on F# but to make the transition less painful (and to illustrate F#'ish things) there's a lot of C# in the beginning as well.
I actually spend very little time on how stateless languages make threading rather painless -- I probably should have mentioned that more.
It's a free download, check it out - I'd appreciate your feedback.
And it's on my list to read the other interview!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It's a free download,
I hadn't spotted that - my bad. Will do so and let you know how I get on.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Got this in my email a day or two ago, I'm posting it all because the faq linked in the email is much less useful than the mail itself:
Quote: webOS Cloud Services to end January 15, 2015
Cloud services support for webOS devices will be ending on January 15, 2015. We appreciate our customer's loyalty the webOS platform. But now, more than three (3) years after the last device was sold, only a small fraction of the devices are still connecting. Therefore, the time has come to shut down the services.
All devices running webOS devices will continue to run after the cloud services are terminated. However, they will no longer be able to:
Download new apps or updates. The HP App Catalog will be unavailable after the shutdown
Backup or restore devices from the cloud
Setup new devices
Recover lost passwords
What this means to you:
The HP App Catalog will stop supporting new app purchases on November 1, 2014
Updates may be posted by developers until November 10, 2014 and users can download any available updates until the services shut down
You should make arrangements to backup or transfer your contacts, etc.prior to the service shutdown on January 15, 2015
You will no longer be able to backup, restore, reset or initialize a webOS device as of January 15, 2015
There will be additional reminders as the final shutdown approaches. An FAQ can be found at
http://news.hpwebosnewsletters.com/cgi-bin13/DM/t/hBlrh0c6naP0PwQ04W5N0EX
Timeline
10/15/14 Announcement to users and developers
11/1/14 New app purchases end
11/10/14 App update submissions end
1/15/15 Public shutdown of services
https://developer.palm.com/content/resources/develop/faq.html[^]
All 3 remaining WebOS users are up in arms!
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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There appears to be a bit of buzz starting to appear out of the latest Apple offerings regarding AppleSIM.
You just have to search the #AppleSIM on twitter and you will see what I mean.
From the "About time Apple" to the "Writing is on the wall for Telco's" to the rest of the usual Fanboy hype.
Anyway, thinking back, I remembered something from a few years ago, so did a search and found this: GSMA Explores Software Based Replacement for Mobile SIM Cards[^]
Doesn't sound very innovative now does it.... 
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The Linux creator on the open-source environment. This guy? "People who disagree with me are by definition crazy." Naaaaaaah
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Still more proof that most of the open source community is run by Asperger's[^]-feigning children who need few excuses to behave badly.
No one in the business world would accept or condone behavior like Torvalds' from the manager of an engineering project. He would be terminated (with extreme prejudice).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: No one in the business world would accept or condone behavior like Torvalds' from the manager of an engineering project. He would be terminated (with extreme prejudice).
I must humbly disagree. I have seen engineers throwing themselves across conference room tables to scream "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" to other people, I have seen managers screaming and using the F-word at employees, I have seen business owners doing that to everyone on the food chain.
And nothing was done.
Marc
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