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What happened to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development? "Just ship it"
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In the past, Microsoft tried to deliver a great experience on their operating systems by including everything that any user would need. However, since Microsoft held such a dominant position with personal computers, it was accused of being a monopoly and anti-competitive. I think I've seen this movie before
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Well, yes. But, I think the article should have been called, "Can Microsoft continue to 'leverage Windows' and merge into phone without everyone whining?"
TTFN - Kent
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Isn't it already what? Dominant against iOS and Android?
No. It's not even a player.
Imagine if the sanctions put against Microsoft were applied to Google. I would argue it's well past time that the fairness should prevail and that companies such as Google and Apple should have the same level over oversight and restrictions placed on them as Microsoft had, or conversely that Microsoft be allowed to compete fairly with those companies, encumbered no more than those companies.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Imagine if the sanctions put against Microsoft were applied to Google.
Many of the EuroZone Policy Wonks are busy imagining this, right now: [^].
What if the U.S. had forbidden/regulated the kind of no-repatriation tax-credit shell game that Apple uses so successfully to the tune of "Irish Eyes are Smiling in Cupertino" ?
cheers, Bill
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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Current demand says nothing about earnings potential. Instead, rely on how good you'll feel telling everyone how bad their languages are
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Assuming that we are all maximising economists at heart then surely the only thing that a salary really tells you is how much effort is involved in learning the language?
(i.e. the only drag preventing supply matching demand)
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Khmer must be a very easy language then...
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"Basically, we’ve lost a decade of innovation, by innovating." "Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not."
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Ockham's (aka 'Occam) Razor suggests to me a simpler hypothesis: the modal activity of people using the web these days has shifted many orders of complexity higher compared to the modal activity ten-years ago: and the demands arising from higher expectations for pages that are graphically richer, use much more complex visual Controls, typography, visual effects, much more use of sophisticated access to databases, etc. are qualitatively greater.
And, yes, sites, like Wired, download monster pages full of libraries-to-load (CSS, .js, etc.) no matter what how the user is going to use the page in their browser because they have to provide access to every type of functionality that may be required.
If "Moore's Law" holds any value for performance of hardware over time, is there any similar principle for the increasing complexity of software (a result of "feature wars," as well as slap-on-slap-dash engineering) in terms of its demands for memory and CPU bandwidth ?
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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95% of the time when I find a page loading painfully slowly it's because the browser is preferentially rendering the dozen site navigation and related content divs (aka HTML5 buzzword compliant banner/sidebar ads); and that the page is only a single div blocking adblock rampage away from being usable again.
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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Germany and Brazil are the main sponsors of the resolution on privacy in the digital age. That should help. Everyone listens to what the UN says
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I think I may have detected a hint of sarcasm there.
"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 experts believe the Internet of Things will be used to kill someone. Going to be interesting trying to handcuff that perp
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I bet it'll be someone chocking on a tiny bit that fell of a Raspberry Pi.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Evidently this was released around Nov. 21: [^]. I read about the fix on this recently edited StackOverFlow post which I think is by a MS employee: [^].
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Thanks for the link, that was bugging me too!
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I just want damn autoupdates fo Visual Studio again like they used to have via Windwows Update.
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Nov. 24: [^].
I am fascinated by this device, and what its existence may imply for our understanding of the historical origins of homo-sap use of technology ! And, no, I don't think The Aliens, or an obelisk from outer-space, arrived some time way-back-then with tutorials, and sample code.
I admit to a bias, an unprovable "inner conviction" that in the last 50k or so years of homo-sap evolution there has been little difference in the potential level to which intelligence can be developed.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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OmniSharp is a family of Open Source projects, each with one goal - To enable great .NET development in YOUR editor of choice. .NET in Vim, as nature intended
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I like Nano for the Linux console...been wanting to port MS DOS Edit to the Linux console for years...for nostalgia if nothing else.
Back in school I used to use this DOS based editor called PC-Write[^] ...it was the cat's meow.
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I think it's well known that beer is one of mankind's greatest inventions. But aside from the perfect taste, and ability to make in-laws seem magically more tolerable, it turns out that beer also has its very own built-in anti-spill mechanism. Even harder to spill if it's in your stomach
But anyway, "Science!"
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Looks like great excuse for Mrs. Wife - "I'm not drinking again! It's the science experiment!" 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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