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The FIDO Alliance encourages stronger use of biometrics and hardware tokens instead of passwords to identify users. If passwords are outlawed, only outlaws will use passwords?
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Stalwarts like Java, PHP, and C++ remain highly popular but are dropping in Tiobe's year-end ratings. Soaring to majestic heights of dozens of users!
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Ignoring for the moment the issue of what, if anything, Tiobe's index is actually worth; why not just link to Tiobe[^] itself?
A few things visible by looking at the table itself appear more interesting than any of the clickbait articles regurgitating whatever part of the result fits their agenda best.
What immediately stood out to me is that the top 6 languages on their list all took downward hits in their shares over the last year. IF this means that interest in second tier languages is rising or if Tiobe's changed their implementation in a way that rates them higher is an interesting question I've not seen addressed anywhere.
Looking at the rest of the top 20 ratings I see Visual Basic has gone from 0.002% to 1.802% (a 901x increase), PL/SQL and Pascal both roughly doubled their ratings, Perl and Delphi are up ~50%, VB.net up 25%. Since none of these are buzzword compliant platforms (with the debatable exception of Oracle, legacy/stigmatized is probably a better description), huge surges in their real popularity are unlikely; meaning that Tiobe probably has been fiddling with its own numbers in some way shape or form.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Ignoring for the moment the issue of what, if anything, Tiobe's index is actually worth; why not just link to Tiobe itself?
Well, there are vast and numerous reasons why. 
OK, entirely because I came across this article first. (And that the Tiobe list rarely has much analysis, so just linking to a few charts just doesn't get me going these days) 
TTFN - Kent
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Ubuntu Core doesn’t use debs or apt-get. We call it “snappy” because that’s the new bullet-proof mechanism for app delivery and system updates; it’s completely different to the traditional package-based Ubuntu server and desktop. The snappy system keeps each part of Ubuntu in a separate, read-only file, and does the same for each application. Because it's snappy (Clap along if you know what snappiness is to you)
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If you want to hit the ground running in 2015 then you need to know where your tech focus should be. Here's a top 10 areas the IEEE Computer Society believes will be important over the coming year. Oh, that's new: "Build security into software design"
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"Visual Basic 14" is the version of Visual Basic that will ship with Visual Studio 2015. In this blog post I'll talk specifically about the VB language improvements in this release. (Separately, there are a whole host of IDE and project-system improvements as well). There must be at least/most one of you interested in these
If so, click the link a few thousand times, please
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Bad points (IMO)
The march to making everything look like java continues...
e.g.:- The ?. operator - which really doesn't look like "Basic" at all.
Good points (IMO)
The "NameOf" operator - at last the pendulum swings back towards giving the compiler the tools to find errors due to typos in property name references...
Readonly Auto-properties - just makes my DTO classes that little bit easier.
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I don't have a problem with the ?.
It's not any worse than the single dot as far as I'm concerned.
But I'm going to love the NameOf 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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Working in an environment of mostly engineers that write some code, as opposed to developers that have been trained to write code, we use VB and its variants (VBA, VB.NET, VBScript). So, articles to this effect are beneficial to us.
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Who ever taught them to make animated gifs should be slapped with a haddock.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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Disagree, they should be repeatedly beaten with a box jellyfish of some sort; I'm currently undecided between one that may kill[^] you within 20 minutes if you're not provided antivenom, or one that has no antivenom and will leave you writhing in agony[^] for a day wishing for death.
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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I love the string interpolation (it's going to be in C# 6 also), very cool
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There must be at least/most one of you interested in these
I don't get all the VB hate... VB is a great language that does the same as C#, but with a slightly different syntax. C# is beautiful, but VB has great stuff too! With this new release VB becomes even better (and more like C#)!
Examples?
variable declaration:
Dim obj As New Object()
object obj = new object();
var obj = new object();
Vertical spacing:
If something Then
Else
End If
if (something)
{
}
else
{
}The vertical spacing is even worse with else if-statements and try-catch-finally blocks.
Don't get me started on cases... C# needs a break; in each case even though it can't fall through to the next case anyway. Speak of redundancy.
I know there's a lot of legacy VB code out there that is just the worst. VB has a non-OO history and it shows. It just doesn't show in the language (a lot).
C# has very neat stuff that can really be missed in VB, but that doesn't make VB a bad language.
That said I love C# and usually prefer it over VB, not because VB is a bad or ugly language, but because C# has more support online.
It just seems like people forget C# code can be as bad as bad VB code. It's the programmers that suck, not the language!
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There must be at least/most one of you interested in these
Only to satisfy my past-life monk. 
Marc
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The 850 EVO by Samsung, uses 32-layer TLC "V-NAND," where the "V" stands for "vertical.
Quote: MSRP for the line varies pretty significantly for dollars-per-gigabyte; the 120GB version lists at $100, the 250GB version is $150, the 500GB is $270, and the 1TB is $500. The best ratio of dollars spent versus storage purchased is obviously at the high end, with the top model showing 50¢ per gigabyte, but $500 remains a fair amount of cash to spend for a single (decimal) terabyte of storage.
clickity[^]
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
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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I'm using the 128Gig Samsung 850 EVO right now as a primary drive in a new build running Win 8.1.
Impressive performance, impressive "Drive Magician" software to configure it. But, it's my first SSD, so I do not have hands-on experience with another make/model.
Best of all, it has a ten-year warranty, which, in the Asian country I live in, is a virtual miracle.
«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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Typesafe recently released a report based on their survey findings of over 3000 Java developers, focusing on the adoption of Java 8 as well as upcoming developer technology trends. I don't know. I usually get a little jittery after the 6th java in the morning.
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I'm surprised no one else has pointed out that this:
Quote: The report shows that 27% of those who filled out the survey have already upgraded to Java 8,
21% of those who already upgraded to the latest Java version are using it in production,
Means that Java 8 has less than a 5% market share where it really matters (in production). 
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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Great quote; COBOL adoption will probably be strong among COBOL-programmers 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Boost.org Steering Committee has made public news of its Boost Library Incubator website this month. Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. Assuming you don't write everything yourself (you burly C++ folk)
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According to Microsoft veteran Gabriel Aul, the company’s “intent” is to let testers update from TP to RTM (release to manufacturing) when the latter firmware is available for the masses. No burning the machine to the ground? What wizardry is this?
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Heck,the first update failed for me so forget a rtm version.
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So I can basically start using Windows 10 now? Cool!
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