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Quote: all the things
Including "Internet of things" 
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Pirate Bay, EZTV Down: Torrent Sites Offline For Prolonged Period Amid Increased Scrutiny Of Illegal Downloading
This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper.
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'You can't stop the signal, Mal.'
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Backdoor tied to espionage campaign that has targeted governments in 45 countries. Ah, blissful schadenfreude
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Many programming languages have come and gone since Dennis Ritchie devised C in 1972, and yet C has not only survived three major revisions, but continues to thrive. Of ourse! Onsider what ommuniation would be like if we eased using it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Of ourse! Onsider what ommuniation would be like if we eased using it.
Funny response.
But, this question could only be asked by someone who has never done embedded programming.
So without reading the article I know a bit about the author.
Assembler is still around too.
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Also, I'd wager it's still plenty useful in a real-time environment as well. I'd still use it today for a serious routine in a game or making a web app handle millions of users when doing some crunching. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: still plenty useful in a real-time environment
Great point!
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In a rare moment of seriousness, yes, it is. A lot of the duck typed languages are written in C, if I'm writing low level driver stuff on a Beaglebone or Arduino, I'm using either C or C++ (and C is acceptable with its language improvements, I typically only use C++ because of it's better language style, not because of the OO part). C still remains one of the best ways to write "nearly" assembly language.
Marc
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In this three-part series, I will explore, and debunk, five popular myths about C++ Yeah, what does that guy know about C++?
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Some of those myths - I've never ever heard anyone say those. I mean, who thinks learning C is a requisite to learning C++? 
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Actually, it's surprisingly frequent. On Reddit, I commonly see people ask for advice on how to learn C++ and be instructed to learn C first.
Of course Bjarne may be trying to get people to buy his own introductory programming tome based on C++.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That was really interesting; please link to parts 2 and 3 when they're published.
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'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll definitely try to remember (about all I can promise these days)
TTFN - Kent
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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
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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
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