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While the biggest headline surrounding apps in the Windows platform at Build was surrounding iOS and Android, another major announcement was about using code from Win32 applications to make Windows apps. "Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."
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So is it worth learning a relatively obscure language or skill set, on the hope that you can score one of a handful of well-paying jobs that require it? "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
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Dice wrote: on the hope that you can score one of a handful of well-paying jobs that require it?
No. Though I do agree with having at least a taste of several languages; when it comes to work, only learn what you need to know now. You have no idea what you will need to know next week.
(I never needed to know COBOL or Fortran.)
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Popular languages are in high demand thus pay well...
There are also many programmers who know these languages! Why pay a top salary for a programmer who has the same skills as all the other programmers? There's probably a programmer around who can do the same job for less.
Now a language nobody knows, but that you need... That you're willing to pay for!
So if you are the one developer who knows that particular language you can practically name your price.
Well, in theory anyway.
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Sander Rossel wrote: in theory anyway.
In practice, the company will decide not to use that language/technology and instead choose one for which candidates are a dime-a-dozen.
Or make up their own language (you know who you are) so they get the determine who has da skillz and who doesn't.
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Well, you know what they say about theory and practice...
In theory they're the same, but in practice they're not 
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The times they are a-changin', and Microsoft understands that it needs to change with them, too. More, "What Every Programmer Should Know About Compiler Optimizations", Visual Studio 2015, EF 7, and more!
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About two months after releasing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview, Microsoft has delivered a broader preview aimed at all users I can't copy/paste any anticipation, but maybe you will
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Britain could be forced to introduce internet rationing, after an expert warned it could consume the country’s entire power supply within 20 years. "Experts" "warn" "disaster" is "nigh"
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Oo do I see a ploy to jack the price up exponentially?
Other nations soon to follow!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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♪♫ The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I...live by the river! ♪♫
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Ooh - we do like a bit of rationing here. Could you work out some way that we have to queue to use it too?
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Yeah, and by 2015[^] CPUs will be as hot as the surface of the sun...
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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Or we could reduce the size of a bit so more may pass through the fibres!
I'm guessing reducing it just a bit will be enough
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And it's super important, of course, but I think that it's just a small part of the entire picture, and not precisely the hardest to learn. And the hardest part is not killing people (some days)
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You mean it gets harder and harder to hide the bodies?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Hydrofluoric acid.
Lesson learned from Breaking Bad - don't use the tub. 
TTFN - Kent
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No sir. I agree with the good Doctor Lowe[^]. No way I'd willingly and knowingly be in the same building as that stuff.  
TTFN - Kent
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That's what real friends are for. 
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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Yeah...
"I can do it like..... typy type,typy type"
Having ever so much fun, "making bugs, making bugs"
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Yes. I think the hardest part is knowing the best solution, drawing up the engineering documentation, and then getting your subordinates to write it correctly.
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Facebook is fighting back against accusations that its Internet.org initiative is trampling over the principles of net neutrality by giving any company the chance to offer its services for free on the platform. All hail the new AOL!
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Azure Stack is a cloud infrastructure platform that packages the capabilities of Microsoft's public Azure cloud for use by customers in private data centers and public hosting services. So you can, you know, keep people off your cloud
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Tech firms, universities stock research centers amid push in hot area of computer science. But real stupidity is everywhere
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