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One of the great achievements of modern computing is that we no longer need to be programmers to create, build and get things done with the amazing supercomputers that everyone carries around in their pockets. Why not all three?
Yeah, sorry about linking to the NY Daily News, but that's where he published this.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ith the amazing supercomputers that everyone carries around in their pockets.
And what do we mostly use those amazing supercomputers for? Texting, selfies, and playing 2048. 
Marc
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There are hundreds of programming languages. With so many choices, how do you know which to focus on? Que?
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To be or not to be a polyglot.
Yes.
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I choose esperanto
M.D.V. 
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If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
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Nice reference from Rush. Well done!
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Languages are all the same - they all implement Bohm-Jacopini theorem. What matters are the paradigm and the framework / API libraries, which in turn depend more often than not on the architecture you're writing for.
Given this, the matter becomes: is it important to learn to write for different architectures? My opininon is "nyes":
- Yes: architectures die. Slowly but die. AS400 and OS/2 were sure choices a couple of tenyears ago, but they are almost dead and will be more dead as the time goes on.
- No: architectures are tough stuff, both to be created (which means that actually you don't see many of them springing around) and to be understood. Being a master of one architecture may be much more rewarding and well-paying than being an adept of many.
All depends on the singular individual... for example I barely know any of the "web stuff", just a very basic understanding of Javascript as of 2005, PHP 4 and HTML4. This is a serious handicap in today's job market - but I'm able to write highly optimized SIMD code for IA-32...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Protecting privacy in an age of big data, cloud processing and increasingly interconnected digital services demands a structural shift in how software is developed. How else are you going to keep people off your cloud?
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The Chinese government originally partnered with Ubuntu maker Canonical back in 2013 to create an alternative to Windows, codenamed Kylin. While that initial effort didn't really take off, a new Linux-based operating system dubbed NeoKylin is quickly becoming one of the most popular alternatives to Windows in China. I wonder if we can get the to localize it to English (and support it)?
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Our compiler is old. There are comments in the source from 1982, which was when Microsoft was just starting its own C compiler project. It's always a good idea to clean up your code base every 33 years (or so)
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All the more reason for them to switch to Clang.
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Microsoft has released some interesting stats on its "Microsoft by the Numbers" website, which showcases the growth of the Windows platform as well as other products and services offered by the company. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
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Of the link you provided, the bottom-left item on that page boasts of their 4,728 pieces of at in their corporate Microsoft Art Collection, and that they have one of the largest corporate art collections in the world (which includes a piece of the Berlin Wall).
There's a link (below) to their Microsoft Art Collection, which results in the HTTP Error 401 - Page not found.
Yup, that's Microshaft for ya...
http://microsoft.com/about/artcollection/en/us/default.aspx.com[^]
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a host of celebrities kicked off a campaign on Saturday to make Internet access universal, saying this was critical to fulfilling the United Nations' newly adopted agenda to combat global ills. Because everyone deserves cat videos
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Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, says FTC keeping a close eye. Even if they did, Google would never do anything EVil with it, would they?
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NASA is tantalizing the world with big Mars news.[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Late on Sunday evening, September 27, the Earth will slide precisely between the sun and the moon, throwing the satellite into a rusty red shadow. "I see the bad moon arisin'"
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Get out of my house! 
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Hope you got your things together!
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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There's a bathroom on the right! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Should we get stock on silver bullets?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Can we ever talk about ourselves as senior developers? It means never having to say you're sorry
Sorry, it's late in the day, and late in the week. I was trying to go with a "Someone who's pulled out more hair than they have left.", but that really didn't work either. I think I need a snark refill...
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