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Kotlin was conceived in 2010. Ten years of Java development led us to feeling that our productivity at JetBrains could be improved significantly by using a modern JVM language alongside Java. Having evaluated other available options, we decided that a new language was needed there, and we had the expertise and resources to create such a language. Another programming language. That doesn't confuse things...
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First off, our projects live long and grow really big (many millions of lines of code), so we needed static typing to be able to reason precisely about huge codebases and maintain them over the years.
Oooh, I love the low blow to Ruby and their ilk.
Marc
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By now you have probably seen the WSJ report that says Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system into Android and phase it (and the “Chromebook” name) out over time. Google today published a story on virtually every blog it owns that denies this. I guess they still have a few Chromebooks in the warehouse
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Denial is always the first stage. Most of the other stages are skipped, getting right to "acceptance", as in "yup, it's true, Chrome OS is dead, we accept it, and so should you."
Funny how companies, governments and cheating politicians all have to go through the denial stage first though.
Marc
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"We have no plans to do X" means at best that we have no plans now but we don't rule out changing our plans. 
Kevin
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Essential .NET, UX, ASP.NET file downloading and more No Bothans died to bring you this information
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Atlantic Monthly, November, 2015
"When I sat down to hear his case a few weeks ago, he didn’t evince much patience for the argument that American politicians couldn’t agree even on whether climate change is real, much less on how to combat it. "If you’re not bringing math skills to the problem," he said with a sort of amused asperity, "then representative democracy is a problem." interviewer quoting Gates
"Yes, the government will be somewhat inept," he said brusquely, swatting aside one objection as a trivial statement of the obvious. "But the private sector is in general inept. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them." Gates to interviewer [^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The update will contain new features that will make it easier to shift between devices while you work, according to WinBeta. I thought Windows 10 was "the last version of Windows"?
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It all depends on your definition of "last".
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The problem with staying competitive isn't that we spend too much on IT, it's that we don't spend enough "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
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Who let the economist in here? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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QuickTime and iTunes are two of the most exposed programs, according to Flexera I think it's because they want to forget they actually installed iTunes for Windows
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The first thing I uninstall after installing Quicktime (which I only do with a gun pointed at me) is the Apple Updater. Because for some reason, Apple believes that "Keeping Quicktime up to date" means the same thing as "Install Safari, ITunes, and any other Apple-branded crapware under the sun"
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That's the same reason I haven't had quicktime installed on any of my PCs since the last one I had before installing Vista64 because I needed more ram.
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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Developers are business people. The only way the statement in the Agile principles makes sense is to suggest that they’re not. Certainly true, if the question is, "Give us one word that describes Leslie Nielsen."
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Actors?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Developers are not business people, just as athletes are not business people. Policefolk and firefighters are not business people either.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Developers are not business people |
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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In other words, business people are declarative while developers are imperative? 
Marc
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Wasn't that the first comment at the bottom of the article?
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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He's addressing an issue that doesn't exist. The entire article is based on a non sequitur.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I recently read Christin Gorman's blog Future Proof. In it she lambastes the idea that you can create code that is protected from future change. YAGNI
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Researchers have found that the most secure password you can create is actually a little poem made of random words, which could take millions of years to crack and are also easy to remember. I think that I have never heard a poem as lovely as a password
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They've stolen my IP - there goes my use of
"The boy stood on the burning deck..."
"When a man grows old and his $#$%^ grow cold"
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