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ZDNet: It's taken decades, but it now appears that new forms of real -- albeit simplified -- software development can be carried out by almost anyone with only a little technical know-how link to Q&A.
FTFT(hem)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Well, we all started that way. Granted, probably a bit more to the metal.
Marc
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ZDNet albeit simplified -- software development can be carried out by almost anyone with only a little technical know-how.
Well, if by simplified you mean undocumented, horribly indented, clunky software with more security holes than an caveman's computer, than yeah.
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Women's contributions to open source are more likely to be accepted than men's. I'd make a "pull request" joke, but that would be juvenile
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Warp back to 1992 with Ross Perot, Saddam Hussein, hundreds of shareware nag notices. For all your Extended (and Expanded) Memory
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Scientists just announced the detection of gravitational waves, a discovery that stands to change the way we understand our universe in extraordinary ways. 1/5 - no lyrics, can't dance to the beat
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Nonsense, can dance to anything 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You can dance if you want to...
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Rubbish. That's like encoding the Mona Lisa via some algorithm and saying, "this is what the Mona Lisa sounds like".
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The idea is to help a programmer easily identify an extra parentheses or an errant "I" where a "1" belongs amid thousands of lines of code. Pretty, but I'm not sure it's USD199 pretty
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Kent Sharkey wrote: amid thousands of lines of code
Can they fit that on a screen? I can't, and I use a very small font.
Quote: Operator Mono achieves this with color
Ummm... what? Fonts don't have color. 
I suspect their choice of IDE is a greater factor than the font.
modified 10-Feb-16 19:07pm.
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Script Italics for Class, Method, Parameter names ?
Insanity !
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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I do like the squirrely brackets of that font.
But that's a hefty price for a font in my world to solve what's a non issue according to me.
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Based on that screen-shot, I wouldn't use it if they were giving it away! 
Also, I suspect many of the features only work in an editor which supports ligatures. Most of them don't.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Following that coloring schema the next step will likely be individually colored characters within keywords and identifiers 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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If only someone else had thought of that...
Source Code Pro[^] (Adobe - FREE).
BitStream Vera Sans[^] (Bitstream - Free, used by Gnome, includes monospace variant suitable for coding).
Monoid[^] (Andreas Larsen - Open Source).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft is adding a new test ring for Windows 10 for PCs and mobile devices, plus rolling out Build 10586.107 for Windows 10 Mobile Fast Ring testers. "This time it was neither too hot nor too cold."
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Writing automated tests is sort of like the kale of the software development community. With the exception of a few outlying "get off my lawn" types, there's near-universal agreement that it's "the right thing." "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding!"
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Especially when you don't write tests.
Seriously, what a pointless article. The real pain point in any system, whether you write tests or you have monkeys (or C-level people) test your software by actually banging away at it, is, how do you decide what tests are relevant? How do you prune your stale tests? Do the chimpanzees that are performing maintenance on your beloved creation know how to write new tests or update your existing test suite? Heck, do they even know there is a test suite to run?
And do you, as alpha male gray back, know the difference between a unit test vs. and integration test vs. a functional test vs. an acceptance test? And do you know which one is appropriate for which level of testing? Oh wait, there's levels???
Pointless article.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: The real pain point in any system, whether you write tests or you have monkeys (or C-level people) test your software by actually banging away at it, is, how do you decide what tests are relevant? How do you prune your stale tests? Do the chimpanzees that are performing maintenance on your beloved creation know how to write new tests or update your existing test suite? Heck, do they even know there is a test suite to run?
And do you, as alpha male gray back, know the difference between a unit test vs. and integration test vs. a functional test vs. an acceptance test? And do you know which one is appropriate for which level of testing? Oh wait, there's levels???
Enjoyable and Eloquent ! I wish the author of the article could read these words.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Web developers, do beware of new Date(...); and please stick as closely as possible to the common date parsing format which is based on ISO 8601. Dates: causing programmer grief since 1/1/70 (OK, probably before)
modified 10-Feb-16 19:04pm.
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Alas, most developers can't get even one date.
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