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Quote: The current mad rush towards the “mobile” environment began with the introduction of Apple’s “smartphone”.
Anyone who sees a need to put those words in scare quotes should elephant off back to his mainframe and greenbar fanfold printouts and leave the rest of us alone.
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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Scientists have theorized for decades that an additional state of matter exists, but despite tantalizing hints to its presence, details about this mystery state have remained elusive—until now. "And nothing else matters"
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Microsoft has just announced a new issue tracker for Edge that will allow Microsoft engineers to better listen to user feedback. Hopefully it's running on Azure, it might need to scale
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Windows is still important, but it's no longer the only platform that matters: Microsoft is releasing software and supporting app development for Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and even its old enemy Linux. The infighting and aggressive dismissal of competitors is mostly gone. It's the Cloud! It's the Cloud! just doesn't have the catchiness of "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
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I take pride in the fact that I’m a good, solid programmer. One who works hard at his craft and really enjoys it, even without the fancy labels. "My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so."
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Personally I am happy with C# developer extraordinaire! 
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Biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells. while (food>0) compute();
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A list of the "world's 15 greatest living programmers" was published by IT World last year, based on names which came up again and again in coder discussion forums. Alongside the woman who programmed Nasa's Apollo flight control software, the creator of the Linux operating system and the man who created the game Doom, was Jon Skeet, a programmer from Reading. I'm the Terry Malloy of blurb writers
But really, how do we get the Beeb to do profiles of some of our Great Old Ones?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a programmer from Reading.
Hey! I'm from Reading... Massachusetts! I could be famous! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Steven A. Lowe wrote: Jon Skeet doesn't need a debugger, he just stares down the bug until the code confesses.
Dan Dyer wrote: When Jon Skeet's code fails to compile the compiler apologizes.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Jon Skeet... The ultimate
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to change how we connect to Wi-Fi. To avoid the cumbersome network login process, a team has come up with a way to grant computers access to a Wi-Fi network based on their proximity to a router. None of them do, if you don't mind sharing
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The folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that the word “Internet” will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some of our writers very happy. It was a good try people. Back to AoL!
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Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications. Maybe this means they'll skip the jokes next year?
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When programmers are "in the zone", they need fast access to things like code examples, syntax help, and answers to technical questions. To provide this, we now have programming Instant Answers aka "How we're trying to convince people not to just Google it"
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Keeping the right components installed and updated on your machine is one of the core values That Visual Studio provides – which is quite a task given the rapid evolution of developer frameworks. You mean, I don't have to install MFC anymore?
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The team focused on improving developer productivity by cutting down time, mouse-clicks, and keystrokes to make the actions you perform every day more efficient. It's still missing the "right click here to finish your program"
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The registry bloat that slows down PCs over time won't be a problem with UWP apps, according to Microsoft. But don't worry, they'll figure out something to keep the slowness happening
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No joke: Red Hat is offering access to the full array of RHEL development tools for nothing more than an email address sign-up I thought it was already?
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The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft. Windows 11, powered by Linux
Despite being posted on April 1, it actually seems to have happened.
And of course you know what this means! It's The Year of Linux, of course!
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Isn't there such a thing as a no-compete clause? They probably hired him as a janitor.
Wim Coekaerts has joined Microsoft as Corp VP of Open Source in our Enterprise Cloud Group. As we continue to deepen our commitment to open source, Wim will focus on deepening our engagement, contributions and innovation to the open-source community.
Same difference. 
(ok, that was low, even for me)
Marc
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Hi all,
Alex Regueiro, a fellow developer, initially had started work on a C# library to talk to and from a person's Apple iCloud account. I found this to be potentially useful, say, making a Windows forms desktop GUI or some other app that is not native iOS or Web Based, say, for example, to give a secretary an appointment-management tool that they can use just on their own computer. The idea would be to provide them a user-friendly appointment booking screen that they can use and then it might, e.g., automatically populate my iCloud contacts and calendar entries so I can have the info on my phone, but without the need to train the secretary how to do it.
So, that being said, Alex told me where to find his library on an obscure website named Launchpad (or not so obscure) and he emailed me the latest version of the code. Alex told me that he is no longer maintaining it, but that I was free to start a GitHub for it if I want.
The library, as it stands, just logs in and logs out of someone's Apple iCloud account with his/her username and password. However, it would be nice to have a .NET-based, fully-CRUD gateway to iCloud. Alex's approach was to parse the output of sending web-requests to iCloud, however, I am still getting up to speed.
I posted the project on GitHub -- with Alex's permission -- at:
https://github.com/astrohart/iCloud.NET[^]
if anyone cares to submit pull requests.
Basically, the functionality that is desired is to make a C# driver for Apple iCloud so that you can talk back and forth to it in a more object-oriented fashion and not only read what's in someone's logged-in icloud account, but create, update, and delete entries too.
Brian Hart
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Pffft!
My dishwasher can sound like EDM.
I suppose I should run with that?
My wife looks at me like, no Ron, just you.....
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