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Or is it that the founders were reared by wolves?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Do they keep Bill Gates in a cage between the Forum and the Campus Microsoftus?
(pardon my Latin  )
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 service, which gives you five personalized email address, an ad free inbox and improved calendar sharing, is currently only available via an invite. For just pennies a day, you can have Microsoft misplace your email
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Here's yet another reason not to upgrade.
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Yeah, already saving $3.99 per month, and it is just the beginning. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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There’s nothing distinctive about JavaScript, with one big exception: JavaScript has a code complexity problem. They missed a few obvious ones, but of the ones they list, I think I have to agree with them.
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~1k commits of real code (vs generated file wrappers or the like) are a cluster elephant in any language. Either they were only looking at fubar code bases, or they were only looking at noise checkins. Regardless, they came to the right conclusion by completely wrong reasons.
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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One would wonder with all those problems how did they duped millions of programmers to use it? How does it consistently makes it to the top of most popular and most in-demand languages?
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I don't think people use JavaScript out of choice. I think they use it because it's the only way to program the client on the web.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I blame Mozilla. But broader, if you need to do something in the browser, you've little choice other than JavaScript.
TTFN - Kent
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You may have seen the TSA Randomizer on your last flight. A TSA agent holds an iPad. The agent taps the iPad, a large arrow points right or left, and you follow it into a given lane. I'll do it for half that price: return Math.random() * (101-1) + 1;
US Government: I'll take either money order or certified cheque (thanks)
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No technology is timeless in the eyes of a developer and all have their flaws and perks. However, as Steve Naidamast, a senior software engineer claims, the pendulum of history begins to swing back sooner or later, demonstrating that until the actual foundations of web development change, no new technology will actually be able to benefit anyone in the sense that it is some type of global panacea for such development. {insert 30K of VIEWSTATE here}
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Nailed it. 
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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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