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I knew a prof at the University of Waterloo who said Basic, a language he taught, "cause irreparable brain damage".
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet. If only they had Al Gore...
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Australian engineers have created a new quantum bit which remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved, dramatically expanding the time during which calculations could be performed in a future silicon quantum computer. 2.4ms! Victory is ours!
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It was really a 1, 2, 3, & 4 fold boost all at the same time.
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The JS Foundation was designed to foster JavaScript applications and server-side projects by providing best practices and policies. Does this mean we have to have a Year of JavaScript now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Year of JavaScript
C:\src\local\wtf> npm install year --save
wtf@1.0.0 C:\src\local\wtf
+-- systemjs@0.19.39
`-- year@0.2.1
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It's extremely responsive without overly expensive hardware. It has a decent browser and batteries have a good duration even on smaller and cheaper phonesets.
For a consumer who wants to use all the available apps for registering, flight bookings, payments, fun, even farsebook... it is useless. Apps are updated every 6-12 months while the other platforms have already mvoed forward; GMail and Google Maps are unavailable (the latter is unavailable even through the browser) and Bing Maps is as accurate as the Bing search engine (I was at Greenwhich and it showed me in the very middle of the Thames).
It's half baked and it was never pushed on the market nor advertised properly, so it fell in the self-repeating cycle of no apps -> no users -> no apps (because it's not economically worthy) -> no users...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Interesting notes on WinPhone.
I tell you though as new iOS dev who is using an ipad mini (or any ios device) for the first time, there are a lot of gaps in UX from apple iOS too. And this new Sierra feature of having to actually click the hardware button to unlock the thing. It's odd.
All the device OSes are flawed.  I like Android best though.
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Almost 70 percent of companies are likely to phase out passwords within five years, the survey showed Then the hackers won't have anything to steal! Brilliant!
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Without a password you'd need another kind of token that will prove who you are. That means that the problem will persist.
So, the survey actually says that 70% of companies rather blame the existence of the password than take a serious look at their own security. It would be nice if those companies were publicly listed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You are correct, and this is one my peeves.
I use a password manager and the strongest passwords. Sometimes 128 characters.
The problem is, more and more businesses are preventing you from using strong passwords. They reject them. Especially banks and credit cards.
And to make it worse, they deliberately put code into their signon page to prevent pasting in a password. This makes it inconvenient to use strong passwords, because now you have to manually type them, so people just give up and use weak passwords.
IDIOTS!!!!!
I have one total moron credit card that EVERY SINGLE TIME I login I have to tell it who my first friend was, the name of my dog, who's on first.
That account will be cancelled soon. They just don't get it.
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True. I should pick the next cat-name from the random GUID generator 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have a GUIDO generator if you need one.
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A company trying to create a market by buying a survey, I suppose I can't blame 'em.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime implemented solely in header files. "Where's your head at, you don't make it easy on yourself"
Yeah, I got nothing.
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This is actually pretty good, but too little, too late, IMHO. They should have done this initially instead of the C++/CX debacle.
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One strategy we are investigating is the ability to transpile .NET code to C++ code that could be compiled with an appropriate C++ compiler for the target platform. If only there was some language that could create native executable programs?!
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Which goes on par with the solution for the slowness of garbage collection, which is to not allocate/deallocate memory. If only there were methods to do that manually...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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And what happens the moment you wish to have a UI using system defined widgets/gadgets ? Well, okay, Rectangles are universal in the sense they can be defined with a simple struct (assuming you have a co-ordinate system that means something).Quote: You already know some of the places where we have the RyuJIT working nicely: Windows Desktop, Windows Phone, MacOS, and several Linux Desktop distributions all use RyuJIT.
I think these boys talkin' de crazy talk just to get out of their cubicles.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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The platform specializes in asynchronous programming for embedded systems, device drivers, and distributed services. I'll avoid the obvious joke here, as this is a family newsletter
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Not being under any such constraints, I'll ask if this whole thing looks all wet to anyone else. 
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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In 2011, I wrote an obituary for Dennis Ritchie. This week, the Internet thought it was news. This is what happens when the buffer overflows
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You heard about Leslie Nielson? 
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The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. "My god, it's full of stars."
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