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Never been a fan of obtaining things illegally (except for a season of Sliders, for which I received a DMCA violation notice).
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Correct Link[^]
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Updated the post with the correct link. Something happened when the hamsters parsed out the URL.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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They took the %27 and made it an '. Why? My guess is 'Why Not?'
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Lets not.
These days I only use JPegs in printing, publishing, photograpy only at max quality no loss or min loss. Lossy compression was fun a decade ago. But nowadays it exists because of the widespread base. Relatively speaking LibTif by Sam Leffler is a piece of Engineering Marvel.
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What format do you use for photographs these days?
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Despite the advantages offered by FPGAs and their rapid growth, use of FPGA technology is restricted to a narrow segment of hardware programmers. The larger community of software programmers has stayed away from this technology, largely because of the challenges experienced by beginners trying to learn and use FPGAs. Comparing Verilog, OpenCL, Liquid Metal and other frameworks you've probably never heard of.
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In many organizations, it's expected that any persistent data will be stored in relational databases that are managed by a central database management group. There are various reasons for such central control, usually centered around using IntegrationDatabases. Central data groups worry about keeping out malformed data, queries that can slow down important shared resources, and consistent data models across the enterprise. Worthy these aims may be, but one consequence of them is considerable ceremony about storing data. Using a NoSQL database to avoid the DBAs when a relational database would be a better choice.
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TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source. Try coding in side-by-side TypeScript and JavaScript, then run the code in your browser.
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A prospective new college hire recently related an odd comment from his professor: systems programming is dead. I was nonplussed; what could the professor have meant? Systems is clearly very much alive. Interesting and important projects march under the banner of systems. But as I tried to construct a less emotional rebuttal, I realized I lacked a crisp definition of what systems programming is... Any layer on which people build applications of increasing complexity is systems software?
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A simple piece of software means that there is no interleaving. It doesn’t combine things. It has focus. Something is simple when it addresses: one role, one task, one concept, one dimension. Simple doesn’t mean there is only one of them. Its not about an interface with one operation or a class with one instance. It’s not about cardinality. By contrast, a complex system is braided or folded together. There are interleaving roles, tasks, concepts, or dimensions. Identifying a system as simple or complex is thus objective. If there are twists, its complex. If there is no interleaving, it’s simple. Notes from Rich Hickey’s 2011 talk “Simple Made Easy.”
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There’s a good reason why Mozilla was able to get more than a dozen carriers to line up behind its browser-based phone operating system. First off, carriers love anything that threatens to lessen the power of Apple and Android. It’s why they always express hope and optimism for any new release of Windows or BlackBerry and have for years.... But even low-cost smartphones have to work well.
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The only reason they have any interest is probably because they can install crapware and lock it down. Something Apple has never allowed with it's phones.
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What was a total oddity a year ago, and little more than an experiment just 18 months ago is now starting to look like a real product. One that could be in the hands (or on the heads, rather) of consumers by the end of this year. A completely new kind of computing device; wearable, designed to reduce distraction, created to allow you to capture and communicate in a way that is supposed to feel completely natural to the wearer. It’s the anti-smartphone, explicitly fashioned to blow apart our notions of how we interact with technology. Well, all information looks like noise until you put on the glasses.
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What better way to start a Monday than with a hearty helping of Coffee(script)? The new version[^] adds "literate" mode, allowing you to write your scripts with MarkDown[^]. This could let you combine your documentation with your scripts, or maybe just write a little story to entertain your users. Or make some reference to Plain E^H^H^H^H^H^H^H.
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TTFN - Kent
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To say that understanding polymorphism is critical to understanding how to effectively utilize an object-oriented language is a bit of an understatement. It’s not just a central concept, it’s the concept you need to understand in order to build anything of size and scope beyond the trivial. Yet, as important as it is I feel it is often quickly glossed over in most computer science curriculums. From my own experience, I took two courses that focused on OOP, undergraduate and graduate, but I don’t think I truly understood its importance until later. John Teague begins a series of articles on polymorphism and OOP.
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create some concrete implorations of the interface
I would implore him to check his auto-complete spell-checker, lest he spawns another vile implementation of a word re-purposed for some technical jargon. 
Marc
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When I was developing an RSS reader, users often asked me if I would make it sync via Dropbox (or WebDAV or iDisk or similar). For a while, years ago, before Dropbox existed, my reader did sync by writing files to iDisk. It didn’t work very well at all, and, looking back, I shouldn’t have shipped this feature. I made a mistake. Syncing shared data in the cloud is never easy. Here are just a few of the possible pitfalls.
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I used to loathe static typing. From PHP to JavaScript to Python to Ruby, I was pretty much a dynamic typing fan boy.... Over time, not only have I learned to appreciate languages with good type systems, I actually now prefer them for solving certain classes of problems. Everything old is new again.
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I love Make. You may think of Make as merely a tool for building large binaries or libraries (and it is, almost to a fault), but it’s much more than that. Makefiles are machine-readable documentation that make your workflow reproducible.... The beauty of Make is that it’s simply a rigorous way of recording what you’re already doing. It doesn’t fundamentally change how you do something, but it encourages to you record each step in the process, enabling you (and your coworkers) to reproduce the entire process later. The ugly side of Make is its syntax and complexity... Fortunately, you can ignore most of this.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: I love Make
Oh boy... 
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Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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It didn't start with Java--it started well before that, with a set of cross-platform C++ toolkits that promised the same kind of promise: write your application in platform-standard C++ to our API, and we'll have the libraries on all the major platforms (back in those days, it was Windows, Mac OS, Solaris OpenView, OSF/Motif, and a few others) and it will just work. Even Microsoft got into this game briefly... For better or worse, the major players will not allow their systems to be commoditized that easily.
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English - doing fine thanks.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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