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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: (But the truth is that in certain places there are certain people so bored, that anything will do to occupy them)
And an even greater truth: they got paid for their time, and probably more than you or I would be paid.
Hag Sameach, chaveri.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The Universe was also probably not created by a sneeze of the Great Green Arkleseizure and will probably not be destroyed by the "Coming of the Great White Handkerchief" 
Until the string theorists can come up with a prediction that is truly falsifiable, their work should be classified as abstract mathematics, not as physics.
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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... this has already happened.
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... and no one noticed!
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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I prefer Pascal's version [1]: "The Universe is a fearful [2] sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere."
[1] The ancient lineage of this quote traced in this wonderful essay by Jorge Borges: [^]
[2] Borges discovered that the common translation of Pascal's quote into English mistakenly translated the French "effroyable" as "infinite;" it's correct translation is "fearful."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 8-Dec-15 10:10am.
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What difference would it make? How would it affect people's daily lives?
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To make it easier to develop cross-platform code that works well for both Windows and other platforms, we’ve released an additional compiler toolset for Visual Studio called Clang with Microsoft CodeGen. C program compile. C program run. Run program run.
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IDC says that shipments are down more than 10 percent year over year and that the contraction will last at least through 2016 Well, PCs were fun while they lasted. Back to the AS/400s with you!
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The market survey is incomplete. Many people of my acquaintance have replaced or are planning to replace PCs with portables. How is the portable market doing?
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 PC is dead, down with the establishment and computing forever. You have to take two steps back to leap forward.
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Just so long as it's not a Great Leap Forward. 
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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In this article, I want to share a little of the experience of a career littered with failed technologies and the lessons gained through these experiences. "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
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For me it's DOS->TSR->OS/2->Win32/MFC->ASP/VB6->Java/Struts/Tiles->ASP.NET->HTML/jQuery->Cordova/PhoneGap->Cocos2dx. How many people still even now what TSR stands for? No point of even listing in your resume what you did 10 years ago. Look into the future. Keep your nose in the wind, and your eyes along the skyline.
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TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident.
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I thought he meant that after starting with DOS, he got distracted by a few years playing D&D (published by TSR).
"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 might want to hide this knowledge during interviews - it will reveal how old you are.
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Windows Phone won't breach five percent of worldwide smartphone shipments any time soon They've got the opposition right where they want them
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Like Novocaine, the ? operator has its place. But, like Novocaine, if you find yourself relying on it, there’s likely a deeper problem. solution?.fix?.problem()?
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Swift does cool things like this
var theHotFix = solution?.fix?.problem()?
it is called Optional Chaining. 
But I am too "old school" to like it. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Exactly what C# does, if you read the article.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What does the computing landscape look like in a decade? By still banging my head against hard objects? (JavaScript, oh JavaScript)
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Technologist: "We will all be eating strawberries and cream."
Developer: "I don't like strawberries and cream."
Technologist: "WE WILL ALL BE EATING STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM!!!"
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Pretty well exactly what it is like now, I suspect.
Programming evolves at a glacial rate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft is hoping to bridge the gap between desktop PCs, tablets, and smartphones, creating one experience to persist over every device. Well, that's one way to increase the number of apps in your store
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