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According to a new industry report from IDC out this morning, smartwatch shipments experienced “significant” declines in the third quarter, as total shipments were down 51.6 percent from the same time last year. From "zero" to negative?
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Because people realised that you have to replace them to the latest models every year and suddenly it's much more cost effective long term to buy a Rolex?
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So was it the journo who wrote that piece or their editor who took the conclusion "Sales dipped predictably due to Android Wear delay and the imminent and well-leaked Apple Watch 2.0 launch" and turned it into "Sales are tanking".
Sigh.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's techcrunch I'm sure the editor had make it quite clear to his writers that he wants nothing but clickbait.
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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New research shows that the part of the brain that is activated during dishonesty responds less and less as we “get used” to cheating — and that could make us lie even more. Honestly?
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So that's how politicians do it...
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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Microsoft is working on a quantum computer that uses what are called “non-abelian anyons,” a quasiparticle that physicists aren’t sure even exist. So it runs Windows 10?
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The best feature of the quasiparticle computer is that you can throw it through two windows simultaneously.
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The coder you need may likely be on the other side of the world, according to recent research. Right here, of course
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Quote: Where to find the world's best programmers From which planet is he referencing to? He completely ignored N&S America DEVs
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He also ignored me, but only because it would skew the results
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I'm talking respective to continents not countries. Kids these days
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New Zealand professor asked to present his work at US event on nuclear physics despite it containing gibberish all through the copy I guess it makes about as much sense as many other physics papers these days
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Bartneck said that given the quality of the review process and the steep registration fee, he was “reasonably certain that this is a money-making conference with little to no commitment to science.
And a Microsoft Developer Conference is different how?
(Oooh, that was low, I admit it!)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And a Microsoft Developer Conference is different how?
Come on! This is the best payed advertisement can ever be! You advertise and the audience pay!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Microsoft has partnered with Acclaim to introduce Microsoft badges for Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) to achieve certain certifications or pass select exams. Badges? We got your stickin' badges.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: stickin'
I believe that the original quote was "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges"
Stickin' just sounds... dirty... for some reason.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Joys of entering that one on my iPad. Got auto"corrected "
TTFN - Kent
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I usually call that 'feature' autoincorrect (or autocowreck or Auto Condom Wrecker, as my iPad once decided to use )
I love the site Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories[^]
Lots of fail there.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And how exactly you stick a digital badge to your forehead?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: And how exactly you stick a digital badge to your forehead?
With digital tape?
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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People keep claiming that is because of bad choices of language, but it’s mostly not and static typing will not even slightly help fix it. dim Discuss as new Flamebait()
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davidMacIver = HesGotSomeGoodPoints()
davidMacIver = ButHesAlsoWrong()
Make it more expensive to write broken software - write in a non-static typed language
Make it cheaper to write correct software - write in a static typed language
But because these bugs [those that happen in production] are relatively minor
Now that's where I totally disagree. If a true static typed language had been used, or had been used properly (ie, semantically, which is the next level of strong typing), this case in point[^]
due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed.
would not have cost the taxpayers $327.6 million
Dealing with type errors in a non-static language is not cheaper. I spend time writing unit tests and verifying the runtime by hand to ensure type correctness that I do NOT spend with static typed languages. Running an app only to discover I'm using a duck-typed variable before I've assigned something to it is a time waster. The benefits of static typing far outweight the benefits of non-static typed languages, and I'm sorry David, that's not opinion, but measurable fact.
Can duck-typed languages save time? Sure! I can replace a class instance that interfaces with hardware with a class instance that mocks the hardware as simply as the code above. I can add fields to a class outside of the class simply by making an assignment.
All of which are cheats and laziness, break the "code as documentation" fallback. In other words, duck-typed languages are like pr0n instead of the real thing.
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Most existing static type systems also come with a build time cost that makes testing in general more expensive.
And the unit tests that duck-typed languages require often (in my experience with a small Ruby on Rails web app) take longer to run than compiling much more complex web sites. [/edit]
Marc
modified 23-Oct-16 20:40pm.
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The fact that we have === says it all.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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