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Sadly, as anyone who has been to Ireland can tell you, when Apple do hand over that money then we will technically be "in a round" and have to keep drinking / paying in turn until the bar closes.
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Ah, lovely Emerald Isle where my ancestors (that were not hung as horse thieves) kept fiddlin' and diddlin' to keep the genes that created me afloat in spite of all the odds rigged by their colonial masters in the name of "Rule Britannia."
Ireland has lowered its debt-to-GDP ratio significantly from second-hightest-in-the-world a few years ago to fifteenth highest now: [^], and eighth highest in the EU ... but, a cool billion could certainly help put a few new strings on ye auld fiddles.
«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
modified 30-Aug-16 7:00am.
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Thanks, Duncan, you're absolutely right; I've updated my post to reflect the most recent source I could find.
cheers, Bill
«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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A report from HackerRank finds that while the U.S. and India have lots of developers, Chinese and Russian programmers are the most talented. "Callin' all nations to put it on the line"
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Chinese developers outside the US are next to worthless. While Russian programmers are very good, those from the non-Russian parts of former Eastern bloc are better.
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In this article I’ll show when C++11 and C++14 can help to write fast, compact and well-structured code. Not your grandpa's C++
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According to the software giant Windows 10 now has 50 percent of the market in the US, and 51 percent in the UK. {Something about the third kind of lie goes here}
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If you liberally count Ubuntu as an alternative Win10 release, that number may be right.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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If whoever wrote that page was drunk enough to think sorting months alphabetically was valid, what are the odds that they counted every w10 upgrade popup as a successful install?
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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waiting for force update window 7 to be downgrade back to window 10
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From the article:
"NetMarketShare records actual OS usage (based on web browsing)"
In other words, not actual, actual OS usage, but actual web browsing usage.
"But, how do you count unique systems?"
"Shut up and go away."
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Technique works on virtually all USB drives with no modifications necessary. Sooooo, you just need physical access to get the data? Brilliant!
80bps. I think actually copying the data to the USB stick might be a little faster.
But I guess I'm just not being hackerish enough.
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Zig interfaces closely with existing C code, but makes it easier to avoid common programming problems and security hazards. Just don't zig when you should zag
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Is there any problem that a new programming language can't solve?
(This one has some good ideas on variable access, but I think if you are going down that road a functional language might be a better fit than a procedural one anyway?)
What we should attempt to do with programming languages is have the safest path use the fewest keywords. For example if you have to use a keyword to make a variable mutable after class initiation you end up with safer by-products of any developer laziness. Make all variable initiation mandatory (so if you want something to be initialised to null you have to type that) and so on.
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Since when did the word "upend" come to mean the same as making insults from a castle wall?
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The star is located 95 light years from Earth and has at least one confirmed planet. "I'm going to need a bigger antenna."
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someone wrote: Sun-like star .
Ahem...
I believe they meant ==> Star-like sun.
Get's your facts straight!!
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Sun-like star is perfectly normal. The "Sun" being the star around which Earth revolves. "Sun-like" thus implies a star of a similar type / size / age.
Star-like sun on the other hand seems meaningless.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Mike Mullikin wrote: seems meaningless
That's how jokes are supposed to seem.
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raddevus wrote: That's how jokes are supposed to seem. Sorry... I failed to see the joke icon and/or the humour.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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"Oh, it was just the cat."
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