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Definitely a case of a headline that looks a lot scarier than it actually is if you're not familiar with weird kernel guts.
They're not talking about dropping 32bit support; just a rarely used frankenmode that's 64bit in almost all ways (eg to get most of the innate benefits of x64 like more registers); without paying the cache tax from 64bit pointers if your apps workload will comfortably fit in 4gb of address space.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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At InfoQ we periodically update our topics graph to show where we think different topics are in the technology adoption curve. Angle brackets all the way down
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Why are there so many reports on the future of writing web pages, and so few on real programming?
Pandering to the mindless masses?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I like to think of it as "broadening the newsletter focus to include developers other than C/C++/C# ones", but sure. Your wording works too.
TTFN - Kent
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I suppose that, since geocities shut down, a lot of desperate "page under construction" wallahs need encouragement from different sources.
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Remember the late 90s when it seemed every other article in MSDN magazine was on how cool COM was?
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Yup.
You could tell that it would last and last.
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The woman who created and sold what many recognise as the world's first word processor has died aged 93. Transferred to that great clipboard in the sky
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Quote: She had earlier built one of the original computerised airline reservation systems.
The innovation - which matched customers and available seats - was tested by United Airlines in 1962.
According to the Computer History Museum, it had a one-second response time and worked for 11 years without any central system failures. Nice.
"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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Good God!
So the solution to the problem has been there for years, but no-one paid attention!
OK, Guys, the next time (whether it's ten seconds from now or a whole five minutes) that your windows machine plays up, throw a bucket of water on the floor!
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npm JavaScript predictions for 2019: React, GraphQL, and TypeScript are three technologies to learn I predict that JavaScript will still be around in 2019. Where's my grant money?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I predict that JavaScript will still be around in 2019. Where's my grant money?
Hey, stop undercutting Gartner's business. Next thing you know, you'll predict that "the cloud" will be important to the enterprise. And that "computers" may impact the future. Oh and that "Icon Engineering" is the Next Big Thing.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Next thing you know, you'll predict that "the cloud" will be important to the enterprise. And that "computers" may impact the future.
Demmit! Those were my next two grants! grumblegrumble people stealing ma monay!
TTFN - Kent
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When exactly React, GraphQL and TypeScript became TECHNOLOGIES? What happened to the frameworks we used to know?
(And remember - you want effective, small code? Stay away from npm and its interlinks!)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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/*sigh*/
How could they so blatantly miss the obvious?
Some people will be working on computers, producing web pages.
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Despite a gap between the supply of available JavaScript talent and enterprise demand for such skills, student developers are more interested in learning Ruby and Python. "Still it's hard, hard to see. Fragile lives, shattered dreams"
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Despite the high demand of a sh*t language, students are still learning other sh*t languages.
Alternative headline: Despite the high demand of Javascript jobs, students are learning languages which pay more. Experts baffled.
(Plus, they need a graph comparing what students claim to know versus what they can actually capable of doing.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (Plus, they need a graph comparing what students claim to know versus what they can actually capable of doing.) Hallelujah, Brother!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (Plus, they need a graph comparing what students claim to know versus what they can actually capable of doing.) That should be extended to many "professionals" too
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Eh, people get paid to write Ruby?
I thought they just got pity points...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (Plus, they need a graph comparing what students claim to know versus what they can actually capable of doing.)
Like proper grammar.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Good thing I don't have a job as a writer.
(Actually, I was going to write "can actually do" and then changed my mind. I noticed later, but didn't bother changing it.)
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Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer told customers on Tuesday that an outside investigations firm had found no evidence of any malicious hardware in its current or older-model motherboards. Audit performed by: Mr. Magoo of Three Blind Mice, LLC
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Another case of "should we believe bloomberg or everyone else" resolved.
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I'll bet they did one of those "technical" searches, not one using magic dust and fairies.
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