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I really am a lot more worried about a car killing me. The article stated in the next 100 years. Not likely to live another 100 years.
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Quote: Not likely to live another 100 years. Speak for yourself! I am hoping that medical breakthroughs will keep me going at least another 200+ years.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Just hope it is not a 100+ years in an iron lung
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mental note: watch out for falling asteroids when crossing the street
That's hard to do when you're crossing the street and texting.
Marc
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The planets are close enough to us that we can study their atmospheres. Warm up the car, we'll head over
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Of course Mars does have an atmosphere (the moon much less of one), so I guess they both qualify. Just better not try to go out without your space suit. The way things are going on Earth, in a few more 1000 years may need an environmental suit here.
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This article gives an overview of best practices and tools to make supporting a new .NET Framework version easier. 'If you’re backwards compatible, you’re really backwards'
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The first relevant thing in there was about quirking....
I almost broke down after reading that and every shred of optimism I've been feeling about the direction of .NET died.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Today, Twitter is excited to announce participation in the first major release of the Pants open source project: 1.0.0, an open source build tool for monorepo-style source repositories. Put your code in some pants
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Kent Sharkey wrote: monorepo-style source repositories.
Sounds like a disease of the butt.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sounds like a disease of the butt.
I guess someone should call a proctologist...
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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To Twitter? A proctologist would never even begin to diminish the backlog of work over there.
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*Looks at the name*
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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At the end of every month, using public data sources, we can take a look at trends in the desktop and browser markets and the day has finally arrived where Chrome is now a more popular browser than Internet Explorer. And they said Edge wouldn't accomplish anything
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Roslyn, Dapper, PowerShell, and oh so much more. Because life is too short to wait for the paper copy
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The link isn't working for me. This one is: May 2016[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Odd. It wasn't working for me either, but now it's back.
Ah well, back to the old acronym: MSDN = MicroSoft Developers Napping.
TTFN - Kent
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There will be four different SQL Server 2016 editions including Enterprise, Standard, Express and Developer. Now with even more SELECT features
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A first-of-its-kind space rock filled with pristine material from the formation of the Earth itself has returned to the inner solar system, after billions of years in the cosmic boondocks. And it could help us piece together our planet’s origin story. "V'ger... expects an answer."
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The Rockets[^] are back?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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The extreme nature of the type system in swift got me thinking about the "Type Wars" that our industry has been fighting for the last six decades. A nice read on data types, if that's your type of thing
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Great article.
As programs grew ever more complicated in the late 70s and early 80s, the problem of keeping your types straight began to get out of hand.
And it still is.
Today we call that discipline: Test Driven Development.
Exactly -- the only way to verify you haven't screwed up is to test, test, and test. And, as I recently wrote[^], "[This] is why developers who promote duck-typed languages also strongly promote unit testing. Unit testing, particularly in duck-typed languages, is the "fix" for making sure you haven't screwed up the type."
we have repeatedly seen, unit test coverage close to 100% can, and is, being achieved.
Really? Where? Not any Ruby or Python code I've seen over the last 5 years. I think that's a complete fiction, and is the one flaw in an otherwise really great post.
dynamic languages will become the preferred languages.
I hope not. Because at least in the experience of this old programmer, duck-typed languages are great for rapid prototyping, but they're also the path to rapid disaster. I also find productivity reduced, especially when I either have to run the code to see if I screwed something up that, heck, I don't even have to compile the C# code, the Visual Studio IDE will redline it for me in the editor, or I have to take the time to write a unit test.
But what do you expect. From what I've seen, people who write with duck-typed languages don't even use an IDE. I work with one guy who actually adamantly refuses to use an IDE. He does everything in Sublime. Now, granted, Sublime is an awesome editor, but at best all it does is syntax highlighting and some smart auto-completion, and yes, I use it and love for when I have to work in Javascript and Python across a VM bridge, the auto-SFTP is awesome, but nothing, absolutely nothing (except maybe what JetBrains is working on with their C# IDE) comes close to what Microsoft has achieved with Visual Studio.
For me, there is no war. For anything but small scale projects, duck-typed languages are absolutely the wrong choice, and at this point, I'd rather be flipping hamburgers than writing flippin' unit tests to verify something the IDE can tell me I did wrong when I use a strongly typed language.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: except maybe what JetBrains is working on with their C# IDE
Not just their C# IDE. I spend a fair bit of time in their JS IDE, and the completion, highlighting, squiggles, and debugging is way better than I've ever had in Visual Studio (using JS). To be fair, I've not done any JS in VS2015. Just stickin' with what works these days.
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Marc Clifton wrote: For anything but small scale projects, duck-typed languages are absolutely the wrong choice, and at this point, I'd rather be flipping hamburgers than writing flippin' unit tests to verify something the IDE can tell me I did wrong when I use a strongly typed language.
Or we can use F# with its strong type inference on steroids.
Kevin
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