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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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Shouldn't that be "e-merges"...?
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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That store is a disaster. This come to mind.
We haven't improved the quality or removed the scam apps. But the smell is stronger than ever.
Hold my drink and watch this.
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Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman and former CEO, says that work needs to be done toward stopping the spread of hate and harassment online. What a silver plane
Or: "We've always been at war with Eastasia"
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"We should target social accounts for terrorist groups like the Islamic State, and remove videos before they spread, or help those countering terrorist messages to find their voice." Censorship, anyone?
I wonder who's taking care of the daily propaganda we have to live with in the Western world.
"Without this type of leadership from government, from citizens, from tech companies, the internet could become a vehicle for further disaggregation of poorly built societies, and the empowerment of the wrong people, and the wrong voices." I hope that filter works for Schmidt's intellectual garbage as well. Who are we to define which are the wrong people and the wrong voices? It's only the arrogance of the west to think they are any better. Guantanamo, anyone? Drones, anyone? The list goes on... there are a lot of skeletons in "our" closets as well.
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It is surely up to Google whether they want to implement something like this.
Free speech is fine, but that doesn't mean you should expect anyone to provide you a platform for free.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My reading of the situation is that Google et. al are in an ambiguous position - they are neither governments nor common carriers.
In the Western World, there are restrictions on what governments can legally do to restrict free speech. These restrictions do not apply to private corporations.
OTOH, given that Google's business model is built around reading your e-mail so it can better target ads at you, they can hardly claim to be common carriers (like the traditional phone services) who can have no idea about the uses to which their services are put. This makes them potentially liable for any harassment, terrorist activities, etc.
Under these circumstances, Eric Schmidt's solution is obvious.
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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