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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: #2 - In the article they make much of the "release train that pushes code to production on a schedule....every ten weeks". That is so anti-agile it chills my soul.
I dunno, at my company, we have an "agile" project that has been in development for 2 years, and it still hasn't delivered working software yet. So 10 weeks sounds pretty agile from this side of the fence.
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That first slide made my eyes bleed.
As a plus, the current trend of wrapping all sorts of meta-processes into software development is keeping all kinds of middle-managers and consultants employed!
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Ow!
Sarcasm - it's not just a verbal skill - it's a lifestyle!
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After 6 months you can’t really say someone is a beginner since, well, 6 months later is not the beginning. Everyone has to start somewhere
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The Ecma General Assembly has officially approved ECMAScript 6, the latest standard edition of JavaScript.
I have seen the future, and its name is ES6.
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So how many years do we have to wait until we can use it as "standard" in web apps?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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2025?
WIn10 LTS will keep IE11, and until they state otherwise I'm assuming the life cycle policy for business versions will remain at a decade.
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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Christopher Shields wrote: and its name is ES6X
Christopher Shields wrote: has officially approved
Good, that'll kill it.
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It’s no secret that Google often builds its own custom hardware for its data centers, but what’s probably less known is that Google uses custom networking protocols that have been tweaked for use in its data centers instead of relying on standard Internet protocols to power its networks. There you go: now you can build your own copy
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Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web. Because it worked so well the other times people tried
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You always have the best comments and I'm out here upvoting you. OKay? Okay?
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You are too kind. Here's an upvote for your troubles
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: The team notes that the idea here is not to replace JavaScript... I wish people would finally try that...
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Actually, this does enable just that. Wasm allows binaries to be delivered to the browser, roughly corresponding to the features in asm.js. As that is lower-level than JS, it is a declared intent that other languages can generate wasm modules.
Finally (at least in a year or so), it may be possible to write web code in another language without pre-compiling to JS. A vote for sanity.
Its very encouraging all major vendors are supporting it (with the notable exception (again) of crApple), otherwise it would be dead in the water.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Okay, but from my understanding of the article, a JavaScript engine is still required for execution. The only difference is that the input is now a serialized AST (that can originate from another language than JavaScript, of course) instead of a text file that needs to be parsed. It helps performance, but it is not as native as it could be. It's just like Java or .NET, it still needs a execution engine to bring it to the metal.
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In its latest corporate shakeup, Microsoft has moved its first-party hardware business into its Windows engineering organization. But why? To get to the other side?
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Let's Encrypt will start issuing a few free digital certificates next month while it ensures the system is reliable. Mental note: sell Verisign stock
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Thanks for sharing me this kind of information.
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Starting now, qualified startup companies can claim $120,000 in Azure credit every year in the Bizspark Plus program to help businesses to excel in their field. "Come get some"
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The ruling is likely to be influential on EU courts' thinking in future. Good thing there aren't any Europeans here that might cause trouble
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Presuming the EU Court mental mediocrity isn't internationally contagious, just another reason I'm glad there's an ocean between us.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Amen
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I'm sorry, but we're putting them on a raft and pointing them your way. We don't want them.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: just another reason I'm glad there's an ocean between us. Don't worry, we Europeans are as happy as you are about that!
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We had a sea, they built a tunnel.
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