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I'm still on 5.1, works just fine . I don't want any of the post-Steve stuff.
Wout
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But... it's so flat!
Actually, I like iOS7 for one reason - the auto-updating apps. Now I don't have to look at those ugly red blobs on my AppStore icon.
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TTFN - Kent
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The growth spurts continue: Nokia's third-quarter Lumia device sales have more than doubled from a year ago, according to the Wall Street Journal. "There's no need to fear: Underdog is here!"
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White, male, middle aged -- sound familiar? While the stereotype is still largely true, the demographics are changing. You might be here
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I'm still to young and underpaid.... yeeee, oh wait.....
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Google has announced a new suite of tools for activists and non-profits at their Ideas conference in New York today, including tools for evading web censorship and oppressive regimes. The biggest focus has been on DDoS attacks, a kind of brute-force action that can easily take down a small site without leaving any clues as to the culprits. DDoS has been a persistent problem for small-scale activists on the web, but Google's new Project Shield would aim to fix that, offering free DDoS mitigation services to sites serving "media, elections, and human rights related content." Watch after the credits for a special appearance by Samuel L. Jackson
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With its vast portfolio of software and billions of dollars in data center infrastructure investment, Microsoft stands poised to rule the cloud "Fee-fi-fo-fum!"
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My main complaint with the Surface Pro is the incredibly lackluster battery life. Granted, this is a classic Intel x86 box we're talking about, not some efficient ARM system-on-a-chip designed to run on a tiny battery. Still, I was hopeful that the first Surface Pro with Haswell inside would produce giant gains in battery life as Intel promised. Did you put them in the right way?
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It's easy to forget the value of any given technology once its buzz has arced across our collective consciousness and died a fiery death beyond the hype horizon. Take Cobol, that "Mad Men"-era relic -- just like fish past its prime, as the hipster tech pundits say: worthless, smelly, out of date, bad for you. Java may be the next enterprise mainstay to find itself on the ropes of "relevance." Hic iacet Java, rex quondam, rexque futurus
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I asked -- and the people responded! Fun fact No. 1: Apparently only 28 percent of Java developers write Java full time. Given a choice...
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I don't know one developer that uses just on technology and in my opinion it is kind fun to learn a new language, try to perform a small project with to see how it works.
I am not saying that to really focus one just one language is good or bad. But coming from a strongly typed compiled language background, I've learned a lot from dynamic programming and scripting languages.
Has anyone else felt the same?
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Heck no, limiting yourself to one language is just plain wrong. I've recently started "learning" Haskell. I say learning; a better description would be "completely failing to learn it, but being completely baffled by it".
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I am sorry, but i didn't get that right... were you agreeing with me? ... were you agreeing with me?
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I absolutely agree, keeping to one technology generally is a good way to expose yourself to redundancy if your chosen platform fades.
Even more important, learning new languages and technologies makes you a better programmer.
I'm going through the same learning curve with Haskell, but its beginning to sink in. Except monads, but what do you expect from a feature which only rhymes with ...
"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 current state of Java, there are several different SDKs for Java: Java SE 7, CDC 1.1 (based on SE 1.4.2), CLDC (based on SE 1.3) and Java ME, just to name a few. In the past, these implementations served their specific vertical markets very well, but each implementation has diverged and become more and more siloed over the years. With Java 8, there will be a compact profile that replaces CDC. "It's good to be the king"
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Wow, nice news..
I particularly liked that there are lambda expressions...
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Surface is designed to function as both a tablet and notebook. It has its own purpose-built keyboard-cover that gets rave reviews even from Apple and Google fanboys. And the operating system and applications are designed to run in dual mode -- either as tablet software or laptop software, depending on the configuration. It just needs a little polishing
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There is seemingly no end to the number of things you can do in Minecraft — and the latest thing is experimenting with quantum physics. A new mod called qCraft, built by none other than Google's Quantum A.I. Lab Team, adds blocks that exhibit quantum entanglement, superposition, and observer-dependency properties. Some of the new blocks can be "activated" simply by looking at them, while others are prone to disappear at any moment. Use it to build a cat
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Well-known D developer Andrei Alexandrescu has committed the first 5112 lines of D language code to Facebook's repository — meaning that as of now, the social network giant can be said to be using D in live production. The language was developed by Dr. Dobb's blogger, Walter Bright, who previously was the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++. "Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"
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Microsoft reports on its Support website that Windows 8.1 falls under the Windows 8 lifecycle policy, which ends on January 10, 2023. However, the company also states that Windows 8 customers will have two years to move to Windows 8.1 starting this Friday, AKA the General Availability of the Windows 8.1 update, to remain supported under the Windows 8 lifecycle. "And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' "
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So, despite the naming change, they're treating 8.1 just like any other service pack then.
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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