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True. But at the moment we can only speculate, for there are many ways to do this...
I wonder about what else can people invent.
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They were discussing the possibility of flickering the light "BILLions of times a second" (sorry, ghost of Carl Sagan attacked at that moment). So, I guess technically you could still use it when off, if the "off time" was still the perceived setting.
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Now they only need to find a way to make visible light go through walls...
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The failure rate for software development projects is high generally, particularly large ones like Healthcare.gov, says Standish Group data Too big to succeed (500 million lines of code?!)
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I read 500 thousand, and even that was a total guess.
Wout
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Yeah, everyone is pushing zeroes as guestimates. Either way, way too many, but very predictable. People seem to have forgotten just how buggy Twitter and/or Facebook were at launch (or maybe not launch, but when they were trying to scale).
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A small-claims complaint asks Apple for a way to remove the automatically downloaded iOS 7 install file on iOS 6 devices and earlier, something that can take up space. Really? {blink} {blink} REALLY?!
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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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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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