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Prior to today, if you were a developer of Windows and Windows Phone apps, you had to pay an annual fee to keep your account active and to be able to submit apps to the various stores. Well, it looks like Microsoft has now decided to drop the annual charge. Before you get excited: MSDN subscriptions are still an arm and/or a leg
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We love hearing from developers that the virtual machines, tools and offers available on modern.IE are valuable to them, save them time and help make testing on Internet Explorer a little easier. That’s why we’re excited to let you know about a few new offerings we’re making available due to developer demand. For all your real virtual needs
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The Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) project is pleased to announce the general availability of its first release – WinJS 3.0 – since the open source project began at //BUILD 2014. "It is over. The world of men shall fall. All will come to darkness."
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As Windows and/or JavaScript are not bad enough alone!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The latest rankings of programming languages show a landscape that’s increasingly fragmented, but still dominated by the old guard. Or not, because they're still coding at night
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The article somehow suggests (indirectly) that your language is set in stone. If someone is unwilling to learn new languages/frameworks then I'm not sure if he can sleep well regardless of current knowledge 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Deflinek wrote: If someone is unwilling to learn new languages/frameworks then I'm not sure if
he can sleep well regardless of current knowledge
Unless the current knowledge is COBOL
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Or not, I don't think either are particularly well equipped for the many core revolution around the corner.
(See the discussion between Stroustrup, Hewitt and Ungar I posted above).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft will continue with its planned layoffs of 18,000 with job cuts across nearly all divisions of the company with its second wave of cuts later this week. "Careful with that axe, Eugene"
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One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
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The initiative is aimed at expanding the world's most dominant smart phone platform to the bigger but more cost-conscious markets of people who can't yet afford such devices. "All the time, our customers ask us, "How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple: Volume."
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Maxthon today released a new browser for Windows called MxNitro (short for Maxthon Nitro), which it claims is “the fastest PC browser in the world.” Because the world needed another browser in the compatibility testing matrix
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Not just fast, but extremely developer friendly...I spent the last 15 minutes to find out how it supports standards and found nothing...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: how it supports standard
Maxthon uses Trident (IE) and WebKit as rendering engines, so the standards support depends on the included versions.
I would guess the WebKit engine supports most standards, while the Trident engine is, well, not all that great.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Yes you read that title right, All software engineers should learn JavaScript. When you absolutely, positively, must start a language war.
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I agree. It's a perfect example of how NOT to do a programming language and will make one much more appreciative of knowing other languages that we would otherwise take for granted.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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TTFN - Kent
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I dont think it was my intention to start a language war because if I had to pick an all around language to shove down everyones throat it would definitely be C# and not JavaScript. 
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He's right! If your job demands using JavaScript, go and learn it. You can not use your knowledge of the C family alone. JavaScript has so much crazy things that you must get familiar with it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: If your job demands using JavaScript, go and learn it. change your job
FTFY 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I'm on it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Good luck then 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I hate to admit it, but the article is basically correct. The only practical way to do any kind of cross-platform UI today is via HTML + CSS + JavaScript.
But I really hope Node.js does not catch up - there is absolutely no reason to use JavaScript on the server side where we have much better alternatives...
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Ahhhh, I have to admit that I like using Node.js. I find it, along with Express, allows me to be much more productive than ASP MVC.
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