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It's not every day we get to sit in on a discussion between three of the luminaries of language design:
* Bjarne Stroustrup (designer of C++)
* Carl Hewitt (invented the Actor model and futures)
* Dave Ungar (designed the Self language, which pioneered the VM techniques that allow .NET, Java and V8 to run so fast, and introduced Prototype-based inheritance).
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/A-Conversation-with-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Carl-Hewitt-and-Dave-Ungar[^]
Enjoy!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There is some really good stuff in here - thanks. Especially agree with Carl Hewitt's assertion about how languages are going to have to change to deal with the 100+ core world.
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I got the link two days ago on Twitter (I'm following Channel 9 there) and found it a great talk.
I found fascinating how the philosophical way of thinking of Hewitt and the strict practical Stroustrup can co-exist if we drop in the modest Ungar...
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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Although both Bjarne and Carl seemed a bit shocked when he talked about sacrificing reliability. Fascinating stuff.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Multiple download options but no transcript.
I suppose this means that despite all its hype, in reality Cortana sucks at speech recognition. 
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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My experience with Cortana has actually been very good - but I guess they haven't thought of applying it at Channel 9.
Of course it may struggle with multiple speakers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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For years, people have cried out that "Microsoft is Dead!" Obviously, Redmond believes it. What else explains stupid moves like buying Minecraft and supporting the cloud fad? It's about self-confidence—Microsoft has none. "The fear of death is worse than death"
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This guy has no clue! 
But they did have a bad communication phase with Sinofsky...
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Dvorak's made a (long) career of cluelessness.
TTFN - Kent
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Dvorak was last relevant before the internet made his monthly PcMag "column" with about 20 one paragraph rumors irrelevant because anyone who cared read them a month or two ago from somewhere like The Register.
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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Given that he seems to lack knowledge of the unfortunate fact that people within organisations are always trying to prove themselves by promoting ideas they're not smart enough to run with, I'd hazard a guess that the writer has never had a proper job.
Does his daddy (sugar- or otherwise) own PC Magazine?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: that people managers within organisations
FTFY
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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Mark_Wallace wrote: Does his daddy (sugar- or otherwise) own PC Magazine?
He's quite successful in generating clicks (and therefore ad views) with his idiotic posts, so I'me sure he's well liked (payed) by PC Magazine.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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You should have used joke icon. There is no sense whatsoever in that post. I am not that old to remember anything before 1996 but I am pretty sure Windows and MS Office were not dead then. Hell, this post was typed from a Win7 computer which uses MS Office.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT[^]
If you check Microsoft stock statistics, they are making $22 billion in yearly profits. "Dead" product lines don't produce billions in yearly profits, and having billions of dollars in your bank account doesn't sap your self-confidence dry.
The simplest conclusion from Microsoft's recent actions is that it's having a hard time finding good investment opportunities, so it's settling for any reasonable ones it can find. At worst, this is a moderately bad sign to Microsoft investors and not a sign of "death".
In other news from PC Mag's front page, 13 Microsoft Word Tips You Need to Learn Now[^].
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Someone jealous of Minecraft founder. 
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128 bit encrypted signature, crack if you can
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Hands up everyone thinking John C. Dvorak owns Apple shares.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The fear of death is worse than death"
Therefore, commit suicide for fear of death.
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As a WPF developer for years I was recently concerned by the new direction chosen by Microsoft on its client platforms with the rise of the brand new WinRT framework. WPF FTW? FWIW
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: but he's not wrong.
To whom are you referring, Greg Levenhagen or the author of the blog post?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Only reasonable from your point of view because you know what you meant.
Your sentence structure was ambiguous from the point of view of someone who is not inside your head.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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