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This is where I pretend this is exciting!!!!!!
Jeremy Falcon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wait - version 10 after version 9? You rebels!
No, the rebels were the ones who released the version after Java 8 as Java 9 instead of Java 10. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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In the 1700s the average-sized wine glass could hold just 66ml of the tipple. Today it’s not unusual to be handed a glass that holds almost half a litre. For those who don't believe in progress
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How about whiskey glasses?
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I wouldn't know - it only comes in bottles in my house.
TTFN - Kent
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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There are many ways to measure a programming language’s popularity, but we believe examining job demand is most useful because it shows developers the skills to learn to improve their career prospects. "My mom says I'm a catch, I'm popular "
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "My mom says I'm a catch, I'm popular "
Haven't heard this song for ages! Another day with a song stuck in my head 
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I have wondered on the first line in the Java paragraph. Do they have a time machine?
Quote: Java decreased in popularity by about 6,000 job postings in 2018 compared to 2017, but is still extremely well-established
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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CodingDojo:
JavaScript, the grandfather of programming languages,
Suddenly I feel nauseous
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Indeed! I was going to comment on that line myself along with my general feeling that the people at CodingDojo don't seem to know very much at all about code (a little ironic when you pick a name like CodingDojo).
While they mention that Swift might not appear in a more general iOS developer ad, they don't seem to notice that the same could apply to say C# or PHP in ads for full-stack .NET or LAMP devs - surely, this kind of makes the "get a load of job adverts and do a grep -c" approach just a tad unreliable to start with.
There's also the minor problem that job ads, as we all know from experience, are frequently for jobs that don't actually exist and just a way for pimps to get hold of CVs.
That, and the probability that their method counts an add for one X developer in the same way as they count an ad for forty Y developers ...
And then there's the simple fact that it's still 2017.
All in all, a terrible waste of pixels. An E-minus of a piece which should be downgraded to an F on account of the Javascript comment.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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A big problem with this nonsense is that it doesn't account for multiple and repeated postings for the same job because they can't find any sucker developer. Plus they give equal weight to a posting which lists multiple languages. I recently worked a contract where the test suite for one, relatively minor, part of the code was in Python--it was barely a nice-to-have, but HR would probably list it on an Indeed posting (the company actually hired me through a recruiter and Python never came up.)
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The 7 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018
What, do they have a crystal ball to know what will be used in 2018? It's still 2017!
Who knows, Elon Musk may need a knew programming language that will become all the rage. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Who knows, Elon Musk may need a knew programming language that will become all the rage.
If the short sellers are right, maybe it will be called DAFI, for Dancing Around Failing Investments!
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Google and NASA today announced the discovery of a new planet in solar system Kepler 90, achieved using machine learning. "We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub."
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Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft all affected by “intentional” BGP mishap. In Soviet Russia, routers route you?
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The World Web Web Consortium (W3C)’s Web Platform Working Group today announced a new specification to replace the HTML 5.1 Recommendation. The team announced HTML5.2 is ready and now a W3C Recommendation. People still use that stuff?
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Apparently I can no longer read SD Times articles without providing them an email.
I always kicked myself for following links to their articles, now they're saving me the bother.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Is that what was behind this bundle of fail I had pop up as a modal when loading the page:
Quote: We had some trouble loading this form. Click here to continue.
By submitting your personal information, you agree that SD Times and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content.
You also agree that your personal information may be transferred and processed in the United States, and that you have read and agree to the Privacy Policy.
I fixed it by adding additional content blocking rules for the site. It's no longer able to show that modal dialog for instance. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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SD Times is fun on my Chrome with uBlock... the modal just keeps flickering.
At least good ole Presto (Opera 12) can render it without that crap
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Whaaaa? OK, off my list. I was trying to be nice to them after they keep buggering their site, but I guess that was just enabling.
TTFN - Kent
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It never was a rule vis-a-vis the FCC since the rules were never actually in force because the FCC had no legal jurisdiction, a point all too often lost in all of this. So who does have legal jurisdiction? The FTC can make a case.
Regardless, the answer is to have congress address this by law. Republicans actually introduced draft legislation for such a bill in 2014, which was even stronger than the FCC's proposed rules, but it was ignored by Democrats who thought they would win the white house and then be able to have the FCC complete its power grab [though the courts weren't going along, but that problem could be solved with time.]
The solution, then, is to contact your congressman and senators and ask them to reintroduce the 2014 bill, which solved some other problems as well.
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I read ...
Net Neutrality is No Moore
and I though ... soapbox.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Well - they say it will spur innovation.
It will:
How to charge more
How to offer less
and most important of all,
How to stifle competition from startups.
There's an acronym for that: BOHICA
Petroleum Jelly now cost extra . . .
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