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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still think a lot of his motivation was more selfish than that editorial implies
Quite possibly - but remember, by then he'd already "survived" pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant. He likely knew he was living on borrowed time. People tend to become very pragmatic in situations like that.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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As privacy and security become bigger concerns, developers who want to store users' data securely may be interested in a new API from BitTorrent that offers more options and a lower barrier to entry than its predecessor. And your applications can download the latest episode of GoT while running!
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We software developers have accumulated a massive amount of influence within a comparatively short time. But we have had only that same short time to face the responsibility evolving from this influence. "With great power..."
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I take it his next app is called "pie in the sky cloud ware"?
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Whilst I wouldn't disagree with his sentiments in the article, he is preaching to the converted. A criminal who wants to write malicious or fraudulent software isn't going to care about his manifesto, no matter how well intentioned.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Perl 6 has been 15 years in the making, and is now due to be released at the end of this year. We speak to its creator to find out what’s going on. "The camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl."
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Quote: LV: Last year in the UK, the government kicked off the Year of Code, an attempt to get young people interested in programming. There are lots of opinions about how this should be done – like whether you should teach low-level languages at the start, so that people really understand memory usage, or a high-level language. What’s your take on that?
LW: Up until now, the Python community has done a much better job of getting into the lower levels of education than we have. We’d like to do something in that space too, and that’s partly why we have the butterfly logo, because it’s going to be appealing to make seven year old girls want to smash butterflies even more than 7 year old boys!
FTFY
 
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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This is by no means an exhaustive or the perfect list of Good Coding Commandments. Thou shalt not have any languages before C (for it is a jealous language)
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And cheaper to carve into tablets!
TTFN - Kent
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Here are the 15 (drops one of the tablets)...10! 10 Commandments of Good Code!
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Ends delivery of anti-malware signatures for Security Essentials on XP; stops serving clean-up tool. "Well, it's all right, we're going to the end of the line"
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I don't think that the Dutch will have started any migration or upgrade-path; since we paid MS for support, there's no need to upgrade, is there? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sooo... it took them nearly fifteen years to complete it? Will it get out of beta now?
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Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software giant has selected build 10240 as the final release to manufacturing (RTM) copy, allowing PC makers to start loading the software onto new machines ready for release. "And there was much rejoicing."
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Clickey[^]
Commodore makes a comeback! Brand to launch Android smartphone that will let users play iconic games
Oooh, I want! Wonder if they'll resurrect the games I wrote in early 80's, "Spills and Fills", "Turtle Toyland Junior", and "TrashMan" 
Marc
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Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva appears to have proved the existence of particles made of five quarks, solving a 50-year-old puzzle about the building blocks of matter, scientists said on Tuesday. Turns out, they were under the seat cushions
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Whoa. That's crazy...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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But what do they want from us?
Prolly our woman.
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There's only one left?! Damn Martians!
TTFN - Kent
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Ron Anders wrote: Prolly our woman
Is there only one for the lot of you? No wonder...
But, in that case, probably not your woman.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Who keeps leaving their particles all over the place? Can't someone clean that up?
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If it's so malleable, shouldn't it be called Odo instead of Quark?
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While many developers are aware enough not to roll their own crypto, they either pick the wrong approach, screw up the implementation, or both. Assuming security is something of interest (and ditto .NET)
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