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I’ve been working at a product company, focused mainly on specific, entrenched database technologies. This is causing me to lose touch with current languages and trends, and I’m worried that I’m getting stuck. "Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil."
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Engineering is not a matter of trend, it's a matter of what works, what doesn't and what works best for a specific situation given cost constraints. I see no problem in losing track of the new trends.
Think if medicine and surgery were expected to follow trends as much as software engineering...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Think if medicine and surgery were expected to follow trends as much as software engineering...
But they are? New forms of cancer treatment are happening at a rapid pace. In fact I just read about a new process called "molecular scissors" that they are using to treat AIDS, and it looks quite promising. The only difference is that the medical industry has many dedicated Research and Development groups.
How many dedicated R&D groups does the software industry have? None that I'm allowed to participate in, so I have to do my own.
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I can't believe I missed this back in August. Apologies to anyone who's projects I delayed.
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A survey of API developers claims security, customer satisfaction, and speed of deployment are among the biggest challenges. string someCall(string) - Done!
Oh sure, some will say, "what kind of string?", or, "ANSI or Unicode?". fussypants!
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Microsoft released a PSA of sorts on its Malware Protection Center blog about programs that promise to clean up or optimize your system in the hopes of making it run a little smoother. Because they would never use fear to make you install anything
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Agile has been around for more than a decade now. It has proven itself at the team level and has scaled to the enterprise, but where does the methodology go from here in today’s modern software development world? "Try to find a better place, but soon it's all the same"
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Well, in youth one is agile and athletic. In old age, one is arthritic and hobbled. Did agile ever actually have a youth? Infancy, yes, but like old age, both exhibit a kind of senility, and that's probably the best description of agile that I've ever encountered.
Marc
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Google outlines its wish list for hard disk drives that don't exist today but which would be better suited to its needs in the cloud. "Third gear, hang on tight"
"YouTube users are uploading one petabyte of new storage every day and at current growth rates that they should be uploading 10 petabytes per day by 2021." Yow.
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That's nice, but we won't be here in 5 years (if you believe one of the many doomsday theorists).
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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To a certain degree they are right. There is no reason to be stuck with a limited number of platters because want to stay within the current size. It will probably change the way that enclosures are designed, but more for server machines than personal machines. Already looking at computers that do not even have the space for a disk drive since expect users to use one of the compact SSD formats, or even on board. Laptops are getting thinner, which means less height for drives, desktops can now be driven by a computer the size of a cigarette case.
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You may be able to double how quickly you learn skills like these by introducing subtle variations into your practice routine. Varying practice makes perfect
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It requires your future parents to make smarter babies 
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Online users grew by 200 million in 2015, according to Facebook In related news, we're running out of IPv4 addresses (still)
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Excellent news!
Can't wait to see Xamarin part of the MSDN license... That will save a few grands a year 
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Valery Possoz wrote: Can't wait to see Xamarin part of the MSDN license... That will savecost a few grands a year when they raise the subscription price because it's got more stuff in it
FTFY
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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.
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Good news, I hope. Your ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) may be a bit premature. M$ has a history of absorbing the windows-centric parts of acquired companies and ignoring or spinning-off the rest.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: M$ has a history of absorbing the windows-centric parts of acquired companies and ignoring or spinning-off the rest.
In the past, yes. But that's not the way they operate these days. In mobile, for example, they are now being criticised for delivering better products (or in some cases only products) for Android and iOS, rather than Windows Phone/Mobile. The cloud is becoming increasingly big and important to them and they need to interact with all potential consumers regardless of platform. It's economic realities.
Kevin
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Whilst not quite inevitable, this was always on the cards. That said, this is a smart move for both companies. Xamarin get closer integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, and Microsoft take a major step into cross platform development. A win-win outcome.
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Exploits can trigger a specific function in EMET that disables all protections it enforces for other applications That's the Enhanced Experience part
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Yeah, another great feature from MS 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Looks like someone accidently stumbled on a backdoor provided to the FBI. Apple should take note.
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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