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Nelek wrote: Did you really read it?
No. Just the pub date and then I was like, what is going on here?
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Google drive is the preferred cloud storage provider for all those who just upgraded from dial-up.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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At Facebook’s 2018 @Scale conference in San Jose, California, the company announced broad industry backing for Glow, its machine learning compiler designed to accelerate the performance of deep learning frameworks. "Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer"
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Devs left bored to Tiers while Entity Framework flies out into the Cosmos More core by the day
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“The hourly billing model in software development is broken,” says Koder Founder and CEO Elmer Morales. "No disintegrations!"
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..or how to try and make fixed price contracts look buzzword compliant. 
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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From his FB post:
"Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook.
Simultaneously, I am retiring from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about programming and APIs. This career has taken me from assembly language MS-DOS utilities in the back pages of "PC Magazine"; to many years of C, C++, and C# Windows code in books and in articles in "MSJ" and "MSDN Magazine"; to cross-platform mobile development in C#. It's been a wonderful journey that I hope has benefited the developer community as much as it has been personally rewarding to me.
I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which "The Annotated Turing" was the first and "Computer of the Tides" will (I hope) be the second.
And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!"
/ravi
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A legendary name, looking forward to what he will come up with now 
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He has a Windows logo tattoo on his arm.
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And a legend/giant retires to a peaceful existence after contributing so much.
Look forward to reading his books!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Thanks I'll keep it in mind. Right now I've got 4 books in the queue!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: Right now I've got 4 books in the queue!
I know what you mean. I've got a couple myself. 
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I just finished TCP/IP Guide[^] a couple of days ago so I'm letting my brain rest for a while and let it sink in!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: I'm letting my brain rest for a while and let it sink in
Phew...I guess. That is a big book at over 1500 pages.
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My goal was 50-100 pages/day so you can see how long it took.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: My goal was 50-100 pages/day
I'm impressed and inspired. 50-100 pages a day is a great goal.
Also, I'm impressed that you know that you must set a goal otherwise we all just slip into not doing the task.
I'm also inspired to try to read 50 pages of my tech book (Programming ASP.NET Core, Programming ASP.NET Core [^] ) per day. It's shorter so it'll take far less time.
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Since I retired, several years ago now I set 3 goals that I want to accomplish every day. Not just programming, I'm avid outdoorsman but it's too hot in the summer here in Florida to hike. A lot of people that slow down after retirement and sit in front of the idiot box die within a year, those that stay active last a little longer. So far I'm still looking at the green side!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Very smart! And very encouraging to keep in mind.
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The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life: Plus The Secrets of Enigma
edited by Jack Copeland
You can find a downloadable pdf on several academic sites.
Paperback: 622 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1 edition (November 18, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198250800
ISBN-13: 978-0198250807
is also good
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Interesting, I will take a look. Thanks!
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Guess it is a good time, and maybe should have left earlier. Windows and Microsoft appear to be in a sharp decline...Balmer destroyed the company, or at lead it to continue being a leader in the computer industry.
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Steven Sinofsky is the real person that started the Microsoft decline, but Balmer was the guy that put him in charge and took too long before firing him.
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Thanks for the input . I still remember Balmer bragging that Windows 8 could run HTML 5 natively. Tell be again why I need an OS and not just a browser. That is Chrome.
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re Sinofsky and Ballmer: I would rather fault the asylum administration for hiring insane psychiatrists, and for confusing clients with inmates 
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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