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Clarification: I'm not amused at them for singling out Android 2.x as being the worst thing since IE8; I'm amused at the fact that A2.x is the worst thing since IE8 when after IE6-8 it's IE9 that gets the most Hateraid from the internets yammerheads while A2.x is never mentioned at all.
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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What am I optimizing for when I write my code today? Change will always come. I know that from the outset. "I will change something in that spec during the 25 years the system will live". How do I try to handle that? Do I precieve change as a risk or an enabler? Being able to change fast is a business advantage and a way to manage risk. How do I make my code being easy to change? What kind of documentation do I need in a system that I'm going to change a lot? What do you optimize for?
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Confucius say: "Coding for change is coding for stability."
Marc
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Static typing is great because it keeps you out of trouble. Dynamic typing is great because it gets out of your way and lets you get your work done faster. The debate between strongly and dynamically typed languages rages on, but understanding the issue starts with weak typing and languages such as C. Dynamic languages are popular now. The pendulum will swing back. Be flexible.
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After working with Ruby and Rails now for a while, and while I think it is cool and geeky and fun to use, I disagree with the author's conclusion "There’s no clear conclusion." I have come to my own conclusion - dynamic typing is a cop out for good static typed architecture. It's a drastic thing to say, but I am happy to defend that statement.
If anything, working with Ruby has shown me that the programmer must be even more vigilant in writing maintainable code because of the loosey-goosey (or is that loosey-duckey) way you can do things in a dynamic typed language which lends itself to all sorts of abuse. The result is almost always really bad architecture unless the programmer is very, very good. And if that's the case, a static typed language will not get in the way.
Still, I enjoy Ruby and Rails as I develop a disciplined approach. The telling point for me though is that the discipline I'm developing is built into static typed languages like C#. Having to explicitly formalize it with languages like Ruby, well, I think I make my point.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: loosey-goosey (or is that loosey-duckey)
It is either Floozy-Lucy or ducky-f*cky. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Ruby and Rails
I thought it was "Ruby on Rails".
Dynamic has it's place, but I think strong static typing is much safer.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: I thought it was "Ruby on Rails".
It is, I was specifically refering to Ruby as a language and Rails as a framework. 
ahmed zahmed wrote: Dynamic has it's place, but I think strong static typing is much safer.
Quite so.
Marc
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Today, most programming languages can use reflection. Statically typed languages, such as Java, have little to no problems with reflection. What I find interesting, however, is that any dynamically-typed language (like PHP or Ruby) is heavily based on reflection. Without the concept of reflection, duck-typing would most likely be impossible to implement. When you send one object to another (a parameter, for example), the receiving object has no way of knowing the structure and type of that object. All it can do is use reflection to identify the methods that can and cannot be called on the received object. As with any cool toy, use reflection, but don’t abuse it.
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Good ideas in programming languages persist and spread to other languages, permeating them over time. Thus, unsurprisingly, the Java.next languages — Groovy, Scala, and Clojure — share many common features. In this and upcoming Java.next installments, I explore how the convergence of function manifests in the syntax of each. I start with a feature — the ability to overload operators — that makes up for a longstanding deficiency in the Java language. If you're a Java dev, are any of these languages in your future?
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Apple's Interface Builder is supposed to assist you with several important tasks in the process of creating user interfaces: Laying out views, Wiring up outlets and actions, Creating segues between view controllers (with storyboards). After working on a fairly complex iPad app for the last six months together with Chris Eidhof, my personal bottom line for Interface Builder doesn't look too positive with regard to these tasks. In fact, I'm willing to try out abandoning Interface Builder alltogether for the next project. This may sound pretty radical, but let me walk you through my thought process. Storyboards and Auto Layout versus getting actual work done.
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Last February myself, Professor Darrel Ince and Professor Les Hatton had a paper published in Nature arguing for openness in the code used for scientific papers.... Recently, an important paper in economics has been in the news because its conclusions turn out to be inaccurate for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is a programming error using the popular Microsoft Excel program. This error, in an unreleased spreadsheet, highlights just how easy it is to make a mistake in a 'simple' program and how closed programs make reproducing results difficult. Scientists should consider their code as an important product of their work.
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One of the best things about travelling to shows like PAX East and the Game Developers Conference is the chance to check out titles from off-the-beaten-path, independent developers. While shows like E3 are overwhelmed by the presence of multi-million dollar booths from huge publishers, the early-in-the-year shows make a point of highlighting some of the most original and promising game ideas from game makers without big contracts or salaried positions behind them. Freed from the financial responsibilities of the major AAA publishers, these are the titles that are most likely to truly break new ground in gameplay, aesthetics, and subject matter. The best games are often hiding, waiting to sneak up on you and...
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It's fairly new and very much a work in progress, so not all games run yet and not all features are implemented. The cosmos. In the vast universe, the history of emulators is but a flash of light from a lone star....
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Vint Cerf, VP and chief internet evangelist at Google has a few regrets about the original design of the internet, but he’s hoping software defined networking may help right those wrongs. Cerf spoke at the Open Networking Summit Tuesday in Santa Clara, Calif., where he juxtaposed the creation of the internet and the evolution of the world wide web with the development of software defined networking. He began with a rueful acknowledgment that back in the early 70s, when creating the addressing scheme for the internet, 32 bits were enough.... ...or Google internet verses Facebook internet (versus the one we already have).
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It’s one of the blogosphere’s favorite tech topics. Every new nugget of competitive information is fodder for an avalanche of coverage. Oftentimes, a story will declare that Android is beating iOS or that iOS is beating Android. Really, though, it’s silly to obsess over any one data point. If what you’re after is a clear idea of how the world’s two dominant mobile operating systems are doing — rather than an excuse to make bold proclamations and/or cheer for your favorite — you want to consider lots of data points. Show me the money.
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Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mike Meinz. Mike shares some highlights from 45 years in the industry.
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It's lovely, isn't it. It's the Windows 8 on-screen keyboard, except I don't need or want to see it. I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch and it already has a keyboard. I will never ever want to use the Windows 8 touch keyboard. Unfortunately there is no checkbox or "just turn it off" way to disable the keyboard with a supported option. However, there is a way to effectively disable the keyboard by stopping the service that controls it.... One QWERTY is enough.
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Go to the tallest building nearby and, after validating all is clear below, toss it over. 
That helps resolve all the other Windows [insert version] problems, too. 
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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this is what a lot of technology can do ...
jokes apart here is what google says about your question:
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A probabilistic programming language is a high-level language that makes it easy for a developer to define probability models and then “solve” these models automatically. These languages incorporate random events as primitives and their runtime environment handles inference. Now, it is a matter of programming that enables a clean separation between modeling and inference. This can vastly reduce the time and effort associated with implementing new models and understanding data. This is how things like SkyNet get started...
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Don't you mean "pro-ballistic programming"? 
That's where yer boss, being the "pro" that he is, goes "ballistic" when you miss a programming deadline ...
... which reminds me of one such coming up, yet I'm posting here instead!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: This is how things like SkyNet get started...
... and it becomes self-aware... 
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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This is the first part of a series of tutorials on C#. In this part we are introducing the fundamental concepts of the language and it's output, the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). We will take a look at object-oriented programming (OOP) and what C# does to make OOP as efficient as possible to realize in practice. A good way for experienced devs to get started with .NET.
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Thx for compiling these tidbits together to C to it we keep our programming skills #.
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