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Step into the freak-show: will the Lady be Bearded, or the Lizard Man's scales slough off ?
21:00 US Eastern Standard Time, London 02:00, UTC: 01:00 ... for other times around the world: [^].
Debate streaming sites: [^].
Warning: symptoms of vertigo, dizziness, and nausea, may ensue.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Oh, just by chance I'll be bathing my cat at that time. It will be more enjoyable.
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imho, a satisfyingly deep overview of the technology's origin, iterations, and current state: [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Good article.
I love the part that shows Ballmer had about enough industry and company vision as to require a service dog to help get him around.
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Know that the FPGA has been with us since the 80s.
The article state " They're called Field Programmable Gate Arrays..."
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Indeed, FPGA's have been around a long time; the MS FPGA's has some significant features that are new, which you'll see if you read the article. You did read the article ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yeah, that's for people reading the article that aren't nerds.
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Scientists have formally announced their reconstruction of the Ein Gedi Scroll, the most ancient Hebrew scroll since the Dead Sea Scrolls. "Don't look at it, no matter what happens!"
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If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental." The page has been universally condemned by church leaders. 
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Is it Friday 27th Geldof[^] already? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Either that or it's a letter from a Nigerian prince...
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In a new paper posted to the arXiv, and accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters, the physicists report they’ve used X-ray laser light to to capture details as small as the width of an atom, lasting just 30 millionths of a billionth of a second. Spoiler alert! The cat {is|isn't} dead.
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Too bad they can't zap me with a laser so I could split and become one working me and one fishing me.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Give it a try. What's the worst that could happen? 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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We could end up with 2 working me's? Yikes, that's just too gruesome to think about!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Somehow the film "tron" comes to my mind
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Researchers have found a new strain of document-based macro malware that evades discovery by lying dormant when it detects a security researcher’s test environment. Word and VBA: gifts that keep on giving
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Use smart pointers and move semantics to supercharge your C++ code base. I think a language is popular if someone is willing to pay me to use it
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The article shows a number of possible factors for measuring popularity...
And many of those factors can also indicate that the language is overly complicated or that people simply aren't familiar with it enough to know the answer themselves and are therefore googling for answers. For example, I'm constantly googling about Python stuff because my familiarity with it is orders of magnitude less than my familiarity with C#. Now, does that make Python more popular? Certainly not!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm constantly googling about Python stuff because my familiarity with it is orders of magnitude less than my familiarity with C#
Which may be the reason we see most of these surveys indicate the more mature languages declining popularity.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've often felt that such "language ratings" carry an implicit bias against languages that are easy to learn and use.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Use smart pointers and move semantics to supercharge your C++ code base.
Methinks the quote belongs to the previous insider news 
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Yeah, thanks. Shows you how many people actually read this. 
TTFN - Kent
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Some of us have a day job...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Use smart pointers and move semantics to supercharge your C++ code base. I still don't think that language will ever catch on
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