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The stable ABI promised for Swift 4 is delayed a year, with string ergonomics also considered for 2018 String Ergonomics? So they don't get word stress issues?
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Story Remix's jawdropping 3D capabilities won't be there on day one. My productivity will now be diminished
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I read it as: Quote: Another feature slips out of the Windows 10 Fail Creators Update
If it were before in the day I would drink another coffee... now I think I will just grab a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
M.D.V. 
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With virtual workstation software powered by its GPUs, Nvidia is looking to bring thin workstations and high performance computing to more enterprises. Yes boss, I need that high-end video card ... for calculating. Yeah, that's it.
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Security awareness training specialist KnowBe4 has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords and determine how the proposed passphrase concept stacks up against methods currently in use. For all your correct horse battery staple needs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords
For that no survey was needed... the answer is "bad"
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
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HyperCard brought into one sharp package the ability for a Macintosh to do interactive documents with calculation, sound, music and graphics. It was a popular package, and thousands of HyperCard “stacks” were created using the software. Because VB programmers need people they can mock
Still some of my happiest programming time was creating "stacks"
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I have The Complete Hypercard Handbook. I think that was one of the coolest pieces of software ever written. I had hoped to recreate it at one point with Intertexi, but never got far with it. Wish there were people willing to donate their scarce free time for no compensation to work on a product that may never find a market in a language (C#) that many open source programmers, especially those youngins, disdain.
Imagine a web-based version of Hypercard where you could share cards, decks, etc. If something like that exists, I don't know about it.
Marc
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You may be interested to look at LiveCode [^] : note that it is multi-OS and open-source. Their web-site embodies everything I hate in web-design and marketing  They want US$1000 for a single-dev license, and make figuring out what that gives you ... compared to the open-source version impossible.
Other examples of HyperCard functionality still "alive" : [^]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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BillWoodruff wrote: note that it is multi-OS and open-source.
It's open source? Where? Or is what you make open source?
There site, if created with LiveCode, doesn't exactly inspire me. It's rather sluggish. But then again, it may be hosted in Scotland by a slow server. 
LiveCode, published by LiveCode, Ltd., expands greatly on HyperCard's feature set[41] and offers color and a GUI toolkit which can be deployed on many popular platforms (Android, iOS, Classic Macintosh system software, Mac OS X, Windows 98 through 10, and GNU Linux/Unix). LiveCode directly imports extant HyperCard stacks and provides a migration path for stacks still in use.
I'll have to poke at it. Thanks for wiki link!
Of course, my poor CPU (8 cores!) is running at 20%. It seems that a console app sitting at Console.ReadLine() consume a LOT of CPU time! I need to investigate that. It's unacceptable.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It's open source? Where?
LiveCode on GitHub: [^].
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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BillWoodruff wrote: LiveCode on GitHub: [^].
Ah! Thanks!
Gads, there's so many things I want to take a look it. 
Marc
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One of my early jobs was to port a HyperCard app to Windows. The source code had been lost as had the original copies of the artwork.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: The source code had been lost as had the original copies of the artwork.
Marc
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For its time, HyperCard was visionary, and enabled lots of "mere mortals" to create interesting and useful hyper-media software.
The decline of HyperCard as popular software? from Wikipedia: [^] Quote: Bill Atkinson later lamented that if he had only realized the power of network-oriented stacks, instead of focusing on local stacks on a single machine, HyperCard could have become the first Web browser.[30]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Supercapacitors promise recharging of phones and other devices in seconds and minutes as opposed to hours for batteries. But current technologies are not usually flexible, have insufficient capacities, and for many their performance quickly degrades with charging cycles. Researchers have found a way to improve all three problems in one stroke. Just a warning - don't lick these candy canes
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Musk must mull this much.
Marc
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I was thinking Elon the same lines.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hardware capability increases exponentially, but software somehow just bloats up, using the power and space, without providing much more functionality or value. "Data expands to fill the space available for storage"
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One person's bloat is another person's feature.
(So it's lacking intellisense, tabs and colors, but damn, Visual C++ 6.0 used to load fast! Add Visual Assist and it still loaded fast.)
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One of the sources of the bloats in software are the layers of general purpose libraries that a specific software depends upon. Maybe only 1% or less of the said libraries are actually used for the specific tasks of the software, but they (the libs) all consumes resources according to their general settings nevertheless. As the number of the layers grow, the resource wasted also grow exponentially.
It would be better if the next generation of language, compilers and/or linkers could be such that it's possible to enable the software production process to be smart enough to extract only the needed bits of the generic parts (of the software) to produce the final result, like what is done in the early days in which things are simple enough that everything can be build up from ground just for the specific tasks of a software ...
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Shuqian Ying wrote: to be smart enough to extract only the needed bits of the generic parts (of the software) to produce the final result
There used to be a tool, ages ago, for C/C++ that did that, and I thought there was once such a thing for C#/.NET as well. But it's all "gotten" so entangled. 
Marc
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