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Windows 8 was a sure sign there was a takeover / turnover. It's been rollin on.
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Only WEight? What about Longhorn? Vista? Win7? Looks like they are more busy plotting and infighting than working.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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There are some 269 billion emails sent and received daily. That’s roughly 35 emails for every person on the planet, every day. Over 40 percent of those emails are tracked, according to a study published last June by OMC, an “email intelligence” company that also builds anti-tracking tools. This is why I never read my email
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This is why I have configured my mail clients for plain text and disabled loading of images.
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A commonly misunderstood concept in .NET performance tuning is the importance of avoiding memory allocations. It is thought that since memory allocations are fast, that they rarely if ever have an impact on performance. Did I post this before? I forget.
(That's a memory joke, son)
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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth
I'm certainly not looking forward to maintaining any code that was written by someone who thought I'd be a good idea to create a cryptic mess to save some bytes...
Unless, you know, it really actually matters.
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Yap, that VB code performs well.
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Indeed. Profilers were invented for a reason.
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Thought a career in computing would be a job for life? Think again, suggest Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers Nonsense, warns blurb writer
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AI will replace Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers by 2020. (Especially if, by AI, you mean "making sh*t up".)
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Definitely more likely. 
TTFN - Kent
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Great news, I'll start booking some nice vacations! 
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Just in time for me to retire!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Starts to feel like the end of the world; everytime we get close to the predicted date, they move it 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eventually, yes. 2040? Probably not.
Kevin
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3D printers are useful devices for all kinds of reasons, but most have a critical weakness: they simply take a long time to actually make anything. It's all done with mirrors
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Now I know how 3D printers feel. I got that same evaluation on my review last year.
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As Spotify continues to inch towards a public listing, Apple is making a move of its own to step up its game in music services. 400 MM USD to recognize songs? I'll do it for half that.
Of course, I'm unlikely to identify anything from this century.
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They should have named their company Shascam. how many times have I wondered aloud to myself as Pandora, Spotify play a song with the Title and Artist plainly displayed what song I was actually listening to.
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Convincing your boss to let you use F# at work To be followed by an argument about functional programming
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Quote: However, those who stick with it and start becoming fluent are usually die hard converts because they have realized the usefulness of the paradigm.
Or, they are in denial how much time they have wasted ?
No disrespect to functional languages intended; I plan to spend some time on F#. I am interested in how the FPL paradigms are applicable to asynch event-driven interactions in a user interface, and how the requirements for "stateful" in those scenarios play out.
«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.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I like functional programming very, very much. Almost as much as declarative. Prolog is one of my favorite languages of all times. I even wrote a toy compiler for it once using the language itself.
However, I have never been able to justify their use outside of very narrow domains. The fundamental problem (to me) is their 'unnatural' use in UI development.
If possible, I would like anyone with expertise on these paradigms and UI development to provide examples that show otherwise. The code that I find, as well as my own attempts, yield tortuous code. Unjustifiable, imo.
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What a cluelessly dumb article, written by someone who clearly never ran a company. One of the most annoying tasks as a developer is cleaning up the messes left by people like this guy. I'm also reminded me of the phrase "jack of all trades, master of none." (I'm reminded of a colleague from years ago who was a terrible programmer and covered it by embracing the new. And then went into management.)
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"As a bonus functional programming filters even better in the hiring process for top developers."
Yeah, it filters out the few programmers you were able to get... 
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While magnetic monopoles in the form of elementary particles remain elusive, there have been some recent successes in engineering objects that behave effectively like magnetic monopoles. Are they positive?
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