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Who is Stephen Hawkins? 
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He is Stephen Hawking's stunt double.
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When I was learning PowerShell, I thought of it as a scripting language that has a shell. But the right way to think of it may be the opposite, a shell that has a scripting language. Apparently others have followed this same change of perspective. Don Jones and Jeffrey Hicks first saw PowerShell as a VBScript replacement and taught it that way.
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That seems to be an improvement over the first power shell tutorials that started by trying to convince you that monads are simple, really.
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One of the biggest problems Microsoft will face with the Windows 8 platforms is that they’re effectively starting from zero apps. What can Microsoft do to encourage developers to create great Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps? Are you ready to develop apps for Windows 8?
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Quote: Ever wonder why there are more games?
Easier development, more developer resources more tools.
Being MS developer, that what I wanted to believe but the reality is that Eclipse and xCode are both pretty good, I would say up-to-par with Visual Studio. iOS has 500,000 apps and Android has close to 400,000 - apparently both have enough developers building apps - and much more than WP7. The name of the game is how big the market is. So far MS failed to capture mobile/tablet space. If they can produce and sell quality device in sufficient numbers - developers will follow, if not - doesn't matter how good Visual Studio is.
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Nope. Not much call for development tools running on Metro!
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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If you build websites for a living, you'll undoubtedly use the obvious web design tools - Firebug, Browsershots, plus the various font embedding services and page speed analysers. So this article isn't about them. Instead it's about the more underrated tools that we use that can help you improve client-side (browser) development and rigorously test everything that you build. Pro tip: learn the keyboard shortcut for developer tools in all your browsers.
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Write code that communicates well what and why is done so that your co-workers and future maintainers can take it over without too much cost. (Yet you have to assume some level of skill and knowledge in you audience.) You cannot foresee the future so keep your code simple and sufficiently flexible so that it can evolve. I don't always program like Kent Beck, but when I do, I program like this.
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Me I program like Jeff Beck. 
Clickety[^]
Life is too shor
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Kent Beck making sense. Wow.
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The big news for most users is the fact that Windows Phone 8 won’t work on current hardware. To me this is short-sighted as it seems to punish the only fans the platform has so far. But let’s think about it in broader strokes that just me. Is this a good strategy overall? For the developer there is quite a lot of interesting news.
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Interesting read.
Regarding the main issue of the new phone OS not being supported on the old hardware, I can lean both ways.
From a technical point of view this can turn out to be a very wise decision when we look in the rear view mirror a couple more years from now.
Through the years, Microsoft and Intel have been heavily criticized for adding so much backwards compatibility, that they did not take full advantage of new technologies. The first generation of a platform like this is very likely to have some fundamental issues that were not anticipated early on.
From an end user point of view it is disappointing, but in todays fast-paced phone market it is not really a surprise that 2 year old technology is being phased out.
I bought the HTC Surround (WP7) in October 2010. I was not really happy with it in the beginning, but with the 7.5 update many issues were fixed and today it is working well for me. I still think it is a terrible idea to put surround sound speakers in a phone, but that has nothing to do with the OS.
I have been considering upgrading to the Lumia 900 because I am eligible for the $100 upgrade price. Given the latest news, I will probably hold onto my current phone for a while. I am sure I am not the only one doing so, which has to be a blow to Nokia, but that is their own fault for being some 18 months behind their competitors.
Soren Madsen
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As an end user (Nokia Lumia 800) my take is this...
I can still make and receive phone calls.
I can still make and receive texts.
I can still browse the web.
I can still use the 100,000+ apps in the marketplace.
The apps I already have won’t stop working.
Those app. writers will probably still for a while provide updates for 7.5/7.8 users because it will be a long time before there are enough WP 8 ones, especially as the 7.5 updates will still run on 8, especially true for app. writers who earn money.
Heavy-duty games writers will write native WP 8 but these would never be runnable on WP 7.5 anyway.
By the time WP 8 is established with sufficient native WP 8 apps., my contract will have finished and I can upgrade my phone.
However, the market perception is damaging, especially as Lumia is only a few months or less old.
Kevin
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When the history books of the future are written, Alan Turing will go down in the company of Newton and Darwin and Einstein. His visions changed how humanity conceives of computation, information and pattern -- and 100 years after his birthday, and 58 years after his tragic death, Turing's legacy is alive and growing. Happy 100th birthday Alan Turing!
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So Alan Turing was born 100 years ago today. It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. But here's a question - could the arts and humanities move further into Turing's legacy than admirable commentary on specific biographical revelations of his life, or questions which bother cultural ambiguity? Computational science for the arts crowd.
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Android, and more particularly Windows Phone, are at a strong disadvantage because their own app ecosystems have fewer or less reliable content offerings. These two platforms do have one (difficult) strategic advantage, however, because they are behind, they need to innovate. It's possible to leapfrog Apple's mobile advantage... but will they?
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The Chromium OS should provide a much faster computing experience for the Raspi compared to the current Debian and Arch Linux-based builds. Right now, the Chromium support for the Raspberry Pi is very much a work in progress but a slimmed-down, browser-only operating system may be just what the underpowered but useful 700 MHz ARM computer with 256 MB of RAM needs. A grown-up OS for a baby computer?
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In the 1980s and 1990s, consumer-tech religious wars were a little easier to understand. Back then, there were only two camps: Apple and Microsoft. The hostility for and against Microsoft and Apple hasn’t abated. But over time, new religions have arisen... Why can't we all just get along?
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Unsure how much of it entertainment and how much fact, but a fun listen nevertheless.  +5
/ravi
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Kristin Dian Mariano wrote: Terry Gou, the chief executive officer of Apple components partner Foxconn, said that iPhone 5 will beat Galaxy S3, Samsung's flagship phone...
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