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A large group of tech inventors and entrepreneurs, including Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Qualcomm Former Principle Engineer Ranganathan Krishnan, are asking Congress to stop patent trolls and reform the patent system, which they call "broken." Of course, not for *our* patents
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Google hopes to entice programmers to its Glass Developer Kit with offline access and demos, from real-time word translation to exercise tracking. And by "Throws open", they mean, "Gave a preview to a few dozen people"
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Yeah. Do I need to connect to Google+ before I can see? Or to tap developer key, or something. I bet there is a javavm on them. No thanks.
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Java, I'd say almost definitely. Isn't just about all Android dev in Java?
The G- account? I wouldn't doubt it. Probably also takes a bit of blood on parchment as well.
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TTFN - Kent
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Developers were standing so close to the doors they needed new glasses... 
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How can we go about delivering modern services on old school technology? "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
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t's not just science fiction. Microsoft is working to make calendar, e-mail and other 'super' apps smarter by embedding entity information directly into them. And I have here a virtual backhand for anyone using Bingified around me
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Yeah, it's called microcontent and we've all been doing it for 15 years or more.
Thanks though. Good effort.
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Right. I've seen already such works on Skype, when they demolished an entire API and replace them with URIs (wtf).
Now what? Do I need to do a search for hydralisk damage from inside Starcraft 2? Perhaps they can suggest me to make also roaches and zerglings because they are good friends of hydralisks? Or perhaps a nice commercial for cheaper evolution chambers - "just with Conglom-O evo chamber you hydra shines".
And with Bing nonetheless.
When these guys will understand that there are trains that once they left the station, they will *never* coming back. Make the goddamn search work in Outlook first. Get rid of the indexing service that is never indexing anything than virtual memory and page faults (since F3 in windows 7, at least, NEVER finds anything except control panel items). Make an usable search in IE's bookmarks (maybe they did, I don't know  ).
*Then* come and expose an IBingSearchableItemProperty interface & friends. And I'd be happy to implement this. But not by downloading a 2 MB JS monstrosity which is 10 times larger than ATL.
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Cristian Amarie wrote: Make the goddamn search work in Outlook first. Get rid of the indexing service that is never indexing anything than virtual memory and page faults (since F3 in windows 7, at least, NEVER finds anything except control panel items). Make an usable search in IE's bookmarks
You're my new hero  Even if it is a bit 'Don Quixote' of a wish for them to fix desktop search.
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Hey, I can dream. If they don't have the manpower (and source code) to do it, who can? We should rely on (defunct) Xobni to find emails in Outlook, or Total Commander (one man band) for Alt-F7?
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Upvoted for the SC reference alone.
Hang on, we're in for some chop.
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Bingified? Wasn't that the internal code name for Vista?
If bingifying doesn't cause you misery, then we will vistafy your machine instead; also known as ransom-ware.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Labor stats and interviews indicate a slowdown in hiring due to economic uncertainties, but may not reflect health of tech sector as a whole  I can't even bring myself to a Hansel & Gretel reference
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That happens when everyone is going social in Agile mode instead of writing good code and release useful software. Reinventing a stupid website with .rb extension instead of .php or so won't do any better.
A real chase for fast and cheap (thanks, Jamiroquai) which eventually bursts from time to time. Every 10 years or so.
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Everyone going Agile - there's nothing new about doing short-leashed/short cycles. For software houses and ones who plan to sell your own software - take this as opportunity as big firms all busy churning out next generations of broken software in small pieces. You can beat them by planning long term, building software the proper way - from ground up.
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modified 19-Nov-13 22:06pm.
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This is the official set of GitHub Training courseware including outlines, topic-specific guides, examples, and slides provided under the CC BY 3.0 license to aid schools, universities, user groups, hackathons, corporate lunch-and-learns and other educational outlets in teaching GitHub and Git. In short, you should take these materials and make the development world a better place by leveraging them to teach a class or give a conference talk. Do a quick check that you are using the materials in the spirit of the license and then go forth and spread the good GitHub and Git news. Git knowledge: pull from the source
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Since the GA, customers have adopted the product at a rate that is higher than that of Visual Studio 2012! Now that you have had about one month to use the product, we’d like to hear what you think about it. Let us know your impressions by taking the Visual Studio 2013 RTM survey. Let loose the survey-completers of WAR!
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I started to learn programming in high school and they taught us C. It felt a bit complicated, focusing more on memory management than on algorithms, but I didn't know about anything else and I was really interested so I went with it. After that, the first programming class in university (that had no prerequisites) was also about C. By then I knew about other programming languages, especially Python, and seeing people with no prior experience struggling I started to ask myself if Python would be a better first language. After TA-ing some programming classes and hosting some Python workshops, I'm convinced that Python is the best first programming language. Let me tell you why. Discuss
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Probably the author never knew there exists a programming language called C# , which is sharp enough to do anything 
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Python is probably a better first language than C#. The syntax is easier, not everything needs to be inside of a class, dynamic typing...
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Python? BAH! That's for pussies who couldn't hack it in Assembler as their first language!
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I vote Whitespace as the simplest and most understandable language for beginner
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With tab size = 1.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Discuss
I don't think he has a clue as to what he's talking about.
First off, he's confusing whether a programming language is a good first language with how a language is taught. If C is taught so that "people with no prior experience [are] struggling", then that is more the fault of the teacher than the language. I could argue that Logo is the best first programming language. In fact, years ago I wrote a visual Logo (Turtle Graphics) program on a C-64 that was so intuitive we had 6 year olds in the lab writing programs that included animation, sound, looping, etc.
And then there's this lovely statement:
It's a high level, dynamic (and dynamically typed) programming language, featuring an expressive syntax that enhances code readability.
What a load of sh*t. Given:
def contains(numbers, value):
Do tell me, what type does this function return? What are numbers? What is value? Sure, to the experienced programmer, it should be obvious that this function returns a boolean and, being dynamically typed, numbers are probably an array of numbers and value is some number of the same type.
The amusing thing about his example is that it would work equally well with an array of strings!!!
So. More readable? Not in my book.
Expressive? Well, yes, if you go for the "I'm so expressive that when I mean "number" you don't actually have to give me numbers, you can give me strings, objects, functions, anything you want!
Dynamic typing? That's supposed to be a good thing? All I've seen is that it results in confusion. I can't even remember the types that I'm supposed to pass in to my Ruby on Rails functions, and I wrote the damn code! Is it an array? What's it an array of? What does it return? Dynamic typing sounds great but in practice it slows down code development and maintenance.
High level? That's also supposed to mean that it's better? Not necessarily!
The problem with the author's perspective is that he's coming at this from the position of an experienced (though I should use that term loosely) developer and failing to see that the process of learning a programming language has actually very little to do with the language.
"High level", "expressive", "dynamic", "readability" - those are all terms that no novice would even understand what they mean with regards to coding and they should not be used to demonstrate the superiority of a computer language as a first primer in programming.
Marc
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