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More than a century after the birth of pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper the programming language she helped establish, Cobol, still underpins software used by modern businesses.
Happy 107th Birthday, Grace Hopper!
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Once more the Supreme Court is going to have a shot to kill off software and business-practice patents. Hopefully they'll get it right this time. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Mount Doom is like LA and the Shire like Lincolnshire, so says a climate model based on author's famously detailed maps. One more bit of world-changing research completed
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mount Doom is like LA
Louisiana? 
I always thought L.A. was like Mordor.
Come to think of it, I had to travel a long distance to take a ring there once -- when I proposed to my wife.
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Nearly a decade in the works, Internet-wide projects designed to keep e-mail safe from scams, spam, and identity-thieving phishing attempts are paying off. Your Inbox may, or may not, agree with them
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Apart from Android, Google does Trunk Based Development (TBD) everywhere. They made the review process as lean as they could, by making reviews ordinary and continuous. Do no evil code?
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Didn't Linus's talk at the Googleplex on why git is so awesome and centralized source control sucks convince Google to switch to Mercurial a few years ago? With the author admitting his sources have no information past 08 this content seems pathetically dated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Google to switch to Mercurial a few years ago
Maybe as a front-end to Perforce, but Mercurial is definitely not able to handle the size of the code base that Google has.
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Joyent expands support for the popular development framework to nearly every server and cloud base. "All the cool kids are doing it"
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Rx 2.2 is now available via the Rx CodePlex project and includes more support for Windows Phone 8, various bug fixes and contributions from the community. Now with even more reactivity
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In advance of Computer Science Education Week, which kicks off on Monday, Code.org has brought together some of the biggest names in the tech industry to teach everyone to code. All it takes is an hour to start learning. Happy Computer Science Education Week
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Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website. I miss it already
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I knew I needed to stockpile Win 7versions.
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Ew, so the price will go up? 
My wife bought a laptop (Lenovo Yoga thingie) with Win 8.1 yesterday. I didn't know she knew some of the words coming out of her mouth.
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Looks like sales of that program to put a real start menu back in will be going up!
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You never get compliments? 
Wout
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Have you heard of Bitcoins — the digital currency that has recently experienced a dramatic increase in value? Now estimated at over $1,200 per Bitcoin, the revolutionary and controversial method of payment has been making headlines around the world. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to start performing transactions using Bitcoins, but before you can even do that you’ll have to find a way to collect Bitcoins! "Money often costs too much."
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Just wait for the Bitcoin Crash.
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This release focuses on addressing feedback from the community around quality and stability. In this release, we've fixed over 100 issues related to memory leaks, CPU usage, crashes, and compiler correctness. This has helped the TypeScript experience for developing large-scale JavaScript applications become a more robust and more reliable experience. The asymptote edition
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What's TypeScript? 
Marc
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Type-Safe JavaScript with a C#-ish syntax.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Type-Safe JavaScript with a C#-ish syntax.
Ah. Should I care about another layer of confusion? 
Marc
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From what I've seen from it almost a year ago it's very nice. You have decent compiler time checking and intellisense, while it doesn't keep you from doing the true dynamic stuff.
Wout
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Plus you can just write regular JavaScript and leverage TypeScript for the "compile" checking. That's what Monaco does from what I can tell.
Kevin
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