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I can't believe no one was CDO enough to call you on it 10 hours ago.
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: I can't believe no one was CDO enough to call you on it 10 hours ago.
That surprised me too. Maybe we need a short refresher course on the difference between lemurs[^] and lemmings[^]. 
Marc
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Actually, as Lemmings have largely been misrepresented (especially by Walt Disney) neither behave in a "Lemming-like" manner.
The Wiki article you linked to has good info on this. Walt wasn't exactly an early David Attenborough in his approach to wildlife "documentaries".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I would definetely make an article about 
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Oracle’s licensing practices have created a “hostile” relationship “filled with deep rooted mistrust” between the vendor and its customers, according to a survey that looked at users’ business interactions with the company. "She lies and says she still loves him, can't find a better man"
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That's news? 
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Well, that someone actually did the study, yeah. The findings? Completely known for a while, I think.
TTFN - Kent
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Xamarin wants to enable students building the next big thing in mobile to bring their ideas to life on the best mobile platform on the market. "Something, something, Dark Side"
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But they're gonna still pay for it, right? -_- So what makes a difference?
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Microsoft’s evolving Groups feature aims to improve collaboration, likely at the expense of similar Office 365 options. As long as that one-stop doesn't stop at SharePoint
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Kent Sharkey wrote: aims to improve collaboration
Oh good Bob. Architecture Astronauts again?! 
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Powered by Microsoft technology, new bedside terminals securely hooked up to the hospitals backend servers provide doctors with at-a-glance critical patient information, making data entry easier and quickly accessible. Must. not. make. BSOD joke.
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Blue screen of adverse outcomes as they say in NHS-speak.
I can actually see a use for non-touch (Kinnect and voice) interfaces because one of the biggest problems in hospitals is infection control and one of the biggest headaches to that is "personal tech".
(I did once write some software for medical use - in which capacity I created this fantastic error message : (of Flickr)[^]
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Scalar? I'd think it was more of a vector (or maybe it's the space betwixt).
TTFN - Kent
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That was rather cheeky!
ROTFLMAO
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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But, what kind of hospital is there when we're sick of Microsoft?
(other than the insanity ward, I s'pose...)
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Someone at Microsoft must be crying after that one (and the earlier one about the NFL commentators). So much for visible promotions. Time to go back to crazy dancing commercials[^].
TTFN - Kent
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Awesome things happen, sooner or later. This time, sooner. A month earlier than last year, we’re excited to announce IntelliJ IDEA 14, the major new release of your favorite Java IDE. Now with a bunch of new features of interest to Java developers (so I'm moving on quickly)
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Cisco predicts by 2018, a quarter of the world's population will use personal cloud storage. The other quarter will be to sites reporting on "Is my Cloud down?"
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Hey you get off of my cloud...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Though tough to define, functional programming can bring real productivity boosts if you can navigate the learning curve. Caution: may cause recreation of scenes from Scanners
Once you're past that though, sailing's fine.
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Sometimes, paradoxically, more restrictive environments can lead to greater productivity and it is my experience that immutability just makes all the difference if you are doing anything multi-threaded.
That said, modelling business processes (and things like DDD) are better done in an object oriented language.
This is why an environment/ecosystem that supports both is so important?
  
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Though tough to define
Actually, functional programming is extremely easy to define. McCarthy's original LISP implementation is a thing of tiny beauty. Church's lambda calculus, which provides the logical framework for it all is a much more elegant (and usable) expression of computability than Turing machines, and most functional languages are fairly small compared to imperative language.
The problem is that while switching from C to C# to C++ to Java to Ruby etc. involves small changes in approach, functional programming is a whole different way of working.
As for his discussion of C# and Java as "functional" languages because they enable passing functions - no, that just makes them hybrid languages. Smalltalk had blocks (closures) back in 1980, and they didn't make that a functional language. Indeed, they're pretty essential to make OO work properly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Proxygen lets Facebook take advantage of new software performance enhancers like the Google-developed SPDY protocol and has apparently cut down on the amount of time it takes Facebook to make new products. Not sure how it's going to speed development, but if you need an HTTP stack, it might help.
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