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Even though, THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP,
I went CRAWLING BACK TO MICROSOFT.
Please take me back. Please, Bill. For the sake of the windows children. Take me back. 
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newton.saber wrote: Even though, THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP,
Which they've been saying for the past decade or so. 
Kevin
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Just "decade", I have a longer memory than you.
(Incidentally, I think Newton's original point was a joke reference to the number of "years of the Linux desktop" we've had so far). According to this[^], the first year touted as such was 1998, but I much prefer olevar's answer....
Quote: The earliest reference we have of "Year of Linux on Desktop" is from Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita by Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494.
He writes:
"Sono sicuro che il prossimo anno tutti utilizzerà Linux"
Incidentally, that means that 2018 will be the 20th anniversary of the first year of the Linux desktop. Sounds like an excuse for a party.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Just "decade", I have a longer memory than you.
I was trying to be generous. 
Kevin
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"We left? Why did no one tell me?"
You may have followed us then 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When he appeared on Conan they showed the "developers, developers, developes" clip before he went on and he was actually quite proud of it
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It’s almost tragic how Microsoft, with a multi-year head start in the mobile phone market, was completely blindsided by the iPhone. Indeed, it’s somewhat easy to forget that Microsoft, going as far back as 2000, was already putting incarnations of Windows Mobile on PDAs and smartphones. "Can't win for losing"
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The article said:
If Microsoft engineers and executives had experienced that same type of urgency, the smartphone market today might very well look a lot different than it does today.
No one at Microsoft stood as a visionary for the product. The thing that Steve Jobs brought to Apple was:
1. A huge interest in making the iPhone - a portable device that allowed you to call, listen to music and surf the web
2. Pain : to anyone who got in his way, or didn't do exactly what he wanted or whatever.
Now, consider most large companies (MICROSOFT) made up of a lot of people who are getting paychecks whether the company makes a cool phone device or not. Also, consider that employees have to be nice to each other.
Microsoft conversation probably went something like this:
Windows Phone Product Guy: Here's what we'll do. Jam some interface on there which looks like Windows, then maybe put somet tiley looking thingies on there and some color. Voila, just like iPhone. No one will know the difference.
Uninterested Employees Who Are Busy Using their iPhones to Check Their Microsoft Stock Value: __nodding their heads without looking up__
One guy way in the back who doesn't like it:
Thinking: "Well, I don't want to say anything rude."
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Well.. you might very well be onto something!! ^_^
Though, I suspect that Ballmer might have been bullish about Windows Phone! At least he seemed to be while talking publicly!
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Automation plays an ever-increasing role in IT and is impacting job and how business is done. Our latest survey digs into the subject and shows that 60% are already automating some IT jobs and another 11% plan to do so. It's true! 71% of this newsletter is automated.
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The first piece of custom (and commercial) software I wrote was for a linen company, many years ago to automate what inventory got put on what truck on what day, for what delivery route. The day I walked in to deliver to product, the owner's very first action, upon seeing me, was to clap his hands and exclaim, "All right! Now I can fire some people!"
I felt really bad about it at the time, but also realized that I was on the right side of the computer automation revolution; control the machines, or be controlled by them.
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71 percent of IT is getting outsourced to ITself.
All of us constitute the remaining 29 percent.
modified 4-Aug-15 0:54am.
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Meanwhile, early data shows that 40% of Windows 10 users are running something other than the default Edge. There are no alternatives! Time to panic!
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Quote: In August 2014, Microsoft abruptly told virtually all IE users that they needed to be running IE11 by Jan. 12, 2016, or face a shut-off of security updates.
A lot of us will never notice. Since Windows Security Update KB3045685 and every subsequent Windows Security Update fails to run on lots of Windows 8 machines (like mine), we'll never get that far. My patches have effectively already stopped. 
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A young developer approached me after a conf talk and said, “You must feel really bad about the failure of object-oriented programming.” "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing."
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article wrote: A young developer...
Ugh!
Just like a dude who has built mis-shapen sheds out of wood and mud approaching Frank Lloyd Wright and saying,
"I can see that planning architecture and the knowledge of architectural principles have failed."
What evs! Stay ignorant, young fellow. Stay ignorant.
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newton.saber wrote: built mis-shapen sheds out of wood and mud
Hey, there's good money in that! http://earthship.com/[^]
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OOP hasn't failed yet, because the money behind it are still a lot.
Once someone find another way to make money, OOP will fail as well...
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OOP is without a doubt one of the greatest intellectual paradigms within the software industry. I don't think money has anything to do with either its success or potential failure.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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My comment was likely about what the guy said...
He said, “OOP was supposed to fix all of our software engineering problems and it clearly hasn’t. Building software today is just as hard as it was before OOP. came along.”
“Have you ever look at the programs we were building in the early 1980s? At how limited their functionality and UIs were? OOP has been an incredible success. It enabled us to manage complexity as we grew from 100KB applications to today’s 100MB applications.”
I mean that the more new tools (e.g. OOP, but also hardware) are available, the more the customer/market requests are growing (and yet satisfied).
That is, in the late '70 we're amazed by a "tennis game" made by a white dot bouncing around our TV. After 20 years we had something like Arkanoid; now even better.
Machines power and money were (still are) something linked each other.
Hope now that's clear...
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OOP makes money? How that?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Training.
Lots of companies cash in on any trend in computing and cobble together training courses to extract money from IT departments.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Than it is not OOP, but any 'fashion' around...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There is no silver bullet in software development. There will always be new ways of doing things, approaching and solving problems, designing software etc. Some of these approaches are more appropriate in certain contexts than others.
OOP has been extraordinarily successful by allowing the human brain to deal with complex problems through such things as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance etc.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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