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Article says: “Any change is anti-enterprise.”
So true.
Giants cannot be bothered about the business of gnats.
Then the gnats clog up the Giant's eyes. Agh! Giant can't see where he is going. Steps off cloud and plummets to earth.
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The last paragraph reads:
Quote: Spend less time worrying about who Microsoft hates or what language or framework is declared dead this week. Instead, embrace progress, engage in active self-improvement and education. Be the person who abandons the old way of thinking, be more productive, be cross platform, be open source. If you do, you’ll find yourself armed with a unique set of skills, ready to solve the problems of tomorrow instead of idly working on problems from the past.
That pretty-well sums up my thoughts.
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Microsoft and other tool developers want the median salary for developers to decrease so they can increase their own profits. They do not want a population of highly-skilled developers who can think for themselves.
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With hundreds of thousands of downloads per week, tools like Bower, Grunt, Gulp, and Node have become mainstream.
So in other words, change is being led by command line tools with obscure syntax and by frameworks with no decent coding or debugging support, and built on a previous language that everyone loves to hate.
And that's called progress???
Marc
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Can I give you an infinite amount of upvotes? 
Shoo, must probably use command line for that too: cp upvote marc-clifton positive_infinity
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Just go through and upvote all his previous posts... not really +infinity, but it comes close...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Marc Clifton wrote: So in other words, change is being led by command line tools with obscure syntax and by frameworks with no decent coding or debugging support, and built on a previous language that everyone loves to hate.
That really is a spot on explanation of the situation. Very funny...at least it's funny in the sad sort of way.
I guess it's actually so sad I have to laugh so I don't cry.  Is this 2015? Don't we have better technology?
Answer: YES, we do!
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Nope, that's just about it - people don't seem to like stuff you can't click and drag on. 
TTFN - Kent
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facepalm
Yeah, I hate the fiddling needed to use those elephanting compute like it's 1989 CLI driven platforms too. Having to use a crappy editor like eclipse or sublime instead of VS to do my coding in only ads another layer of suckage.
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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In another blow to the plight of achieving diversity in tech, Chinese startups have apparently started hiring “programming cheerleaders” to spur on their mostly-male developer workforce. From general chit-chat to ping-pong, the practice is catching on. "Oh Mickey, you're so fine"
Please, someone tell me this is a hoax.
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"Well, baby, me so VeeBee. Me so VEEBEE. Me code you long time. You party?"
I don't think it's a joke... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Cue the Fish Cheer!
Actually, I did find that playing ping pong with a female asian colleague -- a talented developer, not just a pretty face -- was good for my motivation. Maybe these "cheerleaders" could be trained to do code reviews?
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That's just wrong on so many levels. We need less sexism, not more. Then again, this is Asia where you can get away with a lot that would never fly here in the US.
This seems like something I would find on The Onion - unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a joke.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Why don't they directly hire call girls ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Maybe some are... ewww...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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ppolymorphe wrote: Why don't they directly hire call girls ?
They do. They answer the phone. 
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"Good news! We've hired you a cheerleader. Here's a photo: https://tinyurl.com/o2w63pl[^]"
(SFW)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He can paint me a picture of a puppy while I work!
TTFN - Kent
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http://consumerist.com/2015/08/20/amazon-bans-ads-using-adobe-flash-from-its-sites/[^]
Quote: Beginning September 1, 2015, Amazon no longer accepts Flash ads on Amazon.com, AAP, and various IAB standard placements across owned and operated domains.
One more nail in the coffin. It's not the numerous small sites video player replacement that is the only thing standing between my current click to play status and removing it from my primary browsers; but one of the bigger desktop ad buyers forcing HTML5 use will probably be a hard shove to reduce the number of industries still using flash down by one.
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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Considering the widespread usage of plugin as FlashBlock, that prevent the loading of many ads altogether, I'd say it was already counter-productive for investors to use Flash based ads.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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YAY!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I concur.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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