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Developers are starting to make up their minds about which new programming languages they like best. "The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise."
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For the past five years RedMonk has tracked the popularity of different programming languages by charting the number of questions about each language asked on the popular programming question-and-answer site StackOverflow
Popularity? How about people trying out one of these languages and getting totally stumped, and going to SO for help?
Seems like someone is jumping to the conclusion that questions is indicative of popularity. I would rather say, questions are indicative of poor documentation and obtuse language construction.
But then again, who reads documentation when you just hop on over to SO and ask a question that should be answered with RTFM.
But what do I know?
Marc
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I guess it would depend on how the metric is done. If they use the questions about a particular language, maybe not so much. But if they use the ones where they're of the sort "how do I use Amazon Web Services in Boo" then maybe it's a good measure.
Otherwise, I agree it's a crap measure.
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The Open Connectivity Foundation will seek to define interoperability standards for the billions of internet-connected devices expected to arrive in the next few years. How many IoT standards groups do we have now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How many IoT standards groups do we have now?
The number of groups is irrelevant...In any case all will do whatever they want to sell 'features'! See the history of HTML...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In a surprising announcement, Clement Lefebvre -- head of the Linux Mint project -- said that the Linux Mint website had been compromised and that the hackers were able to edit the site to point to a malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition on Saturday 20th, February. You might have received extra spice with your Cinnamon
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Many IT personnel don't follow the same security protocols they’re expected to enforce according to the results of a new survey of over 500 professionals working in IT security roles. "Do as I say, not as I do"
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Yes, IT personnel tend to be relaxed on security, when they shouldn't be.
I used to work in this one place where the staging area was open to anyone in IT. The sysadmins expected us leave the web.config in there, because they could then deploy any change all at once. Hey, we were all one big happy family! Besides the risk of sensitive data being browsed and manipulated, you had to watch your own stuff too. It took one time of noticing the web.config changed for me to never, ever leave it in there again. I deleted it and if I had a change, I made the sysadmins change it by hand across the farm.
Come promotion time the saboteurs were in full force!
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Libertarian presidential candidate and former antivirus developer John McAfee waded into the ongoing battle of words between Apple and the FBI with some choice words of his own. Can we pick the shoe?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Can we pick the shoe?
A used boot from a pig farmer? 
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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McAfee is definitely nuts.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The new version features HTTP/2 support, improved garbage collection, and ports to Android and Linux Now with 6.25% more "get up"
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Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. "The instrument (the telescreen it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."
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Torvalds made the revelation in a rare interview at the TED conference in Vancouver saying that Linux started off as a personal project that he intended to keep to himself. No take backsies!
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I believe in using “the best tool for the job,” too. As you say, the best tool must be determined in the context of your particular problem. I look forward to the enthusiastic responses
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IMO:
Yes - if "the job" is client side visual effects on HTML that are beyond HTML5/CSS.
No for everything else.
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The problem is that Javascript is the onlytool for the job.
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You could write a plug-in 
More seriously, various transpilers are available which address JavaScript's foibles. More promising still is the Web Assembly effort, which will finally enable other languages to target the browser, side-stepping JavaScript altogether.
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Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: More promising still is the Web Assembly effort, which will finally enable other languages to target the browser
Web COBOL, anyone? 
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--Winston Churchill
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We're thinking of moving towards TypeScript for precisely these reasons. Whilst Javascript is great at what it does, it's not the easiest tool to work with.
"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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Coffeescript is one of the worst. TypeScript actually spits out some rather clean and concise JavaScript, from what I have seen and tried.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It's awesome when you want to show someone how not to make a language
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The best example of that is surely PHP
"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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Google Cloud Debugger, which lets you inspect the state of an application at any code location without stopping or slowing it down, now has an enhanced UI, expanded language support and debugging from more places. For when you have so many bugs, you need the scalability of the cloud
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