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Kent Sharkey wrote: "8th place on a list with questionable methodology"
Nice to see that emphasized. There is so much wrong with Tiobe's methodology that to call it questionable is a compliment.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And by "shines", he means, "8th place on a list with questionable methodology"
As worthless as Tiobe's index is, an article that only links to the same sites drivel about previous updates but not to the index itself is, if anything, more pathetic. 
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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Tired of writing code? Me too! Let's have Stack Overflow do it. They're doing it anyway, might as well automate the process
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Oh no! We will have to shut down QA!!!
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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Gibme da codez, plz!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Even with the slowness bugs fixed, Windows Update on Windows 7 still has its flaws. It's still better than relying on the typical user to keep their machine up-to-date
At least, that's what I keep telling myself...
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Nothing is even close to what I had back in another era. 30 years later, QBasic is still the best when it comes to discovering programming. He has me sold, I'll use it for my next app (does it connect to Azure?)
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I'm not sure I could even write code in a non-threaded, interpreted, non-OOP language anymore without native debug support and Intellisense auto-completion.
Oh wait, I do code in Javascript. 
Marc
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The Blackbox project is a massive data collection initiative by the University of Kent, that sifts through millions of source code compilations looking to identify the most frequent mistakes made by student programmers. "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Vaguely feels like a repost, as the original paper is from 2014, but eh. It's Monday.
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I particularly like the missing item in the list under syntax.
A. C. D. E.
I propose an addition to the list: Cut/Copy/Paste errors.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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B is lower down the page, under "Other semantic errors".
Maybe another "error" to include is "Didn't RTFM" 
"I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart." - Linus van Pelt.
"If you were as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't think you were so smart!" - Charlie Brown.
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I'm a little perturbed that almost every one of their metrics are syntactic.
How about basic architecture like "Uses iteration when recursion is called for" or "Treats value types as if they are reference types." The skill is not in the specific grammar, it's in how it all fits together.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Last quarter, Microsoft hit a major milestone: $1 trillion in all-time cumulative revenue reports technology consultant Jeff Reifman. That's what: 10 installs of VS Ultimate Sooper Dooper?
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It's enterprise, chief. Both, system as well as edition. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Yeah. That one. I can never keep track of their names beyond, I WANT IT ALLLLLLLL! 
TTFN - Kent
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If you want all of them, that'd be a Community! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft recently spoke at an AI conference that AI is “the most important technology that anybody on the planet is working on today.” This announcement brought to you by the Department of Whatever I'm Working On Is The Most Important department
Did you know that this newsletter is THE MOST important one? After all the other ones, anyway.
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Chief Envisioning Officer? When I was a kid it was called the 'village drunk'...
But to make him happy I started to work on a - open source - AI related project right now...AI implant - the only way same can get intelligence...
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did you know that this newsletter is THE MOST important one?
I do !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I wish people would shut up about AI and chatbots
i cri evry tiem
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The FBI’s Next Generation Identification Biometrics Database went live nationwide in 2014 without much fanfare from the general public. That's OK, I already know what my face looks like
Do two faced people have two records?
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Darn well better or we'll be mad yes we will.
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What happens with people that have face transplants? Both the provider and recipient?
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They go on to make even more terrible films[^].
"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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Back-end changes at Outlook.com are making the old email client obsolete How about Outlook Express?
Yes, I know the answer is in the article, but that's the only other Microsoft email client I could think of. I couldn't remember the name of the old DOS-based one. Or was it just "Mail"? Or was that just the back-end?
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