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So that's how politicians do it...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Microsoft is working on a quantum computer that uses what are called “non-abelian anyons,” a quasiparticle that physicists aren’t sure even exist. So it runs Windows 10?
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The best feature of the quasiparticle computer is that you can throw it through two windows simultaneously.
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The coder you need may likely be on the other side of the world, according to recent research. Right here, of course
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Quote: Where to find the world's best programmers
From which planet is he referencing to? He completely ignored N&S America DEVs
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He also ignored me, but only because it would skew the results 
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I'm talking respective to continents not countries. Kids these days
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New Zealand professor asked to present his work at US event on nuclear physics despite it containing gibberish all through the copy I guess it makes about as much sense as many other physics papers these days
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Bartneck said that given the quality of the review process and the steep registration fee, he was “reasonably certain that this is a money-making conference with little to no commitment to science.
And a Microsoft Developer Conference is different how?
(Oooh, that was low, I admit it!)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And a Microsoft Developer Conference is different how?
Come on! This is the best payed advertisement can ever be! You advertise and the audience pay!
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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Microsoft has partnered with Acclaim to introduce Microsoft badges for Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) to achieve certain certifications or pass select exams. Badges? We got your stickin' badges.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: stickin'
I believe that the original quote was "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges"
Stickin' just sounds... dirty... for some reason.
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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Joys of entering that one on my iPad. Got auto"corrected " 
TTFN - Kent
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I usually call that 'feature' autoincorrect (or autocowreck or Auto Condom Wrecker, as my iPad once decided to use  )
I love the site Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories[^]
Lots of fail there.
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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And how exactly you stick a digital badge to your forehead?
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: And how exactly you stick a digital badge to your forehead?
With digital tape? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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People keep claiming that is because of bad choices of language, but it’s mostly not and static typing will not even slightly help fix it. dim Discuss as new Flamebait()
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davidMacIver = HesGotSomeGoodPoints()
davidMacIver = ButHesAlsoWrong()
Make it more expensive to write broken software - write in a non-static typed language
Make it cheaper to write correct software - write in a static typed language
But because these bugs [those that happen in production] are relatively minor
Now that's where I totally disagree. If a true static typed language had been used, or had been used properly (ie, semantically, which is the next level of strong typing), this case in point[^]
due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed.
would not have cost the taxpayers $327.6 million
Dealing with type errors in a non-static language is not cheaper. I spend time writing unit tests and verifying the runtime by hand to ensure type correctness that I do NOT spend with static typed languages. Running an app only to discover I'm using a duck-typed variable before I've assigned something to it is a time waster. The benefits of static typing far outweight the benefits of non-static typed languages, and I'm sorry David, that's not opinion, but measurable fact.
Can duck-typed languages save time? Sure! I can replace a class instance that interfaces with hardware with a class instance that mocks the hardware as simply as the code above. I can add fields to a class outside of the class simply by making an assignment.
All of which are cheats and laziness, break the "code as documentation" fallback. In other words, duck-typed languages are like pr0n instead of the real thing.
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Most existing static type systems also come with a build time cost that makes testing in general more expensive.
 And the unit tests that duck-typed languages require often (in my experience with a small Ruby on Rails web app) take longer to run than compiling much more complex web sites. [/edit]
Marc
modified 23-Oct-16 20:40pm.
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The fact that we have === says it all.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The funny operator of js. 
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Though David is right when he says that "Static typing will not save us from broken software", I mostly disagree with him. Static typing must be done correctly. Many developers don't understand that - see also my post to the Weird and Wonderful: I don't see sharp anymore, ...[^]. And the next level of typing are semantic types, as Marc suggested (and also Simonyi when he introduced Hungarian notation). We need developers who actually understand what they do.
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Mystery company owns a patent created by an IP lawyer and a serial litigant. If only they would turn to stone in the daylight
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It seems that there are countless patents approved by person do not understand a single world of it...
It is sad that there are people who abuse it, but we can't set it right without fixing the patent system...
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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Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that. "It is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn."
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