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Engadget[^]:
Fabric, Twitter's developer platform, now belongs to Google.

All 140 characters of it?

DZone[^]:
Take care when deciding whether to adopt new languages onto the team. Yes, they can open new doors, but they can also lead to havoc and a lack of stability in your app.

I know I always get confused after typing File > New

Maybe I'll just do the next one in Lisp.

Nowadays, "creativity" is synonymous to an unthinking plunge into something new and shiny and see if your demo of an HTTP server in afformentioned glitz gets attention on GitHub.

Used to be that "creativity" was associated with discipline, well thought out planning, and deep understanding.

Marc

V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation

Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

To me, creativity is an undisciplined, unplanned activity meant to gain deep understanding. Going about it in a disciplined, planned manner often constrains and limits exploration and potential unexpected, but viable outcomes.

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Not necessarily. Sometimes discipline and planning is what sparks creativity. In resolute, complete understanding one can truly expound on the discipline which one has devoted oneself.

Though I completely agree with pursuing deep understanding. I feel far too many people fail to attempt this Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Rather than the programming languages it is framework "tyranny" that is the problem.

Kevin

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Lisp

Ah, but which Lisp? There is Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure, Racket, AutoLisp,...

utf8-cpp

At the risk of being branded a heretic, I'll provide my perspective.

About 10 years back, I knew someone that worked in the organization I'm currently at. At the time, they were pushing for all development to be done in Java if possible and many of the applications were going to be rewritten in Java. The reason? Microsoft was pushing for all developers to have a licensed copy of Visual Studio - and with thousands of people in the IT department, that was the potential of thousands of people needing a licensing copy in the event they were required to write/modify code.

Java was growing in popularity and this seemed like a cost saving measure for the organization.

Fast forward to now...it would seem that most of the development is being done in C# and there seems to be a pool of developers that is competent in that arena. Java has fallen out of favor; perhaps the organization realized that there is more to cost than just licensing fees.

Now, for my department, most of the people are engineers or technicians - not trained developers. We are administrators on a large data collection system, so, when we write code, is needs to be in a language/environment that is supportable by the group, and, for us, that isn't C#.

So.. we have a mix of Perl scripts, VBA in Excel and VB.NET because it is close enough to VBA that others can maintain it.

If we allowed people in our group to use the 'latest greatest most wonderful tool I'm in love with' we would end up like the organization the article writer left - with code that can't be maintained and is destined for obscurity.

In short.. use what can be maintained long term regardless of its social standing.

I long ago decided that COM stifles creativity, along with Linux Laugh | :laugh:

Medical XPress[^]:
More than 90% of online populations now incorporate emojis and emoticons into their texts and emails, and researchers are wondering what the use of (~_^), (>_<), or =D can reveal about human behavior.

I wonder what these studies have to say about human behaviour

...because the scientists are dumb... Sigh | :sigh:

...because someone is dumb enough to fund it... Sigh | :sigh:

Why do people use smileys? Because smiles make the world go around! Smile | :)

Here, have another! Smile | :)

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"Sorry, buddy, but this mission counts on everyone being as silent as possible, and your farts are just too much of a wildcard." - Korra to Meelo, "Kuvira's Gambit"

$Shucks | :-\$ Blush | :O

/study_complete

Jon McKee wrote:
$Shucks | :-\$ [Rose] [Coffee]
/study_complete

You were saying...

Good Stuff | [The good stuff]

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

Yes, because before there were emojis and computers, people never doodled or drew smiles in their snail mail. What's a picture worth, again?

Doodling is the oldest form of written communication, for ****'s sake. Go visit the pyramids.

The entire Chinese language (of which the Japanese use a cheap knock-off) is made up of doodles. How is an emoji any different to every other word in their languages?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

...and researchers are wondering how to get more free money, I mean...

Android Central[^]:
Google Contributor, the service that let you pay fractions of pennies to remove Google-served ads from websites, is being shut down in mid-January 2017.

When you have to Google the service they're shutting down, I guess there's a reason

Google has ads? I learned something new.

Glassdoor[^]:
People have always questioned whether money can buy happiness. But does the rise or fall of your paycheck change the workplace factors that are most important to you?

I'm willing to experiment on this

In one direction, anyway

Well, derrrrrrr.

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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

The joy from a raise lasts about one paycheck, but job satisfaction rules thereafter; until the next raise, of course.

Except when you go years without a well deserved pay raise, yet the company is booking profits left and right.

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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

O'Reilly[^]:
However, as today’s trends quickly bleed into tomorrow’s standards for development, it’s paramount that software architects become change agents within their organizations by putting into practice the “unspoken” side of their skill set: communication and people skills.

It's how to lie with a whiteboard, isn't it?

Ars Technica[^]:
Facebook CEO says he'd "never even heard of ZeniMax before" trial.

I'd say a $2Billion bet is pretty confident

Or was it $3 Billion?

Facebook's price tag for Oculus actually $3 billion, Zuckerberg reveals in court testimony[^]

OMG | :OMG:

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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

That's a lot of money for a technology that's been "the next big thing" for at least the last 20 years. And just serves to make people nauseous.

TTFN - Kent