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We resuscitated Mono’s old interpreter and upgraded its .NET support, adding the support for generics and upgraded it to run .NET as it exists in 2017. Because sometimes, you just want to REPL
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The ascendancy of Python masks a serious question: where are all the other scripting languages? "Long time passing"
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New study from Deloitte shows that early adopters of cognitive technologies are positive about their current and future role. Sure, making jobs for analysts writing about AI
"Cognitive aware" US executives. Methinks there's a joke waiting in that phrase.
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Quote: "There is a concern that 'the rise of the machines' will replace human workers, but we should look at how people and machines can work in collaboration as co-bots," Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert said in a statement. "The ability to leverage new technologies to retool our workforce will ultimately lead to new opportunities to build high value skills for our workers."
I've often wondered why I've never landed a cushy, over-paid gig at a firm like Deloitte. I'm starting to suspect that it's something to do with not being able to talk such exquisitely buzzword-strewn BS as this.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The committee has allowed initialization for the range-based for loop, followed the C++ Core Guidelines scoping recommendations, added the new header <bit>, adopted Sutter’s proposal for the ⇔, approved extensions to the standard library, and did a lot of cleanup to make the language simpler to use. "I'm a spaceship superstar"
Modules still not in the main trunk 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Modules still not in the main trunk
While I am keen to see Modules reach mainstream, I think the committee is right here - wait until implementors have experience with the TS before merging it into main. Hopefully, it will avoid any horrible gotchas down the road.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I liked the concept of modules way back before the word was invented, but then I discovered the headache of mixing class definitions and code with C# and found keeping the two separate a big relief when I returned to C++.
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Along with that comes some playful sparring over products, with Microsoft's Satya Nadella the latest to jokingly throw some shade in Apple direction. Perhaps a Windows Phone? We have a lot in the warehouse.
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It's my reaction to Surface (at least one without a keyboard and mouse.)
For pure multi-media systems, tablets are great. For everything else, they suck.
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The jab probably originated from MS not knowing what to do with their own tablet, much less how to market it.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Fancy Bear, the advanced hacking group researchers say is tied to the Russian government, is actively exploiting a newly revived technique that gives attackers a stealthy means of infecting computers using Microsoft Office documents, security researchers said this week. At least someone is still using DDE
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Quote: The malicious payload will only execute after a user has clicked yes to both warnings.
Well, it's not like any users would be stupid enough to click "Yes" in two security warnings, is it? 
"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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If you sent out an email with just the message "Click here to install Malware"; I'll bet you'd get a frightening number of successes.
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Thank you all for trying our tools and providing feedback, all of which is motivating us to make VS Code a better tool for Java developer. With our new 0.3.0 release, we have added a few new capabilities and addressed your top feedback. It Eclipses the competition
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IBM Q research has built and tested an operational 50 qubit prototype processor, a huge leap up from its previous record of 17 qubits. Uptime of 90ms! Start selling that puppy!
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Apple's new Face ID unlock system on the iPhone X can reportedly be tricked with paper eyes and pizza toppings. Keep tapas away from your iPhone. Problem solved.
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Phishing attackers love using Gmail. For more information, click here
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Kent,
I've noticed a few typo in some of your news articles. I talked to Chris about this and we agreed that I could help out while you are away. Could you send me your login credentials so that I can get started?
Thanks.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. "Walk right in, sit right down."
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I was thinking a couple of days ago about the new wave of systems languages now challenging C for its place at the top of the systems-programming heap – Go and Rust, in particular. I reached a startling realization – I have 35 years of experience in C. I write C code pretty much every week, but I can no longer remember when I last started a new project in C!
Not someone I'd've expected to be predicting the end of C; but he's reached the point where he thinks several new languages are reaching the point where they may be able to dethrone C even for systems programming.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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At one point, COBOL was supreme. It's gone. And yet, there are still some things today even COBOL is used for, so it'll never completely go away since C has touched so many things in tech and has such a small footprint. I'd still use it in certain situations today, even for the web. But, by and large things get phased out by the majority. Personally, C will always be my favorite language, but it's just the nature of the beast to have change.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And yet, there are still some things today even COBOL is used for
Indeed. The insurance company I work for still has mainframe systems processing policies using COBOL, and replacing them is a slow and tedious process. Even more bizarre though is that some of the third party services like LexisNexis and Verisk appear to be using COBOL, as we have to supply them policy data, no, not in JSON, no, not in XML, but as text files with fixed position/length for each field. Basically, so COBOL can easily drop it into a record like 05 ZIP-CODE PIC 9(5). Just a guess, but I can't imagine why else. It's certainly not for the compactness, as many optional fields have to be 0 or space padded.
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Totally 
Jeremy Falcon
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Ugh. So instead of them writing a json/xml API once - even at the the level of an array of flat objects - they force every one of their clients to write one. I can only imagine how much more invalid data that feeds into their mainframe.  
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Dan Neely wrote: I can only imagine how much more invalid data that feeds into their mainframe.
It keeps some old-timers busy writing COBOL validation routines. 
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