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Quote: By 1990, C was just too small a language for the tasks at hand. We needed something better. And C++ was waiting in the wings.
Completly ignores Algol, Simula, SmallTalk, SAIL (Xerox Parc), etc. pioneering OOP brfore 1990: all of which influenced C++. "too small" is a bizarre characterization.Quote: Could it be that we are living at the beginning of a period in which language evolution will slow it’s frenetic pace? Will we see the number of languages cease it’s relentless rise, and begin to decline? Will our industry gradually abandon the exuberance of adolescence and settle down into a stable period of adulthood and middle age?
imho, as much devolution as evolution has been at play: consider the growth of JavaScript and its hydra of frameworks and extensions ... in my view, that has been a result of a geo-political struggle between the "major micro players," a kind of lowest-common-denominator buffer-state the ambitious rivals settled into by default ... not the best technical language solution, at all.
Other notable omissions from this pseudo-historical romp: LISP, Pascal, Forth, and Basic, Visual Basic, etc.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
modified 21-Nov-17 4:00am.
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Government agencies that deal with cybersecurity, like the National Security Agency, have two competing interests. On the one hand, they want to protect America's online infrastructure and economy from cyberattacks. On the other hand, government agencies want to harness tools to attack opponents in cyberspace. I'm going to go with, 'when it suits their needs' for both
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That's why Windows is not a safe OS; it's a weapon, and you are not in control of it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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GitHub's new service will help developers clean up vulnerable project dependencies. But of course, 'more eyes' have already found those flaws, right?
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Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we’re happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000 APIs via a single NuGet package. "The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting."
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Microsoft isn't the only company that's interested in scaling Git. The file system may be virtual, but Git is still surreal
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How do you fix a program without the source code? You patch the binary directly. Mission critical software, updated!
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Embattled computer security firm Kaspersky Lab said Thursday that malware-infected Microsoft Office software and not its own was to blame for the hacking theft of top-secret US intelligence materials. When in doubt, blame Microsoft
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Your probability of being correct is usually pretty good.
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As a United States Senator is reported to have said, as he awoke from half-slumber, during a hearing on the Panama Canal:
"What's that canal doing in Panama, anyway?"
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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SQL Operations Studio is a free, light-weight tool for modern database development and operations for SQL Server on Windows, Linux and Docker, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse on Windows, Mac or Linux machines. Continuing in their fine tradition of horrid product names, I see
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Seems off that the video shows "Script as Create", but not "Script as Alter"
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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RebelLabs wants to get inside the mind of a programmer with its 2017 Developer Productivity Report. The report focuses on why developers use certain tools over others and how satisfied they are in their selection of those tools, architecture, and other aspects of development. In related news, I'm most excited not to work in Java as well
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Who is she ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Can a close look at the universe give us solutions to problems too difficult even for a planet-sized computer to solve? Uh.... 42?
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First you have to determine whether or not it will halt... 
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Someone found a solution and is wondering what the problem is he can sell it for. Then again, it is not like there are more pressing matters.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Docker support + location tracking mesh = plug-in backbone for all the networked things. It's the Year of Linux Lightbulbs?
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As we build sites more heavily reliant on JavaScript, we sometimes pay for what we send down in ways that we can’t always easily see. In this post, I’ll cover why a little discipline can help if you’d like your site to load & be interactive quickly on mobile devices. All that pixie dust is free, isn't it?
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Quote: Network capabilities and device capabilities don’t always match up. A user with an amazing Fiber connection doesn’t necessarily have the best CPU to parse and evaluate JavaScript sent to their device. This is also true in reverse..a terrible network connection, but a blazing fast CPU. — Kristofer Baxter, LinkedIn
Too often, I find myself in the evening with my laptop connected to my TV, watching a video and think, who's winning the game? I open a new tab and type ESPN and all of a sudden every thing stops. It doesn't matter which browser I use, it seems several times a week this happens and it always seems to happen on the same sites; CTRL + ALT + DEL + End Task. And Yahoo is the worst!
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I've had this happens many time even with CP. It turned out to be the ad blocker I was using. I guess the parent websites and ads are to closely linked causing the browser to "crash". I wonder if this is an attempt to get people to stop using ad blockers.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Could be? It wouldn't be hard to do that. I'd think an ESPN would not do that stuff, but you never know.
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Organisations with bosses who know about technology are more likely to implement a successful digital transformation. This news brought to you by the Glaringly Obvious magazine
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