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As Spotify continues to inch towards a public listing, Apple is making a move of its own to step up its game in music services. 400 MM USD to recognize songs? I'll do it for half that.
Of course, I'm unlikely to identify anything from this century.
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They should have named their company Shascam. how many times have I wondered aloud to myself as Pandora, Spotify play a song with the Title and Artist plainly displayed what song I was actually listening to.
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Convincing your boss to let you use F# at work To be followed by an argument about functional programming
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Quote: However, those who stick with it and start becoming fluent are usually die hard converts because they have realized the usefulness of the paradigm.
Or, they are in denial how much time they have wasted ?
No disrespect to functional languages intended; I plan to spend some time on F#. I am interested in how the FPL paradigms are applicable to asynch event-driven interactions in a user interface, and how the requirements for "stateful" in those scenarios play out.
«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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I like functional programming very, very much. Almost as much as declarative. Prolog is one of my favorite languages of all times. I even wrote a toy compiler for it once using the language itself.
However, I have never been able to justify their use outside of very narrow domains. The fundamental problem (to me) is their 'unnatural' use in UI development.
If possible, I would like anyone with expertise on these paradigms and UI development to provide examples that show otherwise. The code that I find, as well as my own attempts, yield tortuous code. Unjustifiable, imo.
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What a cluelessly dumb article, written by someone who clearly never ran a company. One of the most annoying tasks as a developer is cleaning up the messes left by people like this guy. I'm also reminded me of the phrase "jack of all trades, master of none." (I'm reminded of a colleague from years ago who was a terrible programmer and covered it by embracing the new. And then went into management.)
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"As a bonus functional programming filters even better in the hiring process for top developers."
Yeah, it filters out the few programmers you were able to get... 
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While magnetic monopoles in the form of elementary particles remain elusive, there have been some recent successes in engineering objects that behave effectively like magnetic monopoles. Are they positive?
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To everyone with DevOps in their job title (and a quick LinkedIn search turned up 45,597 of you just in my network): folks, you're doing it wrong. It's just following the same winding path as 'Agile'
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In a new study, scientists have used electrical currents to inject information directly into the brains of monkeys. Sign me up for a few thousand kWH
Or, "Whoa. I know Kung Fu."
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Injecting propaganda into monkey's brains? CNN already has a patent on that.
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This post will explain what the recently-finalized C++17 Standard has done with old features, and what to expect from future VS 2017 toolset updates. The C++ language has been deprecated. Recommend you replace with JavaScript.
Why should the rest of us suffer alone?
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Google to consider "responsible and innovative" uses of the accessibility APIs. Sorry if not interesting - I couldn't read the article after having a bad reaction to reading "Access"
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A zero-day vulnerability with Apple’s HomeKit exposed users’ smart door locks and garage-door openers to hackers. Who could have predicted security problems with internet-connected garage doors?
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Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for two severe flaws in Windows Defender discovered by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a unit of UK spy agency GCHQ that dispenses cyber defense advice to the government and public. Maybe we'll rename it Defendish?
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Research presented this week at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference has revealed that several popular interpreted programming languages are affected by severe vulnerabilities that expose apps built on these languages to attacks. "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them."
But still: interpreted languages might be insecure? Tell me more of this hidden wisdom.
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A collection of vulnerabilities known as ParseDroid put users of popular Android development tools at risk. These are the droids the hackers are looking for
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A pair of researchers, Saungeun Park and Deji Akinwande, with the University of Texas at Austin, recently demonstrated high-performance 2-D monolayer transistors on paper substrates at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting. Paper: it's not just for capacitors
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I've always heard that you get smart reading books but now we can have smart books. Dang just when I thought I was getting ahead!
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That could bring Origami to a whole new level!
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We reported a week ago on Microsoft responding rather carelessly to a request to bring Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile, to make up for the efflux of apps from the store. It's dead man, move on
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Quote: Windows 10 Mobile fans
uSoft has finally entered the market eh? clickity[^]
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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A few days ago we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and an update to Visual Studio for Mac, and today we are releasing the first preview of the next minor update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. Why waste time developing, when you can just download and install a new version of VS every few days?
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I don't have the time (or the inclination to act as an unpaid beta tester; I only download the released version.
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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The book was written by Michael Crump and Barry Luijbregts to help you on your journey to the cloud, whether you’re just considering making the move, or you’ve already decided and are underway. Just in case there are clouds in your future
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