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Has anyone tried to see if this tool actually helps a significant amount with migrating away from VB6 without doing a complete rewrite? eg suggesting fixes/changes for VB6 features the conversion wizard can't change automatically?
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
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Dan Neely wrote: Has anyone tried ... this tool...
It's a trap! Run VB6 coders!
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Meet in the middle (sometimes called split and merge) is a clever idea that uses caching to get efficient solutions. Much like divide et impera it splits the problem in two and then tries to merge the results. The benefit is that by using quite a bit of extra memory you can tackle problems of twice the size you could before. Now let's go through a few applications of the trick. The additional problems are the best part of the article.
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Russ Olsen, author of "Eloquent Ruby" and Clojure developer, spins a tale of an archaic CAD program, politics, and progress that can be summed up with one simple mantra: "Stay the hell out of other people's code!" Politics in programming, and egos in engineering.
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It's not often I am surprised by the twist at the end of an article! 
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tl;dr:
Russ Olsen wrote: Actually it was terrible advice, advice that I've gone out of my way to ignore in the years since. But those words were valuable nevertheless, and I've gone back to them time and again.
Every time some annoying new hire comes to me with a dumb idea that is obviously not going to work, "Stay the Hell out of other people's code," plays back in my head and I listen harder.
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In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles. Several practical case studies are also provided. All descriptions and code snippets use the standard Hadoop’s MapReduce model with Mappers, Reduces, Combiners, Partitioners, and sorting. They MapReduced all the MapReduce.
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This is my attempt at distilling software engineering into 20 tweets (less than 140 characters). Not entirely sure that it is wholly satisfactory. Please try your own! Zen mind. Programmer mind.
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Twitter is great and, hopefully, it will grow into an even better product that makes us happy to use it. But the real-time web is the future, and It’s time we make sure that it isn’t dominated by a single option. Are projects like App.net bringing a better future?
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I'm still waiting for an ad-free version of Code Project that is supported by membership fees. 
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HyperCard was a groundbreaking, beautiful, and even thrilling app. Ahead of its time for sure. But the time it was ahead of seems to me to be not so much the Age of the Web as the Age of the App. I don’t know why there isn’t now an app development environment that gives us what HyperCard did. Apparently HyperCard is still ahead of its time. Apple killed off HyperCard in 2004, but it remains more than a fond memory to many of us.
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I remember HyperCard and SuperCard. Frankly, they were nothing more than souped up software punch cards. They were not ahead of their time, or everyone would be using them. They were a step back, a novelty. Everything limiting about HyperCard was said of HTML 4.0 prior to AJAX.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. This is the same code that Pixar uses internally for animated film production. Our intent is to encourage high performance accurate subdiv drawing by giving away the “good stuff”. Lights, camera... render!
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Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface of Mars. That's what a team of programmers and engineers at NASA are dealing with as they get ready to download a new version of the flight software on the Mars rover Curiosity, which landed safely on the Red Planet earlier this week. Just what do you think you're doing, JPL?
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With all the legal and privacy issues, and now this, will facebook continue to thrive. Will other companies break into the market?
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It might look silly to read through two tutorials to finally control a LED with your iPhone. Oh and it would be useless too. So why are you doing that? Well, an instructor at my university once said: “If you can control a LED, you can control ANYTHING”. And guess what, he’s right! Basically, turning a LED on or off is just like switching a Fan, TV, Dishwasher, or any other device. So for simplicity we’re gonna use a LED. But if you can get this working, then you can control anything. When I was a kid we used discrete components to control a lightbult... and we liked it!
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Logging is important. Very important. When your application breaks, the first place you usually check for a hint of what went wrong is the logs. Unfortunately, I have found that most log messages are absolutely terrible. They include snarky comments, lack any indication of what was going on, and sometimes do not even include the current time. Based on my experience, here's what a good log message looks like... Could not complete this subhead due to unspecified error.
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Seems like logging is not much emphasised. I think that the logs should be very readable. It may not be a programmer that is reading them.
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I agree, they should be as clear as possible
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I’ve been racking my brain for a week straight on the best way to employ test-driven principles to HTML. Hell, I’ve been trying to figure out if it even can be done. Trying to figure out if it’s even worth it. Mostly through blind faith, I’ve come up with the beginning of what I hope becomes a winning strategy for test-driven HTML development. If you can write it you can test it. Hopefully.
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“Management is the craft of enabling people to get things done.” Why is management a craft? It’s a craft for the same reasons engineering is a craft. You can read all the books you want on something but crafts are learned by getting your hands in it and getting them dirty. Crafts have rough edges, and shortcuts, and rules of thumb, and things that are held together with duct tape. The product of craft is something useful and pleasing. Don’t become an engineering manager because you want power - that’s the worst possible reason.
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Bottom line is: when you find #000000 in your color picker, ask yourself if you really want pure black. You’re probably better off with something more natural. And if you’re feeling adventurous, try staying away from the left edge of the color picker altogether. It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
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