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My main complaint with the Surface Pro is the incredibly lackluster battery life. Granted, this is a classic Intel x86 box we're talking about, not some efficient ARM system-on-a-chip designed to run on a tiny battery. Still, I was hopeful that the first Surface Pro with Haswell inside would produce giant gains in battery life as Intel promised. Did you put them in the right way?
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It's easy to forget the value of any given technology once its buzz has arced across our collective consciousness and died a fiery death beyond the hype horizon. Take Cobol, that "Mad Men"-era relic -- just like fish past its prime, as the hipster tech pundits say: worthless, smelly, out of date, bad for you. Java may be the next enterprise mainstay to find itself on the ropes of "relevance." Hic iacet Java, rex quondam, rexque futurus
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I asked -- and the people responded! Fun fact No. 1: Apparently only 28 percent of Java developers write Java full time. Given a choice...
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I don't know one developer that uses just on technology and in my opinion it is kind fun to learn a new language, try to perform a small project with to see how it works.
I am not saying that to really focus one just one language is good or bad. But coming from a strongly typed compiled language background, I've learned a lot from dynamic programming and scripting languages.
Has anyone else felt the same?
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Heck no, limiting yourself to one language is just plain wrong. I've recently started "learning" Haskell. I say learning; a better description would be "completely failing to learn it, but being completely baffled by it".
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I am sorry, but i didn't get that right... were you agreeing with me?   ... were you agreeing with me?
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I absolutely agree, keeping to one technology generally is a good way to expose yourself to redundancy if your chosen platform fades.
Even more important, learning new languages and technologies makes you a better programmer.
I'm going through the same learning curve with Haskell, but its beginning to sink in. Except monads, but what do you expect from a feature which only rhymes with ...
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With the current state of Java, there are several different SDKs for Java: Java SE 7, CDC 1.1 (based on SE 1.4.2), CLDC (based on SE 1.3) and Java ME, just to name a few. In the past, these implementations served their specific vertical markets very well, but each implementation has diverged and become more and more siloed over the years. With Java 8, there will be a compact profile that replaces CDC. "It's good to be the king"
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Wow, nice news..
I particularly liked that there are lambda expressions...
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Surface is designed to function as both a tablet and notebook. It has its own purpose-built keyboard-cover that gets rave reviews even from Apple and Google fanboys. And the operating system and applications are designed to run in dual mode -- either as tablet software or laptop software, depending on the configuration. It just needs a little polishing
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There is seemingly no end to the number of things you can do in Minecraft — and the latest thing is experimenting with quantum physics. A new mod called qCraft, built by none other than Google's Quantum A.I. Lab Team, adds blocks that exhibit quantum entanglement, superposition, and observer-dependency properties. Some of the new blocks can be "activated" simply by looking at them, while others are prone to disappear at any moment. Use it to build a cat
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Well-known D developer Andrei Alexandrescu has committed the first 5112 lines of D language code to Facebook's repository — meaning that as of now, the social network giant can be said to be using D in live production. The language was developed by Dr. Dobb's blogger, Walter Bright, who previously was the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++. "Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"
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Microsoft reports on its Support website that Windows 8.1 falls under the Windows 8 lifecycle policy, which ends on January 10, 2023. However, the company also states that Windows 8 customers will have two years to move to Windows 8.1 starting this Friday, AKA the General Availability of the Windows 8.1 update, to remain supported under the Windows 8 lifecycle. "And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' "
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So, despite the naming change, they're treating 8.1 just like any other service pack then. 
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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If you're a Windows power user, you probably have a collection of favorite tweaks to make the OS run faster and work better. If one of those tips involves moving the default user profiles folder, you're setting yourself up for heartache, as several Windows 8.1 upgraders have found out the hard way. Caveat upgrader
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One year ago, Microsoft launched the first public preview version of TypeScript, which was created to enable applications to scale using JavaScript. In June, Microsoft released version 0.9 of TypeScript with a number of new features. This week, the company revealed a roadmap that will include two more major releases before the 1.0 version is made available. Making JavaScript just a little better, one step at a time
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Microsoft has pulled the Windows RT 8.1 update from the Windows store investigating a situation affecting 'a limited number of users' updating their Windows RT devices, which is a big move for Microsoft. The exact issue has not been revealed but for Microsoft to pull the update means that the issue must be quite serious. They really should have spoken to the company that released that hardware
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IBM Breakthrough[^]
Yet one step closer to the singularity.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Microsoft is having a hard time figuring out how to handle a widely reported problem when Windows 8 users update to Windows 8.1
Aaah, everything back on normal. Start Button, Bluescreen and the Users can keep their experience.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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Well, I didn't have that one, but it did bugger my Bitlocker install, so I had to reset the machine. /sigh
Now just 79 patches to install until the next reboot.
Yup, everything back to normal.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Well, I didn't have that one, but it did bugger my Bitlocker install, so I had to reset the machine. /sigh
Now just 79 patches to install until the next reboot.
I've always been baffled by this. If there's a service pack available, Why The Elephant don't they have a single click option that installs any minimum prerequisites for the SP and then the SP itself instead of insisting I install every other discrete patch first.
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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