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Microsoft is always looking for ways to make their AI more useful and weave her more tightly into our lives. It looks like you're trying to set up your IKEA shelf. Would you like help with that?
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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Now that Silverlight is dead, I'd like to move it to some platform where I can finally put it on the web. "Assured that love is just a four-letter word"
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XAML Standard is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. Who says we don't have standards?
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Obligatory xkcd reference: xkcd: Standards[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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According to data released today by Kaspersky Lab, roughly 98 percent of the computers affected by the ransomware were running some version of Windows 7, with less than one in a thousand running Windows XP. 2008 R2 Server clients were also hit hard, making up just over 1 percent of infections. So it was created by the Windows 10 marketing team?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So it was created by the Windows 10 marketing team?
There's many true word...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lost in yesterday’s shuffle of emergency updates and regularly scheduled monthly patches was Microsoft’s announcement that it was officially cutting off SHA-1 support in Internet Explorer 11 and Edge.
A few months behind Firefox and Chrome which did the deed in January, or Safari which did it at the end of March; but with IE and Edge on board no major browser supports SHA1 hashes for TLS any longer.
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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To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed P, a programming language for modeling and specifying protocols in asynchronous event-driven applications. Did I miss languages E through O?
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According to List of programming languages - Wikipedia[^], it looks like you may indeed have missed some of those.
Only H, I, M, and N are missing.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What a terrifying list! There must be the best part of a thousand there and it doesn't include esoteric/golfing languages, markup languages or many versions of BASIC. It's hard to imagine that the list is remotely complete, either.
It may well be that somewhere in that haystack, there is the language to end all languages but would we ever know if it was there?
Let's suppose someone wakes up feeling magnificently inspired tomorrow and gets to work on a truly brilliant language. It's robust; it's intuitive; it's self-maintaining; it's devoid of all ambiguity; it's breathtakingly quick; it's completely portable; it localizes seamlessly to natural language; it's everything a programmer ever asked of a language and so much more besides - in short, this thing absolutely rocks, it's the best thing since C and it's the best part of fifty years ahead of it. After a long and wearying search, our heroic inventor manages to find a name that hasn't been used yet and announces his creation to the world. The most likely response? "Oh great, yet another bloody programming language - the queue's over there, mate."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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JustAssembly is a free and open source .NET assembly diff and analysis tool. With it, you can quickly decompile .NET assemblies and perform binary code diffs against them, all within a single interface. "There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference"
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The software giant is reaching out to communities that it used to ignore. (Dancing and screaming not required)
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Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity, According To Science | Inc.com[^]
"Enclosed private offices clearly outperformed open-plan layouts in most aspects of IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality), particularly in acoustics, privacy and the proxemics issues. Benefits of enhanced 'ease of interaction' were smaller than the penalties of increased noise level and decreased privacy resulting from open-plan office configuration...."
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Anything with "open" in its name just doesn't work the same.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks Science. Another useful study. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Some security leaders argue there is little point in worrying about emerging threats when businesses can't defend against today's attacks. See? That's why they're experts
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Imagine that argument; there is no defence against nukes, so just disband your complete army. I'd argue that they should lead in flipping burgers 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Over the last few years, I’ve had occasion to observe lots of software teams. These teams come in all shapes and sizes, as the saying goes. And, not surprisingly, they produce output that covers the entire spectrum of software quality. "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
OK, not a quote about code quality per se, I just really like it.
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these teams produced code with excellent quality.
Which makes me wonder, amid all the other posts about how difficult it is to measure code quality, what metrics did they use? Yeah, that's a rhetorical question, I asked it on the article's thread too.
Given, however, that the article originates from NDepend, I suspect they would say "a good architecture is one that leverages dependency injection!" 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Good quality is when someone writes something the way I would write it. Bad quality is when they don't.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Good quality is when someone writes something the way I would write it.
Hey, that's my criteria too (when someone writes something the way I write it.) 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Get some feedback from those involved in the development of popular embedded programming languages. If your first thought was 'B', slap yourself.
Unless of course you used that language.
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In chronological order:
BASIC (on a PDP-11, I was 13)
programmable HP calculators
BASIC (on a Commodore PET)
6502 assembly
80xx assembly (8051, 8088, 80286, etc)
Cobol (short consulting gig)
Fortran (some math stuff for videometric analysis was written in it, this was 1986)
Pascal (Turbo!)
C (hated it at first, loved it after a while)
C++
current:
SQL (well, the L does stand for "Language", hahaha)
C# and a smattering of F#
Ruby (will never use again)
Javascript (wish I could never use it again)
Python
But the one language to rule them all: lots of swearing.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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