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When you’re sitting down to design a business process, it can sometimes be challenging to find a way to cut across the company’s organizational structure. Or just reorg once a year: it "works" for Microsoft
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C++ is currently in version 14, which was released last year, but last week C++ Daddy Bjarne Stroustrup published the presentation below outlining what he thinks needs to be done to create version 17. "The world looks just the same. And history ain't changed"
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slide 4:
"What I do not want to try to do"
- Have C++ compete with every other language by adding as many as possible of their features
- Increase the complexity of C++ use for the 99% for the benefit of the 1% (us and our best friends)
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: Have C++ compete with every other language
That's short sighted.
Dan Neely wrote: Increase the complexity of C++ use
He means by adding features that only benefit 1% of C++ users at the cost of more complexity and less usability for the other 99% of C++ users.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Dan Neely wrote: Have C++ compete with every other language
That's short sighted.
Which is why I can't understand why they've been doing it.
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Dan Neely wrote: Increase the complexity of C++ use
He means by adding features that only benefit 1% of C++ users at the cost of more complexity and less usability for the other 99% of C++ users.
Which is what they're getting by jamming not just one but dozens of kitchen sinks into a language that's already far too huge for mere mortals to comprehend more than a tiny sliver of it. 
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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Points taken.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Rust’s quest for world domination was never destined to happen overnight, so Rust needs to be able to interoperate with the existing world just as easily as it talks to itself. I think I've heard this one before
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Sadly, the story is quite bad for Rust on Windows. It requires MinGW, fails to link properly to libraries created with MSVC and the package manager (Cargo) keeps dragging in FFI packages without regard to platform - frequently failing to work on Windows.
I had a lot of hope for Rust, but it seems like we'll have to wait for at least V2 for the Windows development story to be anything but a massive pain.
The dependency on MinGW or similar is a particular pain point for me, as my experience is that many open source libraries are a nightmare to get running properly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
modified 28-Apr-15 4:15am.
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For Microsoft, 2015 is a year of adjustment. While the software giant focuses its efforts across multiple platforms, Windows is gearing up for big changes. I'm just wondering if there are any surprises left
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They're going to end that whole ".net" experiment that they've been doing, and go back to their roots. Visual Basic 7, baby!
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They're gonna bring back DOS! 
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They are going to develop software that plays nice with others. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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This summer: if you want to sell off your patents, Google is ready to buy. News from next year: Google sues everyone with their new patent collection
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"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
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Space geeks are freaking out because NASA may have accidentally discovered a warp field, an avenue down which spaceships can travel faster than the speed of light – something that, to date, has only existed in science fiction. I'll believe it when the Vulcans show up.
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I sure hope this works out! It would be SO FREAKING AWESOME!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Err no.
I'll file that one with the "successful cold-fusion devices" that have been touted regularly.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: travel faster than the speed of light
Ummm... no it isn't.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Ummm... no it isn't.
Don't ask me questions - but apparently the laws of physics would allow it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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But the ship wouldn't be travelling FTL; the bubble of space-time around the ship would.
Come on - it's not exactly rocket science! 
Oh, wait...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sorry, Richard, I can't hear you over the sound of my warp drive! 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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"Rather than exceeding the speed of light ..."
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...within a local reference frame, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Despite hitting a record 10 million sales in the second quarter of 2015, Microsoft's phone division is in trouble. Behold: The monopoly in action!
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That's stupid... put 1€ or 1$ more in each phone and change that loose to gain... nobody would notice that small difference when buying expensive devices like a phone. 
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