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I just noticed humanity, and came across full-on retards.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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He needs to look at the main code of the company I worked at about three years ago; it was a nightmare of C# rot.
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Hear, hear! 800 line switch statement?? Pffft, hey it compiles to key / value pair so it performs.
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One of the most persistent questions I hear about Windows 10 involves what happens when the free upgrade offer ends. Is Microsoft going to start charging subscription fees? After a close look at the company's financials, I'm convinced the answer is an emphatic no. Just sell a new version every year
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Pretty much what I thought.
Consumer Windows revenue was mostly via OEMs anyway. So most people got a new version of Windows when they got a new PC. Few consumers actually paid for upgrades.
I assume what will happen is that if after July 29th you have an existing PC that hasn’t been upgraded to Win 10 then you pay.
If you buy a new PC with Win 10 then you’ll never have to pay for any later version of Windows (technically feature update to Win 10, since Win 10 is the "last" version of Windows).
Kevin
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Today’s computing environment is full of different attack vectors by which nefarious individuals and organizations gain access to systems to steal private, commercial, and government information. Microsoft wants us all to know that Windows 10 has been designed with all of those attack vectors in mind. It's certainly secure against Windows 10 upgrade notices
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I can see virus writers creating something targeting just Windows 10 in response to the billion machines target! We live in hope...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If Rust is to take on work previously reserved to C++, we need to know how well it does what C++ does best. tldr version: it depends
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A friend sent me that over the weekend, I think the biggest takeaway was from:
Quote: Many variations that seemed like they ought to run the same speed or faster turned out slower, often much slower. By contrast, in C++ it was hard to discover a way to express the same operations differently and get a different run time.
An extra 30ish years beating on the compilers optimizers is showing clearly here.
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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Any optimization exercise that contains streams of any kind is pointless. (Java and .NET used to "win" these contests by caching the entire file!)
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Absolutely, although I was pleased to see that STL (Stephan T Larajev) has an update in the wings which will speed up iostreams in VC++ standard library by 17 times (according to his claim).
(Source: comments under a Reddit[^] post)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Am I the only one totally blow away by Stephan Larajev?
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Nope, not only only does he maintain the Standard Library implementation for VC++ (which is the most complete version available despite the compiler not being the best for conformance), he manages to respond frequently on reddit and do occasional presentations at conferences.
Don't know where he gets the energy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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“There is no such thing as a free lunch” has been the mantra of those cynical about the true cost of ‘free’ Windows 10. TANSTAAFL (but you can get a free continental breakfast with each night's stay)
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Ah right. I was trying to remember why I had told myself to never use Forbes again. Thanks for the reminder.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: This isn’t about it being ‘better’ ..., it’s about respecting choice.
Can someone send it to Nadella?
(He does not reads emails from low-level users like me...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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My current home system won't run Windows 10 (due to a hardware issue) and I've put software on my youngest daughter's system to block the Windows 10 updates. I'm not a huge Windows 10 fan--I prefer Windows 8.1--and I do think Microsoft Marketing and Sales have half lost their minds, but I also think there are compelling technical reasons to push Windows 10.
Microsoft learned a tough lesson with XP in that it's really expensive to maintain old operating systems and there are some things you just can't fix. They also learned the perils of having Vista->7->8.0->8.1->10 so quickly. Stable drivers being a big issue.
I further suspect that Intel is up to something with Kaby Lake and then Cannonlake.
Finally, the future direction is toward more portable, lower power devices. You simply can't get there with Windows 7.
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There is simply no possibility that Asteroid 2013 TX68 will get close enough to hit Earth when it flies by on March 5th. What it may do, though, is come close enough to be visible. Incoming!
Or: Maybe Luxembourgers (Luxembourgians? Luxies?) will head over to mine it
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We've been hearing about a lot of drama going on at $2 billion startup GitHub, the hugely important and popular site used by millions of computer programmers where 10 or more executives have departed in recent months. git rebase company --strategy=renormalize
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Kent Sharkey wrote: git rebase company --strategy=renormalize
I tried it but it didn't work in my local Git (bash).
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream company
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It was a trick - rebase never works
TTFN - Kent
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Its once famous remote-employee culture has been rolled back.
git checkout branch=dark_ages
Marc
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Shocking Git error message of the day: "You are working from a detached head."
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Microsoft has recently purchased Android and iOS keyboard developer SwiftKey for $250 million (€225 million) in one of the largest acquisitions the company has completed in the mobile business. Hopefully the bike had a nice bell and a basket up front
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