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I still have Programming Windows 95.
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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That's not Programming Windows 6th Edition at all, but a completely new book covering a different technology.
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Programming Windows: The Microsoft Guide to Writing Applications for Windows 3.1 (3rd edition, Microsoft Press, 1992)
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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This post shows the downloads required to hit the top 25 per category. We chose the top 25 because the first 25 applications are shown immediately when a user fires up the app store on their mobile. All data is based on daily download figures in the Apple App Store for iPhone in the United States in April 2012. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
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Always liked how people would complain about the cost of windows and then go out and pay 100's for games.
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Cost? I've never had to pay for it...either came pre-installed or I got it as a gift from Microsoft (I ended up with 2 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate and another 2 of Vista Ultimate for beta testing 7).
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lewax00 wrote: I've never had to pay for it...either came pre-installed
The computer makers have to pay for it, and they pass that cost on to you.
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I suppose that's true. (Technically, I still haven't because I've never paid for a pre-built computer, they've all been gifts, but I see your point.)
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Worqshop is a small development environment for the iPad with GitHub and Heroku support. It features a fast code editor with syntax highlighting for Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. For the web developer on the go.
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For reasons I don’t understand, the subject of HTTP cookies tends to attract confusion, vague understanding, and outright misinformation. For instance, you may have read that cookies are scripts, or “programs”, or software, all of which are untrue. You may have read that cookies can transmit viruses or install malware on your computer. Also untrue. There’s no such thing as a third-party cookie.
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The user interface of Windows has evolved and been transformed over the course of its entire 27-year history. Although we think about certain aspects of the Windows UI as being static or constant, the reality is that the interface is always changing to keep up with the way people use PCs. It is amazing to reflect back on the history of the Windows UI, and to see the level of dramatic change that has transpired over time. From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8, and all the steps in between.
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Madison Avenue's strategy for popularizing computers shifted from the 1950s through the 1980s. At first pitches focused on reliability and speed, but by the 1960s, advertising brochures put big systems in gardens next to fashion models. When PCs came on the market, the sales pitch changed again. Computing went family friendly... The Computer History Museum on Selling the Computer Revolution.
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One of the world’s top handset makers has acknowledged the existence of a backdoor in one of its models. The backdoor was used by the company to remotely update its firmware, according to Reuters. But its existence would also allow anyone else with knowledge of the password to access a Score phone and gain root access. Not-so-smartphone.
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This is my personal site. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Designers with personal sites should experiment with new layout models when they can. Before I got busy with one thing and another, I used to redesign this site practically every other week. New ideas often exaggerate to make a point.
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In recent weeks we continued to observe significant increase of uTorrent (uTP based) network activity. Some parts of recorded traffic triggered high-level alerts in the ARAKIS system informing about possible nodes infection. What is more, according to traffic data, among other things, two of the ARAKIS honeypot sensors were involved in a conversation, which is very unlikely. This means that IP adresses that those packet contained were incorrect (or forged). In this report we summarize findings from our analysis of this activity. Puppet master, or just a ghost in the shell?
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One thing you might ask about Facebook's huge IPO: what are they going to do with all that money? One place it’s going is into the social network’s mobile presence, where Facebook is less sure of its footing. [ITworld]
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Mobile, schmobile.
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Buy a large yacht, and multimillion dollar mansion in a country that will protect you from US income tax, a Tesla car.
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I'm going to avoid casting aspersions on my fellow developers and instead simply own up to my own failings… I've been developing software since I was 10 years old (my first program was written in BASIC on a Commodore PET), and professionally for well over a decade, and for most of that time, I believed that design was someone else's job, and that it didn't matter whether I could design my way out of a paper bag. WRONG! Design is everyone's responsibility, at least to some degree.
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Quick glance through the article I am concerned that Microsoft's left hand does not know what the right hand is doing (Prism vs. Metro). Windows team is again going in a direction that it deams best (for whatever reason). I consider Windows team to be a disaster. I would be more worried about creating a clean implementation that is flexible for many environments, including using multiple proecessors effeciently. I have the feeling that there is too much code in Windows that is not clean. The front end should be flexible, just like the ability to put different front ends on WPF.
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I think everyone should learn how to think and when to dig deeper and should be able to do it in a welcoming and friendly environment. Learn how to question how things work. Learn that everything new and simple hides something large and complex. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants like Newton, Tesla, Kettering, Berners-Lee, and on and on. It's all magic until you learn how it works.
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I’ve seen a few people, over the years, compare knitting to programming. It usually goes something like this: Wow, have you ever looked at a knitting pattern? It looks kind of like source code! Those knitters must be real geeks! Is what you’re doing programming? Of course not! It’s the reverse of programming: you’re reading a series of low-level instructions and doing what they say. It would be more accurate to say you’re an interpreter, or possibly a compiler. Pearls of wisdom on purl and Perl.
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It's been recently brought to my attention that I don't view open-source the way that many of my friends do. My attitude has always been: Here's some code that works well for what I want. If it works well for what you want, great! I might be a bad open-source citizen.
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To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child's play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds. Everything you always wanted to know about programming but were afraid to ask.
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I've seen the future and it is iOS. Apple is moving solidly and confidently towards consumer computing and away from mollycoddling the power users. The company knows where its profits come from and power users ain't it. The iPad -- with its simple interface, strong security, and dependability -- has set the standard for what's next. No more system-wide hotkeys for App Store apps. What a shame...
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