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Python is now the most popular introductory language at American colleges, a recent Association for Computing Machinery study reports. "Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones."
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I think I could say that about any language, including VB. Writing bad program is never difficult; I could easily write ten a day in any language. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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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 one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ReadWrite wrote: Python is now the most popular introductory language at American colleges
But is that even a valid point in the argument about why Python is a "great first programming language"?
Probably not since we understand that, on average, colleges/universities do a horrible job of teaching software development.
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A lot of Visual Studio customers use Visual Studio to do web development. We’d like to know more about your experiences using UI frameworks, so we’ve created an anonymous survey. Let them know what you know
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Microsoft officials are beginning to sound the support warning bell for customers running a number of its popular products, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and more. The End is Nigh! (more or less. less actually)
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If you think ecosystem lock-in is bad now, just wait until the fall. "A thousand people in the street, singing songs and carrying signs; mostly say, hooray for our side"
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Open source has become an industry default, but it's still not for everyone. "How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser?"
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I would not recommend open source.
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Webmasters Pride wrote: I would not recommend open source.
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
I would not recommend closed source, from a security-point. Who knows what code is in there 
You can verify the source-code of "open source" if you're worried about that kinda stuff. That's impossible with properietary software. Being publicly available means also that the code is reviewed by more eyes. Call it transparancy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Gartner projects Windows XP upgrades will stop the PC market bleeding next year. Queue the "Tablets are dead" news stories
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There will be no revival - all the XP machines are sitting idle and will not need to be replaced.
Gartner are like a fairground fortune teller - they predict 200 contradictory things and then claim special prescience when 5 of those come to pass.
(Also - as I'm on a rant ... "Cue[^]"  )
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Gartner are like a fairground fortune teller - they predict 200 contradictory things and then claim special prescience when 5 of those come to pass.
Wisdom and truth. Ah, thanks. I'll fix that.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft has recently announced that it is retiring two of its mapping products, MapPoint and Streets and Trips. Both of these services have received their last update and will soon be retired in favor of Microsoft's premier mapping product, Bing Maps. I would have sworn they were already dead
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I would have sworn they were already dead
Me too; I haven't used them in ages. But I'm still interested in finding a good replacement.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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So did I. I actually tried looking for a new version a few years ago when my Dad's late XP era copy wouldn't install on his latest (second or third) win7 laptop and Google turned up a mess of cargo cult BS that worked for one person but no one else. At the time the lack of a current year version combined with widespread problems with it on their newest OS had me assuming they'd already pulled the plug rather than try to fix it, but wikipedia says they did one last release. I wonder if it actually works on their current OS again...
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 your developers aren’t enrolled in developer relations programs, they will grow old and stale. They will become moldy. They will pine for the Good Old Days and opine endlessly about the irrelevance of new tools, new platforms, new paradigms and new ideas. No matter their brilliance today, they will become obsolescent. Because MSDN is always useful, amirite?
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It seems they know me to a T.
Kent Sharkey wrote: pine for the Good Old Days
Yep.
Kent Sharkey wrote: opine endlessly about the irrelevance of new tools
Check.
The old ways are the best ways. Tried-and-true will win the day. Stick with what works.
The problem isn't that we old-timers aren't learning the new ways, it's that the young whippersnappers aren't learning the old ways so they keep trying to solve problems that were already solved decades ago. Then they tell us that we're not keeping up with the times when actually we're already way ahead of them.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
modified 7-Jul-14 15:40pm.
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SD Times wrote: they will become obsolescent
..is that an XP machine I see over there? With a VB6-IDE?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There's a Windows bug that I have been hitting for over a year that has driven me insane. My Downloads folder takes 20 seconds to show up in my File Explorer in Windows 8. Closed: Works as designed
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Kent Sharkey wrote: My Downloads folder
Say no more, say no more...
Personally, I never put anything in there anyway, and clean it out when something goes there by mistake.
I detest the whole "My whatever" paradigm; I put documents, pictures, videos, projects, etc. somewhere else where I can get to them easily. Maybe it's an old dog thing.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Yup. First thing I end up doing on a new computer is creating a c:\work folder. "My Documents" is for stuff I never look at.
TTFN - Kent
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Yep, I used to do this as well. Then after my kid was old enough to hold a mouse and keyboard and after I spend a few hours setting correct permissions - like what he can see, but not change (photos, ...), what he can change (some old games and their save files in the same folder) and what he shouldn't have access at all (private documents). I switched to "my..." folders.
Way easier to manage
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Untrue. Defaults to the most used document type. Who fills it with JPEGs probably wants to see them on thumbs. Who manages thousands of files in a single folder couldn't be successful. Who manages thousands of files without something like Total Commander couldn't be successful.
Wasted time is reading superfluous reposts of meaningless and factually wrong posts.
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Though open source is a way of life in many companies, the GPL still inspires hesitancy -- for surprising reasons. "You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License"
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