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I'll be there, just boiling up a few gallons of tar and plucking the chickens.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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"You can never leave [VB6]."
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: vocal market demand for a modern alternative to Visual Basic 6
The same vocal support who probably still extol the virtues of IE6. 
Quote: Popular support of the venerable language
That's just brown nosing to the highest degree...
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Is this thing actually code/binary compatible with VB6 as the headline implies or just going after the same low tier dev market as the body suggests? The latter seems a doomed effort, while the former will still have most of the doesn't work with Web/Android/iOS/Mac/(Windows high DPI?) baggage that's doing as much to drive the end of life of LoB apps as the difficulty of finding people to work with VB6 in updating them is.
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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"Is this thing actually code/binary compatible with VB6".
As it compiles to the JVM, I'll let you guess. It could actually be even worse (judging by the paucity of documentation).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The "J" should've been a dead giveaway. Too much monday. 
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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Its like an endless sequence of Hammer movies where somehow, in spite of being staked/burned/etc. at the end of the previous movie Dracula somehow manages to come back.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Say it ain't so!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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Facebook is open-sourcing a piece of software that is designed to write software. The software is already hard at work on the next version
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It is not the software that writes software; it is code for writing code.
Fun quote from the article; Before Hack Codegen, Facebook generated code through concatenating strings, but found it was unable to scale.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Delphix's first 'State of DevOps' report finds even the definition of the word is in flux among its practitioners. Which makes it just as much a 'standard' as 'Agile', 'NoSQL', and 'OOP'
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Financial software company Intuit announced today in its earnings statement that it would divest its Quicken, Quickbase, and Demandforce businesses. This is big news, considering that Quicken was once at the center of Intuit. People still use Quicken?
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Quote: In Intuit’s 2015 fiscal year — the year that ended on July 31 — Quicken did $51 million in revenue. That’s down from $96 million, $99 million, and $98 million in Intuit’s 2012, 2013, and 2014 fiscal years, respectively.
A 50% drop in one year after several years of steady revenue!!!  WTE happened? Major price drop that failed to bring in new customers? Major change that resulted in mass rage quitting/refusal to upgrade? Something else?
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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Each update is a black box, and it's going to stay that way. Will they tell us if we guess it right?
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I keep tellin you guys man, the company out out to f no, get us.
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If they said people wouldn't probably take the update
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and it's going to stay that way.
And that place too, I'll stick with my w7. If and when I'll be forced to accept W10 I'll probably install updates only after they had been reverse engineered and cracked.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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It was such a beautiful dream. The openness of Google, matched with the control of Apple. Quality and quantity, optimised apps that anyone would be free to make. All married together with a bold sense of style and the massive branding power of Microsoft, there was no way that Windows Phone 7 could lose. The third-place finisher is dead, long live the third-place finisher
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You can't handle the Truth!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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But some more palatable lies would be nice
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Good point.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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In a rare look at the company’s networking technology, Google showed how it moved from using vendor switches in 2004 to building its own hardware a year later to shuttle data among servers in its data centers. That's *exactly* how I have my home network set up!
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When you think of Microsoft’s IDE, Visual Studio 2015, perhaps you can be forgiven for not immediately thinking of COBOL. Micro Focus is rectifying the dearth of COBOL support in Microsoft’s newest of IDE with today’s release of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio: a software package that brings full support for the ancient language into the modern enterprise life-cycle environment.
As with previous releases of Visual COBOL, this version includes full-fledged support for the language: IntelliSense, smart editing, auto-complete, code analysis and debugging tools are all here. Additionally, Visual COBOL allows developers to mix their applications with .NET and C# code, bringing more flexibility to their COBOL stacks.
Wait, COBOL still exists? 
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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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