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Marc Clifton wrote: But wait. Linux is open source, so of course she can make Linux conform to her needs!
But this involves way too much work to be practical for the average user 
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David S. Peck is getting a lot of emails. In a glitch possibly related to the massive Gmail outage underway right now, there’s an odd bug in Google search which is pointing users directly to his personal email address. Totally not evil, totally
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Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017. But now Facebook’s data scientists have turned the study’s silly “correlation equals causation” methodology of tracking Google search volume against it to show Princeton would lose all of its students by 2021. Don't mess with Mark Zuckerberg
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Princeton still beats Facebook in 3-5 years... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The Microsoft chairman negotiates CEO rumors while focusing on global poverty efforts.
In other words, he'll take periodic breaks from saving the world and eradicating disease to make sure his company isn't being run into the ground.
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so where has he been the last few years while it was being run into the ground? I think if he were to return as CEO we would see a whole new Microsoft (version 2.0).
I think it would be similar to the rebirth of Apple when Jobs returned to the post.
you want something inspirational??
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It's just possible he thinks some his charitable work may be more important, rightly so.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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C# and C++ rise in RedMonk's bi-annual programming language rankings, while Python and Ruby fall.
Saw Kent's post below and thought the juxtaposition with RedMonk's bi-annual rankings was pretty amusing. In their rankings JavaScript was #1 and Python fell a spot from last year to #5. I guess this means new programmers should start with Python and move to JScript?
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Then, using the Tiobe rankings, you move on to T-SQL. And you're done!
All within 21 days, of course.
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TTFN - Kent
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BURP!
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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Of course. Look at that, we've solved the ultimate mysteries of programming languages in one thread.
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What is surprising is that C# is trending up, given that the measure comes from languages on both GitHub and Stack Overflow projects.
Most of these "popularity" measures are flawed:
Tiobe - T-SQL being a popular language on the basis of more questions being asked about it? Does that not mean its just badly-designed?
RedMonk - will naturally display a bias towards Open Source projects and languages.
Tiobe - similar issues to Stack Overflow basis, probably slightly better as will also cover articles not just (mainly) questions.
Hell, we could even introduce a CodeProject language index with similarly predictable skews (towards, for example, Microsoft technologies).
NB: I don't blame the indexes for this - usually they are open about their methodologies and the potential issues with them. It is largely the reporting (as in the SD Times article) that extrapolates from the data I object to.
(Although Tiobe did make the fundamental error this year (possibly before as well) of changing methodology and then comparing as if comparing like to like - which is statistically bad practice).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Despite rumours of an aggressive development and shipping schedule, there's no official word about what's in the next version of Windows, but there are plenty of rumours (many of them from Chinese enthusiast sites that claim to have leaked builds), plus more reliable information from job adverts for the Windows and Windows Phone teams. "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
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"The general consensus is that it still has a long way to go to produce a unified OS."
Microsoft: Nobody wants a unified OS! Just. Flipping. Stop it!
"Direct Experience would start up a media version of Windows if you booted with a USB stick of music files plugged in"
 In the words of Jeremy Clarkson: "Who would ever think that's brilliant?"
(I'll look for a suitable Threshold quote after dinner.)
This'll have to do...
"Later I was able to reconstruct the visual afterimage of what appeared to be a huge, blazing fireball whose flaming wake seemed to trail to infinity . . . and -- somehow -- beyond." -- Threshold, David R. Palmer
This space intentionally left blank.
modified 23-Jan-14 21:31pm.
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"Nobody wants a unified OS! Just. Flipping. Stop it!"
That model seems to work quite well for Linux though, where the kernel is deployed on everything nowadays.
As a developer, I like the idea, just ensure the user experience is different in each form factor and I'll be happy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Microsoft: Nobody wants a unified OS! Just. Flipping. Stop it!
That's not what Microsoft's ads are saying...
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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The popular scripting language was tops among developers recommending which programming language to learn first. Voting was carried out by the Semi-colon Liberation Front (ScLF) and Friends of Tuples ([F, o, T])
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Kent Sharkey wrote: colon Liberation Front
Really? So how do they take a shit?
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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The semi-colon liberation front - they use one half at any given time (hopefully right-left, and not top-bottom)
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TTFN - Kent
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There is a great deal of information about the upcoming SQL Server 2014 version, especially about Hekaton which is the In-Memory OLTP engine feature of SQL Server 2014. But is Hekaton the only new feature in SQL Server 2014? In this tip I will guide you through the new features that make SQL Server 2014 so outstanding. USE master GO ALTER DATABASE SET dbo.version = year(getdate())
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If you depended on LogMeIn's free tier for remote access, don't despair; plenty of competitors are just as functional -- and free. "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product."
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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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I am going to be checking out TeamViewer. One of my suppliers uses it and likes it.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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