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The code and software interfaces you see in movies and TV shows as just a prop are more complicated—and more fun to make—than they seem.
Looks like Hollywood is starting to care whether the dummy code they throw onscreen actually makes sense.
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I don't appreciate the connotation, Richard.
The story you linked to was originally posted in The Lounge, which I apologized for then as I hadn't been aware of that. This is a separate and far more in-depth story I came across on SD Times that delves into a topic I think is pretty interesting and I haven't seen anyone else continuing to cover. Yes, I read and post stories from SD Times, as I do from many other publications I enjoy and find informative.
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I think you're reading more into Richard's comment than he intended.
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At Pete said, you're reading too much into it.
If you've spent any time in the Lounge, you'll realise that "Leslie Nielsen" is CodeProject for "this (or something very much like this) has been posted before". Not in an angry, "how dare you repost this" sort-of way, but more in a friendly, joking, "hey, why haven't you read and memorized all seventeen squillion posts on this site yet?" sort-of way.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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...It's possible I may have overreacted a bit. 
I'll file away that Lounge lingo...and don't call me Shirley.
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A sneak peek at the annual Computing Research Association's (CRA) report on computer science enrollments at colleges shows that strong demand for technically-savvy workers is luring students in a big way.
After all the hubbub around Hour of Code and the cries for more STEM education, who woulda thunk it.
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Codementor, an open marketplace for one-on-one programming help, is now open to the public after finishing a three-month stint at TechStars Seattle. The site connects users with experts in a wide range of programming languages for situations ranging from emergency debugging to more in-depth tutoring. "If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path, you will become an agent of evil."
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Lazy?, want to get by with the least effort?, join thousands now! 
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Is it really worth paying for a service you good get for free on StackOverflow and put in the legwork to actually learn how to do it? Seems like taking the easy way out (that you have to pay for.)
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As BlackBerry fades out, Microsoft's phone is the choice of enterprises to replace it. I knew IBM was slow to change, but you'd have thought a few of them might have heard that they weren't BFF with Microsoft anymore
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In with the new boss, same as the old boss
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I knew IBM was slow to change, but you'd have thought a few of them might have heard that they weren't BFF with Microsoft anymore
Error: Snark-Content Mismatch.
The article is about what IBM saw when they surveyed Corporate IT PHBs about what platform they wished their serfs were using; not what IBM thinks companies should do. In particular the last para of the article:
Quote: The big question now is whether IBM will take up the flag for WP. It has no dog in this fight since it does not sell handsets. IBM is, for all intents and purposes, a services and software company. Hardware sales are now in the single-digits with the x86 server divestiture. Microsoft couldn't ask for a better ally. A seriously ironic one, given their histories, but a major ally none the less.
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 customers must run XP after April 8, switch to alternate browser that still gets patches, advises team from Dept. of Homeland Security How many of the people sticking with XP are capable of installing a new browser?
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What that version can't take the NSA patch?
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I had almost identical thoughts there. They're entirely correct, but I'm not sure the US Government are well-placed to lecture people on online safety anymore.
That ship has sailed.
"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 audience and the judge have spoken in our recent Microsoft and Android debate and they agreed with me that Microsoft/Nokia making Android phones is a smart move. But, can Microsoft give Samsung a run for its money as a top Android company? I think Microsoft might have a real chance of doing just that. Bonus #6: Just think how much it would irritate Apple
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But at the end it will come to the prize Microsoft will sell those phones!
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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I understand that Microsoft earn just as much on Android phones from licensing fees.
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It does not mean Microsoft will sell it for less then Samsung does today. So why to buy Microsoft's for more? For Office? I don't think so...
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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If MS were to get some traction in this direction I can imagine them buying out Xamarin. However, psychologically, might be hard for them to downplay Windows Phone.
Kevin
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The saying “30 is the new 20” doesn’t always hold true — in fact, it seems to be the opposite for those in the software development industry. While some professionals are just beginning to hit their stride at age 30, the future for an average programmer can appear pretty bleak after 29. It means they're getting close to 0x20!
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Double it and deprecate the development platform you have been using for the last 5+ years and see how it feels.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That's the one, I hated HTML/Javascript back in the 90s - the last time I worked with the dogs breakfast they call web development. The ONLY reason I took the teams to web/silverlight was the whole binding thing. Now the bastards refuse to go back to the desktop, WPF where all our skills and resources are relevant and insist on going to MVC.
If I ever meet the thick witted, numbskull, pea brained, moronic idiot, bastard in Microsoft who made that decision I will take great pleasure in being quite rude to them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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