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DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one of the most critical pieces of a game or game engine, and we’ve redesigned it to be faster and more efficient than ever before. No new hardware, and faster too
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And still no proper support for C#
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Hold on, that's exactly what I want to know!
While they didn't say anything, one can imagine that they will have proper WinRT support (which can be hacked for desktop support! ^^)
They didn't mention it but.. it's still possible! 
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As DirectX is a COM API, surely it's not rocket science.
"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 story of how much of Windows 8 information was leaked a few years back is coming into clarity after the individual responsible for leaking much of the content has been arrested. Alex Kibkalo is stated to have leaked the goods who is widely believed to be French blogger, Canouna, and it was the blogger who tipped off Microsoft, accidently, after emailing the company to determine if the code was legitimate at which point, Microsoft accessed the bloggers email and found the source of the leaks. "It seems a bit obvious that if you are dealing with leaked content that you got directly from a source, you should not verify it with Microsoft using the same account that is owned by Microsoft to determine authenticity."
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Bit of a logic fail, there, eh?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Microsoft released details of DirectX 12 today at GDC.
The main improvement is that it's faster. They did not mention which versions of Windows are supported though.
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Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels. Ohg gung gevpx arire jbexf
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Ohg gung gevpx arire jbexf
Too early to think.
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Working alongside a handful of others inside the social networking giant, they fashioned a language that lets programmers build complex websites and other software at great speed while still ensuring that their software code is precisely organized and relatively free of flaws — a combination that few of today’s languages even approach. In typical Facebook fashion, the new language is called Hack, and it already drives almost all of the company’s website — a site that serves more than 1.2 billion people across the globe. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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Wow - what does a triple equal sign do? ===[^]
(Sorry if this is an obvious thing - I'm too old and ugly to have used such things)
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It's a strict equals[^] (and would be completely unnecessary if there were types)
TTFN - Kent
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So - it seems that Facebook have very nearly developed Option Explicit[^] for PHP. We live in extraordinary times...
(I realise there is more to it than that..I'm being trite)
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"PHP isn't cool. You know what's cool? The new PHP."
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Quote: The code essentially compiles in the background, as you write it.
Stopped reading after I came across this.
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Quote: The code essentially compiles in the background, as you write it.
It actually finishes writing as you're thinking it.
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Yeah, that's one of the things I don't like about Visual Studio.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I find it hard to believe that FB could resolve all the problems with PHP, it is after all "A Fractal of Bad Design[^]". Fixing one problem is likely to just cause another to surface 
Seriously though, this is supposed to be "The Programming Language of the Future"? Really?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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"harder for them to easily apprehend the consequences"
Is it getting away from them? 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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If Microsoft and eBay aren't safe from social engineering attacks, who is? "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link"
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Pat McGovern, a visionary in the IT publishing industry who founded the International Data Group, died on Wednesday at the age of 76.
IDG announced this morning that McGovern died at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. The cause of death was not disclosed. The newly elected Walter Boyd succeeds McGovern as chairman of IDG. RIP Pat McGovern
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A software architect who had worked for Microsoft for seven years was arrested today in Seattle by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is accused of, among other things, leaking code from Windows 8 prior to the operating system's launch in October 2012. Kind of ironic when you think of all the people that don't want Windows 8
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He must be so, so disappointed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Link does not appear to work for me for some reason (blank page, no error message)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Odd. Just tried it again, and it works for me. Adblock maybe stopping the whole page? Here's the Seattle PI report[^] on it.
TTFN - Kent
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