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Herb Sutter gave a talk on the current state of Modern C++ during Microsoft’s Build conference. The promotion of C++ has undergone something of a renaissance these past few years at Microsoft, and Sutter has been part of directing this increased focus. One of these things likes the other
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Just a two months into the tenure of new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft feels like an entirely different company. It’s finally letting go of the past and looking towards the future. That’s nothing less than a wonderful thing, but it comes with a caveat: You have to wonder if it came too late. No. How/why would you think that?
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Well, I would think of it in a way like "they are late because they could have done it earlier". But if that's too late... I'd doubt it. Better late than never.
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There's no pleasing some people. If they weren't changing, it would be a "OMG WHY WON'T MICROSOFT CHANGE !!!" hate-fest.
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Microsoft has taken steps to ease onerous restrictions that have curtailed development of business applications for Windows 8. But some say the company still hasn't gone far enough. Sideloading: your cute new IT word of the week
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Back in December, documents revealed the NSA had been using Google's ad-tracking cookies to follow browsers across the web, effectively coopting ad networks into surveillance networks. A new paper from computer scientists at Princeton breaks down exactly how easy it is, even without the resources and access of the NSA. "I always feel like somebody's watching me, and I have no privacy"
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The Partnership for American Innovation (PAI), which includes Apple, Dupont, Ford, GE, IBM, Microsoft, and Pfizer, is nervous about patent legislation being deliberated in the U.S. Senate. Lawmakers have been working to pass legislation hampering patent assertion entities (patent trolls) from buying up patents and extracting licensing fees or suing without actually creating anything. "Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
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Well, will they admit that an invention is a physical thing, not just an idea?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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"Microsoft announced a new .NET compiler that compiles .NET code to native code using the C++ compiler backend. It produces performance like C++ while still enabling .NET features like garbage collection, generics, and reflection. Popular apps have been measured to start up to 60% faster and use 15% less memory. The preview currently only supports Windows Store applications, but is expected to apply to more .NET applications in the long term. A preview of the compiler is available for download now. (Caveat: I both work for MS and read Slashdot.)"
http://developers-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/04/03/1949232/net-native-compilation-preview-released[^]
SWEET!
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Wow...... this is absolutely amazing!
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Sounds a bit like D.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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This is really amazing! 
My first rule of debugging: "If you get a different error message, you're making progress."
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Only for windows store apps at present.
If they get it working for winforms we'll finally stop having to deal with an obfuscator for a customer who's scared that reflection means .net is too easy to reverse engineer compared to C++. 
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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This is similar to what Eiffel does. Compiles to C to produce C/C++ performance.
Kevin
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This is a writeup of the Microsoft Office team’s source control usage, and how close it is to an ideal Trunk Based Development (TBD) model. Interesting look at how one (pretty largish) group uses the tools
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I thought trunk-based development was only used by elephants? 
"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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ext Thursday, NASA will release a master list of software projects it has cooked up over the years. This is more than just stuff than runs on a personal computer. Think robots and cryogenic systems and climate simulators. There’s even code for running rocket guidance systems. You too can become a rocket surgeon
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The article source is a blog post saying the code was open sourced in 2009, soooo....
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For the Apollo software yes. This is more.
TTFN - Kent
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Less than two weeks after drawing controversy over his appointment as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich has resigned from the position. "Life has its little ups and downs like ponies on a merry go round, and no one grabs a brass ring every time"
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One of the major factors that is preventing older enterprises from leaving Windows XP is the prevalence of mission critical applications written in Visual Basic 6. Is it the cause, or the effect?
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I can't see why? We have an older bug tracking system, written in VB6, and it's running perfectly even on Windows 8...
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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Quote: if it relies on obscure COM or control libraries
I'd be guessing that is a fairly low (but measurable) number of VB6 apps. I'd put a guess that anything using hooking might be an issue. Maybe stuff using security APIs as well.
Oh Spyworks, I miss you.
TTFN - Kent
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