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Dunking them in her drinks will do that 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That why for mobiles I switched to the Xperia range.
My 4 year old has dropped mine in the toilet more time that I can remember..
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Bert Mitton wrote: She gets her hands on any electronics, they're quickly bricked
That's two-year-olds for you. Any unbreakable toys they have are useful for breaking other toys. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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"Unbreakable" you say? I once heard people say that their code is unbreakable... It's only unbreakable because someone with enough will/stupidity has not yet broken it beyond repair.
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So... I guess that means all Android phones ship with the virus pre-installed? Because my last one was unresponsive and mostly useless out of the box.
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Blazingly fast performance, prevention of nearly all segfaults and low-level control and performance without sacrificing safety or abstractions – these are the promises made by the 1.0 release of Rust. And that’s just the start. Because rust never sleeps
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They probably meant to include this[^].
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Seems to be getting a lot of buzz. Let's see if it takes off or sinks without trace.
Kevin
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No real debugger[^]
IDE[^] provided via Eclipse  but has integrated debugging via GDB
Does have a x64 build.[^] but third party C libs will probably be a PITA to compile
Using it for web development doesn't seem practical (year old post[^])
Personally, I like that static type system and the FP-like language syntax. However, having gone the Ruby/Rails route for a while (and never again) I'm loathe to start pulling in one-off open source libraries for what the things I've come to expect from .NET. I really don't want to go back to native W32 calls for UI support.[^]
Marc
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Actually, there is no "provided" IDE - however there are plug-ins available for Visual Studio, VS Code also supports it out of the box, Eclipse, EMACS and VIM plugins are also available.
Source level debugging is working using GDB and, I believe, LLVM's debugger.
There is no need to "compile" third party C libs specially for Rust - however as with most languages you'll need to write an FFI interface to it. This is not rocket science though.
The Cargo packaging system gives a standard approach to integrating third-party libs, but unsurprisingly there are a lot of areas not yet covered.
Overall, very promising with better infrastructure than most similar languages (a fairer comparison than .NET is with C/C++, and theres plenty of improvements there).
Actually, the big idea in Rust is ownership and lifetimes, the article barely touched on these. It can make it a bit of a struggle to get used to, but sometimes paradigm shifts are like that. I suspect it may end up a better language for systems programming than C/C++ eventually, and we will all be grateful as the deficiencies in those two languages are the cause of almost all security issues in modern platforms.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
modified 30-Jul-15 4:36am.
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Thanks for the great clarification!
Marc
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We've heard a number of times in the past that Microsoft is aiming for a September/October timeframe for the launch of Windows 10 Mobile. But... I thought it was "all one Windows"?
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For most of the 1990s, databases were the most boring tool in the shed. Let's call it someSQL?
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Windows 10 has a lot to live up to. Microsoft has made a lot of promises about it. And oddly enough, we’ve heard most of them before, with Windows 8. "Once upon a time, long, long ago, there lived in a valley far, far away in the mountains, the most contented kingdom the world had ever known."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: there lived in a silicon valley far, far away in the mountains
FTFY
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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Microsoft has pushed the giant button that released Windows 10 to consumers around the world and on the company's campus, they have a large counter showing how many upgrades have been completed. "It's the final countdown"
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Until someone find out there is a bug in the counter and requires windows update !!! 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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16/second sounds impressive until you do the math and realize that at that rate it'll take 2 years to hit the billion user point vs the 1 year MS is targeting. 
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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There are many style guides around the web talking about the coding best practices. Some guidelines are very interesting, some others are not suitable even they are recommended by known organisations.
CoderGears just launched the C/C++ Coding Best Practices Repository to centralize the most known best practices.
The goal of the repository is to vote and comment the C/C++ coding best practices rules to have the most interesting ones and every C/C++ developer will focus more on the most voted rules.
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My best practice is D Language !
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Nah, D is old hat. See Rust (above).
(I've not used either btw but there's always another proposed C/C++ killer around the corner.  )
Kevin
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Looks like a half baked attempt to clone stack overflow looking for a reason to exist to me. 
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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http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/29/lg-made-1-2-cents-in-profit-for-every-phone-it-sold/[^]
The URL really says it all. 
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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That is what happens in capitalism if you do not have an exploitable monopoly.
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Apple has 18% share of smartphone market but 90% share of profits. So crumbs for everyone else.
Kevin
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