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Crapplications that install a dozen or more items make it quite possible to hit the limit. My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu. Since W10 is folder free I think I'd be clear; but dangerously close to the limit. In particular, the ones written by duhvelopers that are ignoring a decade of MS guidance and putting uninstallers and a half dozen documentation shortcuts on the desktop deserve to be stomped into the mud by a herd of elephants.
I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.
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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Dan Neely wrote: My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu.
Agreed ... e.g. I install AutoDesk's Revit (i.e. that one single program) which places around 60 shortcuts in 10 folders in W7's start menu (most of them just silly cr@p like readme files, settings & version migration tools, etc.).
But, it's still sad isn't it? Both that this might mean W10's start mean-U reaches its limits with just a handful of proggies installed, as well as that some proggies use up so many items in that mean-U.
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Dan Neely wrote: I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.
Forgot 8.1 doesn't have an equivalent list; and restoring a 7 backup image in a VM is way too much work.
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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Think it’s hard to motivate your employees now? Wait ‘til they’re not 'yours' at all. "This gun's for hire"
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Today, we're happy to announce the release of TypeScript 1.6. This release adds support for React/JSX, class expressions, and a rich set of new capabilities in the type system. It also provides stricter type checking for object literals. Now more typey than ever
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We built Scribd into the #3 largest rails site by traffic and it worked for us, but these days I see a lot of new companies using rails and it feels like a mistake. Because he used it the first time
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because he used it the first time
Rails was like a one night stand. The first time was definitely the last time.
Marc
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So what you're saying is that Rails....
... has gone off the rails? 
No. No. That's quite unneeded. I never wear a coat. 
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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The open source MariaDB SQL database is adding a key feature in the form of native database encryption in the upcoming MariaDB 10.1, which will enable customers to encrypt databases without affecting performance or having to recode applications. SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE colA LIKE 'EnCt283312d0dcfb1603644fe935a1e36456ae1ec725d83312d0dcfb1603644fe935a=SKcRZPP4QL e6JK2+VUGmYDvbsxS4u4c5qnCYOyJhg==IwEmS'
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How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence. But that’s not all. Google is, among other things, a vast empire of computer software. We can answer in terms of code. Yeah, but 1 billion of those lines are, "{Advert goes here}"
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Arggghhh... Since my college days, I have cringed when people look at 'lines of code'.
For instance, in COBOL: YearlyPay = HourlyRate * DaysWorked * HoursPerDay
That is 1 line of code.
But, my professor preferred something like...
MULTIPLY HourlyRate BY HoursPerDay GIVING DailyWage
MULTIPLY DailyWage BY DaysWorked GIVING YearlyPay
Ludicrous! Then and now!
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Yup
KLoC
has been
ridiculous
forever,
but that
never stops
management
(and others)
from counting it
because
they need
something
to count.
TTFN - Kent
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...and another half starts with // and their like
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Mercurial, what GitHub should've been.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: Could others benefit from the same kind of system? Certainly.
...
That may seem extreme. After all, few companies juggle as much code as Google or Facebook do today. But in the near future, they will.
In the spirit of an article a few posts below, one day all software we write will look like this:
using Google;
namespace company.name.someapp
{
class TheApp
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ExecuteTheCode(GoogleCodeSearch("What my boss wants me to do"));
}
}
}
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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From PCs to mobile to cloud, the technology industry has slowed down, so developers can digest all the new stuff we have. Because everything is fine and works perfectly now!
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Expect a tick up in the area of security and privacy.
The industry does not slow down, even if some major corporations lag as corporations usually do.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Full Stack Overflow developers work almost entirely by copying and pasting code from Stack Overflow instead of understanding what they are doing. Instead of researching a topic, they go there first to ask a question hoping people will just give them the result. More codez plz!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Full Stack Overflow CodeProject QA developers ...
FTFY. 
"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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Full Stack Overflow CodeProject QA developers ...
FTFY2
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You mean this sort of thing clickety[^]
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Today we mark an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web: the first-ever certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt. One down, a few billion to go
Oh, and buh-bye, Verisign
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Awesome 
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The typical developer dress code isn’t known for being chic: the t-shirt and jeans combination are the epitome of comfort for most, yet some companies seem to want to change the rules. "Come, as you are, as you were, as I want you to be"
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