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I enjoyed reading your opinions, but, without citing sources (recent sources with some scientific credibility), your arguments and hypotheses, while possible, do not convince me they are more highly probable than the "usual suspects."
Did you read the other article cited on this forum (on InfoWorld) ? If you did, it appears their methodology of looking at activity on major search engines did not register on you, since you do not mention that in your "indictment" of other studies.
"Tiobe assesses language popularity via a formula that analyzes searches in popular search sites, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Wikipedia. The improved algorithm addresses the number of outliers -- "statistical noise" -- per search engine, Tiobe said in its monthly report for September."
Did you think of doing a simple Google search on "C# use in academic:" if you do, you will find evidence for C# being used in universities/colleges, like Cornell, and others.
Your post seems to me more appropriate for the Lounge ... that's not a "put-down" !
cheers, Bill
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Suppose the moon was replaced with a similarly sized cube (instead of a sphere). Describe the phases of the cubical moon that you would see from the surface of the Earth. "I say: Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side"
'Cause you, like totally blew my mind, maaaaaaan. Cosmic!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Describe the phases of the cubical moon that you would see from the surface of the Earth.
Well, since I'll assume that it'll still show the same face all the time: square, rectangle, sliver.
[edit] After reading the article: Doh. [/edit]
Marc
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You're saying it isn't? 
P.S. "Object doesn't support property or method 'glowscript_compile'"
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IPFS is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Yeah. Good luck with that
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IPFS is actually more similar to a single bittorrent swarm exchanging git objects. IPFS could become a new major subsystem of the internet. If built right, it could complement or replace HTTP.
coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Marc
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Lol, the NSA and Micro$oft would have to re-write all their spyware 
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Don't worry they will make sure the new protocol contains plenty of backdoors.
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The Keyboard on the page you linked to has CERN printed on it.
Illuminati Confirmed! :-P
IPFS does sound cool though. And HTTP is a little boring these days...
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This article seems to be more hype than well researched computer science. Many of the criticisms of HTTP are not related to HTTP at all. If a company goes out of business and their web site gets shut down leaving a link to a dead site, how is that an issue with HTTP?
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Dominic Burford wrote: ..how is that an issue with HTTP?
My cat went missing the other day and it was all HTTP's fault. Luckily IPFS must have found him and brought him back again the following day..
Cue mass hysteria.. 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Well in that case I take it all back. IPFS is definitely the way forward 
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Not really, I hate my cat! 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Apple is helping customers who want to upgrade to the latest iPhone every year with a new iPhone upgrade program. There you go, Chris
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Where's that Picard facepalm when you need it...?  Sorry, but what a useless waste of resources just for short-sighted profit gains. The race of this civilization to the bottom is accelerating.
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So, what're they going to do with all the year old phones?
Will they be announcing lower cost plans next year and the year after leasing factory refurbs?
Since the yearly rate's only a bit more than half the sticker price; assuming this takes off they're going to have to find a way to offload a ton of used phones at reasonably high prices to protect their margins.
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.
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Dan Neely wrote: So, what're they going to do with all the year old phones?
Landfill, obviously.
It's not like they would ever resell slightly scratched phones. Not shiny enough.
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Chris Maunder
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If they were charging $700/year instead of $350 maybe; but they're not going to landfill half of their revenue.
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 only price I saw was at Walmart which had AT&T refurbished iPhone 6's at $525 (down from $598)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is in-house software development the only way to get the best possible user experience from your software? "You can go your own way"
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An example of when it works for the organization.
We have some vendor software that is very good. Unfortunately, it has grown to the point that it takes up half or our department. Interestingly, they allow us to own the data and I have admin rights to tens of terrabytes of the data. The catch is that I can't change it. If I change anything I don't like, like delete an empty table with the prefix _tmp on it, their proprietary software breaks. If I want to do something in house, then I have to create another schema that has rights to that data or write an ETL process to bring a copy of that data into my data structures.
The proprietary software we use is used across an industry, so it has huge cost benefits. It seems like it costs about 200k a year plus database licensing. In contrast, if we built it in-house, we'd need a team of developers and or contractors to build it, then need to maintain it; even if our in-house software is not as good. Over 10 years you're looking at 2 million versus 4 or 5 million to build it then another half million a year to maintain it.
Personally, I think my section should be shutdown and I'd imagine that in the future I'll be transferred into another.
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When you want it done properly.
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When you're the only one doing what you do, with the exceptions of your competitors 
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