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I hope they update like AngularJS where 2.x has no backward compatibility with 1.x and you have to learn all the JavaScript (ahem ECMAScript) all over again.
Keep it fresh, JavaScript-brah! 
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Well they had to do something about legacy IE's dwindling version share threatening to make browser compat a worry of the past. 
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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Amazon is launching a "self-service" program for video creators called Amazon Video Direct. Do the videos come in those happy boxes?
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Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby's star, is the home of industrious aliens who are gradually enclosing it in a vast shell called a Dyson sphere. Science: ruining good stories since 1620
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The fast-changing IT environment of today is forcing companies to reconsider their approach to IT, as they believe that can help them stand out in the crowd of their competitors. Sorry you're too late on DevOps, the next trend should be along shortly
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Beta News wrote: The (FALSELY FORCED) fast-changing IT environment of today
I think you forgot that parenthetical phrase...and it's because of Windows Updates though, I know.
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The language jumps seven spots from a year ago in Tiobe's index, while C's popularity takes a big hit And by "shines", he means, "8th place on a list with questionable methodology"
But you know, Monday.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "8th place on a list with questionable methodology"
Nice to see that emphasized. There is so much wrong with Tiobe's methodology that to call it questionable is a compliment.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And by "shines", he means, "8th place on a list with questionable methodology"
As worthless as Tiobe's index is, an article that only links to the same sites drivel about previous updates but not to the index itself is, if anything, more pathetic. 
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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Tired of writing code? Me too! Let's have Stack Overflow do it. They're doing it anyway, might as well automate the process
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Oh no! We will have to shut down QA!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Gibme da codez, plz!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Even with the slowness bugs fixed, Windows Update on Windows 7 still has its flaws. It's still better than relying on the typical user to keep their machine up-to-date
At least, that's what I keep telling myself...
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Nothing is even close to what I had back in another era. 30 years later, QBasic is still the best when it comes to discovering programming. He has me sold, I'll use it for my next app (does it connect to Azure?)
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I'm not sure I could even write code in a non-threaded, interpreted, non-OOP language anymore without native debug support and Intellisense auto-completion.
Oh wait, I do code in Javascript. 
Marc
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The Blackbox project is a massive data collection initiative by the University of Kent, that sifts through millions of source code compilations looking to identify the most frequent mistakes made by student programmers. "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Vaguely feels like a repost, as the original paper is from 2014, but eh. It's Monday.
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I particularly like the missing item in the list under syntax.
A. C. D. E.
I propose an addition to the list: Cut/Copy/Paste errors.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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B is lower down the page, under "Other semantic errors".
Maybe another "error" to include is "Didn't RTFM" 
"I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart." - Linus van Pelt.
"If you were as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't think you were so smart!" - Charlie Brown.
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I'm a little perturbed that almost every one of their metrics are syntactic.
How about basic architecture like "Uses iteration when recursion is called for" or "Treats value types as if they are reference types." The skill is not in the specific grammar, it's in how it all fits together.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Last quarter, Microsoft hit a major milestone: $1 trillion in all-time cumulative revenue reports technology consultant Jeff Reifman. That's what: 10 installs of VS Ultimate Sooper Dooper?
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It's enterprise, chief. Both, system as well as edition. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Yeah. That one. I can never keep track of their names beyond, I WANT IT ALLLLLLLL! 
TTFN - Kent
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If you want all of them, that'd be a Community! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft recently spoke at an AI conference that AI is “the most important technology that anybody on the planet is working on today.” This announcement brought to you by the Department of Whatever I'm Working On Is The Most Important department
Did you know that this newsletter is THE MOST important one? After all the other ones, anyway.
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Chief Envisioning Officer? When I was a kid it was called the 'village drunk'...
But to make him happy I started to work on a - open source - AI related project right now...AI implant - the only way same can get intelligence...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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