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C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for WinRT implemented entirely in header files—the best kind of C++ library. And a whole lot of other MSDN Magazine goodness
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I’m convinced that smart sensors are going to be massively important in the future, and that vision can’t work if they require batteries. Vibrate faster! We need more power!
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With the increasing standardization of attributes, we get the opportunity to make our code clearer not only to other humans but also to the compiler and other tools. Wait ... 'make code clearer to humans'. Are you sure you program in C++?
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Companies with more than 50 employees will be obligated to set up hours — normally during the evening and weekend — when staff are not to send or respond to emails. Vive la deference
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Well, I'm responsible for what I do or say in my role as a employee of the company: this role is defined by the law and the employment contract and it is bound to a certain time period. The rest of the time I am me and only me, not an employee or a representative of the compnay. So what if, outside of my working hours and outside overtime hours - which must be negotiated first between the employee and the company - I answer an e-mail with content that somehow cause damage to either the customer or my company? Am I to be held responsible if I was outside my working hours? Or am I to be held accountable of sabotage since I'm definetely acting outside my role?
A limit enforced by law in this case helps both parties: workers cannot be coerced in unpaid reperibility and working hours, and companies don't risk VERY bad outcomes for them - for example a damage due to the answer AND a winning lawsuit from the employee.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The recently published application covers a system that would let its HoloLens glasses track small items like car keys, stopping wearers from misplacing them. All you have to do is remember where you put that wonky helmet
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...with the image processing no doubt done in the cloud.
Because the only thing that could give the NSA more unholy glee than every person in the world having a microphone that's turned on 24/7 to send every sound it detects to the cloud is a camera that does the same thing.
Who writes these specs anyway?
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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Net Market Share just released its report for the last month of 2016. The firm today revealed the market share for browsers and operating systems in December. According to the report, Windows 10 now claims 24.36% of the market. XP ,Weven, and Mac OS also all increased. I call shenanigans.
What decreased? Vista and OS/2? VAX?
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Mostly W8.x. And as always with these things the 1 month window has noise of larger amplitude than the one month changes.
By OS
By OS Version
To the extent that I find their numbers credible at all, the most interesting result seems to be a sustained slump in OSX numbers. OTOH rival StatCounter shows a slight gaim. Based on the differences in their models I suspect it comes down to slight gains in the western market (where both companies get most of their data points) and StatCounter showing its data as is - aka showing what people running web sites focused on the west will see - vs NetMarketShare scaling its results per country to reflect the number of users there even if they're not being seen as much - aka trying to show global numbers if it saw everyone equally and most user growth being in countries too poor to afford macs. (ex they might see 10x as many Americans and Chinese, but since there are ~4x as many Chinese online weight the counts so Chinese data collectively has 4x the weight of US data.)
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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How many of those are running Windows 10 by choice?
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Nevada state government's website was leaking thousands of social security numbers, and highly sensitive personal data. They said it was a hack. Spoiler alert: It wasn't. At least give the hackers a bit of work to do
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But as the article says... calling it a hack is pushing responsabilities away. If not... patients could sue the "company" (in this case the state) and that can be very expensive. Better to make live harder to the good guy who found it and "evilize" him so people don't start to ask "why are you such an idiot?"
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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And glitch too. 
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Yeah, let's call it oops!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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No wonder the code I'm compiling right now isn't working right--every change I make is being hacked!
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Quote: He found one listed web address, ending in a number, which pointed to a PDF file purporting to be a medical marijuana dispensary application. Altering the number in the web address let anyone view different applications.
Wasn't someone sent to prison in the US for doing precisely the same thing, a few years ago?
The court set the precedent that (on US soil) manually modifying a web address in the address bar of an Internet browser is classed as hacking.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Over the past few years, governments around the world have started warming up to the idea of collecting their citizens’ biometric identities. This includes fingerprints, which are already required for passports in many countries, or more recently iris scans, now required in both India and Singapore. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads"
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As the federal agency at the forefront of exploring outer space, NASA winds up being the front door for all manner of alien conspiracies. And so every year, to find out what the miscreants at the space agency have been keeping from the good, honest people of America, we like to google the phrase "NASA hiding." Wake up, sheeple!
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Wake up sheeple and do what? Baa at the moon?
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After the post by Steve Klabnik, “Rust is more than safety”, and a reply by Graydon Hoare, “Rust is mostly safety” - I thought it wise to throw my opinion into the mix, whether warranted or not. No pressure now
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"Better documentation than Python"
Pretty low hurdle.
(I prefer languages that no only let me shoot myself in the foot, but load and c**k the gun for me. Perhaps even aim it.)
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Style and content of this messianic article suggest, to this reader, that the author of the article (and the OS made-of-Rust, Redox) has metastasized his own (admirable) creative euphoria into ... grandiosity of the Manichean flavor, with the venerable C language, and its various incarnations, cast in the role of the "dark forces."
Generalities by the author, like these:Quote: What I found in Rust was a language that had:
Better safety than Ada
Better concurrency than C++
Better performance than C
Better documentation than Python
Without explanation, or links to technically sound content, suggest evangelism, not reasoned hypotheses.
Yet, who knows ? Perhaps Redox will turn out to be something useful; perhaps the author's work will lead to improving Rust.
cheers Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Comparing a language to Ada, C, C++, and of all things, Python, does not win any points with me. 
Marc
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Note how he skillfully avoids mentioning that javascript is better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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