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The only reason I knew about ReactJS was because I searched on alternatives to AngularJS, after they decided to make a new and not so compatible Angular that required me rewriting a large AngularJS application that was designed to be a template for projects going forward. I also wrote companions to that project in Android and Objective-C and now find myself rewriting the Objective-C app in Swift, not only doing code conversion, but learning incompatible replacements for classes that were recently deprecated. At least Android hasn't changed, although the Oracle lawsuit might change that. One can't depend on anything anymore.
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If you want to program against an stable and never changing platform, learn COBOL and move to z/OS. Since most COBOL programmers are retired or retiring soon, you might find there a job that will keep you well fed until YOU retire. Even if you are 20 now.
SCNR 
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Last week two of my long time favorite bands have released new material after a long time, so I'm going to cheat a bit in this edition of Song of the Week 
Massive Attack - Take It There[^]
Textures - New Horizons[^]
Two songs!
Massive Attack, pioneers in the trip hop genre (do they really need an introduction?), released an awesome new track! I must admit I haven't heard the entire new EP yet. I'm going to see them live later this month!
Textures, pioneers in the mathcore/djent genre, released an entire new CD. Two new songs are on YouTube. Can't wait to hear the entire CD, it features a song recorded with eight(!) drummers
That's two songs that pretty much couldn't be more different from each other. Dark, yet calm, electronic music and hard, intense metal!
Enjoy!
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If you like Massive Attack and Trip Hop, there's also a new Tricky[^] album.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nice!
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Sander Rossel wrote: trip hop
For an old guy like me, trip hop is what you do just before you hit the ground after catching your foot on the rug.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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It's only been around since the early 90's
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Didn't say I never heard of it. As you get older the body tends to cooperate less with the brain and trip hop takes on new meaning. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Doesn't even rhyme! 
[Shuffles off, slowly shaking his head, the gloomy harbinger of the dead]
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Your signature has inspired me to listen to some real music! Up the Irons! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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6! 6! 6! The number of the beast!
Or to quote the intro of Serpentine's Path self-titled debut: [...] and his number is six hundred three score (?) and six. That's 666, not 999. 666 that's 999 backwards. Three 6's are 18, 1 and 8 is 9! *Doom metal music sets in*
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So...? Most lyrics don't rhyme 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Most lyrics don't rhyme
You cannot be serious!
Are you delirious?
Most of the time
The lyrics don't rhyme?
I'll wager you're wrong;
It isn't a song
If, with the beats and the timing,
There don't go some rhyming.
A hundred rhymes I'll find you
For every lyric that don't mind to
Follow the rules
They teach in song schools
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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The song by Massive Attack
Doesn't rhyme, but it's still whack
Even though in rhyming it does lack.
And then the song by Textures
They might as well be called Orange
New Horizons doesn't rhyme very well either...
...
Anyway, get me a song that's not by ABBA, but that does rhyme 
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Beware the drone hunters[^] this weekend!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm really surprised that the government hasn't already outlawed drones.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Do as I say not as I do right?
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Na, just buy people guns and beer, no more drones.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Dutch police is already on the case[^].
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Yes, that may take care of the toys. And what will they do when someone really is up to something and uses something more powerful?[^].
600 or 700 size models already have killed people in accidents, so what will they do with a trained bird? Shooting down something that's moving with 172 mph is also not so easy and I would not want to stand where it comes down.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Are yachts always ready for a sailabration?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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