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 Their shakedown campaign worked almost as well as the RIAA/MPAA's campaigns against file sharing did.
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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And the header of that animated gif that you got from some Russian website has a virus payload that will infect everyone who uses Internet Explorer 5...
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Microsoft is reportedly interested in some kind of partnership with France-based Orange that will involve the latter company's Dailymotion streaming video site. That's the word from Orange CEO Stéphane Richard, who revealed today that talks between the two companies are underway. It looks like you're searching for cat videos, would you like help with that?
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As a lot of the comments on Neowin say, I'd really appreciate Youtube getting some competition so they'd improve on the mess that they have now.
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Three months ago, Stephen Wolfram gave VentureBeat a sneak peek into the future of the Wolfram Language, a totally symbolic, heavily natural, intensely knowledge-based, and extremely large computer programming language. At the time, he struggled to explain exactly what Wolfram Language is. "It's a new kind of thing"
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Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, is now integrated into the latest Visual Studio 2013 update. Good news, if you're the script type
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Quote: JavaScript was intended for 100-line apps, not thousands-of-line apps
Can't see why?
So programmer of modern days can't handle development without strongly typed environment, aided with intellisense and real-time syntax checking?
Poor us...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It's a bit like Ferrari!
You don't need a Ferrari to learn to drive, but it sure feels good! 
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Analysts were uncertain today whether the recent stretch of "go-low" moves by Microsoft means that the company has tweaked its strategy to emphasize services at the expense of devices. "Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!"
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Microsoft released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2, along with the near-final version of its superset JavaScript programming language, TypeScript 1.0 RC.
Google wants to replace JavaScript, Microsoft just wants to control it.
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How is creating a programming language that does everything JavaScript does and "more" NOT trying to replace JavaScript?
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Because the TypeScript compiler emits JavaScript.
It's just a type-safe wrapper around the language to make it easier to write quality code in JavaScript.
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TypeScript is different from the other JavaScript targeting languages in that you can just use it as a "compile time" helper for regular JavaScript since JavaScript is just a subset. In that sense you can "use" TypeScript without having to write TypeScript.
Kevin
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Christopher Shields wrote: Microsoft just wants to control it.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Mozilla on how its Servo engine will throw away the 20th-century baggage that holds back current browsers and harness the power of modern multi-core smartphones and tablets.
They've already lost the desktop battle to Chrome, but Servo gives Firefox a shot at winning the mobile war.
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When it comes to optimizing database queries, a new study suggests that most programmers could use a refresher course You mean, "SELECT * FROM tablename" isn't optimized?
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It's disturbing how many positions I've worked where database performance was, at best, an afterthought.
Truth be told, I imagine I'd fail such a test as well.
Hmm... Back to Joe Celko I think.
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Quote: Score: 3 of 5 points
You know a little bit
about SQL performance!.
Yay...I am one of the select few :-P
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Unfortunately, in the accompanying article they defined a pass as 4 out of 5.
Sorry.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I believe your signature amply covers that...
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Yes, you've got 8 more attempts!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Sure it is; it uses a lot less network bandwidth than listing all the colunm names. And it's future proof as well, less maintenance, win-win.
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Well, I'd think you'd want to tack a WHERE clause on there, or TOP, or something else to reduce the possible number of rows coming back.
TTFN - Kent
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Not if you want them all.
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