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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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Insecure by design and trusted by default, embedded systems present security concerns that could prove crippling. "Patches, I’m depending on you"
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A coalition of nearly two-dozen tech companies and civil liberties groups is launching a new fight against mass internet surveillance, hoping to battle the NSA in much the same way online campaigners pushed back on bad piracy legislation in 2012. "We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop."
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Deedle is a .NET library for interactive data analysis and exploration. Deedle works great with both C# and F#. It provides two main data structures: series for working with data and time series and frame for working with collections of series (think CSV files, data tables etc.) For your data deedling needs
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With 4,000 new APIs, iOS 8 is the biggest launch for Apple developers in six years. Not counting Swift (Metal might have potential)
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TypeScript, ASP.NET MVC Scaffold templates, Windows Composition Engine, VB6, and more. What more could you want. A little something for you to read in the ... library
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Say what you want but I read somewhere that back in 2000 huge percentage of LOB apps (and developers) were using VB6. People start exploring other options and jumped to Java bandwagon when MS dropped VB6 support from their .NET family. Adding VB6 support back in, is a very nice touch... Only it's 15 years too late - eternity in IT years...
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Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. By my observation, how your team members treat that person is a significant indicator of your organization’s health. Another reason why you should all be nice to me
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If you eliminate the "fat tail developer" it just tightens the bell curve.
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Agreed - you need to keep one goat around.
TTFN - Kent
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Wow, you mean that half of the team might be below average? (... for some definition of "average" and "half.")
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: you mean that half of the team might be below average
Something must be done about that! 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Another reason why you should all be nice to me
You really should have tagged Chris here. Maybe you can post it in bugs and suggestions. 
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TTFN - Kent
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Most interesting feature: Finally being able to use your Mac like a speakerphone. It's 'better together' within these garden walls
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Apple today announced a new programming language called Swift at WWDC today, which will replace Objective C as the language developers use for building iOS apps. Every one else had two languages, it was their turn
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Cool stuff. Definitely step in the right direction (away from Objective-C). Just why in the world would anyone develop yet another language? What's wrong with Java, Javascript, C#, VB, Python, TypeScript, CoffeeScript or gazillion of other languages other that it's not something they did? The next step would be to copyright it and then sue anyone who would even think about porting it to another platform.
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gstolarov wrote: The next step would be to copyright it and then sue anyone who would even think about porting it to another platform.
Answered your own question there
TTFN - Kent
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gstolarov wrote: Just why in the world would anyone develop yet another language?
There's no end to the number of new languages being created!
Kevin
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It's not a technical decision; merely marketing.
One that worked wonders for IBM when they were up against MS
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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gstolarov wrote: What's wrong with Java, Javascript, C#, VB, Python, TypeScript, CoffeeScript
Did you write that with a straight face? 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The programming language Objective-C was originally developed in the early 1980s. (wikipedia)
Interesting. It's had a long life.
But we wondered what we could do without the baggage of C.” Amusing, after that post on how great C is.
Marc
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Interesting: looks like an ML variant with C-like syntax: static type system with type inference, variables are const by default, options (I hope that means no nulls), closures.
Mandatory garbage collector, though  . I still like Rust[^] better.
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