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The new programming language is not faring well in some benchmarks compared to Objective-C, but Swift's easier syntax still gets a thumbs-up. There are four kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, statistics, and benchmark tests.
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Quote: Without leveraging optimizations in Apple's Xcode tool set, Splasm found that Swift was between six and 40 times slower than Objective-C, Splasm official Keith Gugliotto said. "
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Even after turning on the optimizations, Splasm found that Swift ran 10 to 20 percent slower than the original test numbers in some cases and 10 to 20 percent faster in other cases. But Swift was still slower than Objective-C.
0) Benchmarks without the compiler optimizations turned on are worthless. The only value this have is as clickbait. Oh wait...
1) Do "original test numbers" refer to the objective C benchmarks or the un-optimized swift benchmarks? That's a huge difference in performance between the two but the article doesn't tell you which or give an easy way to find out because...
2) It breaks the cardinal rule of web news by talking about splasm's benchmarks but not linking to them.
Splasm's benchmarks[^] are Googleable though. Enabling optimization to both builds resulted in order of magnitude shifts in relative performance; but the closest swift ever came to obj-C was 6.4x slower.
With Android using Java that's only ~2x slower than native code in typical cases, unless Apple can make some really big optimization gains to the toolchain their newest and shinyest has performance poor enough that they risk the internet snark gallery abusing iOS apps as being slow and laggy compared to the competition in the future. 
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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If it doesn’t benefit the user it should not be done. This can be a new feature, a better user interface, a clearer wording, better performance, robustness, … Not all improvements have immediate value but they must have a value at some time. Coders of the world, unite!
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Hmm, spending a day refactoring code doesn't benefit the user, but it sure as hell benefits the developer, sometimes halfing their Gin intake, isn't that important?
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Halfing Gin intake is a good thing?
I say, "NO" good sir!
TTFN - Kent
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Aren't the people who work at the distillery users? 
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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Blog sez: You need to talk to your users, your fellow developers and other project partners.
That's assuming that the end-user has strong analytical skills and knows the entire proces. In SDM one researches what the user needs, as opposed to asking what he/she wants that week.
..now here[^]'s a manifesto.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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When Google engineers John Sirois, Travis Crawford, and Bill Farner left the internet giant and went to work for Twitter, they missed Borg.
Borg was the sweeping software system that managed the thousands of computer servers underpinning Google’s online empire. With Borg, Google engineers could instantly grab enormous amounts of computing power from across the company’s data centers and apply it to whatever they were building–whether it was Google Search or Gmail or Google Maps. As Sirois, Crawford, and Farner created new web services at Twitter, they longed for the convenience of this massive computing engine. "Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply."
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First Skynet, now the Borg. Sheesh! There's no messing with them. 
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Microsoft is among the many cloud and Linux vendors supporting the first release of the open-source Docker application-deployment engine. Uhm. Yay?
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New data reveals in which countries developers make the most money, and where they can most live like royalty. Unfortunately, you get paid in chocolate (and cuckoo clocks)
Sorry for the national stereotype.
Yes. That was another national stereotype. Thanks for noticing, eh.
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I went to Switzerland once. I have never since felt so poor...nor so individual.
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I thought that might be the case: high salary, but higher prices?
TTFN - Kent
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Those dollar incomes were calculated with the market exchange rate. One Swiss Franc is exchanged to more than one US Dollar. But go shopping in Switzerland and the US: you'll see that one Swiss Franc buys far less in Switzerland than does one US Dollar in the US. That holds extremely true for items/services produced locally, like food at a restaurant or housing.
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Quote: To make the most money as a software engineer, move to Switzerland Singapore
FTFY. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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The latest version of Internet Explorer is faster, more secure, and has better web standards support than older versions. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, upgrading to Internet Explorer 11 has significant benefits—and enabling automatic updating ensures that users will always be up-to-date. Maybe if you let us install the newest browser on everything?
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Ah, 'struth about the perf updates, I wasn't thinking of things like that. However, I could live with slower but more security on XP et al.
And definitely agreed on lazy admins.
TTFN - Kent
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If you’re not one of the over 1.1 million people who have used Windows App Studio Beta to quickly turn your idea into an app for Windows and Windows Phone, now is the time to check it out. Our latest release, available this morning, just made it even easier to publish your apps to the Windows Phone Store and the Windows Store. Now even more... even less... somethinged?
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Nearly two thousand passwords used by hackers were leaked this week, when I tried to decode a PHP shell without knowing the key. Because I did not know the exact content of the encoded file and searching the key could take me years, I chose a different approach. I decided to find out how strong passwords used by hackers are and create a dictionary. r00t isn't a secure password?
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My passwords are always a 4 digit code, consisting of the current month followed by the current year. I change them once a month.
Can't go wrong with that system
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"Videos may make up 84 percent of internet traffic by 2018: Cisco" [^]
"... global IP traffic will grow three-fold from 2013 to 2018 --reaching 1.6 Zettabytes annually by 2018 (a 21% CAGR over the forecast period)." [^]
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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I'm going to take a wild guess, and say based on the history of data types dominating the web, that something other than streaming video will be king in 4 more years. Probably something that's not even a rounding error today.
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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For the past seven releases of Visual Studio (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013), the Visual C++ libraries have been versioned and each versioned set of libraries is independent of other versioned sets of libraries. "Even for us, this model of introducing new versions of the libraries can be painful at times."
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C purists beware: 
Quote: We have converted most of the CRT sources to compile as C++, enabling us to replace many ugly C idioms with simpler and more advanced C++ constructs. The publicly callable functions are still declared as C functions, of course (extern "C" in C++), so they can still be called from C. But internally we now take full advantage of the C++ language and its many useful features.
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or keeping the old non-accelerated version 
also for twice the maintenance work while taking just as much abuse for giving XP a cripled version of the new browser as they did for not releasing IE9 on XP at all.