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Mixed signs for the two programming languages, but expert sees good signs for at least one veteran. For some definitions of "slip"
(Yes, linkbait - and Tiobe - it's a slow news day not counting Apple news)
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I think quite a bit about how I comment my code. /* they're in the language spec(s) for a reason */
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Apple has introduced their new payment service, Apple Pay. Apple has created a new option to replace the 'archaic' method of making payments with a credit or debit card by adding a new secure, convenient, and expedited method to its new iPhones. Yes people will. Oh, yes they will. Pernasally.
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Because Apple is so good at security.
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I won't. I am sure of it
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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Apple on Tuesday unveiled its next-generation iPhones, which include larger screens and the integration of a new mobile payments system that will let you make store purchases by waving or tapping your iPhone at a checkout terminal. Oh right, that's today. No wonder the Internet is slow right now.
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While I realize I will get nowhere with this, and while I also realize that Apple is the only company to do this, but personally, (not that I would actually ever buy and Apple product) I think it would be really great if consumers would boycott Apple because of how they set up these straw-man overseas companies in a legal loophole to avoid paying US taxes. Yes, I know Google, Microsoft, etc.,etc.,etc., all do that too, but all we need to do is boycott one company so that it really hurts, and the threat of doing to others may make a dent in these practices.
Ooops. This is soapbox material, isn't it?  Bad Marc, Bad!
Marc
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I don't know if it's Soapbox-worthy. Well, yeah, I guess it is, but I mean it doesn't really have to be. (IMO, I always feel that the SB is more for just 'out of control political' discussions).
As you say, they all do this. There was a news item about Microsoft[^] the other day doing this. However, Apple is probably the easiest to pick for most of the CP audience.
I promise to not buy another Apple device (after I upgrade my iPad at some point  ).
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I promise to not buy another Apple device
Woohoo! We have a movement!
Kent Sharkey wrote: after I upgrade my iPad at some point
I shall choose to ignore that.
Marc
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I'm not sure if boycotting one of them (in this case, Apple) would change anything, because hurting Apple won't do any harm to Microsoft, Google, etc. In fact, they would even benefit from it because there is one competitor less and they are the alternatives. Do we really want that? I mean, in which way are Microsoft or Google better than Apple. Maybe they are worse? No, boycott would only work if you do it to all of them. I'm not sure if the masses are willing to go that way.
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At $14.2 billion Apple paid the 3rd most corporate taxes in the US last year. With an effective tax rate of 25% they paid at a higher rate than IBM ($5.3B / 24%), Microsoft ($4.6B / 22.8%), Intel ($3.2B / 23.6%), Oracle ($2.9 / 21.4%) and Google ($2.6 / 19.4%).
Given Google's market cap v. tax burden I'd say they're the best choice for your boycott.
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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Some languages may not have many jobs available, but relatively few applicants compete for each job. "Or art thou base, common and popular?"
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Speciall thanks to the .NET Framework for bringing up the C# and VB.NET to push the previous languages under a burden of their own stupidness.
I am not being rude at C++ developers, they know they can still develop applications/get jobs, using the Visual C++ on the .NET Framework, but older languages! I miss them,
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Do you know a COBOL job for me? 
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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Why bother paying rent when you can shower, eat, work out, do laundry, and sleep at your office? What's so good about that? I do all that in my workplace as well.
Granted, I work out of my house.
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If these are California-based Googlers then I would say it saves them a heck of a lot of money. Rent is terribly expensive over there (but not as expensive as buying).
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Imagine the exact same story, except that instead of Google it's about a Chinese factory.
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I think in that case, it comes down to standard of living at the work place. How well can the person live at the workplace. I would bet that living in the office at Google is really nice compared to living at the factory complex in China. Mind you, I have never been to a Chinese factory or to China for that matter.
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We can finally lay months of rumors and speculation to rest. The iWatch is real and it's called the Apple Watch. Whaaaa? A watch? *No one* saw that coming...
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Apple have now patented nasal fund technology (NFT) for those people who literally want to pay through the nose for their technology 
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Nice gadget... but I can't stand having a watch (any watch) on my wrist.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Somebody forgot to tell the designers that a watch is supposed to fit around your wrist, not be 10 times larger than a human being. At least, that's what I gleaned from the pics on that website!
Marc
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That's the main reason I think I will never own a "smart watch". I see no need to make it look like I'm carrying a shield around.
TTFN - Kent
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Are they bigger than most sport watches on the market ? (garmin, ... )
I'd rather be phishing!
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