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Kent Sharkey wrote: From Google to The White House, everyone is on GitHub.
emmmm... no, not everyone 
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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A while back—the year 2000 to be exact—Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post entitled: “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code.” The 12 Step Program
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If you don't instrument and monitor your code you will have no objective way to determine if you are good or bad yourself and have to rely on the feedback of less knowledgeable people - what I call the Santa Claus loop.
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Ha! The linked Joel post links to this one http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html[^] which says
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They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
"
about Netscape. Isn't that what Microsoft is doing to IE now? 
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What an amazing coincidence.
Hopefully with a happier ending.
TTFN - Kent
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Happier than the death of Netscape? Hard to imagine.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Isn't that what Microsoft is doing to IE now?
Not really...Microsfot try to improve IE, while re-branding it under a new name...But the engines are still the same there...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not even close. Firefox was a rewrite from scratch. Spartan is an IE11 fork with all the legacy IE bug/weirdness support cruft deleted; but still using Trident/Chakara for rendering and javascript.
...and that's a lot of cruft. When they announced Spartan MS said there were already "more changes" between Spartan and IE11 than between Chrome and Safari. While they didn't (afaik) define exactly how they were counting changes, after Google forked Blink from Webkit developers on both sides posted self congratulatory comments about the hundreds of thousands of lines of not-my-code they were able to delete from their repositories.
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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Some interesting, and funny, "features" of JavaScript starting about 1:26 into this video: [^].
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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I do not know what JavaScript engine he used, but of course most of the results he gets are not exist in any engine I know, and some of the others have a very acceptable and understandable explanation...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Actually, nearly all of them work in Mozilla.
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I can't see that...All the ridiculous object/array part works as expected (and not as he displays it in the show)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No, in Firefox everything behaves as he said, except for the 16 commas
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That Batman thing is just awesome ...
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NY Times 02/14/15 "One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks, tripods and monopods), yet another example of how controlling overcrowding has become part of the museum mission." [^]
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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BillWoodruff wrote: imposing bans on using selfie sticks
I think a more appropriate punishment is to let an old lady beat you senseless with your selfie stick if you have one.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Is Microsoft looking to Android vendors like Cyanogen and Samsung to give the Redmond company a leg up in the mobile space? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
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Having just switched from an Android phone to a Windows Phone one I can tell that the Microsoft OS is superior in every aspect to Android. It's faster (fast! really fast! less-than-second response times with respect to the tens-of-seconds->crash->reboot->tens of seconds of the former Android phone. BTW it was a 600€ Android while this is a 120 € Nokia, so it's not price range), stabler and easy on the battery - I used it intensively today and it has still 35% power left, the former phone was at 70% after 10 minutes of navigation).
There is one and only one flaw in Windows Phone: it lacks apps. This is a vicious circle because without apps many people won't buy Windows Phone, so developers are less incentivated to develop apps - there's no end to it. My hope right now is that Nokia well renowned and earned reputation of quality joint to the extremely lower prices of average handsets will carve a bigger market share for Microsoft in order to break this unending spiral of doom.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I loved my Windows Phone. It was easy to use and looked good too.
But I just switched to Android just because of the lack of apps...
Found myself app-less on a few occassions and got fed up. It's a shame really 
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Apart from the browser and Facebook I rarely use apps, mostly Viber (5-6 times / year) and FB messenger. Google maps is there, the mail client is way better than Gmail, the keyboard is comfortable altough not very customizable.
Right now I feel pretty satisfied, as I am much more impatient than esigent in terms of functionalities. The sluggish speed and the tens of crashes experenced with Android finished all my tech patience, also it is cheap so if I'll ever repent of having bought it the financial damage is minimum.
One thing I really like: the characters are big. Being I really short-sighted I really enjoy the added readability 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Is it time to send deliberate messages to the stars, in the hopes of reaching alien civilizations? ET, phone back
(Edit: fixed typo)
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I only fear the type of answer we can get back
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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Nelek wrote: I only fear the type of answer we can get back
Like:
Is this an "all you can eat" buffet?
Do you have a "kids menu"?
Do I need to make a reservation?
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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What other civilizations?
And how much money do you want to waste on something we're already doing?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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