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Argonia wrote: The idea of writing your own libraries is gone completely. Where is the creativity ?
I'd have to disagree. .NET is a great framework but it definitely lacks things, and I'm not one for doing everything the Microsoft Way. I have a large library of stuff that I leverage many pieces of in just about every project. In fact, because .NET handles so much of the drudgery, I can actually spend more time in a creative space, and C#, what with Linq, lambda expressions, functional programming style, really supports that creativity, I've found.
Marc
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I think it would be more accurate to state that MS has decided Metro apps are the future, and the MFC, WinForms, and raw Win32 UI are all legacy interface tools. And after ignoring the C++ world for about a decade while building Winforms and WPF for .net, Metro is available for C++ apps.
Now if MS would only acknowledge that 95% of current Win7 boxes on the net will only be replaced with Win10 when the old machines are scrapped; and that making Win10 a free upgrade won't budge it more than a few percent. Unless the make a(nother) massive policy change and backport the W10 metro app in a window model to Win7/8 it will be a half dozenish years before most of us could seriously consider replacing our apps current UI with a Metro version. 
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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Robotics could help the elderly and disabled climb stairs, maintain balance and move more agilely. "It's the wrong trousers, Gromit, and they've gone wrong!"
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As that's in the UK, I really hope to God they're building robotic trousers. Robotic pants would be horribly wrong, and likely to chafe.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Agility and flexibility are top of mind when it comes to delivering IT projects. With that being the case, the traditional waterfall development approach, which requires each step of a project to be completed before the IT team can move onto the next, seems a bit outdated. There's a case for waterfall?
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"requires each step of a project to be completed before the IT team can move onto the next"
Yet that sounds like Scrum. 
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Agile is just "mini-waterfall".
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: the traditional waterfall development approach, which requires each step of a project to be completed before the IT team can move onto the next, seems a bit outdated.
You know, the more time that goes by, the more myths about waterfall, which, after all, was cited as a flawed software design process. Why the agile community insists on continuing to compare itself against a flawed model is like me continually exclaiming how my current wife is so much better than my ex-wife (not, mind you, that I'm married, that was a metaphor.) I mean, come on, how much longer do we have to hear about this? It seems to me that the agile community can't let go of the past relationship. Maybe they still yearn for it subconsciously.
Marc
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Sounds codependent (yah, you too  )
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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IMO the case for agile comes out of the realisation that all applications/systems are an experiment. The key to successful experimentation is early realisation when it is going right or wrong and appropriately adjusting - which is something you get from the agile process.
However - if you don't realise that applications/systems are an experiment and hold fast to the doctrine of the one final goal then neither Agile nor Waterfall will help. A fixed length, fixed cost project is going to go awry whether you make the journey as one long leap or as a series of smaller hops.
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I sincerely hope the software they build into cars is not experimental.
There are a lot of different types of system, with different requirements. A Web app may evolve continually, the software in a robotic or control system typically less so.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The software they build for prototype cars is experimental, but the software they install in production cars is the result of successful experimentation.
("Experiment" is perhaps the wrong word. Attempt/Try/Essay maybe? Basically what I mean is that you do not have the luxury of 100% knowledge of what the end result will be but rather criteria by which to judge the successfulness and a process for iteratively improving as measured by those criteria)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There's a case for waterfall?
We're contractually obligated to deliver waterfall type documents at the start of the contract.
/Trollface
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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We want to tell you more about what motivated us to build a new rendering engine focused on interoperability with other modern browsers ― all in the name of making the Web “just work” for our customers. "This is where we hold them! This is where we fight!"
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Corporations want access to your data for profit; governments want it security purposes, be they benevolent or malevolent. "Everybody wants to rule the world"
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Through a new website, Microsoft is allowing some of its customers to download Windows 7 installation media in ISO format. But if you're hoping to repair or refresh an OEM installation of Windows 7, you're out of luck. I've got the details here. Assuming you've got a product key, that is
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Yeah but what normal knows what to do with an iso or what it is.
With a hosed osx install you can wipe your drive and still install whatever version you had by just putting in your apple id and pw in the recovery console. Easy Peasy.
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Docker’s suite of orchestration services that the container-management startup first detailed in December are now available in beta for the public to download, Docker said on Thursday. "A gift real special: So take off the top, take a look inside"
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I too am announcing my Container Service.
I'm calling it UberContainer*.
It is a container service above all other container services.
All you have to do is get our app then any time you want a container, you just yell out, "Container, oh Uber Container, come to me now and run my apps in a Virtual OS!!!"
It will happen and your life will be better because of it. Please send me my $$$$$$$$$$$$$ billions now.
*Uber is the perfect word to use, because it gets people all excited and mad.
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The Federal Communications Commission approved the policy known as net neutrality by a 3-2 vote at its Thursday meeting, with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saying the policy will ensure "that no one — whether government or corporate — should control free open access to the Internet."
Party Time!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Only 40% of the world has ever connected to the Internet and the unconnected mostly live in developing nations, according to a new study published Monday by Facebook-led Internet.org. The other 60% have to watch cats *in person*
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Are they calculating the fishes and frogs too?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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And almost 70-80% of those 40% are crazy enough to have been addicted to Facebook/Twitter.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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The other 60% still live a happy and innocent life... 
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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