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Although smartphones are commonplace in the developed world, there are still plenty of people who don’t yet own one, and they are still far rarer in developing nations. Or one guy owns 2 billion of them, can't tell
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Now we just need to connect them all into a single conciousness  --- A singularity if you will.
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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After lots of perseverance from smartphone makers, wireless charging is finally starting to make an impact. Assuming you assemble them correctly
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In Plos Computational Biology, Feb. 26, 2015: [^].
imho some excellent thoughts about continuing self-education in a time of ever-accelerating technical change.
«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 found this clicking links from another article posted today and thought it deserved some attention of its own.
And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.
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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And then Google said, "Does the world need a new browser?"
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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Right, and now IE has abandoned the MSIE convention and is masquerading as a gecko. (IE 11) 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yup, the article does need updated for Sparta(n) Madness. 
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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How a hashtag lit the nerdy world of project management aflame — or at least got it mildly worked up. Uncertain developers unite! You have nothing to lose but potential customers!
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Microsoft's latest future-concept video features software, services and hardware that are all about productivity. Sure, it will never happen, but I want that roll-up tablet
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Indeed, a future where kelp farms provide the majority of the world's food. 
But remember, all that stuff is programmed with a keyboard and a mouse. Now that's what I'd like to change[^], I guess all I need is some elevator music instead of my droning voice, hahaha.
Marc
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How may we infect you today ? [^]
Please to advise if this post failed to offend; I am always trying to sharpen the necessary.
«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 seem to have a very good PUP detector, and download.com is a big no no for downloads.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In an interview, Google's product head, Sundar Pichai, replies to Tim Cook's criticism of Android. And by 'irresponsible' he meant, 'hugely profitable'.
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Contrarywise; it makes choosing a better product easier.
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What a stupid thing to say.
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Lol, they can charge what they like. No-one is forcing you to buy their products.
Quote: He said: "It's a bit irresponsible to say everything should be many hundreds of dollars [as most Apple products are]."
No it’s not. I would charge "many hundreds of dollars" per hour if I could find someone to pay me.
Quote: Surely, though, Pichai and Oseterloh are aiming their disdain at the wrong target. They really should be criticizing you. It's your fault.
By you, I mean all you people who pay these allegedly outrageous and irresponsible prices for Apple products.
You are being allegedly seduced either by design or simplicity or merely the need to use the same products as people whom you aspire to be like.
It's you who are upsetting these executives. How could you?
There are loads of people out there who agree Apple’s prices are too high and don’t buy their products. That’s fair enough. In the meantime Apple has $180 billion in cash or whatever.
Kevin
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Meanwhile for the last quarter of 2014 Google's (GOOG) corporate profit margin was 26.3% while Apple's (AAPL) was 24.2%. 
Pichai is an idiot.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Hint: It doesn’t aim for perfection in keeping Google cloud, apps up. "Don't stop 'til you get enough"
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Windows App Studio is a web-based system which allows anyone to easily create apps for both Windows and Windows Phone, regardless of the user's programming expertise. You can change text colors? I'm sold.
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Does it support CListCtrl?
Marc
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I've heard a rumour they're BACON it in.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I really doubt that. In VS 2013 they cut part of the libraries coming with MFC with the instalation and I believe they are starting to give up on the idea that the Win Applications should be written in c++ with MFC. After all they have their little 'cute' c# for the job.
You can notice small things like for example refactor function for c# but it's not supported for c++ and such small signs that they give their favorite child c# more time than any other.
On the other hand who does actually want to do something with CLictCtrl, where you cannot add an icon on the second column if its not in the first. Come on its not the 90ties.
Note : I am talking about the MBCS portion of the MFC library.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: their little 'cute' c# for the job
C# is a pretty impressive language nowadays. 
Argonia wrote: Come on its not the 90ties.
Indeed. I should remember more often to use the joke type for my flippant responses.
Marc
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That Come on was not for you, it was for the lack of updates of MFC from M$. I got the feeling that they just support MFC just for the older projects to run. All of their attention is focused on the c#. I don't particularly like c#. You have everything there you just need to know what to use. The idea of writing your own libraries is gone completely. Where is the creativity ? 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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