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Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He's looking for companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.” -James Dean
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Want to win the hearts of your Quality Assurance team? Remember these tips when you’re building your Web application to make it easier for analysts to quickly create more accurate, repeatable automated tests.
If you test it, users will come...
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The Linux development community now has an organized way to deal with the eternal problem of developer conflict. "Two men enter, one man leaves!"
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You can't put lipstick on a pigFinn. 
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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Founded in 2006 by Om Malik, "Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time," according to a statement released by Gigaom management last night. "As a result, the company is working with its creditors that have rights to all of the company’s assets as their collateral. All operations have ceased. We do not know at this time what the lenders intend to do with the assets or if there will be any future operations using those assets. The company does not currently intend to file bankruptcy. We would like to take a moment and thank our readers and our community for supporting us all along."
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Assets of an IP-based (Intellectual Property-based) company ain't worth the paper the stories ain't written on.  It's all just bits. Flip the switch and save the electricity. 
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Definitely a shame, though. Very solid site that did a lot of great coverage.
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Still a long tail of serving ads on historical content...
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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A number of enterprise resource providers have found that Office 365 has raced ahead of Google Apps in terms of usage. "People don't use it. People try Google Apps, they don't use it. You can't even put a footnote in a document!"
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia, is filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), challenging the US government's mass surveillance programs. [litigation needed]
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If you put Java on a technical trial, it doesn't do so bad. discuss
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Hate? Hate is illogical and immature.
IMO it is because software engineers are among most opinionated people on the face of the Earth.
It's simple as that.
With that being written, I can openly say I strongly dislike Java. 
My opinion is quite a bit influenced with the fact that early in my career I was kind of forced to adopt it.
Mislim, dakle jeo sam.
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All the people I hate are illogical, and immature, as well as mis-informed, stupid, opinionated, and narrow-minded.
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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I do not hate it. The reason I use java is because its similar to C# and supports Android, and there were things that I hated in Java but there were also things I liked them. I do not remember right now, but Java is not that bad.
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Love it drink two cups every morning...oh you mean the language...Oracle!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I remember when Java was released. It was originally marketed as a tool to create web plugins -- applets. I remember writing the "hello, world" applet and running it in Netscape Navigator.
Then I waited, waited, waited.
The UI tools weren't there either and Visual C++ and MFC let you do so much.
However, it took quite a few years for Java to get fast enough to create a real applet that could do anything. By that time there were other non-plugin methods and I had even more Visual C++ desktop experience and then C# arose.
Java was always just one step behind for me.
Now, I've learned quite a bit of Java because I own an android pad and I'm very interested in development for it. Java isn't so bad now. For Android development.
Plus the absolute explosion of toolkits which actuall all do the same thing -- due to opensource nature of Java -- makes getting into it a huge research project.
And yet, I don't hate it. I wonder why not.
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I don't hate Java itself. But that ask.com is really f**king annoying and makes me keep away from Java.
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Strange question...
I'd rather asked: "Why do so many software engineers love C/C++?"
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Well... if you got to ask, then it ain't worth 'splainin'.
C is the greatest language of all time and was even great before time began.
Then, along comes C with Classes (C++). That's better than anything else ever before or ever after.
Plus, it's still all cryptic like and keeps the scipt-kiddies and their ilk out.
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Thank you for the short story, but...I wanted to be provocative.
Of course there's plenty of cases where a low-level language is useful and often mandatory, but...
...my question could be asked as "Why do so many SE use C/C++ for large pieces of software, when there are many super-powerful languages and super-powerful hardwares?"
Don't want to fore a discussion, though...
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newton.saber wrote: C ... snip ... was even great before time began.
In the beginning was 'Malloc ?
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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BillWoodruff wrote: In the beginning was 'Malloc ?
Which begs the question... Are we still in scope, with a Delete in our future? Or is all of life just a dangling pointer?
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I hate Adobe und Symantec for their crappy product, but Java isnt so bad. I like C++ and C#. And my love got Objective-C and maybe someday Swift. They make working fun and are reliable with good and usable code, documentation and API and class structure.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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It doesn't help that it attempts to install crapware every time you do an installation/update.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Absolutely fantastic article. Applies in many ways to other languages like Ruby too.
Marc
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