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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has become the latest tech figure to warn us that the computers are learning and they’re going to destroy us all at some point. "You are a plague and we are the cure."
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Calm down, Steve. You don't need to fear computers are getting smart enough to destroy us all, we're well on the way to manage it ourselves.
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A Dutch utility is inviting five families to use radiator-sized servers to heat their living rooms for free. In the old days, we called that "having a computer"
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From browsers to mobile phones, from tablets to tabletops, from industrial automation to the tiniest microcontrollers — JavaScript seems to creep into the most unexpected places these days. It’s not too long until your very toaster will be running JavaScript… but why?
What are we going to do tonight, Brain?
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The answer to why would be to create slow, non efficient, worst applications. Many companies are making their fortune through this... But JavaScript is not strong enough to run applications.
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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Quote: create slow, non efficient, worst applications
This is not really true. OK, you should take a look into why the industry is really moving towards in using Javascript. Here's one example, where Paypal is using Node.js and Javascript.
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-paypal/[^]
There are tons of Javascript libraries out there but using it in a suitable mix of technologies will greatly help in improving the performance. Do you think a company like Google would simply invest time on Angular JS? Ofcourse, we can see the real performance in Google Apps.
PS: Although I don't really like javascript that much and not a big fan of it, I still want to be in touch with it 
Ranjan.D
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Um, Ranjan I would have to disagree here... If you're going to mention Google for efficient software I think you first need to go and try Android Studio and look for the memory consumption.
Yes, I also do try to use Apache Cordova to build cross-platform applications. It takes like, 5 hours to build a basic app that does something usefull, similarly I can build a C++ app for cross-platform in Visual Studio 2015 in 10 hours which does something similar. But, the performance and efficiency is thrice or maybe a lot more times as compared to JavaScript.
JavaScript is easy to learn, C++ is not. JavaScript is a bad language to build apps on, C++ is not. Also, you need to run another framework under lying (Node.js also has other executables running in background) to run your JavaScript app. Which makes it heavier than C++ or other of the same kind; C# etc.
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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See now you are relating the stuffs which may or may not be really related to Javascript. If you are going to build a cross platform application as you have mentioned with Apache Cordova, then sure enough you have to bear the performance and it has nothing to do with the Javascript. I can build a simple HTML5 mobile app with a bare minimum javascript and blaming on Javascript for cross platform development doesn't make sense at all.
OK performance wise, I agree with C++ for mobile development. Do you think in real world the industries go with C++. No, not at all (Other than Apple iOS Programming is in Objective C). I would say very few depending upon case by case.
Remember Google is not a small company. They have open sourced Angular JS and today you see many folks building application using Angular JS. You are trying to compare Apple and Oranges with Javascript vs Android Studio or HTML5 with Javascript crossplatform development. Did you know how much space and RAM required for running Eclipse, compared to that, Android Studio is nothing.
You are trying to compare C++ with Javascript or other languages, which is OK but tell me are you gonna build the web application based on C++ language? The choice of programming language purely depends on what you are trying to achieve.
Do you know this "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail", this is exactly what I feel when i read your comments. C++ is not a silver bullet is all cases
Node JS is not at all required for running the Javascript based apps. Again it's the choice if one needs to use Javascript as a server side programming.
Brother, there's lot of things each one of us here in this world are learning from others or experiences, before you disagree on any of the stuffs that you speak, you should have a strong relevant reasons.
Ranjan.D
modified 24-Mar-15 20:38pm.
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Well, you could hardly expect anything less than an encomium from a (evidently) Node.js evangelist, but I have major problems with this article:
0. The one thing the author gets "right" is that JavaScript began as, always was, and now is ... a "kludge." Latest technology awkwardly "piled on top of it:" inheritance, classes, veneer of OOD.
1. It euphemistically analogizes JavaScript's changes over time as "evolutionary" which I find ridiculous. There's no "survival of the fittest" in that story.
imho, its changes have been prmarily driven by serendipity, and the brutal facts of geo-political machinations of major hardware/software vendors. well, okay, yes the standards committee thing.
2. imho, if JavaScript is a "winner" it's because it "fell out of the mix" of competing technology initiatives as the "least threatening" compromise for the commercial agendas of major companies, not because of any inherent technical superiority.
3. It completely neglects the transformation of JavaScript that resulted from the ubiquitous adoption of jQuery by John Resig.
cheers, Bill
«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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Joyent, the cloud infrastructure provider that serves as the steward of Node.js, today announced Triton, a new “elastic” container infrastructure stack that extends Docker deployments directly on bare metal. Consisting of a cloud-based service along with Triton Enterprise for on-premises deployment, Triton virtualizes the data center as a single, elastic Docker host, removing orchestration layers for more streamlined scaling and deployment of Docker applications.
Virtualization: The Final Frontier
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Kaul was showing off the components of his entry in the Tricorder Xprize, the $10-million competition that requires teams to develop a sci-fi medical scanner worthy of Star Trek. In case you're a doctor, not a brick layer
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Flash files that are vulnerable to a serious flaw patched by Adobe Systems over three years ago still exist on many websites, exposing users to potential attacks. If only people were reminded occasionally about Flash vulnerabilities
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Microsoft is tweaking its browser strategy ahead of making its new 'Spartan' browser available to Windows 10 users. "Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty"
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My only problem with this, that I'm actually run Spartan tests and beside a bit of performance improvement I see no other improvements...
It still has a low score in standards, still has compatibility problems, still has non-standard solutions and so on and so on...
What is really 'good', that old sites are look really terrible on Spartan...
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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I think keeping the old and new engines in completely separate products is a mistake. Normal users don't want to screw around with multiple browsers; as a result as long as they have one elephanted legacy webcrap they need to use at work of them (well most of the IE users as opposed to the ones who use FF/Chrome for everything possible) will probably just keep using IE11 for everything just like the one crappy intranet page currently keeps them running IE8 instead of something newer. 
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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Microsoft recently purchased two new domains for Office. The first one is Office.porn, the second one is Office.adult and last but not least is Microsoft.porn. The next version of Windows might be interesting after all!
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BSoD has a new meaning!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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For PORtable Networks I assume?
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They're retiring IE and buying new domains?
IE was always a bitch anyway. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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And the new version of Visual Studio is going to support DICSS[^]?
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Sander Rossel wrote: And the new version of Visual Studio is going to support DICSS[^]?
Sensual Studio is the new version.
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Looks like Microsoft is taking its cues from Taylor Swift now
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The new Microsoft colour scheme. Windows will be 50 shades of gray.
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