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If Microsoft had anything to do with Earth, we'd have stuff crashing into ALL the time instead of all these pansy-assed near misses...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Think about all that work they put into :
Microsoft Encarta
What, you ask, was Microsoft Encarta?
One of the first multimedia encyclopaedias (real spelling  )
Then, along comes wikipedia and kills encarta, brittanica, etcetera.
Hmph! Even companies with Billions $ fail. I don't feel so bad.
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Microsoft also owned the handheld device market and then blew it.
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Repeatedly, yes. 
Somedays I'm amazed they got as far as they did.
TTFN - Kent
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Apple is destroying design. Worse, it is revitalizing the old belief that design is only about making things look pretty. Shiny doesn't mean good design?
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But it apparently sells a long of thingies.
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Researchers from the University of Rochester have found the Wallis equation in quantum mechanical calculations of the energy levels of a hydrogen atom. More proof on the cosmic importance of pie
Oh wait, this is about the other one, isn't it?
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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(√-1) (2^3) ∑ pi
and it was delicious
Chona1171
Web Developer (C#), Silverlight
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In truth, Waterfall works for certain kinds of projects, but those projects don’t tend to move software around, and they tend to have a predictable process. Because it's going to come to you? (I'm not getting his metaphor there)
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Three blind programmers. Three blind programmers.
See how they code. See how they code.
They all went over the waterfall,
which drowned them in soggy kanban post-its,
They scrambled and scrum'ed
But they weren't agile enough,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind programmers?
Marc
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After a rocky start, open-source and hybrid cloud initiatives have righted the ship. "Wait till the sun shines Nellie, and the clouds go drifting by"
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I can see clearly now the rain has gone
You know what happens when clouds grow too big... it starts raining.
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open-source and hybrid cloud initiatives have righted the ship.
All they've done is put more holes in the ship, you can't tell the ship from the water anymore.
Marc
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Basically, JavaScript is everywhere nowadays and it’s growing, it’s here to stay for the next decades. We have cookies!
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Why did it have to be JavaScript though? 
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Yeah, we could have had so much better: VBScript 
TTFN - Kent
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Sander Rossel wrote: Why did it have to be JavaScript though?
Not to worry, there's a growing movement of "from language X to Javascript" translators. Eventually, Javascript will become something nobody actually codes in, much like assembly, IL, or VB.
Marc
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Not to mention transpilers so that you can write Typescript instead of Javascript. This allows you to write Javascript that uses interfaces, classes and has Intellisense and hints in the Visual Studio IDE.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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That's what Marc was talking about 
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At least we're all in agreement then 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Marc Clifton wrote: IL
A Look under the hood of the .NET Framework[^] (default is VB too)
Marc Clifton wrote: VB
See some of my other articles too 
I started programming in VB, although you're right in that I don't do that anymore (well, not very often anyway).
Marc Clifton wrote: Eventually, Javascript will become something nobody actually codes in
Let's hope so.
Although complete and utter crap can also be written in TypeScript or CoffeeScript (or any language)
At least it won't be complete and utter crap by default
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Dan Neely wrote: was more painful than trying to write native javascript.
That is a point. 
Marc
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