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Windows Phone won't breach five percent of worldwide smartphone shipments any time soon They've got the opposition right where they want them
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Like Novocaine, the ? operator has its place. But, like Novocaine, if you find yourself relying on it, there’s likely a deeper problem. solution?.fix?.problem()?
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Swift does cool things like this
var theHotFix = solution?.fix?.problem()?
it is called Optional Chaining. 
But I am too "old school" to like it. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Exactly what C# does, if you read the article.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What does the computing landscape look like in a decade? By still banging my head against hard objects? (JavaScript, oh JavaScript)
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Technologist: "We will all be eating strawberries and cream."
Developer: "I don't like strawberries and cream."
Technologist: "WE WILL ALL BE EATING STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM!!!"
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Pretty well exactly what it is like now, I suspect.
Programming evolves at a glacial rate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft is hoping to bridge the gap between desktop PCs, tablets, and smartphones, creating one experience to persist over every device. Well, that's one way to increase the number of apps in your store
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Shouldn't that be "e-merges"...?
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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That store is a disaster. This come to mind.
We haven't improved the quality or removed the scam apps. But the smell is stronger than ever.
Hold my drink and watch this.
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Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman and former CEO, says that work needs to be done toward stopping the spread of hate and harassment online. What a silver plane
Or: "We've always been at war with Eastasia"
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"We should target social accounts for terrorist groups like the Islamic State, and remove videos before they spread, or help those countering terrorist messages to find their voice." Censorship, anyone?
I wonder who's taking care of the daily propaganda we have to live with in the Western world.
"Without this type of leadership from government, from citizens, from tech companies, the internet could become a vehicle for further disaggregation of poorly built societies, and the empowerment of the wrong people, and the wrong voices." I hope that filter works for Schmidt's intellectual garbage as well. Who are we to define which are the wrong people and the wrong voices? It's only the arrogance of the west to think they are any better. Guantanamo, anyone? Drones, anyone? The list goes on... there are a lot of skeletons in "our" closets as well.
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It is surely up to Google whether they want to implement something like this.
Free speech is fine, but that doesn't mean you should expect anyone to provide you a platform for free.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My reading of the situation is that Google et. al are in an ambiguous position - they are neither governments nor common carriers.
In the Western World, there are restrictions on what governments can legally do to restrict free speech. These restrictions do not apply to private corporations.
OTOH, given that Google's business model is built around reading your e-mail so it can better target ads at you, they can hardly claim to be common carriers (like the traditional phone services) who can have no idea about the uses to which their services are put. This makes them potentially liable for any harassment, terrorist activities, etc.
Under these circumstances, Eric Schmidt's solution is obvious.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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This just in: Google buys out freedom of speech.
Funny, but I thought that letting people talk was the best way to find out how they think and feel.
It's common knowledge that anyone who claims to be absolutely right is pretty sure to be absolutely wrong about his absolute rectitude, but will never realise it until he hears (or reads) other people saying how absolutely right they are, and sees his reflection in their eyes.
So automated gagging, yeah, that'll work faultlessly, and never piss people off enough to make them want to kill people.
Way to go, Lord Google.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Open source software is clearly growing in popularity. In the past five years the number of dollars invested in OSS companies has increased by almost a factor of 10 compared to the previous five years. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
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Quote: The OSS companies that will be pillars of IT in the future are the companies that leverage a successful OSS project for sales, marketing, and engineering prioritization but have a product and business strategy that includes some proprietary enhancements. They’ve figured out that customers are more than happy to pay for an enterprise-grade version of the complete product, which may have security, management, or integration enhancements and come with support. And they also understand that keeping this type of functionality proprietary won’t alienate the community supporting the project the way something such as a performance enhancement would.
This is where the problem arises though because any other company can offer a competing enterprise version of the OSS project for $1 less than yours and take some business away from you which in turn leads to a race to the bottom.
The only way to prevent that happening is with lawyers and frankly if your business model depends on lawyers you might just as well become a criminal 
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: This is where the problem arises though because any other company can offer a competing enterprise version of the OSS project for $1 less than yours and take some business away from you which in turn leads to a race to the bottom.
There are a few problems with your thesis:
1. Not all OSS licenses require that you publish any modifications that you made to the OSS code. This means that your hard work will not necessarily be placed in the public domain.
2. An enterprise-level corporation does not look merely at the price, but also at the support options. Even if companies cannot compete on the initial cost, they certainly can compete on customization options, service, etc. etc.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You’re not Steve Jobs. You’re mediocre, like me. You’re reading shabby online articles about how to be like somebody else. Do you think Steve Jobs did that? Motivation! Motivation! Motivation!
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Not me, I only read articles if they're written in Esperanto, because only the top smartest people in the world can speak and read Esperanto. 
I didn't even read your comment because it seems to be some type of English-type of language.
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Konservu batalante ke perdita batalo, frato!
TTFN - Kent
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Faros! 
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newton.saber wrote: because only the top smartest people in the world...
I don't agree. They doesn't have to be the smartest... only have more free time.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: Timeline 3, Steve Ballmer. You open the door to lots of blather an office chair thrown by a balding nutjob. That’s Steve Ballmer.
It’s easy to mock Ballmer.
FTFY. It did get one thing right though. 
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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