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Kent Sharkey wrote: Turbo Pascal!
Revolutionary when introduced. A game changer.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Opera says it’s seeing sites load an extra 40 percent faster compared to third-party solutions. Still the best browser no one uses
OK, hardly anyone. Don't shoot the messenger.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Still the best browser no one uses
That's common in tech. 
Well, not necessarily in terms of something being the best but in terms of innovation. The first product with "such and such features that are now widespread" is usually either a failure or has a small or tiny market share. It's often the second or third that popularises the features and gets the glory.
I do have Opera installed and use it from time to time but it's not my default. I will check out Vivaldi when released though. I like variety.
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Still the best browser no one uses
No, that's Vivaldi[^]. "New Opera" (actually about 2 years old now), is just Chrome but integrated into Opera's web services instead of Google's. It looks like Chrome, it works like Chrome; and if you like Chrome there's no reason not to use it directly, if you don't like Chrome you'll hate Opera just as much.
Vivaldi is being written by a bunch of ex Opera devs; it also shares the Blink backend with Chrome and Opera; but it works like Old Opera (12.x aka Presto). It's the real successor to Opera's heritage.
And I really should stop dragging my feet and switch my main home use over to it.  Old Opera's been out of support long enough that it's suffering increasing breakage on more HTML5y sites. 
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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When and if colonists ever arrive on Mars, they're going to need something to eat … on a long-term, ongoing basis. No potatoes?
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To grow the potatoes, the first colonists will need to have a lot of diarrhea.
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Speaking at the O'Reilly Fluent conference, Eich also endorsed the Service Workers mobile app technology, WebGL, and Decorators for JavaScript. Because all the hackers will move to it from Flash?
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Quantum computers aren’t ready for the big time yet, but you could help program their circuits and make them a reality by playing a new game. "The only winning move is not to play."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The only winning move is not to play."
Yes Joshua, you are right 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The battle between the FBI and Apple over access to the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone is turning into little more than a battle of wills. And that's their job
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And McAfee didn't eat that shoe...
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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Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. It's for all those bugs that may - or may not - be in the products
Totally kidding. They're there.
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A wise person once said time is a device invented to keep everything from happening at once. Jonas Boner explains how the database world has abused time from the beginning. "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
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Only an old grizzled grey-haired man would even consider adding this to the "CQRS/Event Sourcing" rant he has been practicing in bus stations and on park benches up and down the country...
.. so, thanks, I appreciate this
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It reminds me the worst philosophical theories I ever read...
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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A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion (£703 million) heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. You see, kids, spelling does matter
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For $1 billion, I would run a spellchecker. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kevin Marois wrote: They only got away with 80 million,
Because of the misspelling.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Oh and it also suggests it's OK if your security is compromised as you can just sue someone else to recover your losses. So it's probably not worth bothering investment in security anyway  .
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That explains why they haven't given me my $10 million I inherited from a rich uncle I knew nothing about! 
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Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers. And if C# jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
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We’re releasing the March 2016 edition of our 60-day evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare flavors. "The first hit is always free"
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Microsoft is trying to grab Oracle enterprise database users with a new migration offer for SQL Server 2016. May include fine print
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Kent Sharkey wrote: May include fine print
And constant nagging to update beginning next year.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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