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One bad side of open source is that the software tends to stagnate at that point. Boost is stuck in 2003 and Linux in 1985.
(The best open source libraries I've used were written and currently led by just one person, who is very open minded about taking pull requests.)
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How on earth can Boost be regarded as stuck in 2003?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's based on C++03.
Even with a fully compliant C++11/C++14 compiler, when you use Boost, you end up with a huge amount of C++03 code pretending it's C++11 and they don't get along seamlessly. If Boost wants to stay relevant, they need to rebase to at least C++14.
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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS), currently available as a Public Preview release, is a new tool from Microsoft for creating R programs using Visual Studio. Just in case you want a look at the new trendiness
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Here’s the secret to understand hiring: It’s largely random DMPDs deemed dumpy
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Akamai has found that the average global last-mile Internet connection speed has gone up 23 percent year over year. Someone should tell my network connection
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Yeah, me too...still stuck on DSL 5 Mbps...
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In Bangalore, yes it has. I used to have a supposedly 3 Mbps connection with a 12 GB data limit. For same price, I now have at least 15 Mbps connection with 60GB data limit.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Well my ISP's headline speed has gone from 75/10(?) to 120/10 in the last year or so. On the other Elephant, I only ever saw anything near 75 except during offpeak hours and have only seen anything near 120 at minimum usage times.
A decade ago, I could generally figure out when they were planning an upgrade that I'd officially learn about in another month or two because I was suddenly getting a 20-40% faster connection than what I was paying for. 
And OFC, a nominal 120 down is about the practical limit of a 4 channel docsis 3 modem; which was the limit of what they'd support and allow me to use when I bought my current box.
The theoretical limit in the US is 160, real world performance can never actually be that high though; marketing will as always prove that they're lying scum by claiming 173 as being possible. That number would require the larger more widely spaced euro channel layout that's not actually used anywhere in this country; continuing the fine decades old tradition that dates back at least as far as the 56k modem; despite FCC frequency limits meaning that more than 53k was theoretically impossible. 
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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Revised as open source, Swift 2.2 has contributions from hundreds of developers outside of Apple Coming soon: slower hardware for your faster code
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming soon: slower hardware for your faster code
I think you'll find Apple already have that covered nicely.
(At least in bang for the buck department).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: hundreds of developers
I laughed.
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It's only been out for one year and they've already started depreciating stuff. Christsake, can they not make up their minds?
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He's cashed in his chips....
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Coding and cooking bring a sense of control that other occupations do not offer, but this is not their only connection. You put code in the microwave, and it's ready in 30seconds?
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No, nothing else is like coding.
Try cooking exactly the same cake five times.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Try cooking exactly the same cake five times.
Ever work in a bakery?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Try cooking exactly the same cake five times.
I think this is a very keen point ! Signature worthy 
Enthuses me to spontificate:
Coding is cooking exactly the same cake five times when the recipe, and the kitchen, are unpredictably changed every minute you are at work.
Hacking is getting inside the cake without disturbing the icing.
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Better to warm it on the compiler and cook it with the linker. Use some spicy libs for better taste and smooth flavor 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Note to self, stop reading articles from jaxenter. They are likely to be of this quality.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You put code in the microwave, and it's ready in 30seconds?
It may take 40 seconds, or 20, depending on how fast you can copy-and-paste code from CodeProject and StackOverflow into your IDE.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Today, Apple slammed Microsoft during the launch of a brand-new, smaller iPad Pro, which it bills as a laptop replacement. "When two tribes go to war"
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Those vanilla comments are considered "slamming"? Wow! 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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