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Though I liked the concept of XML, it's serious overkill, and the signal-to-noise ratio is way too poor. While still imperfect, IMO, JSON is a lot better, and has a far better S/N ratio.
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I agree, but you can get a lot closer to JSON with XML by using a sticking to the subset of XML that strictly uses attributes.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Yes, assuming that the peer sending you the data understands. Nevertheless, the signal-to-noise ratio is still way too low to suit me. On that, JSON and labeled CSV files win hands down.
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Java's creator and the Java EE Guardians group believe Oracle has all but abandoned the language. Yeah, but what does he know about the language anyway?
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Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks—it was written entirely by an AI. OK, the AI aren't about to take over the world (at least not this one)
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Does that mean our current crop of Artificial Stupidity can replace Hollywood?
So ... in other news ... the sun's still shining ... well sometimes.
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Oracle filed a motion arguing that the judge should decide as a matter of law that fair use didn't cover it. In the wake of the jury's pro-Google verdict, Oracle's motion was its last hope of a trial victory. Are we done then?
Other than Google re-writing Android entirely in Go, that is
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Judge Alsup is awesome. He obviously can see through Oracle's Bullsh*t legal tactics, as did the jury.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Cake is a cross platform build automation system, built on top of Roslyn and the Mono Compiler, which uses C# as the scripting language. Let us eat cake!
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Redmond will support it inside Azure and send code back to the FreeBSD Foundation OpenVMS coming soon?
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Ohhh and RSTS/E and RT-11 too.
Just for old times sake.
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Thank you... good memories made me laugh.
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Why can't they just put out Hyper-V drivers like they did for Linux support? Is the BSD world balking at including them in any of the standard distros?
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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We’ve removed all of the old IE workarounds and taken advantage of some of the more modern web APIs where it made sense. "New look, same great taste!"
Or bad taste, depending on how you feel about jQuery.
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Now all the crap from old IE is gone. I will say good bye jQuery.
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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More like time to let go of the old IE and if there are still people using it......that's their problem!
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I was expecting more from a new major version than just doing a feature freeze on the 1.x (IE6-8) branch (1.x and 2.x were feature compatible). When jQuery 2.0 came out they said the biggest remaining bag of WTFs and hacks was Android 2.x browser. With Android 2.x down to just over a 2% market share I was expecting them to've dropped support for it. Dropping IE9/10 support also seemed reasonable; they're both out of support and less used than IE6-8 were when 2.x launched (7% according to net Marketshare, 3% in Statcounter's numbers).
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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Back in 2015, Google-owned company DeepMind gave its AI access to a series of Atari 2600 games, 49 of which it learned to play its own. Just don't get it started on "Global Thermonuclear War"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just don't get it started on "Global Thermonuclear War"
Just hope DeepMind's nickname is not Joshua or SkyNet 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Google has come up with a new quantum computing technique that could remove key limits on scalability today. "Quantum annealing with a digital twist" sounds a little uncomfortable
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The stereotype of older people having trouble using new technology is nothing more than that -- a stereotype. But you can still get off the lawn
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But, is the flipside true? Are younger workers willing to use older technology?
I had a co-worker (maybe 30 at the time), that quit her job because she "only wanted to work with new technology" when asked to learn and support a legacy system written in FORTran on an ALPHA/VMS platform.
And.. these 10+ years later, the application is still in use. There are plans to replace it, but that requires a large expenditure of time and money at multiple sites.
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As with many of these old systems, I cannot think of a new technology I would have any confidence will be around in another 20 years. Computing is in a sorry state when that is the case.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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