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A jaw-dropping new photo shows a probable alien planet orbiting a star that lies 1,200 light-years from Earth. "Zoom in! Enhance!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Zoom in! Enhance!"
(Accompanied by the sound of Deckard using the video-editing console in Blade Runner)
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If they're more advanced, maybe we can learn their technology. If they're more Risan[^], we'll get a good show. 
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.NET ecosystem is dangerously oblivious to distributed computing. "Hey gypsy woman, look in your crystal ball and tell me what my future will be "
OK, it might be a bit too long for some people's attention span, but read on to find out why .NET is doomed because of plate armour, or something
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And this kind of person is called an MVP! Wait V=Valueless. That's right. He mixed open source with distributed computing,...
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The fact that the .NET ecosystem doesn't teach distributed computing would be a cause for concern, except that the future probably lies in intelligent backplane technology that makes a network of thousand of computer appear/work as one.
I genuinely expect the "Hadoop" equivalent of the next generation to be - SQL Server... because if all you are doing already is issuing commands and allowing the system to work out the implementation details, it stands to reason you don't want to or aren't going to work out those details yourself.
Yes it feels lazy/imprecise/inneficient to us old greys that grew up in the constraints of 640Kb but computing power is growing so fast and AI becoming so pervasive we have to accept that we will no longer be telling the computer* how to do something - just asking it for what we want it to do.
*Obviously multiple physical computers are implied here...
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Yes, but hardly being used is his point I think. I'd guess that very few .NET devs have heard of Orleans or Akka.NET. Many have not even heard of F#, despite its being in the Visual Studio project templates!
Kevin
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Likely true. I've not heard of those either, but then I'm not trying to do distributed computing. So, maybe, if I were, I'd gone in search of it. Maybe that's the case with other .Net devs.
#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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Chef today launched Habitat, a new open source project that allows developers to package their applications and run them on a wide variety of infrastructures. "What's in the box?"
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A German university student has demonstrated an effective way to get code of his choosing to run on the computers of software developers, at least some of whom work for US governmental and military organizations. Pakcage mnageers considered harmful
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Pakcage mnageers considered harmful
Stupdity considered even more harmful
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New programmers are programmers no more. Used to huge collections of Lego bricks because they wouldn't be able to sort an array if asked they first search for something already done and don't inspect what they download.
Languages and frameworks for these "developers" became so cluttered that a real inspection is nigh-impossible thanks to impossibly long lists of dependencies, inheritances and interfaces and no real documentation (automatically generated documentation is not documentation, period).
So we have thousands of people doing something they barely if ever understand with tools that make understanding harder beacuse of clutter... these are the results. Say hello to non-programmer developing...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Checked C is an extension to C that adds static and dynamic checking to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. Coming up next: Plaid Java
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Well we all know that plaid is fastest.
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The web is a strange place governed by multiple standards that together define how things work. Alongside the committees, browser vendors are both innovating to win new users and collaborating to push these standards forward. "To Infinity, and beyond!"
No mention of a hand basket in the article
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TLDR: We get more stuff that may or may not be supported by various browsers/devices 
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...better hurry, 2016 is half over...
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New search tool and revamped Sites are aimed at improving productivity You shouldn't pick on someone when they're already down
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A little off topic, but maybe I was wrong to laugh at the Linkedin purchase yesterday. It just occurred to me that Microsoft now controls Linkedin and what Linkedin displays. And we all know Linkedin is HR folks best friend. Thus, Microsoft now controls the technologies that employers and tech people see as important. Plus, Microsoft now has the prime platform in the world to market their technologies.
They might not be down as much as we might think!
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LinkedIn was a great purchase for them, more than partly because it seemed entirely out of left field. The amount, and type of data is perfect for a lot of their Facebook-y ambitions, while keeping it "in the enterprise". And as you point out, it now has a megaphone into corporate HR, and people looking for work.
Announcing it on the first day of WWDC was also brilliant (more proof Ballmer is gone).
SharePoint on the other hand, I still think is a hot mess.
TTFN - Kent
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