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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.Oscar Wilde
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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How about let's stop creating new languages altogether. We should have enough by now.
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Sometimes complaining for the sake of complaining is fun, but not when I'm supposed to read several pages of mostly illogical rants. Overall, it sounds like she needs to start using C++17.
(The funniest part is when she asserts that language X is more logical because, and then shows something completely opaque.)
modified 5-Dec-16 12:57pm.
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Experts say this is only the first wave of the Internet of Things, and a new generation of intelligent devices is still to come. I'd try to make a joke about something ridiculous getting networked, but I'm sure I'd be insulting someone's marketing strategy
Internet-connected drinking glass? done. Internet-connected diaper? yep. How about a belt? 
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Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to apply a focused electromagnetic field to a precise part of the brain involved in storing the word, they could trigger the sort of brain activity representative of focused attention. Quick, pass me the magnets, please!
I need a boatload these days.
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At its annual shareholder meeting yesterday, some Microsoft shareholders were more than a little concerned about the company's mobile strategy, or if it even had one. Now why would they think that?
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By generating random inputs to a given program, fuzzing triggers and helps uncover errors quickly and thoroughly. "But for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square."
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Open source Cosmos, due next year, reduces hardware dependencies for C#, F#, and Visual Basic If you wish to make an app from scratch, you must first create a custom OS?
To paraphrase the late, great Dr. Sagan.
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The Comma.ai team has published the source code for both its Openpilot self-driving tech and its NEO robotics platform. Now you can update your car so that it crashes itself
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While C’s number 2 spot is promising, the trends have more to say about C’s position in the programming world. Plummeting from second place... to second place
The HORROR
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Can you really talk about "C’s number 2 spot" in public? 
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how does one write an article like this and have self-respect?
C continues to thunder on in many spaces, esp the embedded world. Check back in 25 years....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: how does one write an article like this and have self-respect?
I suppose you write articles about Tiobe's farcedex every month the same way you write a blurb and link to it every month.
30 pieces of silver don't go nearly as far as they used to 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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I'd wager with IoT coming into play these days, C will be around for a while yet.
Jeremy Falcon
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That's because new generations of programmers are being fooled by the shiny easy thingies promised by Google & Co. Plus they don't have nor the education, the wits and the brains to get to learn the serious stuff.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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Hmmmm, either...
0) C lost half its popularity and VB became half again as popular in the last year
1) One or more of the 3rd parties Tiobe scrapes data from made a major change to their output again (like what happened to java in their index a bit over a decade ago)
2) Their index is a dumpster fire with no relation to reality.
... I know which one of the three I find far less likely than the other two.
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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Google today announced the launch of App Maker, the newest entry in the low-code, drag-and-drop app building market. And now we're all out of work. Sorry, everyone
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Since there is an alleged programmer shortage; how about taking the programmers from these projects and put them on the one with shortages?
(FWIW, I've seen no shortage of programmers, just a shortage of budgets for them.)
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Shoot I'll work, cheap, but you still wont hire me
i cri evry tiem
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Yay! I always wanted to be a janitor. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable monthly price. "I am sailing stormy waters, to be near you to be free."
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If you think businesses are souring on their IT processes, you should see networking. Have you met those guys?
All love to the networking guys, really. Don't shut off my ports, please!
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The ad-to-content ratio on that page was too high to actually read the article.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Know how much launching that satellite is really going to cost you Make sure you pick the red option, they go faster
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