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Windows 10 has surpassed Windows 7 for the first time, according to analytics firm StatCounter. Most currently used, maybe. Everyone knows Windows 95 is the most popular.
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I have successfully resisted change, and have avoided drinking the Windows 10 kool-aid.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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old fart 
#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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For C++, one of the little annoyances is the most vexing parse, well, as its name suggests. "Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!"
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Frontend web development has never been a hotter or more controversial topic. Complex? No! You just need to npm a few dozen dependencies, rebuild your site for this week's hot trend, and create a build process with multiple steps. Plain HTML is so 1999!
And on the desktop you can just WinForm, uh XAML, uh Silverlight, uh UWP a quick UI.
(Yeah, the last three are XAML, sue me)
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It doesn't have to be, but I guess Devs need it to keep up with the Jones'. Things such as security and maintainability are not as important as one's specialties listed on their resume and Linkedin profile.
The funny thing is that I did a project in 2004 as a web designer for a software company that builds software for hospitals. They wanted to have a table-less web application to meet their handicap user's needs. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript have evolved significantly since, but to this day, I still use an updated version of the HTML/CSS base template I created back then; which worked perfectly for both IE and Netscape 6.2 and works today for modern browsers and handheld devices, including IPhone.
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Adults prefer to avoid complexity. It's the children in the arena that create the complexity, and the other children that go "ooh, look, a new shiny "M" "V" etc. framework to play with. Another shiny scripting duck typed language. Another cool package manager. Another awesome grid system. Another multi-platform UI builder. It's like Toys "R" Us for child programmers. 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Adults prefer to avoid complexity. It's the children in the arena that create the complexity
I agree. Mature software devs learn that there must be a process to development. They build up tools around the software development life cycle to create their own system.
That's why recently I've come to wonder why, for example, Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC isn't just the answer? I'm going to sound like a MS Fan-boy but that's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying everything you need to code, build, test, deploy is basically there so why not just go with Microsoft?
(nuget, msbuild, razor, power of C# for backend, Unit testing, Web API, etc)
And, I've done some Angular (which is only a front-end tool) and I basically don't see a reason to drop that on the front end when Razor allows you to continue to work in C# (mostly).
Instead, what we see is a lot of newbies pulling all these javascript libraries together (now the big node.js push) all because they only want to learn one language (js). It's an immature view really.
I'm now going to do a big examination of dotnet core because with it you get absolutely everything built under one umbrella. Wow, I do sound like an MS fan-boy. 
Microsoft has taken forever to get here, but the reading I'm doing on dotnet core seems really promising and it leverages everything you know from ASP.NET MVC.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: on the desktop you can just WinForm, uh XAML, uh Silverlight, uh UWP a quick UI.
UWP? That's so 2015. Electron[^] should be used instead.
Unless of course something changed while I was typing 
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The government is looking into possible securities laws violations. "We didn't do it to make people buy new phones" (but it was a nice side-effect)
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Light, which travels at a speed of 300,000 km/sec in a vacuum, can be slowed down and even stopped completely by methods that involve trapping the light inside crystals or ultracold clouds of atoms. So I can move at the speed of light? Exceptional!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So I can move at the speed of light? Exceptional!
My thoughts do daily!
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So that's what happens when light goes in one ear and doesn't come out the other.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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...because the many radar-controls on the roads, maybe?...
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Mine is non-zero at 'exceptional points'.
Wout
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We’ve got a lot in 2.7. While you can always take a look at the roadmap, we’ve put together a quick list for a bird’s eye view of this release. Stricter strict, prettier pretty, and morer more.
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If we truly meant for baz to potentially be undefined, we should have declared it with the type boolean | undefined.
Oh, BS. If I say baz: boolean; I want the damn thing to default to false.
There are certain scenarios where properties might be initialized indirectly (perhaps by a helper method or dependency injection library). In those cases, you can convince the type system you know better by using the definite assignment assertions for your properties.
Oh god.
OK, I know people love TypeScript, and I have never used it, so I have no right to complain, be a curmudgeon, or otherwise dis what everyone loves, and to add insult to injury, I'm picking on only one thing that immediately caught my eye.
It's just, well, ok, having to add weird syntax because:
we understand there are certain times you might know better than TypeScript.
Well, really?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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An international team of researchers has taught Wikie, a 14 year-old killer whale in France, to mimic certain simple bits of speech, a discovery that gives them insight into wild orca dialects. Just ignore him, he's just trying to lure you into a sense of false security
Plus, I don't think it's me he's looking for.
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Fresh from toppling Intel as the planet’s biggest seller of chipsets, Samsung has confirmed that it has begun manufacturing ASIC chips which are used to mine bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies. Coming soon: free computer, as long as you let it mine bitcoin for someone
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Bubble is close to peaking. I'll know its topped out when Mojang releases Minecoin (aka minecraft 2) where steve uses his pick axe on PC's around the world to find encrypted electronic letters, numbers and symbols to store in his crypto wallet. Creepers have been replaced by international government officials that want to regulate Steve. Secret codes for immutability and hidden ledgers abound. Promise of coming updates with new buzzwords and the latest ICO's as they pop up.
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j snooze wrote: Bubble is close to peaking
The one in stocks, or in bonds?
Try to find one person in your vicinity who isn't vested in either, be it by pension-plans or otherwise. Now try to count the amount of people that own some form of crypto's. And you "think" the bubble is "where"? 
j snooze wrote: Promise of coming updates with new buzzwords and the latest ICO's as they pop up.
Yes, lots of people trying to emulate the succes that is a BC, but not many succeeding. But still, lots of room on the upside before it is as ubiquitous in the market as stocks, or a Euro 
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Don't take my word for it; here's Alan Greenspan: 'We have a stock market bubble' - Jan. 31, 2018[^]. To quote;
"There are two bubbles: We have a stock market bubble, and we have a bond market bubble,"
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modified 1-Feb-18 8:04am.
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From the included pix, those would be some nice offices to work in. Would feel much less like being locked up.
Take a look inside Amazon’s Spheres as they get set to open | The Seattle Times[^]
From the article:
Seattle Times: Tourists stopped by to snap photos of the orbs during their two-and-a-half years of construction. Some critical locals who saw the edifice as a corporate vanity project gave it a label of their own: Jeff Bezos’ Balls, referring to Amazon’s founder and CEO.
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But, what happens when the dinosaurs get out of control?
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Hi, according to what I've read, those are not work/office spaces, but a kind of zone of relaxation/retreat, which employees "book" reservations into to escape their cubicle-farms.
Would you want to work 12 hours in "72 degrees and 60 percent humidity during the day, and 55 degrees with 85 percent humidity at night." ?
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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A recently released report by technical recruiting company HackerRank found 81 percent of recruiters primarily use resumes to assess developers, although the company predicts that will change. No more, "Must have 30 years experience in a 10-year-old technology?"
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