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What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C? Using #define for evil
Some people need better hobbies. Maybe collect stamps? Stamps are cool, right?
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If he wants an API for C, he should just write one.
Oh.
That's what he's doing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones.
Sounds like government, not programming language development. 
Besides, what does "good idea" actually mean, and by whose measure?
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Apple, Broadcom owe CalTech $1.1 billion over Wi-Fi patents lawsuit Wi-Fi? Seems more like Hold-Up to me.
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A $1.1bn settlement because they used calTech's ideas in chips?
Sounds appropriate, given that's probably apple's annual budget for hang-out-room potato chips.
I keep wondering how much apple, ms, et al would have had to pay Xerox.
And how much better the world would be if apple, ms, et al were more like Xerox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And how much better the world would be if apple, ms, et al were more like Xerox.
You mean they should have copied Xerox's ethos as well as their ideas.
It's ironic isn't that so much was copied from a company that made their name making copiers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Windows 10X is launching this year on a new wave of foldable PCs. Here's what we know so far. The 'X' stands for eXtra-limited
Oh, dynamic wallpaper! I take back the limited snark. (oy)
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Essentially, they've brought back the baby blocks, and, instead of trying to emulate the ios interface, they're trying to imitate the android one.
As anyone who watches the best show on TV knows, 10X is a deep, deep hole in the ground with absolutely nothing of value at the bottom.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: deep, deep hole in the ground
What does that remind me of? Oh, yes, life! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh, dynamic wallpaper!
Everthing old is new again...
Active Desktop - Wikipedia
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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So a Win8 tablet, but with a hinge in the middle. I predict this will work just as well as it did 7.5 years ago. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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But did Microsoft successfully deliver the features fans wanted ? Closed: works as designed
"The first feature is emoji, kaomoji and symbols, which Windows Insiders from around the world wanted easier ways to type. "
That's definitely the most important feature I was looking for in Windows as well. (good grief)
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Lemme guess: 93% of people in the insider program joined because of ads on twitter and fb.
They should be talking to businesses, not people who use computers as extensions of their phones.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
They should be talking to businesses, not people who use computers as extensions of their phones.
Or at least "hear" the ones (business / professionals) that did join and tried to help them with real interesting / needed / important reports
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You mean the same businesses that are paying $hundreds/pc because they're so risk adverse they haven't upgraded off of W7 yet. Getting some IT people in large businesses to test it would be a good idea; but there's too much pointy hair in the way.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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[^] Quote: Today 75 percent of the Earth’s land surface has been considerably altered by humans. From 1980 to 2000, 100 million hectares of tropical forest were razed to make room for cattle ranching, palm oil plantations, and more. These impacts are accelerating. Rising sea levels from climate change will make whole cities and countries unrecognizable.
As an archaeologist, this all feels very urgent to me in a way that it didn’t just a few decades ago. This mapping project must happen now, before the Earth changes even more dramatically and we lose much of our shared ecological and cultural patrimony.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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How long until Earth's core solidifies? - Earth Science Stack Exchange[^]
Quote: Verhoogen gives 5000 K as the core temperature now, and a 250 K cooling since the formation of the Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago. If it really does cool at that rate (55 degrees per billion years), it would take something like 91 billion years to cool to 0 Kelvin.
So basically never.
#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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That's my joke; DON'T PANIC, the world will end (in 5 billion years)!
..and problems occur before 0K, but that's not going to be relevant for a long time.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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There's plenty of earlier events which will stop biological processes.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: So basically never.
Speak for yourself. I eat my veggies. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Huh, my ex-wife took much less time to become cold inside. 
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: 55 degrees per billion years
Global warming will slow down that rate.
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Not only did it physically hurt to hear, but it also made me realize that Test Driven Development is another one of those Agile Software Practices which may seem like an urban legend. To that avail, I would like to use this article to address it’s doubters directly. What about writing tests for the tests?
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