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Microsoft says that at its peak, Adrozek had controlled more than 30,000 devices a day. To be safe, only browse to Code Project (I hope)
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Learning programming is hard, but learning a language that was introduced 20 years ago and continues to radically grow and change year after year is monumentally harder. Time for TrainingWheelsAttribute?
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C# surely is pretty welcoming.
It's VB-with-braces, afterall. 
Seriously, as long as one can get over the braces (and the visual appearance of the whole braces thing definitely does put people off) then it's a very easy language to learn.
Complexity has increased in C# in recent years but of course one does not need to use all the super-cool new features. Basic (hah, pun not intended) C# can be very, very easy to learn. And I think you can get rather further in C# before complexity becomes confusing than in, say, Rust.
Here's a thought: Has anyone done a C# spin that allows Python-style significant indentation? That would be interesting.
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markrlondon wrote: It's VB-with-braces, afterall
God and the Devil just agreed to create a 10th level of hell just for making that statement. 
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markrlondon wrote: It's VB-with-braces, afterall.
You forgot the semi-colons 
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Quote: The “Not All Code Paths Return a Value” compiler error in C# is one that almost all of our students run into as they start making their first methods and playing with conditional logic.
I think that points to more of a flaw in the teacher and teaching approach than it does to the complexity of a language.
Between the lines what I read is: "let's dumb down the compiler messages to meet our crappy teaching methods."
modified 14-Dec-20 7:56am.
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The highly-successful and highly-praised launch of Apple’s M1 MacBook showed what ARM-powered computers can be capable of with the right combination of hardware and software. At last - you can run Windows software on Windows
News at 11
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A sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department and a U.S. agency responsible for deciding policy around the internet and telecommunications, according to people familiar with the matter. Jokes on them - there's nothing left in there
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Jokes on them
FedRAMP is a joke... they put all their eggs into the Office 365 basket cloud.
Also... Australia is using the same exact infrastructure. I wonder if they were breached.
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Randor wrote: I wonder if they were when they are going to be breached.
FTFY
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Researchers have, inspired by the efficient foraging behavior of a single-celled amoeba, developed an analog computer for finding a reliable and swift solution to the traveling salesman problem -- a representative combinatorial optimization problem. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I'd trust electronic amoeba to sell anything
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a reliable and swift solution to the traveling salesman problem
The amoeba envelops and eats the salesman, problem solved.
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It is the brain-eating amoeba that decides to eat the brains of the salesmen.
Not finding any food, the amoeba slowly starves to death, leaving the salesmen to continue on their deathly rounds selling snake oil to the gullible public.
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CentOS wants users to switch their servers to a rolling distro Too bad there are so few distros to choose from
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Quote: Red Hat makes drastic changes to CentOS, leaves users fuming
I suppose that red hat being bought by Microsoft and their pushing of WSL has nothing to do with this? 
Pissing their Linux users off could be a not so surprising movement to try to win a couple of users more.
At the end, seeing what they are doing to people actually buying their product... I wouldn't expect much for the "free" part of it.
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Hi,
Nelek wrote: Red Hat being bought by Microsoft
Just wanted to point out that it was IBM that bought Red Hat[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Thanks I stand corrected.
I did a quick search and the three first links in my google results were German Magazines talking about Microsoft buying red hat... (didn't read them in detail though) so I (wrongly) thought they finally did it.
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I have a feeling that IBM wants to lose its CentOS customers. I doubt many migrate to RHEL.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: IBM wants to lose its CentOS customers
There's the thing: They are not customers.
From the perspective of bean counting management, CentOS users are just a dead weight. This outlook is of course missing the point that CentOS ultimately encourages sales of Red Hat itself.
However, the CentOS representatives I've seen on forums and mail lists are (a) strongly denying that this decision has anything to do with IBM, and (b) claiming it's for purely technical reasons. But destroying the primary use case for CentOS simply cannot be for purely technical reasons... that would be unreal.
modified 13-Dec-20 3:46am.
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A new study finds 85% of engineer leads predict low-code and no-code will soon become common "How low can you go?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A new study finds 85% of engineer leads predict low-code and no-code will soon become common
Should we then thell tell those very engineer leads to program the apps themselves?
EDIT: Typo
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modified 11-Dec-20 7:04am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A new study finds 85% of engineer leads predict low-code and no-code will soon become common
Undoubtedly a side-effect of social distancing! 
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I was thinking more a departure from reality.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I was thinking more a departure from reality.
The same can be said of the events of 2020. 
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What, exactly, are "engineer leads"?
And why should developers even worry about what engineers think?
I've never liked the "DevOps" category. the two disciplines, "dev" and "ops", should never have been combined.
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