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If you win the contest, you might actually be able to afford a professional license from them! 
(I did love the Borland VCL at one time, so there is a bit of nostalgia. But it wasn't enterprise ready back when I used it.)
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It plans to solicit bids from Amazon and Microsoft This is not the contract you are looking for
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This is not the contract you are looking for
LOL, excellent.
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And in case you were wondering (I had to google it): JEDI: Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
I shall refrain from further comment. 
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With a new open-source version of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine, the Open 3D Foundation hopes to be a resource for 3D game developers worried about commercial license constraints. Get your pew-pew, without any kaching-kaching
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Quote: The Linux Foundation
Open3d's github readme: Switch licenses to APACHE-2.0 OR MIT
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
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Python is battling for pole position, but Rust and TypeScript have made notable gains in popularity over the past year. Any 'languages in use' list that has VB at #6 (and "Classic VB" at #11) can't be wrong, can it?
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I suspect that VB (both .NET and even .COM) are still important in corporate LOB apps. Microsoft used to understand their corporate dev market but my impression is that they've somewhat lost the knack of what corporate LOB app development is about. It's VERY boring and slow moving, from what I can see, which is almost the complete opposite of web-focussed development that most of us think of as development now (I think?).
There must be some LOB app devs here although my impression is that the kind of people who do that sort of work often don't engage much on the Internet, unbelievable though that might seem to those of us who have an Internet-mindset.
There's a whole other world out there, running VB.com apps on Windows with HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Z/OS. Use Linux? When it's stable.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Classic VB" at #11
It's not that I consider the idea of VB6/VBA still being the 11th most used programming platform today impossible; it's that Tiob![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) is claiming that they doubled in popularity over the last year.
If that's not proof that they're publishing is line noise, I don't know what is.
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
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Some time ago I ended up in an architectural discussion (risc vs cisc etc…) and started to think about vax. "I've heard of you. I heard you were dead"
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For some reason this really excites me. There's something cool about retro computing. I love how it is possible to get the retro experience using emulation nowadays such that old hardware can live on, even if in virtual terms. And in this case, actually be updated. The possibilities are intriguing.
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I still have fond memories of assembler and Simula on a PDP-10. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I feel I missed out by not getting to use these ancient (sorry!) systems. My computing evolution was from home computers to PCs (ZX81 -> BBC Micro -> BBC Master -> Atari ST -> PC) and I never got to touch big corporate minicomputer stuff like Vax, PDP before it, or similar.
The nearest I got to that sort of stuff (albeit a later generation) was a Sequent multiprocessor machine that ran the Cosy text conferencing system at an ISP I worked for (although even there I didn't sysadmin the Sequent, just used and occasionally administered the Cosy system).
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Now the term anti-VAX takes an entire new meaning
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said. "Everybody's working for the weekend"
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Forget snark; I'd rather worth four, ten hour days than five, eight hour days. What are eight hour days anyway? Sounds like bad sci-fi.
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I could certainly see that working for a lot of people, especially if it helps you avoid a nasty commute from the 8-hour folk.
TTFN - Kent
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The Audacity Privacy notice was updated on July 2 to include new data collection provisions. The new owners break down the two main types of data they collect including data for analytics and for legal enforcement. Sounds a little odd
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The YouTube channel SomeOrdinaryGamers covered this and is pretty good. He gives some common sense advice.
Just FYI (NSFW) Is Audacity Spying On You...?[^]
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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From the video:
"No STEAM, get the elephant up out of here" 
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It's just a mix up.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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We live in a world where progress is king - complete tasks, meet goals, commit more, deploy frequently, ship faster. But what happens when something is lurking in the codebase that’s holding you back? aka code you wrote two weeks ago
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C# 10 doesn’t have an official release date yet, although it will probably be released in November along with the .NET 6. Assuming you like new stuff, of course
!!
Looks like a bunch of new ways to write less code.
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"Looks like a bunch of new ways to write less READABLE code"
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Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more Good thing I have 15 years experience with it then
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