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Meh. Would be a lot more beneficial if I (and the 99% of the world that doesn't have the latest iGadget) didn't have to fiddle around with browser zoom to try and see the point. Doesn't help that FF doesn't make it readily apparent what my zoom level is either. (Is this 200%? 190%? 220%?)
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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Swipe, swipe, pinch-zoom. Fifth-grader Josephine Nguyen is researching the definition of an adverb on her iPad and her fingers are flying across the screen. Her 20 classmates are hunched over their own tablets doing the same. Conspicuously absent from this modern scene of high-tech learning: a mouse. "Point and click" seems so quaint now.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: "Point and click" seems so quaint now.
Samuel Colt[^] would beg to differ.
Less flippantly, until they figure out how to make a touchpad/fondleslab that doesn't pain every knuckle of the finger I'm using to smear grease over it in an hour or so I don't care.
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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They already have. It's called a stylus.
Also, as speech and voice recognition mature and merge you will that emerge as the dominant input technology.
Until we get a new toy to play with....
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Michael Bergman wrote: They already have. It's called a stylus.
A single touch stylus is only capable of replicating a fraction of what multi-touch obsessed fondleslab UI designers think is cool.
Michael Bergman wrote: Also, as speech and voice recognition mature and merge you will that emerge as the dominant input technology.
I hope not. The one good thing about small fondleslabs is that they've silenced almost all of the @#$)(*&#@'s who were constantly shouting into their phones a decade ago. Siri alone was sufficient reason to damn jobs into the deepest circle of hell. </soapbox>
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 believe that the API contributed hugely to Twitter's growth, which was really kind of miraculous since nothing about it was particularly well-designed. For one thing it has always been pretty fail-y, even for OAuth. And rather than scaling the service and improving availability, Twitter has consistently fallen back on trying to limit API usage by enacting restrictive policies and rate limits. It's also pretty clear that Twitter never invested much time or thought into refining the API to be a good general resource for developers building arbitrary apps. Rather, the API was built more or less directly out from the same backend infrastructure of the website itself. You have to do significant post-processing of data to get it out of a form that's useful for anything other than replicating the core Twitter experience (which they famously don't want you to do). Information wants to be free... or else we'll steal it?
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Now multi-core Android phones can be PCs too. Ubuntu for Android enables high-end Android handsets to run Ubuntu, the world's favourite free PC desktop operating system. So users get the Android they know on the move, but when they connect their phone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard, it becomes a PC. Ubuntu for Android... maybe this is the Linux desktop you've been looking for.
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Mr. Phillips and Vlingo are among the thousands of executives and companies caught in a software patent system that federal judges, economists, policy makers and technology executives say is so flawed that it often stymies innovation. Alongside the impressive technological advances of the last two decades, they argue, a pall has descended: the marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons. I have a patent on patents as swords. Pay me. Now.
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Just over a year since the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the retirement of the Space Transportation System, SpaceX has successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket — the first ever commercial resupply mission (CRS-1) to the International Space Station. To boldly go where NASA has gone before (but won't anymore).
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Hackers have massacred all the virtual characters in some of online adventure game World of Warcraft's major cities. The living dead, virtually dead that is.
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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The halting problem asks whether the execution of a specific program for a given input will terminate. The halting problem is famous for being undecidable. That is, no algorithm can solve it for all programs and all inputs. This complicates any attempt to predict program behavior: we can make predicting almost any program behavior equivalent to predicting the termination of a nearly identical program. Static analyses are algorithms that do their best to defy the undecidability of the halting problem: they attempt to predict program behavior. Bonus: build an analyzer for a register-based machine language in Racket.
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There are many free tools used to troubleshoot and debug software. Below I present a list of the tools that my peers and I use most of the time. Though most of the tools below are free Microsoft tools, not all are very well known. What are your favorite debugging tools?
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When you hear the word “algorithm,” you probably respond in one of three ways: 1. You immediately know and understand what we’re talking about because you studied computer science. 2. You know that algorithms are the workhorses of companies like Google and Facebook, but you aren’t really sure what the word means. 3. You run and hide in fear because everything you know about algorithms reminds you of high-school Calculus nightmares. If you are one of the second two, this article is for you. Code recipes 101.
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The long debate about how to introduce lambda expressions (aka closures) into Java is approaching an important moment: the implementation of lambdas and virtual extension methods is planned to be feature-complete by the end of January 2013 and officially shipped in JDK 8 the following September. The biggest changes in the language since Java 5—at least—are not far away now. Everything you wanted to know about Java lambda expressions but didn't know to ask...
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There is sort of a running meme in programming culture that programmers cannot “program”, meaning that lots of people who are in the software industry making a living as software engineers actually are not very proficient at programing outside of very narrow specialties. So you hear a lot about dreadful interview processes that companies resort to, trying to find the best programmers. Generally, there isn’t much thought given to these problems, which is a shame sometimes. How many useless variations can we implement for the classic FizzBuzz problem?
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PsPing is a command-line utility for measuring network performance. In addition to standard ICMP ping functionality, it can report the latency of connecting to TCP ports, the latency of TCP round-trip communication between systems, and the TCP bandwidth available to a connection between systems. Besides obtaining min, max, and average values in 0.01ms resolution, you can also use PsPing to generate histograms of the results that are easy to import into spreadsheets. What's your favorite Sysinternals tool?
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Quote: What's your favorite Sysinternals tool?
I think this would make an excellent CP poll.
You are probably not really expecting answers from us, but personally I don't know what I would do without TCPView. I use it all the time when testing and troubleshooting.
Soren Madsen
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If you aren't curious about the world of programming and other related technology areas then your programming career isn't going to last. Most of the people I knew who got Computer Science degrees when I was in college no longer program anything; they lost interest, or stopped learning and eventually got run over by the new technology steamroller. Do you still want to be coding at 50?
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"If you want to be a programmer at 55 ... you can't ever lose the hunger to know more, know better and know simpler."
FTFY.
/ravi
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I'm 57. I retired at 56, but I still love to code. If anything, my lack of interest in becoming a manager probably reduced (or eliminated) promotability but I am happier for it.
I work on public domain stuff now...
... and every day I smile quietly to myself.
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Harvey
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I'm 56 and still coding, with no tangible end in sight. I am not exactly what you would call "good with people", so I'll probably never be a manager.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I am reasonably certain that I cannot foresee any other career than programming for myself. A programmer lives and dies by his/her code. There is so much to learn and know, I think I would need 50 more years after turning 50 to know atleast 50% of what I want to know. My rule of 50!
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I know people in their fifties/sixties still coding and why not? You don't suddenly lose the ability to code at 50; if anything you get better with age. I'd rather employ an older geek than a young one fresh out of college: too much training required and not enough time to wet-nurse them through the corridors of corporate life.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.” This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. The discussion quickly turned to those 57 things. Amazing. Thousands of miles away and two years later, people still want to talk about those 57 things! As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. Change the world. Do something meaningful. Make a difference.
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Something very, very interesting is happening with Voyager 1, the human probe that’s the very farthest from Earth. New data from the spacecraft, which I will discuss below, indicate Voyager 1 may have exited the solar system for good. If true, this would mark a truly historic moment for the human race — sending a spacecraft beyond the edge of our home solar system. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve.
modified 7-Oct-12 16:14pm.
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