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Vim’s just not designed for demonstrations, and for a beginners talk at a Stockholm Vim meetup I needed something that looked a little less magical. The solution was to write Vimulator, a JavaScript Vim simulator that’s designed to explain each key stroke as it happens and delay the effect on the text long enough for a casual observer to see what’s going on.... Next time you’re explaining Vim to a colleague, give Vimulator a try, or if you’ve been put off before by introductions that felt like a magic show we’ve got some posts and videos to help you learn vim. To the H, to the J, to the K, to the L, learning some Vim doesn't have to be Hell...
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Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike chemists and biologists who are trailed to obsessively document everything they do in their lab notebooks, computer scientists are taught to document the end results of their work, but aren’t, in general, taught to take notes as they go, and document the steps they take in building a system. 6.005, MIT’s new introductory software engineering class, attempted to require its students to keep lab notebooks for a few semesters, and was met with near-universal complaints and ridicule from the students... Captain's log, stardate 3372.7: Code long and prosper.
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I can see the advantages, but if there is no index, there is pretty much no way to find the information. Generally a scientist will document an experient, and it is his way to go back and review the results when he is finished, particularly when he writes he papers. Once the information is in a paper, probably will not go back to his notebooks, but will instead refer to the paper. Not really applicable to Software Engineering. I the SWE then writes a paper, for like CodeProject, then he can refer to the paper he has written.
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The folks at Arduino seem to be stepping up their game. With the new Arduino Leonardo board able to emulate USB keyboards and mice right out of the box, it seems the perfect time for Arduino designers to come up with a proper video game controller. This new board is called the Arduino Esplora and packs enough buttons and sensors inside to capture just about any user input you can imagine. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
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Microsoft and its carrier partners have started pushing an over-the-air update to Windows Phone 8 users, starting with those outside the U.S.... The update includes the promised fix for the random reboots reported by a number of Windows Phone 8 users. Microsoft officials said a couple of weeks ago that an over-the-air fix for this issue would be available in December. Should we assume these un-announced, region-specific updates are a feature, not a bug?
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Inside the company, one of Ballmer’s greatest strengths over the years has been his ability to rally the troops to pursue big goals and fend off competitive threats. He listens closely to the company’s customers and partners, and because of that he serves as an influential channel for feedback to the rest of the company. But people who believe in Sinofsky’s approach view Ballmer’s habits as a source of problems when they’re not a methodical part of the process. Entire teams can be sent in completely new directions based on new signals from the CEO that may conflict, unbeknownst to him, with more important goals. So, is the "Developers, developers, developers!" thing still happening...?
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Since others with better knowledge of history than I are writing this year about many aspects of Turing’s life and influence, I’ll discuss something that doesn’t make the rounds often: Alan Turing and randomness. Turing knew a great deal about randomness and talked about what kinds of things can and can’t be computed. If you would like to know why true randomness isn’t “computable”, please read on. Unfortunately, the numbers turned out to be not particularly random, and debugging was difficult...
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From the folks who brought us GoogleBBS and Spacewar! in the browser, “Google60” is an art project to explore distances and heroism in user interfaces. What if you could run Google searches on an IBM 360... via punchcards?
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how to group by week in crystal report..
Subhas Ma
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You might want to ask this in the Quick Answers section. This forum is for industry news. In future, you should consider very carefully where you are posting questions.
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In an amusing twist that undoubtedly spells the end of some hapless manager’s career, Microsoft has accidentally gifted pirates with a free, fully-functioning Windows 8 license key. If you so desire, it is now possible to activate Windows 8 Pro for free, using a legitimate key provided by Microsoft itself. In an unexpected twist, Microsoft decided to stomp out illegal pirating by giving Windows out for free.
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I snagged the key, as I have Win8 pro from DreamSpark Premium on my computer. I did not pirate it, nor do I support pirates.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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No one likes to waste time by going through the submission and certification process multiple times. Many apps also require additional credentials or specific information that users of the apps would normally have access to. This is one spot where we see rejections that could be very easily avoided. When submitting apps to the Windows Store there is a section titled "Notes to testers". Use it.
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Jerry Nixon welcomes Eric Battalio, Ayman Shoukry and Raman Sharma from the Visual C++ team as they discuss how you can develop Windows 8 apps using C++. Tune in as they provide best practices and reasons why you would want to use this language. Silverlight? We don't need no stinkin' Silverlight!
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The Linux kernel, of course, already runs on smartphones, tablets, desktops, servers, and supercomputers. While Ubuntu is the most widely used Linux desktop, it has done nothing to stop the dominance of Windows and it only runs on mobile devices in limited ways. There is Ubuntu for Android, which aims to turn Android phones into Ubuntu desktops when connected to a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. And Ubuntu can be installed on the Nexus 7 tablet in an experimental fashion. sudo what device am I using today?
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i would never use Ubuntu on my supercomputer they have an extra designed OS
also for the clusters, Ubuntu is no good choice. It has to much standard features which maybe opt-out, but i prefer everything on opt-in!
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Channels, shows, special events should all be presented as apps. Click, pay, and play, with standard fare for free. Catch the 6 pm news when you get home at 9:30; watch two programs side-by-side with Android 7 or iOS 9, all on your screen of choice: smartphone, tablet, PC, or TV. The technology isn’t an issue. There’s enough bandwidth on cable (or pretend-fiber) networks, plenty of storage on servers, and all the required computing power in current or future TV boxes, from Apple and its competitors. But there’s an obstacle in the tangled, encrusted business models that the Comcasts, CBSs, and Disneys cling to out of fear that Apple will wrest control of their content, that they’ll be disintermediated a la iTunes or the iPhone/iPad App Store. Same wrong time. Same wrong channel.
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If you’ve read Nasim Taleb’s Antifragile, you know what comes next. By shielding people from the complexities of the web, by removing the fragility of links, we’re actually making things worse. We’re creating a fragility debt. Suddenly, something changes - money runs out, a pivot is declared, an aquihire happens, and the pent-up fragility is resolved in a Black Swan moment. The special place disappears entirely. 404 Link Rot Found.
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WHO runs the internet? For the past 30 years, pretty much no one. Some governments might call this a bug, but to the engineers who designed the protocols, standards, naming and numbering systems of the internet, it's a feature. The goal was to build a network that could withstand damage and would enable the sharing of information. In that, they clearly succeeded.... But perhaps not for much longer. This week, 2000 people have gathered for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to discuss, in part, whether they should be in charge. What's at stake: censorship, surveillance... and money, of course.
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be afraid...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Master Blaster run Bartertown.
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From the day Windows Phone 7 made its debut, we’ve gotten lots of kudos for its on-screen keyboard and intelligent suggestions and corrections. Engadget called it “one of the best and most accurate virtual keyboards we've used on any platform.” Gizmodo declared: “The keyboard is boss.” Even the New York Times loved the “smart auto-suggestions.” In Windows Phone 8, we set out to make our critically-acclaimed keyboard even more intuitive, accurate, and personal. As one of the program managers for the feature, I wanted to tell you about improvements in the new release, and also explain some of the science behind our prediction technology, something we get a lot of questions about. The quick brown fox typed this without opposable thumbs.
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By day, Matthew Zakutny works as a project manager at a trenchless sewer repair company. By night, he’s leading a group of volunteers working to revive a software project that once looked set to challenge the market leaders in the rapidly growing smartphone market. Zakutny and his fellow volunteers are hatching a plan to rescue webOS, the mobile operating software initially developed by smartphone pioneer Palm and later offered by HP, by making the software compatible with the latest smartphone hardware. There is some precedent for left-for-dead tech being brought back to life: the Firefox Web browser.
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The economics of flash memory are staggering. If you’re not using SSD, you are doing it wrong. Not quite true, but close. Some small applications fit entirely in memory – less than 100GB – great for in-memory solutions. There’s a place for rotational drives (HDD) in massive streaming analytics and petabytes of data. But for the vast space between, flash has become the only sensible option. Why Flash Rules For Databases.
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What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right.... We did get some in-depth, and surprising, answers from other scientists, whose fields range from robotics to biology. Here they are. All your tenure is belong to us.
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