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IBM's Watson supercomputer is taking a big step towards public use. Today, the company announced plans to open Watson up to developers in 2014, establishing an open platform and API that would let coders build apps on top of the supercomputer's database and natural language skills. Now you can win on Jeopardy
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With never ending news about spying, Internet freedom and such, Mark Nottingham, the web infrastructure developer and the chairman of W3C group, has listed a couple of proposals that relate to the HTTP 2.0 protocol. Secure all the things!
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We’re releasing the Dart SDK 1.0, a cross-browser, open source toolkit for structured web applications. In the two years since we first announced Dart, we’ve been working closely with early adopters to mature the project and grow the community. This release marks Dart's transition to a production-ready option for web developers. Google's other programming language turns 1.0
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Recently there has been a lot of flux in the Microsoft stack, leaving developers and leads wondering which technologies they should focus on. Microsoft's unwillingness to officially deprecate technologies such as Silverlight, instead allowing them to slowly fade away, only compounds the confusion. One way to find out is to review a little known document called the ".NET Technology Guide for Business Applications". Released earlier this year, the Guide offers insight into where Microsoft intends to put its efforts and what technologies should be avoided. /sniff. I'll miss you, Silverlight!
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What a load of bollocks:
Article said: WinForms uses very simple data binding and prefers a classic MVC or MVP approach. WPF, on the other hand, requires the user to learn a complex data binding framework in order to correctly use the MVVP pattern
Well, I never managed to understand / use databinding in WinForm (which I easily used for 4 years) where as in WPF I was convinced and using it in under a week!
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I managed to do it a few times in small parts of a WinForm app and regretted it every time. The level of WTF in the bugs/weirdity it created always ended up dwarfing the pain of writing a bunch of OnControlValueChanged() methods and doing it all manually.
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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Agreed. The XAML syntax takes time to learn, but any decent programmer should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. Once you do, it's light years beyond anything WinForms can offer.
The only reason, as I see it, to stick with WinForms, is to avoid the performance hit from the rendering engine. WPF looks nicer, but renders a bit more slowly and uses more memory. Personally, I think it's more than worth it.
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after success of .NET in 2000 M$ kept screwing us developers making us to learn new API's (WPF, WCF...etc) which didn't really give us an edge in terms of new capability/feature
dont get me wrong, i passed the learning curve - just hope M$ understand they should start think not to screw their developers (there're so many new things you can learn if you just want to learn something - I dont want waste time on anything that dont give me new *capability*, certainly not another dying API like SL, or another winform-like API)
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modified 14-Nov-13 3:52am.
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Research from ThreatTrack Security revealed that 40% of security professionals found that a device used by a member of their company's senior leadership team had been infected by malware because of a visit to a pornographic website, and nearly 60% of the security professionals surveyed have cleaned malware from a device after an executive clicked on a malicious link or was duped by a phishing email. What else are they supposed to do to fill their day?
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The easy way to resolve this issue is to have dedicated porn tablets, or virtual machines which serves no purposes than porn.
Those of you who object, why? Exec always get the best gadget.
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Just as long as I don't have to clean it afterwards.
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TTFN - Kent
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that's why I suggested virtual machines
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Ah, yeah, VMs would be good. It's just you mentioned "or tablets". ick.
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TTFN - Kent
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the point is, designated compromised area. Then you can sandbox it (outside corporate LAN).
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Well it could be worse. They could be trying to manage things.
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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This picture[^] is taken from one of the public terminals of the European Parliament (don't worry, it's SFW).
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Microsoft execs quietly showed off new compiler technology under development at the company that aims to compile .Net code to native code directly. Write once, run just here
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They should just buy .Net Reactor and merge it with Visual Studio, job done!
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Amazon Web Services is launching its own virtual cloud desktop service, called Amazon WorkSpaces — promising to deliver a Windows 7 operating system and software from Amazon’s cloud to traditional desktops, laptops, Android tablets and Apple iOS devices including the iPad. Why bother with those horrid dust collectors in the office? Stick them far away beyond a long network connection instead!
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In a speech at London's Science Museum, the famed physicist says the Higgs boson discovery makes physics less interesting. He adds that we've only got 1,000 years left on Earth anyway. Oh, if only the Higgs were 140GeV, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
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oday, I’m very excited to launch Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1. I am also thrilled to announce Visual Studio Online, a collection of developer services that runs on Windows Azure and extends the development experience in the cloud. Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Online represent the beginning of a new era for Visual Studio, combining a powerful desktop IDE with rich developer services in the cloud. "To the moon, Alice, to the moon!"
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