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Oh, oh - COBOL. Yeah, that's my usual reaction too
I'm not doubting it's power, I'm doubting the effort required to get going with the language. Also, the main point of posting it was just how wide a range of technology was covered by those two languages - COBOL and Node (yeah, yeah, JS, but weirder JS).
I wonder just how much OO COBOL has ever been written though - I suspect printed it wouldn't be enough to kill the programmers that use it.
I see there's also OO APL, Fortran, and even Forth. (The last of which also seems to predate C# by a number of years). Just because they "were there" before C# doesn't mean I'm going to switch back.
TTFN - Kent
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Intel’s ACAT, or Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit, is an open source platform developed in C# using .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 at Intel Labs to allow people with disabilities to communicate with ease, even in very constrained situations, like Stephen Hawking’s, What? It's not "universal"?
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Google has revealed what the M in Android M stands for: Marshmallow. The Android 6.0 update, set for release this fall, was first previewed at the company's I/O conference in late May. "I tried to think of the most harmless thing."
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Remember not to cross the streams!
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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The New York Times has painted a dire picture of Amazon as a place to work, but CEO Jeff Bezos says that's not the company he knows. So, just dystopian then?
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It's good to be the king.
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and that is the salient point
Bryce
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This is exactly why humans are outmoded. All they do is talk.
Robots communicate and work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWFjS3Ci7A[^]
Amazon's Kiva Robot in action.
But I bet if you owned a business and you could pick whiny humans or robots, you'd pick the robots too.
While you were reading this message, Amazon, shipped another 100,000 orders.
It's not soul-less yet, but it soon will be.
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And there I was, expecting him to respond by saying "yes, that's us, suck it".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: suck it".
Isn't that Dyson's slogan?
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The chips on the inside are designed to behave like neurons—the basic building blocks of biological brains. Modha says the system in front of us spans 48 million of these artificial nerve cells, roughly the number of neurons packed into the head of a rodent. Stuffing cheese into your phone might get to be a problem though
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The hamsters will not be amused!
No really, as soon as they get wind of this, bad things are bound to happen.
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"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 21-Aug-15 5:43am.
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Which do you prefer? The red pill or the blue one?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Even with aggressive setup switching, Edge has been adopted by a minority of those running Windows 10, according to two metrics vendors. "Livin' on the edge. You can't help yourself from fallin'"
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Hah! told ya!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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According to our sources, Windows 10 has surpassed 53 million installs, which StatCounter says now accounts for 4.95% of the market as of last week. Has it passed XP yet?
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XP is not upgradeable for free. I still have an XP laptop and will remain so.
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Seriously, you're choosing to use an O/S that is no longer receiving security updates?
Hope you don't do anything serious online.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's my it's-okay-to-hack-me laptop. I don't use it for anything. It's off most of the time.
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It has been more than 40 years since Gerard M. Weinberg created the concept of Egoless Programming. We take a look at the treatise now to see whether the rules contained therein still serve a purpose for the modern programmer today. "Egoist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me."
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I do Legoless programming, no Legos involved.
Sometims I do a little Legolas programming, just shooting my stuff until it works.
I'd like to try some Lego Legolas programming sometimes. Lego has all kinds of cool characters.
But the highest you can reach, as far as Lego and Legolas go is probably the Legless Lego Legolas programming.
Man, if I could ever get that thing working with some good old Lego Technic and C#
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Sounds like your everyday programmer
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your? or you're?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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New data from internet services company Netcraft shows about 609,000 web-facing systems, serving an estimated 175 million websites, are running decade-old Windows Server 2003, potentially putting their systems and customers at risk of cyberattack and data theft. "The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay."
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Microsoft’s updated End User Licence Agreement terms and conditions let it disable any counterfeit software or hardware and, if you’re running a Windows 10 computer, you’ve just agreed to them. Ye be walkin' the plank, matie (Yarrr)
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