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Many big tech companies—absent Apple—are throwing weight behind a browser-based world. Right after they make desktop apps obsolete
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And after they stop changing and deprecating all the good ones every five minutes
i cri evry tiem
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Massive database exposed to public, major political data managers deny ownership I'm not sure that's what they mean by "open government"
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Several ideas to consider when choosing the language for your next app. Just fool around with them for a while
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And VB.net is never the correct language for the job.
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Not even for a "little bit on the side"?
TTFN - Kent
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I won't go back to that side again.
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If one isn't married/in a permanent relationship, the "little bit on the side" is the main course. A main course of VB is more than any mortal should be expected to endure.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It's a rare thing to find an article that brings up some very interesting points, argues them with terrible examples, succeeds at bringing nothing new to the issue, and ultimately completely misses the point, all at the same time.
Well, maybe actually not that rare.
Marc
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Actually...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Up-voted.
".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
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But its hard to learn multiple language...
Even if a web application can be done best in php, I would chose Asp.Net/Angular because, I or my team can develop it better in that language.
Learning each language to a master level is a pain and not worth as technology changes quite often.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Actually, it's not. Once you know how to write code, all languages are essentially the same, and simply have different syntactic differences. It's actually harder to learn the platform and frameworks for which you write code. For example, desktop apps versus embedded apps versus web apps versus mobile apps. All of those platforms impose their own unique requirements.
".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
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Once you know how to write code, all languages are essentially the same
Not quite true, IMO. There are fundamental differences in mindset between procedural languages such as FORTRAN, Pascal, C, object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, C#, and declarative languages such as Prolog.
Within each family, I would agree that if you've learnt one, you've learnt them all.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: and declarative languages such as Prolog I've just started a course on language design concepts and Prolog is mentioned as a logical language. I hadn't heard of logical languages, but the book notes I may have heard of it and gives Prolog as the only example
I mostly agree with you though. Except that C++ requires knowledge of pointers and memory whereas this is handled for you in C# and Java.
And then there are type safe languages and loosely typed languages such as JavaScript, which could require some learning (and I've seen programmers coming from both ways make errors).
And so each language has this 'thing' that makes you go like "we'd best not use this for a serious program just yet..."
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How are you doing with all the storms down there?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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No storms where I live.
".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
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's good. We had the one that blew things all over.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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2015 was the year open source software gained new significance, thanks to Apple and Google and Elon Musk. So, this year was The Year of Linux and I missed it?
Yeah, yeah, Open Source != Linux
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As we considered adding a dedicated tool for working with databases and SQL, we felt it was necessary to better understand how developers used databases. SELECTively? (I'll get my coat)
Caution: May not load in Chrome (at least it doesn't for me)
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They didn't ask me.
Such tools continue to be mere crutches for they who don't have confidence in their abilities (probably rightly so). Which is fine, expect for that the users don't realize that they are crippling their growth as developers. Developers must get their hands dirty with hand-crafting their SQL themselves.
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My thinking has always been that when a new person sits down to learn node, python, ruby, golang, whatever, for the most part their experience is something like this. It should be just as easy - or easier - to use .NET. Just like developing on Unix, in a new .NET flavour!
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Ohhh... he wants a modern version of the VAX BASIC (or BASICplus on PDP) interactive environment? That was cool, but I thought we had evolved from that.
I, for one, really dislike using huge IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio) just to whip up some small one-off command-line utility, but something like the Turbo-C and Turbo-Pascal IDEs is what I prefer.
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Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and former speech writer for Bill Gates offered tantalizing details around Redmond’s phone hardware efforts, yielded no concessions on the relentless and unclear upgrade push in Windows 7 and 8, and spun Azure as being light years ahead of Google and Oracle’s business cloud efforts. The next one is always the best ever
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In theory, the Internet of Things—the connected network of tiny computers inside home appliances, household objects, even clothing—promises to make your life easier and your work more efficient. Because their things hate your things (and vice versa)
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