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How computers work does not explain how Windows works. Even if you come from a managed background, you can read a method-segnature. If you can read, you can discover the WinAPI.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: "Which programmers don’t understand how computers work?"
Pretty well all of us, to some extent! Even for low-level programmers there are still a great many things that happen "auto-magically".
I do recommend C as a great starting point because it does require that awareness of basic machine architecture and not just the OS but it won't teach you everything that you could ever know and it should be stressed that other paths to enlightenment are available.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Joe Woodbury wrote: "Which programmers don’t understand how computers work?" Well duh, it's the gnomes in my computer that take my data and do the calculations and then run from A to B with that data and paint it on my screen!
See, that I started (and stuck) with a managed language doesn't say anything
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Consumer group blames open source libraries and the lack of auto-update mechanisms. The sixth one is restarting
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Source code is spread around a variety of platforms and infrastructures that we use to develop and/or distribute it, and software projects often migrate from one to another: there is no universal catalog that tracks it all. I thought that's what GitHub was turning into?
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What we really need is a vault to contain the printouts (or, ok, the punchtape) of all the source code that makes the world turn around.
Because, an X10 solar flare could affect all our electronic media. Especially if the earth's magnetic field reverses and we have no protection for a few hundred or thousand years.
Hmmm, but then again, all electronic equipment that could use that code would be fried too.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Codenamed “Nocturne,” the tablet is going to be sold as the Google Pixel Slate, a report said a few days ago. But a new revelation makes Nocturne even more interesting: The 2-in-1 device may dual-boot Windows 10. And they say you can't get any work done on a Chromebook
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Before it was a smartphone manufacturer, an email provider, and smart home company, Google was just a single website and a search box. However, even this seemingly simple service still has a couple of tricks up its sleeve. "You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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The latest hack on Facebook that allowed outside parties the ability to control about 50 million people's accounts was "a sophisticated attack," according to Carolyn Everson, Facebook's vice president of global marketing solutions. Don't worry, I'm sure there are plenty to spare
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Shareware helped to spark the PC revolution. It's the forerunner of today's mobile app development. Because (all together now): Sharing is caring
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Microsoft has confirmed that it is no longer developing the touch-friendly versions of Office apps for Windows Because people really don't like touching Excel?
Would you have preferred PowerPoint?
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Maybe they will still make them available for touch. They just won't be friendly.
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That was a useless but nice endeavour. Using an office app without keyboard? Not even for simple stuff (i.e. managing a small list of possible wedding locations). Yet the path to create something viable has for sure generated some usable byproduct.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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We’ve been working on Project Stream, a technical test to solve some of the biggest challenges of streaming. For this test, we’re going to push the limits with one of the most demanding applications for streaming—a blockbuster video game. I like big pipes, I cannot lie
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Martin Rees, a well-respected British cosmologist, has made a pretty bold statement when it comes to particle accelerators: there's a small, but real possibility of disaster. FIFA standard, or US?
I'm assuming the US has a different sized field - they seem to for everything else.
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Fight planetary obesity !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Relax. We always can count on software bug to spoil the experiment...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Either that.... or make it really interesting
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What’s going on is that the two indexes have very different methodologies … although what their methodologies have in common is both are very questionable, if the objective is to measure the popularity of programming languages. Random number generators gotta be random
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Did we just have this discussion a few months ago?
Oh yeah, here --> The Lounge[^]
Techcrunch is late to the party, as usual.
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As HP put it at the event, “this isn’t a PC that’s wrapped in leather, it’s a PC that’s made of leather.” "Oh, my."
I was going to go with "Hell bent, Hell bent for leather.", but I was worried about offending some.
Mind you, I probably offended some by mentioning that I might offend some, so, sorry for that.
Oh, and sorry for apologizing there. I know that might offend some people.
I'm feeling mighty Canadian today. (Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone).
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You had me up until "mighty Canadian"
Actually, it made me think of "You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn"
Which made me think of "mighty rivers" and lumberjacks.
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Aaaaand now my brain is doing the Lumberjack Song.
TTFN - Kent
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It is actually mad of plastics and wrapped in leather... Too gentle and easily breakable... Me think the aluminium case was there for good reason...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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