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I agree with Pete.
Why cannot a person post a news story without some uni-voter being an arse?
Uni-nitwit vote countered with my +5
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You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...
Wait, wrong movie. So there's this Maunder fellow...
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Terence me ol' mucker; he's half way round the world, half blind from staring at the sun, brain addled from the unaccustomed heat. You can say what you like about him (or even better, what you don't like about him). We won't tell. Honest. And there'll be no trace anywhere to read.
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For the first time in its 30-plus year history, the person leading Microsoft’s Windows unit won’t be a man. With the departure of Steven Sinofsky on Monday, Microsoft is handing over leadership of its flagship operating system to Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller, both of whom served as top deputies to Sinofsky.... They will have their hands full. For years, the highest-ranking female employee has been HR head Lisa Brummel.
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But the real question is, will they wash my windows?
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All too often I see programmers trying to solve their problems on the internet by blindly "flipping switches." Change something, hit refresh in the browser. "Why is that cached? What's going on?" Change something else, hit refresh in the browser. "What's the deal?" When coding on the web, remember that effectively NOTHING is hidden from you.
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I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time: [ -~] Any ideas what this regexp matches?
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Hmmmm. What a pretty darned useless regex. The I18n train passed it by without stopping.
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I like Pythonista and I was impressed with the previous update. Pythonista is a well designed implementation of Python on iOS that goes far beyond just being a dumb shell. The developer, Ole Zorn, has a new release out today that raises the bar considerably. This post will serve as an introduction to some of my favorite new features of Pythonista but also as a practical guide to how I use it. A Python interpreter for iOS... for taking your scripts on the road.
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Programming is frustrating because the tools, documentation & processes that we use every day are so bad. It’s not because programmer’s don’t understand logic or how to make algorithms, it’s because they’re still working on getting “hello world” to compile without errors. Or get a simple Facebook function to work for PHP CodeIgniter when you realize that the PHP CodeIgniter Github project has 2 lines of documentation... I’m glad I know what I’m doing because otherwise, I would have quit.
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Robbie wrote: Programming is frustrating because the tools, documentation & processes that we use every day are so bad
You can switch to become a project manager or Business ANALyst then you don't need to debug sh*t code you inherit from your peers.
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In my years of programming in Python and roaming around GitHub's Explore section, I've come across a few libraries that stood out to me as being particularly enjoyable to use. This blog post is an effort to further spread that knowledge. I specifically excluded awesome libs like requests, SQLAlchemy, Flask, fabric etc. because I think they're already pretty "main-stream". If you know what you're trying to do, it's almost guaranteed that you'll stumble over the aforementioned. This is a list of libraries that in my opinion should be better known, but aren't. "Fuzzywuzzy" wins my vote for best-named library.
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When David Schnurman heard Hurricane Sandy was coming to Downtown Manhattan, he says he knew he had to act, and fast. His business had to do more than evacuate— he had to find a way to stay up and running for what was slated to be its busiest three days of the year Know where your servers are.
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Quote:
To complicate matters, the company’s servers were hosted by Amazon’s AWS platform, located in Virginia, another Sandy target. Kicking into emergency mode, Schnurman decided to transport everything to the cloud, a fast-growing option for small-businesses, in a matter of days. The company also relied on voice over IP service, so that team members could work from home.
So isn't Amazon's AWS platform located in Virginia part of the cloud then? The author seems slightly confussed.
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Jan Steyn wrote: So isn't Amazon's AWS platform located in Virginia part of the cloud then? Yeah, that's correct. I think the point is that he was getting the data to different servers, but, yep, Amazon's AWS is technically part of the cloud.
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Microsoft's emphasis on the mobile nature of Windows 8 and its bold touch-friendly user interface may lead some to fear the software giant has taken its foot off the pedal in terms of security. Hackers, start your engines!
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Since 2000, Intel has done just about everything right in its core business, maintaining its dominance of the market for PC microprocessors and putting substantial distance between itself and competitors in the market for server chips. And yet the company finds itself in a very tough position: computers are going mobile, and Intel’s share of the microprocessor market is falling off a cliff. Still doing great in servers and PCs... which are an increasingly small part of the market for CPUs.
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I'm curious what is and isn't being counted as part of the mobile total. Unless they're excluding lower end phones the >96:1 ratio between PC and mobile isn't plausible; and I can only conclude they're rejecting older non-pc markets for CPUs to make Intel's situation look worse.
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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Dan Neely wrote: to make Intel's situation look worse
Exactly. It's purely a load of marketing tactics/scare mongering.
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Let me be clear, I want Windows Phone 8. And OEMs have introduced some pretty compelling phones with it this fall. But I think I’m going to keep my new device lust in check. At least I’m going to try. Here's why. Most developers didn’t get started working on WP8 apps until the beginning of November.
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Research in which data vastly outstrip our ability to posit models is qualitatively different. Much of science for the last three centuries advanced by deriving simple models from first principles — models whose predictions could then be compared with novel experiments. In modeling complex systems for which the underlying model is not yet known but for which data are abundant, however, as in systems biology or social network analysis, one may turn this process on its head by using the data to learn not only parameters of a single model but to select which among many or an infinite number of competing models is favored by the data. A “fourth paradigm” of science, after experimental, theoretical, and computational paradigms.
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When I’m at conferences or meetups and people discover I work for a company building a new database, there are usually a few puzzled looks. Explaining the technology behind Akiban to people is easy but the usual reason for the puzzlement is that many people wonder why on earth a company would want to develop a new database from scratch when so many alternatives already exist. There are good reasons, but I’ve struggled with articulating them especially when someone wants a 90 second explanation at a conference. In the interest of having an answer that I can easily refer people to, here’s what I think we’re trying to do. These are the problems that Akiban is aiming to solve. The pendulum swings: from SQL to NoSQL to MoreSQL...
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In the late ’90s I thought COM (Microsoft’s Component Object Model) was the way of the future. The whole architecture starting with the IUnknown interface was very elegant. And to hear Don Box explain it, COM was almost inevitable.... And yet programming COM was painful. I wondered at the time why something so elegant in theory was so difficult in practice. COM had some good ideas, and some of these ideas have been reborn in WinRT.
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I don't want to turn this into an anti-VB rant, but VB was to blame for a lot of COM problems and a fair bit of the bad rep that COM got. One of the key tenets of COM development was that you never broke the interface - if you wanted to add new features or drop a parameter in a COM method, you defined a new interface and worked with that. Unfortunately, legacy VB borked this completely up as the designers decided they knew better what people wanted out of COM. This was an endless source of frustration for me, that I'd be having to code against an ever shifting target from my nice ATL project because someone forgot to set something in a project dialog that meant a new GUID was generated on every build.
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