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Okay, Okay!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: one of the biggest fallacies is the idea that writing code is the primary function of your job
This is similar to Surgery. Going into Med school you think, "Hey, I'm going to do nifty surgeries on people. I'll take out this and put in that. It'll be pretty much like the work I've done on cadavers."
However, that is the wrong focus. Surgeons should really be thinking, "I wonder if I can do something different to get this patient healed?" ...wait for it....
Uh, no, I need to get paid. Better do the surgery.
Also, consider the person who wants to be an electrician. The dream is to design a system that supports huge buildings and then run the wire accordingly.
The truth is you are slogging your way through someone's filthy crawlspace and attics attempting not to electrocute yourself while fixing some problem.
Auto mechanic... well, you get the picture...
None of the jobs we do are really the jobs we do.
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Less code = Less bugs, I'm all for it
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I asked my friend to run this code
Process.Start("http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4964597/Write-Less-Code.aspx")
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This extension provides smart, contextual help to solve every day dev problems like searching for projects, code samples and resolving code errors, all from within the Visual Studio IDE. OK, the contextual error search seems moderately useful
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Microsoft is continuing its open-source push, this time announcing that it will open source its Project Orleans cloud computing web framework. The framework has supposedly been “used extensively” in the Azure cloud and is best known for powering the first-person shooter video game Halo 4. Oh good news. Now I'll be able to finish my Halo clone.
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An eight-person jury has decided that Apple is not on the hook for what could have been more than $1 billion in a trial centering on extra security measures the company added to iTunes and iPods starting in 2006. Being harmed by iTunes in general is another trial then?
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60% of Internet users have heard of Edward Snowden, and 39% of those "have taken steps to protect their online privacy and security as a result of his revelations." Or one person took 700 Million steps
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Or a giant leap for mankind.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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(did not read the article)
I'm really surprised about the number.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Microsoft’s Sway, an online tool for creating presentation documents, is now generally available to the public. Previously, a waiting list was in place. Because... PowerPoint
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Anyone verified the umbrella guy's algorithms?
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Microsoft’s Skype software will start translating voice calls between people today. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
Best. Quote. Ever.
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"Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray."
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Shaka, when the walls fell...
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Refactoring is not a new technique yet still quite a hot topic. It became an indispensable tool in a programmer toolbox. There's more to it than right-clicking?
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How did a non-clickbait article that took more than 5 minutes to type end up on infoq?
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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Even a broken clock...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It became an indispensable tool in a programmer toolbox.
You mean before refactoring, people didn't have to clean up their prototype code, re-architect something for better performance, or change something because user requirements changed? Code was actually flowcharted, story boarded, and, horror of horrors, designed first ???
Wow. Now I have something else to blame Martin Fowler for -- refactoring has seriously degraded the quality of code that people used to write!
Oh wait, I just stated the obvious.
Marc
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Streem could end up being the basis for future Ruby upgrades, while Mochi brings key functional programming features to Python. A stream-based programming language? That will never fly!
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Mochi is a dynamically typed programming language for functional programming and actor-style programming.
Matz should not be allowed to create languages.
Marc
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Privacy regulators in the Netherlands announced Monday that they have imposed an "incremental penalty payment" against Google for violating Dutch data protection law, which could be as much as €15 million ($18.7 million). That's about 2 seconds of their income? Should make them notice.
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We have had an absolute deluge of problem updates from Redmond recently and some have been serious. What's up at Microsoft? "When compared to software that has not been subject to the SDL, software that has undergone the SDL has experienced a significantly reduced rate of external discovery of security vulnerabilities."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's up at Microsoft?
All the technical people have left and all that are left are mid-level managers.
They are scurrying around in the empty cubicles and cannot understand why that alone doesn't fix the technical problems. "Oh bother. Oh, oh, bother. What's a manager to do? Think, think, think. I keep scurrying through the hallways but still nothing seems to work. Oh, bother."
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