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But to get there we need to get through our rings of spacial garbage.
Someone should programm a navigation system based on ski-slalom.
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?
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Eventually, we'll have to build Mega Maid[^] to take care of the satellite problem. For outer space, every spaceship will be equipped with giant snow blades.
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DirectX, and any release pertaining to it, is big news in the PC gaming scene. With the software having a direct effect on the functionality of graphically intensive software and its requirements, players and developers alike have a strong interest in the path that DirectX takes. Make you think about buying a new video card?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Make you think about buying a new video card?
It depend on when the next interesting game comes out
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?
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To kick off the new year, University of Texas at Austin sophomore and “actual teen” Andrew Watts decided to write an essay about his thoughts on social apps, which was meant just for himself and his friends and maybe their friends to read. He put it up on Medium‘s Backchannel, on one of the social apps he wrote about, and the post blew up — and even received some backlash. Eleven days later, he found himself on a plane to SF, flown out on Aol’s dime, to talk to us about all things apps, what he wants to be when he grows up, and what he thinks about Foursquare in one word (“dead”).
This kid is on-point.
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Since when a 19 learning at University of Texas counts as a teenager?
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Since when a 19 learning at University of Texas counts as a teenager?
Because 19 ends in "teen" ???
Marc
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Since most of 19 years old of today are worst than 12 years old of our chilhood?
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?
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Google is shutting down the Google Glass Explorer Program, and the augmented reality eyewear is exiting the Google X research lab as a standalone product overseen by Nest CEO Tony Fadell.
Pour one out for our favorite piece of invasive headgear.
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You would think they'd have seen that coming?
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Developers are still going nuts for Apple’s new Swift programming language. Wait, didn't that other link say go JavaScript and Java? Now I'm so confused.
That's it. I'm going back to Hypercard.
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That's crazy!
(see what I did there?)
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I must say, it's growing quite swift-ly
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But of course! People try to rewrite their software before Apple dumps Objective-C...
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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Well of course it is. Why would anyone continue using, what, 20 year old, Objective C ? Ewww
Marc
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Wait, didn't that other link say go JavaScript and Java? Now I'm so confused. That's it. I'm going back to Hypercard, wrote Kent Sharkey snarkly. Poor attempt at a Tom Swifty sentence.
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They're all organic fertilizer; but at least RedMonk is open about what type of manure they use.
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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We’re determined to investigate the claim that developer knowledge has a half life of approximately five years. That means in order to stay technically current, we need to adopt a lifelong learning philosophy. "We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot"
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Who can remember back that far?
Wait. What was that you were saying?
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Hmmm.... Basica/Dos/Pascal -> Delphi/SQL -> C#/WinForms/VB -> Java/WPF/XAML/ASP/JavaScript/more.
It not only has a half life of 5 years, it gets more complicated each iteration. At least I got to skip C++.
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gardnerp wrote: Hmmm.... Basica/Dos/Pascal -> Delphi/SQL -> C#/WinForms/VB -> Java/WPF/XAML/ASP/JavaScript/more.
Dude that list makes my eyes hurt.
I do have to admit that I would not want to program for databases with C++.
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Paul M Watt wrote: program for databases with C++.
Been there; done that (well mostly C, actually).
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Let's see, since it's been 20 years since I've done much work with C, I guess I know (1/2)^4 of what I used to. And presumably, the language and available libraries has grown exponentially. I'm doomed!
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It doesn't have to mean learning new skills or hobbies, even new experiences count.
Back to software...
C++ has served me well for the last twenty years.
I occasionally learn new tools and languages temporarily for a project, and return to my core competency.
These other languages and tools expand my skills and ways of approaching how I solve a problem. So even if the specific tool or language becomes irrelevant, the skills I continue to develop continue to improve.
And in most cases I have returned to C++ and become a better engineer for having learned something new outside of my wheelhouse.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: stay technically current
Pfft, not worth the trouble. If what you're using works, stick with it. If what you know doesn't fit a new situation, then look at what's available. In the meantime, many bright shiny new things may have come and gone and any time spent learning them will have been wasted.
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