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Quote: In August 2014, Microsoft abruptly told virtually all IE users that they needed to be running IE11 by Jan. 12, 2016, or face a shut-off of security updates.
A lot of us will never notice. Since Windows Security Update KB3045685 and every subsequent Windows Security Update fails to run on lots of Windows 8 machines (like mine), we'll never get that far. My patches have effectively already stopped. 
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A young developer approached me after a conf talk and said, “You must feel really bad about the failure of object-oriented programming.” "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing."
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article wrote: A young developer...
Ugh!
Just like a dude who has built mis-shapen sheds out of wood and mud approaching Frank Lloyd Wright and saying,
"I can see that planning architecture and the knowledge of architectural principles have failed."
What evs! Stay ignorant, young fellow. Stay ignorant.
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newton.saber wrote: built mis-shapen sheds out of wood and mud
Hey, there's good money in that! http://earthship.com/[^]
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OOP hasn't failed yet, because the money behind it are still a lot.
Once someone find another way to make money, OOP will fail as well...
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OOP is without a doubt one of the greatest intellectual paradigms within the software industry. I don't think money has anything to do with either its success or potential failure.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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My comment was likely about what the guy said...
He said, “OOP was supposed to fix all of our software engineering problems and it clearly hasn’t. Building software today is just as hard as it was before OOP. came along.”
“Have you ever look at the programs we were building in the early 1980s? At how limited their functionality and UIs were? OOP has been an incredible success. It enabled us to manage complexity as we grew from 100KB applications to today’s 100MB applications.”
I mean that the more new tools (e.g. OOP, but also hardware) are available, the more the customer/market requests are growing (and yet satisfied).
That is, in the late '70 we're amazed by a "tennis game" made by a white dot bouncing around our TV. After 20 years we had something like Arkanoid; now even better.
Machines power and money were (still are) something linked each other.
Hope now that's clear...
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OOP makes money? How that?
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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Training.
Lots of companies cash in on any trend in computing and cobble together training courses to extract money from IT departments.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Than it is not OOP, but any 'fashion' around...
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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There is no silver bullet in software development. There will always be new ways of doing things, approaching and solving problems, designing software etc. Some of these approaches are more appropriate in certain contexts than others.
OOP has been extraordinarily successful by allowing the human brain to deal with complex problems through such things as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance etc.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing."
Like 'it is everywhere, but no one really understands it'?
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: +5V!
FTFY 
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Purportedly, the market opportunity for the Internet of things is gargantuan -- but development in the space clearly isn't paying off yet. People don't care about things?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: market opportunity
Are you on the Earth right now!?!
Exactly.
That is why you NEED IoT! Right now!! Right, right now!!
It just so happens that I've developed a very expensive watch...well, making it wasn't expensive, but I'm going to charge you tons of money. Tons. Sincerely, Post-Hummus (after eating beans), Steve Jobs
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Computer programmers are a weird bunch. They go around telling the rest of the world who can and can’t be a programmer. No 'true' programmer would think that
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He's arguing against a case that doesn't exist. I've never read or heard any developer making such a statement as this. Therefore his entire article is a non sequitur.
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Agreed! Seems like he's trying to get more clicks in an attempt to increase the chance of people buying his book. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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There are some devs who certainly project such an attitude. E.g., "if you can't write an OS in assembler you're not worthy." I'm exaggerating a bit but that recent survey on which programming language to learn first had a whiff of that.
Kevin
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It's the internet, everyone writes in extremes 
I have come across one or two people like that in contracts though, although most people quickly learn to ignore them. I worked in one place where a couple of guys like this were handed control of the entire project; needless to say, the project never got delivered and cost the company a substantial amount of cash (tens of millions of pounds) 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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When hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot started his journey in Boston two weeks ago he wanted to see the entire country. Unfortunately, he never made it out of the Northeast. "Holly came from Miami, FLA. Hitch-hiked her way across the USA"
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"But America is clearly a hard land for our robot brothers and sisters."
Yup, thanks Philly, One bad apple.......
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Philadelphia is fine. But robots ain't got no place there. So stay out, robots.
This is your warning.  We had to make a 'xample of this here hitchBOT.
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