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According to Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover -- well-known for being the chief architect of PowerShell -- the thing developers need to be mindful of is not building a technology that best serves shareholders, but one that best serves stakeholders, a.k.a. the people who will be most directly affected by the tools or services being built. "Come gather 'round people where ever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown"
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Microsoft's flagship OS has been popular for years despite ongoing issues, but the cloud and other forces have some declaring Windows dead. What? Again?
From someone who (it seems) hasn't looked at Windows since Vista (granted, that one left a bad taste in many mouths).
Anyway, file this one in the "because sometimes I just feel like rattling chains" category
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I think this guy just declared it the year of Linux! Woo, so novel!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Warning: the author admits his extreme bias up front, admits he has no real experience with the system he hates and is clearly clueless about the enterprise market. Oh and is an extreme Apple Fanboi.
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Its strange that this very, very, very weak article was in CP news. Why? I did not have strength in me to read to the end, since it was lacking in some basic knowledge about the topic it was touching. for CP news.
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Most of the stuff in this forum comes from Slashdot.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think he missed Kent's chain-rattling.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I did not. So from now on CP will create a 'news' because someone wrote something stupid on the internet? If would want that kind of news I would go to the 4chan or something similar.
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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/shrug
Sometimes I think a news item could just be, "how did this get published?" Plus, I was looking forward to the discussion (on this and the C article). I need my entertainment too.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I need my entertainment too.
So in a word you were just trolling news readers
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Most kids in the biz don't know about slashdot. It ain't no thang to repost here.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Strangely enough, I can't seem to find this article on SlashDot.
I do use it as a news finder, but I don't think that most items are "from" there (by a longshot). In most cases the overlap is that both I and the /. readers find it important enough to share.
Also: feel free to post your own news not from /. here.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: feel free to post your own news not from /. here.
I thought that CP stuff is combining daily news.
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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That's how I viewed it as well - saving all you the time of having to monitor the internet as much as I do.
TTFN - Kent
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Sure, let's go with that.
TTFN - Kent
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I’ve often seen people suggest that you should learn C in order to learn how computers work. Is this a good idea? For your consideration (and discussion)
No doubt complete with a few comments about Jane.
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"Which programmers don’t understand how computers work?"
Just about every one who started with managed languages.
And, yeah, Sun was lying. It's what Sun did.
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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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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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