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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Today's chips contain about 100 kilometers of copper wiring, so the potential for errors is huge. And if one of these wires doesn't work because of a mistake in one layer—something that's impossible to detect until the chip is completed and tested—the chip has to be tossed out. Tiny mistakes carry a big price tag: defects at a rate of one per billion lead to a 25 percent drop in yield. CPU performance benefits from better transistors, but also less copper wiring within the chips.
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I always thought the idea of physically smuggling data was absurd. Even physically transporting data seemed silly to me because if you have broadband you can simply upload or download it.... Two things changed my mind about why physically transporting data is interesting. Maybe Johnny Mnemonic wasn’t so absurd after all.
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The only way to completely wash your hands of a piece of software you’ve written is to change employers, and sometimes even that doesn’t work. Code won't go gentle into that good night.
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Just don't write code that you'll be ashamed of later.
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That's like saying "to climb Mount Everest, you just don't stop walking uphill". It's true inasmuch as everyone can easily nod and agree, but it doesn't actually say anything about climbing Mount Everest.
There should be a word for that. Thruthism?
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Q: How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
A: Practice, practice, practice.
(I haven't read the article yet.)
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With all the hubbub that's been made about Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), we're sure many of you have questions you're dying to have answered. Jelly Bean still looks and behaves a lot like Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). There have been a few visual tweaks here and there, but most of the changes are taking place beneath the surface and won't affect much that you are aware of. If an OS ships without any devices to run it, does it still need a review?
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The inventor of object-orientation, co-designer of Smalltalk, and UI luminary opines on programming, browsers, objects, the illusion of patterns, and how Socrates could still make it to heaven. The lack of interest, the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field.
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What makes the web beautiful is precisely that there are multiple browsers and, if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all. They might not necessarily work exactly the same in them all, but they should still be able to work. There is absolutely nothing preventing you from using new features in your web applications, that’s what progressive enhancement is all about. The constant drumming of “Internet Explorer X is the new Internet Explorer 6″ is getting very old.
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Dislike the UI? In what respect? It seems to me that the most recent IE, Chrome and Firefox are bascially interchangeable as far as UI goes, for general browsing and whatnot.
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Until IE supports what the other guys do, I'll keep blaming it. Get me CSS3 supported gradients instead of having to use SVG backgrounds. Get me web workers. Mobile browsers support more than IE9 does. Sure, those are in IE10 but that's not available unless you have Windows 8.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all.
That's not entirely true. If you handle all the nuances correctly, then it will work for all of them. But that's the thing, why should there have to be a single IF statement for checking which browser you're using in order to render the page correctly?
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If they were supposed to work the same in every browser they'd be called standards. Oh, wait...
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Master Wq was addressing some Vim novices. After his lecture on the many virtues of Vim, he asked if there were any questions. A young man raised his hand. “Master, by what means might one filter for the second column of a plaintext table for all rows that contain the string ‘tcp’?” Zen mind, newbie mind.
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GUIs have even reinvented the world of software development, beginning with tools like Visual Basic, before extending coding tasks to the average joe with new-age tools such as Scratch and Google’s App Inventor. But among hardcore computer types the command line persists. If you’re a developer or a sysadmin, there are times when it makes more sense to use the command line interface, or “shell,” built into operating systems like Linux and UNIX. Do you get more done here? %
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Yes. I spend most of my day in a DOS box -- it's where it's at.
There are very few tasks where a GUI is superior.
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Does it make sense to carry around two, three, or more portable computing devices? I’m sure lots of people will carry more than one device. Me, I use the big laptop because I do multimedia grinding. I use the small tablet because it makes my hands and eyes happy. I carry a phone because it’s always online. How many devices do you carry during the day?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: How many devices do you carry during the day?
That depends on what I put in my backpack the night before!
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Technology is adapting, trying to keep up with our needs and how we handle things. How come then, that the email never really changed? When the first email was sent in the 1970s there was no big difference to the email we know today. ...or why I live at the inbox.
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Probably the same reason that letters (snail-mail) haven't really changed much since 1840: they work. (Okay, not as popular because of email but still relatively unchanged from the time of the first postage stamp until now).
You can whack all sorts of work-flow and other goodies onto email but at the end of the day it's just a message.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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