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Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mike Meinz. Mike shares some highlights from 45 years in the industry.
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It's lovely, isn't it. It's the Windows 8 on-screen keyboard, except I don't need or want to see it. I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch and it already has a keyboard. I will never ever want to use the Windows 8 touch keyboard. Unfortunately there is no checkbox or "just turn it off" way to disable the keyboard with a supported option. However, there is a way to effectively disable the keyboard by stopping the service that controls it.... One QWERTY is enough.
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Go to the tallest building nearby and, after validating all is clear below, toss it over.
That helps resolve all the other Windows [insert version] problems, too.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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this is what a lot of technology can do ...
jokes apart here is what google says about your question:
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A probabilistic programming language is a high-level language that makes it easy for a developer to define probability models and then “solve” these models automatically. These languages incorporate random events as primitives and their runtime environment handles inference. Now, it is a matter of programming that enables a clean separation between modeling and inference. This can vastly reduce the time and effort associated with implementing new models and understanding data. This is how things like SkyNet get started...
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Don't you mean "pro-ballistic programming"?
That's where yer boss, being the "pro" that he is, goes "ballistic" when you miss a programming deadline ...
... which reminds me of one such coming up, yet I'm posting here instead!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: This is how things like SkyNet get started...
... and it becomes self-aware...
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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This is the first part of a series of tutorials on C#. In this part we are introducing the fundamental concepts of the language and it's output, the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). We will take a look at object-oriented programming (OOP) and what C# does to make OOP as efficient as possible to realize in practice. A good way for experienced devs to get started with .NET.
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Thx for compiling these tidbits together to C to it we keep our programming skills #.
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My relationship with spreadsheets is long and complicated. In the early days, they simply didn’t have the power to do the kinds of calculations I needed. In the late 80s, though, that changed,2 and I got very good at using Excel. Soon, though, I began to hate Excel as Microsoft made the Mac version more like the Windows version. Still, I kept using it. When I switched to Linux in the late 90s, there were no decent spreadsheets available, so I went back to more traditional programming/scripting. I found it superior to working with spreadsheets and haven’t looked back. Spreadsheets seem to attract especially poor programming, even from people who ought to know better.
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You'da thunk they'da figured that out by now.
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This document gives you an overview of F#'s goodies for DSL development. It assumes you are familiar with F# syntax; the features are introduced in the order of their encounters by the author. This is by no means a complete reference of F#'s DSL-friendly functionalities. Most of the features are introduced in the context of internal DSLs; however, some of them are helpful in making external DSLs as well. An F# interpretation of lessons from Debasish Ghosh's "DSLs in Action".
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What's the most difficult thing you did in the last year? Now stop. Before you answer, can it compare to creating a full-fledged indie game—slated to be approved on Steam—created entirely with QBASIC? Probably not.... But why QBASIC when there are so many other powerful tools out there that would probably be simpler to use? Lance McDonald, the game's creator, hearkened back to when he made games as a kid with QBASIC and wanted to make a love letter to the great games of the '90s. It's a 12,000-line .bas file. And yes, it will support mods.
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That's one .bas file I would like to get my hands on. I've written 12,000 line and more QBASIC apps, including games and that just looks awesome. I'm torn between jelousy and trying to stop myself sitting down to work out how he did it.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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More than a year ago, we began bringing two-step verification for certain critical activities, like editing credit cards and subscriptions at commerce.microsoft.com and xbox.com, or accessing files on another one of your computers through SkyDrive.com. For these scenarios, two-step verification is required 100 percent of the time for everyone, given the sensitive nature of these tasks. With this release you can choose to protect your entire account with two-step verification, regardless of what service (or device) you are using with your Microsoft account. It’s your choice whether you want to enable this, but for those of you that are looking for ways to add additional security to your account, we’ve worked hard to make set-up really easy. It works across services, across devices... even on iOS and Android.
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We know what Moore’s Law is and how it works, but not many people reflect on why it exists. Because inventors, visionaries, engineers — whatever you want to call them — have to arrive at each level before they can even imagine a way to the next one.. and then create it. That’s how Pixar and its first film Toy Story — the first feature-length computer-animated film — became a reality. The secret was Moore’s Law, and not just in the technical way one would think. The enabling idea of our vision was computation, of course, but the idea of computation alone would not have gotten us far.... Because we — Catmull, I, and our colleagues — conceived the notion of the first completely digital movie almost four decades ago. It took 20 years to realize that dream with Toy Story, but Moore’s Law is what gave us the confidence to hang on for those two decades. On a long enough timeline, the technology catches up to the dreams.
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"To meet future earnings growth expectations, we need to create moore movies," Pixar [un]officials reported today.
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Windows 8 has been out for a while, featuring an interface that's as cool as it is annoying . . . until you get the hang of it. But, like any computer operating system, it can fall over. Luckily, there is an easy way to solve the cause of most crashes; just call up WinDbg, the Windows debugger; a free tool to diagnose the most common causes of Windows crashes -- misbehaved third party drivers. The BSOD has become the frown of frustration.
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As posted in a diff posting ...
Find the nearest tall building, climb to da top and, after validating all is clear below, toss the system over.
One "crash" is all you'll experience, and no more crashes in Windows [insert version] !!
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol, created in 1988, and was meant to help facilitate group discussions, via various channels. The channels served to identify different discussion topics you could pop in on.... What I've noticed in the last couple of years is a resurgence in using IRC as a primary means of communication, especially for open source projects. While there have been group-based services for a while no (Skype, Campfire, Google Hangouts, etc.), the relatively open nature of IRC makes it easy for large groups of people to hop on a channel and collaborate easily. /join in the conversation.
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I’ve been getting a handful of emails offering me front-end jobs recently. Probably about time I admit that I like spending most of my time doing that, even though I ♥ my Rubies and I still believe developers who specialise end up worse off. So I’ve decided to put down in words some thoughts that I had as I read through the job ads. This isn’t another post on how to hire developers in general (much), but on how to hire front-end developers specifically, and at the same time, get you to understand what sort of statements you’re putting out there when you say certain things in a job ad. 6 tips for finding the best devs and making sure they have the skill you need.
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Recently I was doing a bit of R&D related to finding a viable, low cost platform for client nodes. Obviously, I came across Raspberry Pi, and found the same extremely interesting. Now, the missing piece of the puzzle was how to get going using C# and .NET in the Pi. C# is a great language, and there are a lot of C# developers out there in the wild who are interested in the Pi. In this article, I’ll just document my findings so far, and will explain how develop using C# leveraging Mono in a Raspberry Pi. Also, we’ll see how to write few minimal Windows Forms & ASP.NET applications in the Pie as well. Next stop: Raspberry RT.
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bitterskittles wrote: apples and oranges
sounds fruity.
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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