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Taking a stimulating every day, perhaps several times a day, does what again...
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In other news, Pope attends Mass
speramus in juniperus
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That would be news, I believe he normally officiates it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Brendan Eich calls for security researchers across the globe to regularly audit the Firefox source code and create automated systems that can ensure the same code is used to update 18 million machines that run the browser. "You're our only hope"
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As Microsoft counts down toward the end of support for Windows XP on April 8, users still running the OS are getting a few more of their questions answered. "It's not dead, just done"
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This seems like a normal move by MS but it very well may be another stupid one.
After the 8 debacle I would lay low, be grateful for XP and it's continued use, get 9 out and then maybe kill xp. Not now though. They need to save face right now.
I was on a MS support site where I could "learn more" about the end of life of XP. I though "what could they teach me". It was a pitch about how today's pcs are faster sleeker today with windows 8.1 on 'em than they were 10 years ago.
That insults all our intelligence Microsoft. - Get a grip.
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In something as simple as a responsive web layout or iOS 7′s “Do Not Disturb” feature, we’re starting to see designs that are more perceptive about the real world context surrounding them.
Siri ain't got nothin' on Scarlett Johansson.
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British programmer posts daily screenshots of code shown in background of movies and TV shows and explains how accurate it is.
Apparently Tony Stark's original suit in "Iron Man" was running the source code of a 1998 programmable Lego brick. You can't (or I guess you can) make this stuff up.
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Ah, my bad. Didn't realize the blog had already been posted over in The Lounge. Thanks PIEBALD
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Registration for Microsoft's Build 2014 conference opens today. What's the pulse of Microsoft's developer community, going into the show? Silverlight. That's all I'm going to say. Silverlight.
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I can't help thinking that it's going to be too little too late. Muglia announced the rot and Sinofsky compounded it.
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As far as I'm concerned, W7 is the last OS from Microsoft that I will be using for a very, very long time.
And VS2008 will be the last IDE, except when I actually need something that only VS2012 with its UI provides. And in either case, I'm already looking into SharpDevelop to see if they support the latest F# features - everything else that I need out of an IDE appears to be there already.
So, if Microsoft wants to re-build my developer trust...
Marc
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Although I'm no fan of Metro, I have adopted Windows 8 - with a Start Menu replacement. I actually find it otherwise a better O/S.
Similarly later versions of Visual Studio - improvements to the .NET runtime and debugging (let alone C++ support) mean I would find it hard going back.
I hope you find the transition to a later version of Visual Studio less painful than you anticipate - you may just be pleasantly surprised.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Today, you need to teach yourself how to use GitHub. Tomorrow, GitHub might be doing the educating. Version Control for Dummies?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Version Control for Dummies?
That would be a great idea, since GitHub and TFS are Dummies themselve, today.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Android dominates market share but not yet developer wallets. This may be about to change. "On average, developers target 2.9 different platforms for mobile development." Wheee
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Meh. None for me, thanks.
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"Now you can leverage the power of speech-to-speech translations from any Windows device", Microsoft says. "Simply speak into your device by using the microphone feature to place orders or ask for directions and hear the translated words in a native speaker's accent". "I will not buy this record, it is scratched"
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Cool!
Shuvro
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Oh dear... There are so many sources for failures.
How good is Microsoft's speech recognition currently?
What about languages which are a little more complicated for speech recognition, e.g. German, or can be hardly mastered, e.g. Hungarian?
Does translation still involve translation to English as a step in the translation process from e.g. German to Dutch?
And what about languages with quite different structures - e.g. translating between Thai and a European language (for a good translation, you have to understand the meaning of the sentence, and reproduce that meaning in the other language, rather than sticking to the individual words)?
On the other hand, we got used to funny texts of instruction manuals ...
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AMD says Kaveri has 2.4 billion transistors, or basic building blocks of electronics, and 47 percent of them are aimed at better, high-end graphics.
Looks like a fight to the death between Intel's Edison and AMD's Kaveri for processor supremacy.
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Does this technology mean that a PC using it won't need a graphics card?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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In a ruling that has significant implications for the future of the internet, an appeals court has ruled that the FCC cannot impose so-called “net neutrality rules.” All bits are not (apparently) created equal
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If you’re curious about developing for the cloud, considering a move to the cloud, or are new to cloud development, you’ll find in this e-book a concise overview of the most important concepts and practices you need to know. The concepts are illustrated with concrete examples, and each chapter links to other resources for more in-depth information. From his red shirt, to you
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