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Now if only they could slap some sense into those infuriating neophytes who think Git and GitHub are the same thing.
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You can dismiss the future as the naive cry of a Debbie Downer, or you can become part of that future I've been called worse
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How does this guy look at the last 30 years of IT and not see:
Expert Systems,
Fuzzy Logic,
Neural Networks,
Thin Clients,
Data Warehousing,
3G languages,
UMT,
SaaS,
Object Relational Databases,
Send the programming to India
and on and on.
No, but THIS one is different.
SOMEbody's been sold a bridge.
Makes me nauseous. I swear, it's time for the asteroid.
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Dang. Clicked on the upvote 15 times, but alas it only counted one.
I'm not sure if we're an industry of squirrels, or if it's just the press/pundits.
TTFN - Kent
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Squirrels have nuts; the press/pundits are nuts.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Minecraft creator Markus Persson has revealed that an Oculus Rift version of the game was potentially in the works, but following the sudden news that Facebook has acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion, that's no longer the case.
The townspeople are storming the castle with torches and pitchforks..
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Java 8 will enable new ways to access databases that are competitive with those of other programming languages such as C#’s LINQ. By 'revolutionize', they mean 'catch up'
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Did anyone ask them to?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I've been cursing the lack of a linq equivalent when forced to java for years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It already supports the most powerful and widely used database access technology - String concat()[^]
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Funnily, reading through that article I note that it actually uses lambda's as a Java feature - the rest are all provided by various database mapping technologies.
There's nothing there like LINQ at all - a standard query language that works seamlessly across many providers. So all that Java 8 introduces in this area is lambdas.
Still some catching up to do.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The cloud needs its own language, and Google's Go delivers. Or, you could just use a language you already know?
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"the cloud needs its own language"
stop. Steaming bunch of bullpucky. Just...no.
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Acquisition positions Facebook to accelerate Oculus’ growth in gaming, communications and new social experiences. First the drones, now this. I am officially freaked out.
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Mark, dude, focus.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Online society in which every one has a "face"?
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This is truly awful news. The big appeal of the Oculus Rift was being an open platform for developers on PC to create virtual worlds.
I just don't want anything to do with it with Facebook's record on data tracking and privacy.
I was just on the verge on buying a dev kit. Hopefully someone else will fill the rift left by this announcement.
Markus Persson (Notch), of Minecraft fame, put it well. "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version to Oculus," he wrote . "I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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5 or 10 years from now, will Facebook as a company even be defined by its social network anymore? Moves like this one, while on the surface don't make much sense, seem like they're part of a larger concerted effort to diversify as a tech company far beyond social.
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buying random companies like they are is driven by two things. Terror over what happened to MySpace, and the news articles reporting that teens are increasingly anathematizing the site.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I like to hope they've got more of a plan than this. But I just don't see it.
Hopefully they've got some missing puzzle piece that, when revealed, will make us all go "ooooh, THAT'S what ... okay, yeah. That makes sense."
And hopefully I'll have my own Pegasus to fly home.
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If Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad as expected this week, he'll signal the company's willingness to finally move beyond its heavy reliance on Windows. But will he go beyond that, and give some indication that this is just the first step in abandoning the company's all-Windows-all-the-time past? Ladies and gentlemen: your comedy item for the day
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Quote: This is something that should have happened a few years ago. Holding Office for iPad as a hostage in the tablet war didn't work out well for them. They have to start to undo this negative behavior
Hmmm, I wonder who fits the description of this behavior? Could it beeeeeee........BALMER!!
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Hahahahahahah whaaaaaat? Who writes these articles?
Office is already on Mac's, so why would it mean anything bad for Windows if Office becomes avaliable on iPad? It's already avaliable on Android. Some people just spew out anything to get a catchy headline.
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