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Anyone verified the umbrella guy's algorithms?
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Microsoft’s Skype software will start translating voice calls between people today. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
Best. Quote. Ever.
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"Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray."
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Shaka, when the walls fell...
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Refactoring is not a new technique yet still quite a hot topic. It became an indispensable tool in a programmer toolbox. There's more to it than right-clicking?
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How did a non-clickbait article that took more than 5 minutes to type end up on infoq?
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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Even a broken clock...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It became an indispensable tool in a programmer toolbox.
You mean before refactoring, people didn't have to clean up their prototype code, re-architect something for better performance, or change something because user requirements changed? Code was actually flowcharted, story boarded, and, horror of horrors, designed first ???
Wow. Now I have something else to blame Martin Fowler for -- refactoring has seriously degraded the quality of code that people used to write!
Oh wait, I just stated the obvious.
Marc
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Streem could end up being the basis for future Ruby upgrades, while Mochi brings key functional programming features to Python. A stream-based programming language? That will never fly!
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Mochi is a dynamically typed programming language for functional programming and actor-style programming.
Matz should not be allowed to create languages.
Marc
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Privacy regulators in the Netherlands announced Monday that they have imposed an "incremental penalty payment" against Google for violating Dutch data protection law, which could be as much as €15 million ($18.7 million). That's about 2 seconds of their income? Should make them notice.
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We have had an absolute deluge of problem updates from Redmond recently and some have been serious. What's up at Microsoft? "When compared to software that has not been subject to the SDL, software that has undergone the SDL has experienced a significantly reduced rate of external discovery of security vulnerabilities."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's up at Microsoft?
All the technical people have left and all that are left are mid-level managers.
They are scurrying around in the empty cubicles and cannot understand why that alone doesn't fix the technical problems. "Oh bother. Oh, oh, bother. What's a manager to do? Think, think, think. I keep scurrying through the hallways but still nothing seems to work. Oh, bother."
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Sadly, I think you may have provided the actual answer (combined with a dozen or so contractors, already planning on a new job elsewhere).
And of course meetings! Meetings solve everything.
TTFN - Kent
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A wheeled Lego robot may not look like a worm, but it "thinks" like one after programmers gave it the neuron connections in a C. elegans roundworm. "It's alive. It's alive!"
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I’ve been wondering if our problem is that we don’t listen. When it comes to exchanging technical ideas, I think overall we’re not good at really listening to each other. At the very least, I think we’re bad at making people feel heard. "And girls just want to have fun"
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I don't believe this to be true!
Biased mode off: Yes, this is true. We donot listen to each other and we think we're the bests.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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All I heard was "blah blah blah".
If you really want to be heard, write an article for CP.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: At the very least, I think we’re bad at making people feel heard.
A universal problem, not limited to developers.
Marc
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If you believe in any of these myths, or have colleagues who perpetuate them, this short article is for you. Several of these myths have been true for someone, for some task, at some time. However, with today’s C++, using widely available up-to date ISO C++ 2011 compilers, and tools, they are mere myths. The "+" does not stand for "value"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The "+" does not stand for "value"
Which one doesn't?
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Dang, must look into this!
TTFN - Kent
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Latest Windows 10 disclosure illustrates customer interest, says company manager. And I'm sure they will continue to feel that way after shipping
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The newly unveiled Design Language for Web and mobile doesn't lock people into predesigned templates, but it's also much less immediately useful. When you think beautiful design, you think ... IBM
OK, I actually really was a fan of CUA back in the day. But I had to admit I wanted to bite my eyes out while reading the IBM Design Language website: "The IBM Design Language is a set of living guidelines that communicates a brand promise through our products’ experiences.", "Be authentically thoughtful", and many more.
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