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Adobe renamed its Creative Cloud software Flash Professional to Animate as it downplays Flash, which is under fire in many camps, and pivots to HTML5 with its messaging. Flash Professional was already used for HTML5 animations. News Flash! Adobe solves 100% of Flash security problems
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a turd by any other name still smells as foul
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"Cosmologists should be more skeptical of dark matter" [^].
"The sobering fact is that either 96 per cent of the Universe is unknown to us or we are completely wrong about the way we think the Universe works. Either way, cosmology is far from finished: we have a lot to work out." An interesting brief essay that questions the entire current scientific mainstream "quest" for dark energy/dark matter. I found the mention of Francis Bacon's (1620) epistemological paradigm, the four "idols of the mind," fascinating.
Aeon, Stuart Clark: "Stuart Clark is an astronomy journalist and the author of several books about space, both non-fiction and fiction, including The Unknown Universe (2008). He writes the blog Across the Universe for the Guardian."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 30-Nov-15 22:20pm.
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The physicist predicts densities of up to 1 billion times greater than normal. That would explain why it's been so obvious all these years
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"may" is such a wonderful word in reporting since you can follow it with anything.
Huge clumps of dead souls may lie just beyond the moon!
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This release enables async/await by default for ECMAScript 6 (ES6) targets. It also adds support for polymorphic 'this' typing, proposed ECMAScript 2016 exponentiation syntax, and ES6 module targeting. your with for debugging async pleasure Now
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...Compiles to javascript for runtime and debugging in the browser. Yup. Still turtleselephants all the way down.
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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Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. My bar for "fun" is set a little higher
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Languages that use $ always remind me of BASIC.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Languages that use $ always remind me of BASIC
That's the least of the problems with Perl.
Kevin
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A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Who needs a Setup Wizard now? We've got an interactive window!
I kind of thought we already had that, but I guess this is different from the Immediate window.
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Yay! Finally support for K&R style[^] in C# properties/events/accessors. I don't know how many hours I've spent wasted just to get the parenthesis of those members "right". This feature alone is worth the update.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: K&R style
Blech. I'm an Allman guy.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm an Allman guy. Nothing wrong with it. The good thing is that the IDE doesn't get in the way of K&R people anymore and now kind of respects whatever style we prefer (or have to obey due to guidelines). It's an improvement that has long been overdue.
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Physical distance determines how the bad behaviour of managers spreads to employees, research shows. Not true! I sit 420km from my nearest boss, and I'm a lousy worker.
What a strange coincidence about that distance...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I sit 420km from my nearest boss
No wonder you get so much done.
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Not true! I sit 420km from my nearest boss, and I'm a lousy worker. No, that is the point, you work your way and it is efficient. No need to work the way your boss says.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Quote: "If someone kicks a dog right in front of you, it’ll make you very mad," said Gijs van Houwelingen, a researcher at the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.
"But if you hear about someone somewhere in the world kicking a dog, you probably won’t feel as mad about it."
Can you take anything a Pysch/Sociology researcher who has never heard of a social media lynch mob says seriously? I can't.
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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Code is for communication. Good code is clear code. Clever code is crap. "Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Code is for communication. Good code is clear code. Clever code is crap.
Unless you work alone and even then, often true.
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True - in that case you're communicating with yourself in six months (when your - or at least my - usual reaction is, "What idiot wrote this code?")
TTFN - Kent
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Six months? How about six minutes between the time you write and the time you debug it?
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Forgetaboutit! I've seen places where coding by obscurity makes you a "lead architect". Hell, when no one know what the f*** is it you wrote, it makes you indispensable.
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SD Times[^]: wrote: Code is for communication. No it is not. Code is a representation of the steps needed to solve a particular problem in a definite time, which must be read from a machine. Whether this is a multistep execution (code->compiler->linker->loader) or a single one (machine code) the substance is that.
Documentation is for communication, not code.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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