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Actually, it's not. Once you know how to write code, all languages are essentially the same, and simply have different syntactic differences. It's actually harder to learn the platform and frameworks for which you write code. For example, desktop apps versus embedded apps versus web apps versus mobile apps. All of those platforms impose their own unique requirements.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Once you know how to write code, all languages are essentially the same
Not quite true, IMO. There are fundamental differences in mindset between procedural languages such as FORTRAN, Pascal, C, object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, C#, and declarative languages such as Prolog.
Within each family, I would agree that if you've learnt one, you've learnt them all. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: and declarative languages such as Prolog
I've just started a course on language design concepts and Prolog is mentioned as a logical language. I hadn't heard of logical languages, but the book notes I may have heard of it and gives Prolog as the only example 
I mostly agree with you though. Except that C++ requires knowledge of pointers and memory whereas this is handled for you in C# and Java.
And then there are type safe languages and loosely typed languages such as JavaScript, which could require some learning (and I've seen programmers coming from both ways make errors).
And so each language has this 'thing' that makes you go like "we'd best not use this for a serious program just yet..."
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How are you doing with all the storms down there?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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No storms where I live.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's good. We had the one that blew things all over.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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2015 was the year open source software gained new significance, thanks to Apple and Google and Elon Musk. So, this year was The Year of Linux and I missed it?
Yeah, yeah, Open Source != Linux
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As we considered adding a dedicated tool for working with databases and SQL, we felt it was necessary to better understand how developers used databases. SELECTively? (I'll get my coat)
Caution: May not load in Chrome (at least it doesn't for me)
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They didn't ask me. 
Such tools continue to be mere crutches for they who don't have confidence in their abilities (probably rightly so). Which is fine, expect for that the users don't realize that they are crippling their growth as developers. Developers must get their hands dirty with hand-crafting their SQL themselves.
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My thinking has always been that when a new person sits down to learn node, python, ruby, golang, whatever, for the most part their experience is something like this. It should be just as easy - or easier - to use .NET. Just like developing on Unix, in a new .NET flavour!
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Ohhh... he wants a modern version of the VAX BASIC (or BASICplus on PDP) interactive environment? That was cool, but I thought we had evolved from that.
I, for one, really dislike using huge IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio) just to whip up some small one-off command-line utility, but something like the Turbo-C and Turbo-Pascal IDEs is what I prefer.
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Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and former speech writer for Bill Gates offered tantalizing details around Redmond’s phone hardware efforts, yielded no concessions on the relentless and unclear upgrade push in Windows 7 and 8, and spun Azure as being light years ahead of Google and Oracle’s business cloud efforts. The next one is always the best ever
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In theory, the Internet of Things—the connected network of tiny computers inside home appliances, household objects, even clothing—promises to make your life easier and your work more efficient. Because their things hate your things (and vice versa)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: promises to make your life easier and your work more efficient.
The same line we were fed in the 70's and 80's. And 90's and 00's.
Given the process that I just went through in buying a house, computers have made life a lot more complicated and a lot less efficient. I'm not going to defend the point other than to say that, without computers, the amount of information I've been asked to acquire simply wouldn't be possible. And without computers, archiving that information where no one will ever look at it, but where somewhere, some clerk had to click a checkbox to say "yes, I provided a document explaining my change of employment from contract to W2, yes it was confirmed in writing by my employer, yes, they received a verbal acknowledgement that I was still employed, yes, they know I work in NY while their offices are in CA, yes, they are just fine with that"...and this was just the tip of the iceberg of crap the lender needed...
My brainless toaster with its analog toast knob and ticky timer is quite efficient enough for me, thank you.
Marc
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So how big was it all the way back then, some 13.8 billion years ago? Unfortunately, it took 13.799 billion years before we had quality tape measures
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He shows his math(s) 
TTFN - Kent
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Math isn't proof; just ask an accountant or two.
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TTFN - Kent
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Silly physicists. The universe was as big then as it is now.
Think about it.
Marc
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You're neglecting the Inflationary phase (assuming it existed).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Archive still being expanded. Once completed we can re zip and see how big it was originally.
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the observable Universe, at 13.8 billion years old, extends for 46.1 billion light years in all directions from us
So, this guy thinks we are the center of the universe? He is back in the dark ages?
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ComScore just recently released it’s desktop search share numbers for the month of November, measuring each search engine’s share of the U.S market, and Microsoft continues it’s slow but steady march towards dethroning Google from its mantle. Amazing what happens when people who can't change their search engine install Windows 10
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So without doing any calculation I must assume this article is totally flawed...
In 2014 all market shares add up to 100%, in 2015 ONLY Microsoft changes and it somehow still adds up to 100%!?
Now doing the math it seems 2014 only adds up to 99.9%, so I'm guessing 0.1% of the population got a 404?
Oh wait, this is Microsoft-news.com... That explain it 
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