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Microsoft is simply following a strategy that makes large users of Android and Linux stop thinking of them as free. And by focusing on large users it also leaves small users, enthusiasts, researchers, etc. that are more likely to be hurt by a direct attack on Linux itself completely alone. I think it’s the right thing to do, though I don’t think it will change the market dynamics much at this point. You're probably violating a patent just by reading this.
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the Internet (including of course the World Wide Web and – more importantly for this discussion – Domain Name Systems) is one of the most important inventions of all time, yet we are having trouble coming up with names for new websites just 27 years later. The web is unsustainable in its current form. ...because all the good domains are taken? Um, no.
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Quote: Perhaps we need a way to navigate to websites without requiring the use of a unique identifier such as domain names
Time to bring back Geocities! 
Actually, there are plenty of domain names out there. And when people die, I imagine they will probably not own their domains any longer. Supposing planets have a limited number of people they can sustain, that means we need a very finite number of domains (because there are limited people to use them and they can be recycled).
If we ever move to another planet, we can create a planet TLD (.com.earth, .com.mars, .com.space...).
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The process by which Windows has been localized has changed over the years. Back in the days of 16-bit Windows, Windows was developed with a single target language: English. Just English. After Windows was complete and masters were sent off to the factory for duplication, the development team handed the source code over to the localization teams. "Hey, by the way, we shipped a new version of Windows. Go localize it, will ya?" Parlez-vous Windows?
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I'm switching to a new default web browser today (i.e. the browser I use the most on my computer) and that put me in a reminiscing mood. So here are some screenshots of all of the browsers I've used as my default for the past 18 years. Is your site Lynx-compliant?
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They manage to push out a rather well put history of hacking, while keeping it short and easily consumable. Keep in mind this book focuses on “computer hacking” so they touch on the influence hackers like Steve Wozniak had on the computer industry. What the difference between “hacking” and “cracking” are, and even jump into how to safely practice “hacking” in your own home. All your bookshelf are belong to us.
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Programmers sought for tropical hackathon[^]
modified 29-Jul-12 5:57am.
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If they have power then they hopefully have good air conditioners! On a tropical island I would need an office, preferably with no distracting windows, kept at a steady 72 degrees otherwise no code would get written!
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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In the tropics, the plants grow faster.
You may need to hack through them several times to clear the land.
Are you handy with a machete?
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It appears you have posted in the wrong forum. Or maybe you meant to reply to this.
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Indeed I did, sorry.
The ceremony and a few beers made me forget that the lounge is not where it used to be.
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don't worry it is worthy of the "news" section.
Watched code never compiles.
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Dang beat me to it
Why is common sense not common?
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.
Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy
Please stand in front of my pistol, smile and wait for the flash - JSOP 2012
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I totally agree. My whole family sat down to watch at 7pm and we were still there at 1am. Hugely entertaining. Beijing may have been spectacular, but London beat them on charm, warmth and humour.
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We routinely attribute the long battery life and power of our tablets and tiny laptops to better hardware. However, in many cases, this better hardware runs software that is an order of magnitude faster than older software. For example, our web browsers feel faster because JavaScript interpreters are 10 to 20 times faster than the original ones.... We are also moving away from low-level programming and, yet, our software is still getting faster. I believe that a major understated trend in the last decade or so has been the increase in performance of the higher level languages. If your sole reason for using C++ is speed, and you lack the budget for intensive optimization, you might be misguided.
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Those simple math benchmarks are worthless for measuring performance of a language.
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There are ten pages of comments under that article saying basically the same thing.
You're right though, of course.
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If you *really* need performance, you need a low-level language. There is simply no way around it. Now, whether this low-level language needs to be C++ is a different story.
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_beauw_ wrote: And does this person really think browsers run faster these days? My experience is quite the opposite.
if web pages really are starting to average 1 MB[^] each, i think there's a good case to made against giving web developers higher-and-higher level tools.
we might all have a nice snappy web experience, if the pages weren't bloated monstrosities.
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Shh! Don't let the hamsters hear you say that - this page is over 200K of text, without the images it downloads...and I run adblock!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Messuring the speed of programming languages isn't easy, because it's depending on special cases, wether one language is faster or not.
In a software project on university I had to work on a graphical algorithm (that was nearly ten years ago) and I testet one algorithm with C# and C++. Allthough I optimized both algorithms as good as I could, the C++ algorithm was working 20 times faster (in special cases there was a factor of 100). But this was a special case.
Other algorithms aren't faster, when you use c++ but the development costs are higher. So it depends totally on the situation.
For GUIs I never would use C++. But often background algorithms are faster in C++ (of course not by factor 20 or more, but in many cases by factors between 3 and 10).
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How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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Yes, it really is - worth it I mean.
In the banking domain C++ is considered the only language for any serious calculations, and at CERN they stated "all related computing done in C++." after the Higgs boson experiment.
In my experience C++ is the best language available for modelling and solving problems efficiently.
What C++ lacks is a standardized library that covers UI, database, and many other tasks that we routinely have to work on - hopefully this will be remedied.
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