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Kent Sharkey wrote: All the big announcements will be on the last day
Without doubts biggest announcements will be on April 1st. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Never underestimate the power of spreadsheets. But boss. I am working, look, it's just a spreadsheet
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The screenshots didn't make me to change my decision and call Office (Excel) back...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, it doesn't exactly need a high end video card.
TTFN - Kent
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Source will be available from January, and open to community contributions. I wonder if they'll accept a pull request to convert it to C#?
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They hop someone will able to improve it finally...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Do you think my tiny PC will have the juice to build the entire source code?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I wonder if they'll accept a pull request to convert it to C#?
I wonder how many trolls will submit pull requests that consist of deleting the entire existing code base and replacing it with Google V8 or Mozilla Spidermonkey.
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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This change aligns with the licensing scheme now used for SQL Server, among others. Time to dig up those old Pentium severs
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Microsoft has published a collection of predictions from sixteen employees they consider to be “leading thinkers” within their Technology and Research organization. Flying cars. Aaaaaaany day now.
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Quantum computing?? Yea, no. Stick to silicon, it is way predictable.
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Why just take their money when we could also take their blood ? [^]. Google's patent application: [^].
«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.
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Everyone can do what they want... but for me... this and other similar are the reasons why I am delaying every time the decision of buying a smart whatsoever even more...
Sticking to laptop and Win 7 as much as I can. All the rest... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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For what it's intended for, it is a rather interesting idea. And it looks like it may actually catch on, due to how little pain it is supposed to cause.
I know several diabetics, and the main reason they hate measuring glucose levels is the pain the needles can cause.
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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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: For what it's "officially" intended for, it is a rather interesting idea
FTFY
The idea is not bad... what I am afraid of is all what will be done in the background.
They will not only have access to your usage data of the internet, they will have access to your biometrics as well. Scary...
Someone need to set a limit.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The VC++ team is excited to preview a new feature in VS 2015 Update 1: The first experimental implementation of A Module System for C++, proposed for C++17. "Modules allow you to express the symbolic dependency your component is taking on providers of functionalities it needs, and the boundary of that dependency, directly in code." Oh, well that makes perfect sense then.
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C++ modules are a whole bucket-load more flexible than the VB counterpart, I'm glad to say. They have a whole bunch of issues of their own - such as the ability to hold code intended to be expanded inline in the call-site.
The big plus is that, when standardised, we'll finally get to see reasonable compilation times for large C++ projects.
Whoop!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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faster compilation is, for me, not the most important aspect of modules.
Isolation, encapsulation and componentization that will enable more effective reuse and maintainability are more important, IMHO.
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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That is a spectacularly bad explanation.
C++ modules will be a technical feat. Unlike other languages, C++ has to handle inline expansion at call-site, a bucket-load of backward-compatibility issues (largely caused by the C preprocessor).
The bottom-line is that when implemented fully, we should see compile-times reduce by an order of magnitude or more.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Do you know where I could find a good explanation then? Also is the order of magnitude speedup a theoretical estimate; or from actual speedups seen from porting major existing code bases?
After reading MSDNs fail, I was left going "WTF does this do that #include WTE.h doesn'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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They basically combine the role of headers and object files, and eliminate the need to parse millions of lines of code to compile a small program due to standard headers. (or they will once the library is updated). See the link I posted in reply to Dan below.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Try. Doug McGregor's overview, linked here. Modules[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Thanks.
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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