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YouTube gets its own anti-social network with the launch of YouTube Community.
FTFY
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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obligatory XKCD[^]
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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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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Microsoft recently announced that they would be making changes to the Bing Rewards program; the company is changing the name, and how it operates, to Microsoft Rewards and we are now learning new details about the service. Temptation for those who have said, "I wouldn't use Edge if they payed me."
Not *completely* a duplicate, there is more info on this one (plus that was back in August)
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Gosh, they'll do anything for love.
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Ron Anders wrote: they'll do anything for love.
You mean they'll buy you gifts to make you love them? Sounds like they are a man. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Every C++ developer knows that std::string represents a sequence of characters in memory. It manages its own memory, and is very intuitive to use. How long is a string (and other koans)
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But then if you have to pass the string outside its own C++ domain it's a PITA and char[] still are the best solution.
I kind of like the STL, but I can't actually use it anywhere if not in the innermost classes, the ones which aren't managed from outside...
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Researchers have designed a new programming language that lets application developers manage memory more efficiently in programs that deal with scattered data points in large data sets. In tests on several common algorithms, programs. I like big data, I cannot lie...
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Oh, so there is a silver bullet after all.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Henceforth thou shall be knowst as Sir Kent-A-Lot!
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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NetBeans is moving to Apache, but it will continue to focus on the areas it has focused on while sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Oracle. For those who ask, "How do you kill something already dead?"
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Oracle and Novell, the great murderers of tech ideas and software.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Novell was fine until SCO Unix sued and Eric Schmidt became CEO. The was the beginning of the end. 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Novell was fine until SCO Unix sued and Eric Schmidt became CEO
The decline started well before Schmidt and was mainly due to Novell's IPX not being free and Microsoft's TCP/IP network being "free". Of course, his stupid move to sue Novell's resellers caused most of them to drop Netware like a ticking nuclear bomb. However, the real death march of Novell happened because of the merger with Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) and with new CEO Jack Messman (from CTP). He tried to turn Novell from a software company into a consulting company (like CTP is/was) and fired anyone who opposed him. Which basically meant all of the top management of Novell. That head chopping spree accelerated Novell's decline. Customers left in droves after that.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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I have used NetBeans a couple times over the last few years and have no complaints. Personally I like it better than Eclipse, which in my experience is prone to obscure configuration mess-ups that can take anything from a full rebuild to a fresh install to fix. I hope the move to Apache ensures it will remain maintained for the foreseeable future – I know it didn't quite work out that well for OpenOffice, but in that case I think its decline has more to do with LibreOffice stealing its momentum.
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xperroni wrote: LibreOffice stealing its momentum.
LibreOffice happened because of assinine moves by Oracle. Some time after the LibreOffice fork was created Oracle threw-in the towel and "donated" OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation. But, it was too late, the damage was done. Oracle only has themselves to blame. Same with NetBeans. Oracle has a bad and extremely arrogant reputation.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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It's arguable that LibreOffice stole momentum from OpenOffice - free fall is still momentum 
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Except that LibreOffice wouldn't have happened without Oracle's fvckup first. Thus no decline and no momentum stealing would have occurred. Hence OpenOffice's decline is primarily linked to Oracle and not LibreOffice.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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I didn't put the joke icon, my bad: I was saying that Oracle made OpenOffice fall out of the window and LibreOffice stole momentum from its freefall, i.e. avoiding that OpenOffice splattered down on the concrete.
I admit it was a convoluted joke, surely lost in translation.
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 I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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ah, totally agreed. And, yes, I completely missed that... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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xperroni wrote: I like it better than Eclipse
Isn't that like saying you prefer horse sh*t over cow sh*t?
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Despite all the phones and tablets out there, Texas Instruments' graphing calculators continue to survive. The company's latest classroom tool even turns them into a device that can teach kids coding and engineering. Back in my day, the only thing productive you could plug into a computer was 0.7734
I actually didn't own one until mid-way through college, actually.
There was also that other one that teenage boys would use.
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Microsoft has announced that it will soon start blocking outdated versions of Adobe Flash Player from running in Internet Explorer on Windows 7. Why? What's wrong with running old versions of Flash?
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Well that is going to be a big pain for security researchers then.
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