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GeneralRe: New, more-powerful IoT botnet infects 3,500 devices in 5 days Pin
Shuqian Ying2-Nov-16 8:03
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NewsMicrosoft and Unity entice devs to port their games to the Windows Store with $100,000 Contest Pin
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NewsMicrosoft launches Minecraft: Education Edition, priced at $5 per user per year Pin
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NewsFor and against and for software craftsmanship Pin
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Quote:
He points out that in a craft such as, for instance, cathedral-building, the work is intrinsically beautiful in its own right. In contrast, using the same sort of stone as was used in the cathedral to build a bridge, the goal is to make the bridge sturdy and utilitarian, such that people don’t even notice it.


The way that bridges and Cathedrals are made (when made from stone) are almost exactly the same and in both cases it was thus so as to make the maximum amount of structure from the minimum amount of mass (because in masonry, weight is cost) which is exactly how you should do software too.

If elegance is an emergent property of that, then so much the better.
NewsActiveState adds enterprise editions of Ruby, Node, Go, and Lua Pin
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NewsMicrosoft Edge is way more secure than Chrome and Firefox Pin
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NewsAWS public cloud is twice as big as Microsoft, Google, IBM combined Pin
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NewsMicrosoft stops selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to computer makers Pin
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NewsNASA is crowdsourcing ideas to study the surface of the Moon Pin
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NewsPeople who use Facebook live longer, study finds Pin
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