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YES.
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Lectures: 4 - 7
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zid
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It's nothing to do with having an open mind, silverlight was guaranteed to NEVER work on x86/x64 linux, ARM linux, etc. Flash barely works on them as it is, why would such a retrograde step in terms of useability be taken?
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jakobx
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Tart? was cunt already taken or what?
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HelterSkeletor
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Very interesting idea. Seems like it would help with teaching concepts to beginners.
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jkreijkamp
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*hug* Microsoft! If Microsoft, like Apple with iOS, makes Flash a second class citizen on the web, web builders will think twice before using Flash for something on a page that can be easily done without Flash. I'm all in favour of this! Kudos MS. Windows 8 could be the first time I want to switch from Mac OS X, not really because of this no-flash thing, but because MS is finally focusing on making a usable UI, instead of a candy thing like Vista/7 and ditching Win32 is something that was long overdue.
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jasonthe
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Actually, the compiler guys are kicking ASS. The IDE guys are the ones lagging behind (VS 2010 is a travesty in terms of performance and it doesn't look like this will be better). But check out the features they're adding, especially AMP: http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/library/hh409293%28v=VS.110%29.aspx I do wish there were some more C++11 support (variadic templates, initializer lists, constexpr, range-based for loop)
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rizla7
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well after all AJAX is asynchronous javascript and active x. lmao :D "The concept behind the XMLHttpRequest object was originally created by the developers of Outlook Web Access (by Microsoft) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000.[4]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest simply put, if its web-based (in the browser), use dotnet its fastest for RAD. most popular for web-based games is either JS for simple stuff or flash/actionscript. java games went out of fashion 15 years ago. if it's not web-based, then you'll have to elaborate. but as djnattyp stated, use what you know.
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smek2
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Have a read of [this](http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html). Lengthy but worth it.
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zid
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>The only reason it was guaranteed to never work on Linux is because the open source community went all huff'n'puff and refused to support Moonlight, claimed Microsoft would sue They still can, and I wouldn't put it past them. Look at FAT and TomTom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_extend_extinguish
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antonivs
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> So the only reason people dismiss Mono, Silverlight and basically anything Microsoft came up with is petty fanboyism. Oh, nonsense. The plugin model on the web was always a bad hack, from the moment Java first introduced the idea of applets. Why do you think Microsoft is moving away from it in Metro? Petty Linux fanboyism?
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skwisgaar_explains
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Do you think that writes more words wills make you less a dildos?
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dissidents
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> the open source community went all huff'n'puff and refused to support Moonlight The open-source community is not a monolith of beast of bias and hatred for Microsoft. It all comes down to the licensing and the patents. There are serious problems with including it in free software distributions. [Hazahh.](http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#Moonlight)
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This is the most bloated thing I've ever seen in bloatware, I'm glad to see that Microsoft still hasn't changed its ways.
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The worse acronym award should goes to C++ Standard Lib. (STD - Sexual Transmitted Diseases in case you don't know)
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ssam
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This reminds me a lot of Vala: http://www.vala-project.org/
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arbn
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I would argue that teaching mathematical and logical reasoning is more important than 'programming thinking', if only because of the wider applicability and the constructive effect on a child's ability to reason generally. If formal reasoning methods were taught to everyone at a younger age, I think the ability to code well (for those who desired it) would come naturally.
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zid
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To extend then extinguish
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MagicBobert
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Glad they spent their time making very important things like a 3D model viewer instead of doing, you know, things that matter, like improving the huge performance problems with the IDE and bringing back all the features they stripped out for C++ developers.
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elbekko
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What a place to put that! Thanks.
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Otis_Inf
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Since when is the meaning of a given state a matter of 'taste' ?
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dissidents
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You sound like a Microsoft apologist who can't come to grips with the fact that Microsoft has shit over countless platforms they've introduced in the last several years, at the expensive of both users and developers. People look at everything they produce with a ton of skepticism because of that track record. It's a terrible negative stigma on their brand. No developers will trust it nearly as much anymore. I wouldn't have dared trust Silverlight when it was introduced, and I'm glad I didn't waste any time with it. Regardless of how advanced you might think it is, it failed. Microsoft will end up barely supporting it on the desktop, they won't waste a cent porting it over to mobile platforms where even Flash performs awful, and it'll die a slow and painful death like ActiveX did.
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dissidents
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I'm sorry, I think you missed the link in my comment. Instead of replying to the link, you made inconclusive statements that are completely irrelevant to your point and don't substantiate your argument at all. Must have been a mistake.
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MarshallBanana
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Because... you aren't? I am unaware of making any argument that Java or C# does everything the most readable way.
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1427602893
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gshutler
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If they wanted to avoid the Linux problem and make it accessible to the developers who don't work on a Windows machine, the developers who tend to build the sites their plugin is aimed at, then they should have created the plugin for Linux themselves and not rely on a community effort. Much like they've contributed drivers for Hyper-V or whatever it was to Linux to aid the adoption of their technology. Silverlight was a lazy, half-arsed effort that has only been embraced by B2B/internal applications as it's an easier to deploy WPF.
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jseigh
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Designing a multi-threaded system to be scalable is something you have to do from the start. Doing it after the fact is at best one big headache. There are more interesting things to do if you are knowledgeable in this area. So most systems/languages with giant global locks are likely to remain toast. So if you are starting a new project, don't think you can add in scalable multi-threading after the fact. Not unless you like pain and lots of it.
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pozorvlak
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I see no difference, tbh. Code == maths. Logic is best taught via coding.
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cc81
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Eh, as a user of both Windows 7 and OS X I find that 7 is more usable. 1. Explorer is way better than finder. 2. The dock, while beautiful, is worse than the Windows 7 taskbar. 3. Easier to see if a program is open or not in Windows 7.
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AReallyGoodName
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I'm sure it'll be similar to the separate 3D mesh, pixel and texture applications that have been in the DirectX SDK since DirectX8. The only new thing I can see is that it's now a tab in the IDE. So expect very basic functionality at best.
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blambear23
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Why would Microsoft release an IDE as good as VS for any other operating systems? They put the hard work into it so people develop applications for Windows, to keep users with Windows so they can get more money.
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c2k15ds
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king_of_the_universe
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:/ thx
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[deleted]
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Plugins, no, but via JavaScript? You bet! It means that the reader is sandboxed so that it won't be a complete resource hog when you're not using it (*cough* Acrobat *cough*), try to install malware (*cough* every other windows program comes with a toolbar *cough*), or have additional security holes.
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astrobe
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Maybe it would be a good idea to restructure it into smaller objects, just like one refactors large functions.
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dissidents
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> Silverlight runs on Windows Phone 7 :) I shouldn't have stated "mobile platforms" in general, when I meant ARM (in response to what you said in your comment above). It is no feat at all that Silverlight works on Windows Phone 7, that required little work on Microsoft's part.
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c2k15oh
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I'd rather not rely on browser vendors to implement PDF. The Chrome PDF implementation is broken on a wide range of systems, and the team does not seem to care. Having a JavaScript implementation is less work for everybody.
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False
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c2k15p3
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c2k15ti
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1427602911
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t5_2fwo
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dissidents
null
No, it demonstrated that only Novell has been given the inclusive rights to distribution of software that uses their patents. Meaning Fedora cannot possibly add Moonlight to their distribution, because they haven't been granted the ability to do so safely through covenant. If you think intellectual property infringement and license violation aren't serious risks for open-source projects, you need to open your eyes.
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c2k15vm
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[deleted]
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Ever since you started claiming things that are not in the language specification.
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c2k15vs
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1427602908
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RizzlaPlus
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If you say code == math, then what is the need to teach programming since we already teach math at school?
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False
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c2k15xk
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flussence
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> They gave Novell money They also gave SCO $20m via Baystar Capital.
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False
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1316083589
False
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c2k1621
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1427602911
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1316083627
False
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c2k1671
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astrobe
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> xs = 1 : 2 : 3 : xs List abuse. All I see is a periodic function.
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emjay101
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your coughing doesn't sound good, better check on it.
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flussence
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For someone claiming not to be a Microsoft apologist, you sure do have a lot of dismissive emoticons and vague pro-MS handwaving *in every single comment*.
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Otis_Inf
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That's syntaxis. In general these things aren't specified in grammar, as there's no need to. E.g. in SQL 'NULL' means 'not defined', yet it's not in the grammar as such. That's not a matter of 'taste', it's a matter of what it actually means. But sorry I stepped on your sore tows, nowant
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Oh, I don't hates Moonlight. I am glads for the plugin to exists. Granted, I ams not runs Mono myself. But you ams just comes off as a dildo, maybe for imply among reason Linux community ams stagnate ams for not being enthusiastic to adopts a technology whats Microsoft ams hardly supports in any real ways for us... Totally, ams better than Adobe Flash. But can I gets Moonlight to work for anything, really? Nope, and ams hardly anything I woulds need it for, except maybe Netflix which ams dildos whats needs proprietary Silverlight anyway. Mostly though, something about longwinded reply of yours was, well dildos. I cannot say you was being a dick, but if not the real thing at least something likes it.
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> API is discoverable and predictable while the problems you point to is really caused by a lack of any formal API or documentation. Hahaha. No. Concrete example: a couple of days ago, I sat down to write a git extension. Git is a very hackable system; it's also a very well-documented system. I have a reasonably good grasp of how it works under the hood, at least in general terms. The actual algorithm I wanted to implement is *very* simple; if I ever finish this thing I reckon it will come out to under 50 lines of code, and I could describe its operation in maybe three sentences and a simple diagram. What actually happened? Well, I spent the next few hours reading documentation! By the end of the afternoon I'd learned a lot, and had written the core of my program, but it was nowhere near complete. And the hard part wasn't expressing the algorithm - that was easy - it was extracting the data I needed.
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I don't think you know how such development works. Microsoft did not have to rewrite their entire codebase, if anything they only had to support a different UI framework and different OS APIs. They couldn't even port everything, the Silverlight available on WP7 is (effectively) two or three versions behind the desktop version in terms of functionality.
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jmkogut
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It is a bad restriction yes. It's one that would convince me to avoid the platform altogether.
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Olap
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Learning to code is going to be useful to some. Teaching to think logically is useful to all, and best taught via coding my arse. Go read about truth tables, grey code, boolean algebra, systems approach, state machines, formal logic, set theory, linear algebra...
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dissidents
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> If you think Microsoft can sue a standard they created and gave away to an independent body ... You're joking, right? You think that has any impact on their patents or licensing?
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Or just use an enum kPlayerState and an union for state-specific fields.
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DaFox
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Could you explain why it's so bad? Obviously you want to NULL the pointer so that it doesn't accidentally get used but if you're reassigning it to something else right away what exactly does that change?
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The grammar is the simplest part of most language specifications. The meaning of null is defined by the semantics of the language. Anyway, I didn't mean to be mean, but you did ask a "since when..." question ;-)
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alanzeino
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Unfortunately, yes. But, iOS sees a 75% upgrade-rate for major versions within the first thirty days on the part of users; so I tend to drop support after a few months. ARC supports 4.3, So you can at least use that for any old users.
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hater_gonna_hate
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Chrome handles PDFs just fine without external plugins
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AReallyGoodName
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Agreed. I really don't get the positivity to this in this thread. The mesh viewer has been part of the DirectX SDK for a long time. In fact, the mesh, pixel and texture viewers have been part of the DirectX SDK bundle since DirectX8. They are separate applications in the SDK directory though as they should be. They aren't bundled up as a tab in the IDE for no good reason.
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RizzlaPlus
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I disagree, your article is under the assumption that everyone is intelligent enough to learn how to code. A lot of people struggle with simple maths, a lot of people don't even care about maths. Why would you when an excel spreadsheet does a lot of things automagically? The same applies with programming, why do you need to know how to program when you can pay someone to do it for you? It's an engineering science, when would you need to buy a house? It's such a rare situation that it's cheaper to pay someone then learn it. The same applies with programming, I don't think people need new software so regularly that they need to know how to program.
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Sc4Freak
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Er, Moonlight is under the Microsoft Community Promise, which is a legally binding patent rights grant (i.e. a Covenant Not to Sue). So, no, they *can't* sue Moonlight.
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ActionScript3 (Flash's type-safe JavaScript) uses the colon notation to indicate return types. I agree it is cleaner than arrow operators out of nowhere
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sodiumlaurethsulfate
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That looks really interesting (and very welcome) - thanks for the info!
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antrn11
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No, we obviously need singleton pattern here!
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jazimov
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Finder has to be about the worst file manager I've ever used (other than ancient versions of explorer).
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5-4-3-2-1-bang
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...but we're not talking about Chrome, we're talking about IE10 in Mario mode or whatever MS is calling it. I mean, that's nice and all that Chrome does that. But if you have to switch to desktop mode to launch chrome in the first place, it's hardly relevant to the discussion at hand.
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pozorvlak
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I know about all of that stuff. And most of it I learned through coding. The bits that I learned in maths class (formal logic, set theory, linear algebra) were easy or trivial to learn because of my coding background. Also, I explicitly address the "learning to code is going to be useful to some" point in my post. That's the whole point of the post, in fact.
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Thue
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> If you think Microsoft can sue a standard they created and gave away to an independent body you need to stop being a fanboy ;) If you think this isn't a risk, then you should read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies . SCO was a company which suddenly decided to turn around and sue all its own customers for all they could. Which Microsoft deliberately funded to continue the litigation, btw. Hence the current bad will against including anything which is not legally perfectly safe. Instead of relying on "Microsoft are nice guys, they won't sue us".
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sztomi
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You know, you have valid points, but you just wrote four HUGE walls of text about Notch being a bad programmer.
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gimenete
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Hi, I'm the author of the project. I have added the license terms in each file I have created. Any suggestion is welcome. I just want anybody to be able to use it without limitations, just keeping the copyright notice. The project is just a few days old and I just didn't worry about the license terms. I didn't expect it to be published in reddit.
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rizla7
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most people will run their tablets in desktop mode lol. not trying to poke fun at you but, welcome to reality! :D 'apps' are poor excuses for full applications, and i really see no point in 'Metro'... people will just use apps like they always have - using their desktop/taskbar/start menu. its not a legacy app, and won't be for many years to come. to consider it as such would mean that most websites have moved away from flash/ax. this is simply an unrealistic expectation. flash will be around for, and companies use custom activex controls, more than you might think. flash isn't just a 'video player', it also animates and scripts raster/vector graphics and is often used for web-based games that can't be done in JS, or for applications where there is simply no alternative available. i'm sure html5 can accomplish *most* of these functions, but not all of them, so something else will have to fill that gap before we can retire flash/activex or other plugins.
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pozorvlak
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While code == math, cod*ing* the activity also involves the practical skill of getting that code into a computer. That is itself a useful skill; more importantly, it's a prerequisite for the mass-algorate society that I yearn to live in, and it's more applicable than most of the maths that's taught at school. When did you last use trigonometry? And when did you last encounter a repetitive process that could be automated? The class of "problems that can be attacked with logic" is indeed larger than the class of "problems that can be attacked with automation" (while all maths is code, it's not all code that can run on a Turing machine...), but in order to learn the *habit* of attacking problems with logic, kids need examples of real-world problems where their logical skills are helpful.
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pietervriesacker
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It was a plugin, the web shouldn't need plugins, especially in HTML, CSS and JS's current state. Reason enough for me. quick edit: Everything that could be considered essential that's still missing from web technologies for now (rare, but for example camera and microphone support) can be provided by Flash which already has a large market penetration and decent cross platform support/performance.
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flussence
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This is nothing to do with Microsoft technologies. This is about Microsoft legal practices, and a 30 year culture of destroying competition through any means necessary. Don't shit where you eat.
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Yeah, this is why I don't bother googling for "std list" anymore. Well, that, and the fact that it's the most cache-unfriendly data structure, of course.
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Sicks3144
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I don't know whether you're right or wrong on this - I'm not informed enough on the subject in hand - but your general tone is considerably more arrogant and self-righteous than the majority of the retorts made against you. I doubt you'll be missed.
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axilmar
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Then tell me how this code compiles in standard c++: public ref class MyClass sealed { public: MyClass(){} ~MyClass(){} int MethodA(int i) { return i * i}; } Last time I checked, the above is not standard C++ code. C++ doesn't understand 'public ref' and 'sealed'.
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jugalator
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> The only reason it was guaranteed to never work on Linux is because the open source community went all huff'n'puff and refused to support Moonlight, claimed Microsoft would sue (after 7 years they still haven't) and now have just resorted to saying 'I'll never use it!' because that's just cool to say. Which is why he avoided Silverlight -- due to the Linux community's stance? Nothing you say here explains why he should have tried out Silverlight.
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axilmar
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You will remember me when you will be called to develop applications for Windows 8. It will be the time that you will curse Microsoft for all the little proprietary extensions they have put in C++, and all the complexities of their APIs.
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z999
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I see what you did there...
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Sicks3144
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So bring facts, not insults with snide smileys as suffixes. Take the higher road you seem to cherish.
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Franciscouzo
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I don't know if it works properly, but [here's one](http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/)
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