Because everyone now is a programmer. You can program your phone to alert you for an event, schedule meetings store phone numbers and dial them, etc. The programming environment is the user interface. A developer actually writes the applications that can be used programmed by the average user.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

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In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

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"The challenge is to stop chocolate melting in warm climates by studying the "fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate"." M & M's aren't good enough anymore?

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

I came across this nearly a month ago as I was looking for a database to store session information in a web server I've been developing. I happened to be googling SQLite when UnQLite came up in the search results so I decided I would take a look at it. It has a pretty good key/value api and a built-in scripting language based on SpiderMonkey (Mozilla JavaScript) which allows you to store documents as JSON objects. There are some weaknesses with the document store but most of those you can get around. I've already done a proof of concept integration with my web server and I am looking at other uses for it.

m.bergman

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to another developer about games and Unity came up in the conversation and I had never heard of Unity before so I went to look it up and I found this page.[^] What really struck me was the following at the top of the page: "This content is outdated and is no longer being maintained. It is provided as a courtesy for individuals who are still using these technologies. This page may contain URLs that were valid when originally published, but now link to sites or pages that no longer exist."

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Kent Sharkey wrote:

"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me."

Unless they are on a performance evaluation form.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

I had heard that Window 8.1 is to 8.0 what Windows 7 was to Vista. I took that as a sign of encouragement so I installed Windows 8.1 on a virtual machine to check it out before replacing my Windows 7 OS and, yes, it is indeed marginally better than Windows 8.0. However, the whole "app" interface looks like a throwback to when microprocessors were not capable of preemptive multitasking. Now, I understand that such an interface is a good fit for a portable device where the screen is limited. But for a home computer with two monitors and no touch screen, it is a pain to work with. So the question I have is: what am I missing here? Seriously, is there anyone out there using 8.1 on a desktop who really likes it, and why? What are its benefits. Otherwise, I am more than likely to go with Windows Server 2012. Thanks.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

While I may agree with the idea, the article is worthless insofar as it fails to give any examples of existing libraries, either in C++ or C#. Saying "Google it" is an antipattern.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Thanks. I appreciate your help.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

It was posted last night and got approved today by Deeksha Shenoy.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Hi, Thanks for approving the update to my tip/trick "A Micro Web Server Using WCF". Can I get this featured in the latest tip/tricks page? Thanks again, Mike

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Thanks. I appreciate it.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Hi, Thanks for approving the update to my tip/trick "A Micro Web Server Using WCF". This is my third update. The second update was featured in the latest tip/tricks page on publications and I noticed that this did not happen on my latest update and I was wondering if this was a change in procedure since last month. Thanks, Michael Bergman

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

So? Just use thair[^].

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

You can run away from a knife or a club. You can't run away from a bullet.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Fortunately, the blog was short so I don't feel like I wasted too much time on it.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

+5

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

I hope it's funding. They're gonna need it.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Feel free to enlighten me on anything you can do in any platform, in any language, in any paradigm that does something outside of those three things.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Functional and imperative are the same thing. You only really do three things in programming. Ever. 1. Set a value. 2. Test a value. 3. Jump to an instruction that sets or tests a value. Noop doesn't count. I come from a lit background so I think in these terms: The declarative: this sets a value. It could be memory, registers, whatever. If you remember, back in the 1980's you would change what was on the monitor by simply writing directly to video memory using BASIC PUT. The inquisitive: this tests a value. If could be an if, for, or while statement. The imperative: go do something. Jump to another instruction. Everything is in the present tense. I've always kind of wondered how we could introduce the past and future tense into programming. To incorporate the past tense in to programming you would have to know the past states of objects to effectively use it. To incorporate the future tense you have to predict the states of objects. A past tense algorithm could help to predict trends of objects. Also, the modal verb "may" is interesting for statistical analysis. For example:

may i = 1;

Well, i may be 1, or it may not be one. Or...

may i = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9};

where i may be initialized to any of the values in the set. I think, if we also look at other language structures, we might come up compelling structures to use in describing algorithms. However, it still all comes back down to the basics of setting, testing, and jumping and you just can't get away from that.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Terrence Dorsey wrote:

What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?

Write a program that people want to use.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot