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If the national postal service, such as the Royal Mail in the UK, were to go through your letters and throw away all the stuff it considered to be junk instead of delivering it to you, you might be rather pleased until you discovered that it took a too liberal decision about what was junk. Catalogs…
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Abstraction can be defined as a general concept and/or idea that lack any concrete details. Throughout history this type of thinking has led to an array of new ideas and innovations as well as increased confusion and conspiracy. If one was to look back at our history they will see that abstraction…
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I'm currently blessed to be employed at a location where politics are pretty much non-existant and management overhead is nearly nil. As I've only worked at this one location for my entire, lengthy career, I have very little frame of reference outside of an occasional Dilbert comic or offhand comment…
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According to this Wikipedia article, Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, and others criticize Dart, a programming language Google introduced to work in web browsers, because they feel "it seems harmful (cf. VBScript in IE)".
But Dart also compiles to Javascript, so a web application written in Dart can run…
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First, I'd like to note that this question is not intended to compare two languages or technologies, but is only asking about criticisms aimed at a language.
I've always thought it a good idea to somehow get rid of Javascript. It works, but it's just so messy. I think many will agree with me there…
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In the past two years, I have been developing .NET from my MacBook by running Windows XP into VM Ware and more recently into Virtual Box from OS X. This way, I could install Visual Studio and be able to work seamlessly.
But, this way of working has a major down side: it kills the battery of my laptop……
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Private Const ACCENT As String = “ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÖØòóôõöøÈÉÊËèéêëÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûüÿÑñÇç”
Private Const SANSACCENT As String = “AAAAAAaaaaaaOOOOOOooooooEEEEeeeeIIIIiiiiUUUUuuuuyNnCc”
Public Shared Function FormatForUrl(ByVal uriBase As String) As String
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Introduction
In this article, I’ll show how to get a random subset of data from a DataTable. This is useful when you already have queries that are filtered correctly but returns all the rows.
Analysis
I came across this situation when I wanted to display a random tag cloud. I already had the…
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Surface is magic. Everyone using it seems to think that way. And I have to be honest, after working for almost 2 years with the platform I still get that special feeling the moment I turn on the unit to do some more work. The whole user experience, the rich environment of the SDK, the touch, even…
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India is a country of color, of unity in diversity and of culture. It?s a land of the saints and seers. It?s a land where languages change every six miles. At the behest of a technically demanding wo... [Author: David Jackson - Computers and Internet - August 31, 2009]
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