. Hardly anyone I know under the age of 30 uses it unless they're foreign or looking for a new job.
Well yes, that is the point of LInked-in, to find jobs, and to keep in touch with people you know from work, but don't necessarily want to hear about their new puppy.
This might have something to do with the fact that the two Hokkaido and Tokyo are on two different islands.
There's a bridge
Then why did Apple get rid of init years ago?
Apple is an example of good UI, not system design.
What exactly is stackable debuggers?
It's debuggers all the way down!
It's practically impossible to go from a namespace to the assembly that contains it. This has always bugged me.
This is often a problem with production C# code as well......since C# doesn't force you to use a particular directory structure (and in some ways VS discourages it). As a result, a lot of production C# code has a structure that's a complete mess.
Java, on the other hand, imposes structure, which keeps things somewhat more readable.
Ps. I doubt the gigantic VBA object model was intended to destroy the competition, it sure looks more like bloated incompetence from the part of all the people working on it.
The author of that article was the guy who designed VBA, so he would know as well as anyone. It is well known that Microsoft strategically used APIs to destroy competition (Dr. Dos, for example).
Yet, it is a computer, in all senses of the word.
Except the sense of the word most commonly used today: it wasn't Turing complete. So, it's not a computer.
Microsoft thought that if people wrote lots and lots of VBA code, they would be locked in to Microsoft Office. They thought that no matter how hard their competitors tried (in those days, they were Borland, Lotus, and, to a far lesser extent, Claris), they would not be able to emulate the VBA programming environment and the gigantic Excel object model perfectly
PS: in researching this article, I tried to open some of my notes which were written in an old version of Word for Windows. Word 2007 refused to open them for "security" reasons and pointed me on a wild-goose chase of knowledge base articles describing obscure registry settings I would have to set to open old files. It is extremely frustrating how much you have to run in place just to keep where you were before with Microsoft's products, where every recent release requires hacks, workarounds, and patches just to get to where you were before.
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
