Comment Big G (Score 1) 484
Just get a Google phone
Comment Re:Google Nexus 5 (Score 1) 484
this
Submission + - Five year old becomes MS Certified Professional (bbc.co.uk)
biodata writes: BBC News reports that five year old Coventry resident Ayan Qureshi has become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the relevant exams.
Submission + - 5 year old passed Microsoft Certified Professional
EzInKy writes: The BBC has this heartwarming story about a five year old British boy who is the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional.
He told the BBC he found the exam difficult but enjoyable, and hopes to set up a UK-based tech hub one day.
"There were multiple choice questions, drag and drop questions, hotspot questions and scenario-based questions," he told the BBC Asian Network.
"The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory," explained Ayan's father Asim.
Ayan says he hopes to launch a UK-based IT hub similar to America's Silicon Valley one day, which he intends to call E-Valley.
He told the BBC he found the exam difficult but enjoyable, and hopes to set up a UK-based tech hub one day.
"There were multiple choice questions, drag and drop questions, hotspot questions and scenario-based questions," he told the BBC Asian Network.
"The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory," explained Ayan's father Asim.
Ayan says he hopes to launch a UK-based IT hub similar to America's Silicon Valley one day, which he intends to call E-Valley.
Comment Re:Big fucking deal. (Score 1) 422
You say that now...
Comment Sigh... (Score 1) 133
Like we used to do in the 90s and just called it 'engineering'.
Comment Dumbing down your organisation (Score 2) 150
Mostly clouds are more expensive than doing it yourself, unless you fire your sysadmin(s) as part of the deal.
Comment Re:*sigh* ... Lack of problem. (Score 1) 279
I think you may have underestimated the difficulty of sealing the borders of several countries. The more this goes on the more people will try to leave. There are not enough soldiers in the world to stop a population fleeing imminent death.
Comment Re:Awesome (Score 2) 283
I think that depends what you consider the 100% to be. If it's humanity, then 1% is a significant overestimate of people who can afford this.
Comment Re:Latin? (Score 1) 547
Homo sapiens will never stop using Latin.
Comment Re:Scripting language du jour (Score 1) 547
The more I see of python the less I like it. Every time I try to install some python package there is some incompatibility with the system python, or some wierdness in compiling the underlying libraries, and I have to maintain several versions of the language. For some reason it doesn't seem to be backward-compatible, which leads me to question the sanity of whoever decided to make it that way. It is way worse than perl that at least 'just works' a lot more of the time. Maybe it's just me?
Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World 547
Nerval's Lobster writes As developers embrace new programming languages, older languages can go one of two ways: stay in use, despite fading popularity, or die out completely. So which programming languages are slated for history's dustbin of dead tech? Perl is an excellent candidate, especially considering how work on Perl6, framed as a complete revamp of the language, began work in 2000 and is still inching along in development. Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, and Object Pascal also top this list, despite their onetime popularity. Whether the result of development snafus or the industry simply veering in a direction that makes a particular language increasingly obsolete, time comes for all platforms at one point or another. Which programming languages do you think will do the way of the dinosaurs in coming years?
With COBOL still around, it's hard to take too seriously the claim that Perl or Ruby is about to die. A prediction market for this kind of thing might yield a far different list.
Comment Re:Nothing new here ... (Score 1) 292
That website does not look like an authoritative peer-reviewed source. It is not a scientific forum.
Comment Re:The problem with double standards. (Score 1) 292
I thought she was an expert on the evolution of dogs, on the payroll of the Heartland Institute. Not sure why her opinions on walrus movements should be of interest to anyone.
Comment Re:Try Heathrow Terminal 2 (Score 1) 145
>some idiot paid for them
I think we know who paid for them.
