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Niklaus Wirth Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In the year 1984, he was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages like EULER, MODULA, ALGOL-W, and Pascal. He was made a fellow of the Computer history museum in the year 2004. He is a Swiss computer scientist. MSc, and Ph.D.

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A Microsoft Bigot’s Guide To Windows 10

Modus Create

I am a bigot when it comes to operating systems, editors, languages, and so on. With decades of experience as a developer and network engineer, I have seen my own personal progression of preferred workstation operating systems from DOS to Windows 3, to Windows 95, to Amiga, to OS/2, to Windows 7, and finally to Linux and macOS.

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

Outside of the more notable and talked about features—friendlier UI, improved device manageability including MDM, easier operating system deployment (OSD), universal applications, and a customizable store portal for organizations—Windows 10 comes with something even more important - deeper security.

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

This led Chris Pinkham, head of Amazon’s global infrastructure, to propose developing a capability that would let teams manage their own infrastructure – a capability that might eventually be sold to outside companies. The software needed to detect and quickly recover from these “normal” hardware failures was perfected as the company grew.

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The Good and the Bad of Selenium Test Automation Tool

Altexsoft

With a list of several programming languages, all main operating systems and browsers supported, Selenium is currently used in production in such companies as Netflix, Google, HubSpot, Fitbit, and more. Jason Huggins’ 2004 creation was a JavaScript framework aimed at freeing its creator from repetitive manual testing.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Most monopolies or duopolies develop over time, and have been considered dangerous to competitive markets ; now they are sought after from the start and are the holy grail for investors. How might that market have developed differently? Indie.vc , a project at OATV, has developed a new kind of venture financing instrument.