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10 mistakes every programmer makes Admit it, you've made mistakes like these

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When you start programming, you get disillusioned quickly. No longer is the computer the allinfallible perfect machine – "do as I mean, not as I say" becomes a frequent cry. At night, when the blasted hobgoblins finally go to bed, you lie there and ruminate on the errors you made that day, and they're worse than any horror movie. So when the editor of PC Plus asked me to write this article, I reacted with both fear and knowing obedience. I was confident that I could dash this off in a couple of hours and nip down to the pub without the usual resultant night terrors. The problem with such a request is, well, which language are we talking about? I can't just trot out the top 10 mistakes you could make in C#, Delphi, JavaScript or whatever – somehow my top ten list has to encompass every language. Suddenly, the task seemed more difficult. The hobgoblins started cackling in my head. Nevertheless, here goes… 1. Writing for the compiler, not for people W

The Next Really, Really, Really, Big Thing

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Everybody should be excited about the next big thing. And why not? It’s very, extremely big. Even bigger than anything that came before. No, really, it’s that freakin’ HUGE. If you don’t want to get left behind, you’ve got to hop on this right away. Of course, you will need to be fast and smart and work late nights, but it will be worth it. You can’t go halfway on a thing like this. It’s all or nothing, baby! I’m here to tell you what this big thing is. But first, let’s take a quick look at past big things so that we can see why this one is so much bigger. A Short History of Big Things We live in interesting times. Conventional wisdom says that it takes about 20 years for new technology to take its full effect. These days, innovation cycles are much shorter, so we’re getting new stuff before we really know what to do with the old. Many economists believe that these time lags account for the productivity paradox (i.e. it’s notoriously difficult to measure what we r

I love the Series and I love it's theme song too :)

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Remy Zero - Save Me [Smallville Theme] .mp3 Found at bee mp3 search engine