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more ...::: {.Section1} [Today Microsoft went public with Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which builds on top of a just-announced.NET 2.0 library called the Integrated Query Framework. At its most basic level, LINQ is the ability to apply SQL-like operators to arbitrary. NET collections. The operators provided are "relationally complete" meaning …
more ...::: {.Section1} [Peter Coffee’s pre-PDC column correctly points out that truly compelling apps such as eBay, Google, and videogames are built, not in the abstract realms of virtual machines but with painstaking attention to hardware capabilities. This is one reason why [knowing C++ is the most important qualification for those …
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more ...::: {.Section1} [The rumor had been floating for a week, but eBay purchased Skype for \$2.6B + \$1.5B in future performance-based payments (that’s clever!). They kind of contort it into “Voice over IP will help our high-end auctions,” (used cars, antiques, etc.) but you gotta’ think that they’ll …
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