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Open source software is now the shortest route to bringing innovation to market.

Quick: Name a Microsoft operating system whose end of support will soon create major problems for the businesses that depend on it.

Looking to speed up JavaScript applications, Intel is leading efforts to enable SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) capabilities in the official specification underlying JavaScript, although it could be a while before their

Remember when that annoying PR person made news because she went into a San Francisco bar while wearing Google Glass, ran afoul of the regular clientele, then fabricated hysterical charges like "assault" and "hate crime" to describe what happened to her? Didn't you think, "Man, 'The Daily Show' would have fun with that kind of stupidity!" Well, "The Daily Show" has obliged, as shown in the video below.

Can anyone truly get their head around Java? Seven major revisions; untold minor ones; hundreds of official APIs; thousands of third-party libraries, some of which, like the Apache Commons, might as well be part of the language -- given Java's breadth and ongoing dominance, it's entirely possible that no one person knows more than 2 percent of the stack, regardless of what anyone claims during a job interview.

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Of course, that's not going to keep us from quizzing you again about the seemingly infinite world of Java. You may have aced our first Java IQ test, but let's see how you do as we further probe your knowledge of this incredible universe of code.