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Kent Sharkey wrote: Look! Some actual non-Microsoft news today!
Most worthy news starts as non-Microsoft news. Then Microsoft buys the company or patents the technology, if Apple or Google doesn't beat them to it first. 
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A startup called Learning Machine wants to completely migrate your important documents into the digital era by placing them on the blockchain. Hello, my name is node 24d95a54, pleased to meet you
Edit: added the missing 'd'. Awaiting editor's invoice.
modified 9-May-18 14:27pm.
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That will be $70 to fix the missed 'd' after 'please'. Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal only.
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Submit a work request to our JIRA queue 
TTFN - Kent
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I guess it wasn't subtle enough (or I don't understand JIRA well enough to get the additional joke). For the $70, I'd point a 'miner' at the problem... (or however that sh*t works)
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I was assuming you were offering proof reading services for $70 for my typo?
If so, I was suggesting you submit a change request and I'll get to it with the urgency it requires.
If not, apologies, I guess you were too subtle.
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, too subtle. I was offering to 'mine' the blockchain to fix the issue for $70. (Although you really can't fix it that way.)
True story: once as a kid my dad got mad at me because my humor was too dry, and he didn't get it.
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Ah, apologies - didn't get that connection (and with a few anonymous drive-by insults about the newsletter, I've been a little sensitive lately). 
TTFN - Kent
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If they are anonymous bitchers, it isn't worth worrying about - delete the twats. I do! They are the lowest form of trolls, and not worthy of ASCII representation, nor Unicode!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Learning Machine wants to completely migrate your important documents into the digital era by placing them on the blockchain.
Gads, why? If you have a document trail that you want to record, like a contract, changes to a contract, renewals, cancellations, etc., you don't need blockchain for that, you just need a hashchain.
A hash chain is the successive application of a cryptographic hash function to a piece of data. ... For non-repudiation a hash function can be applied successively to additional pieces of data in order to record the chronology of data's existence.
From that link:
However, a blockchain (as used by Bitcoin and related systems) is generally intended to support distributed consensus around a public ledger (data), and incorporates a set of rules for encapsulation of data and associated data permissions.
Often overkill -- do you need the data to be distributed, and in a public ledger, and rules for adding documents to the chain, etc? If yes, then maybe a blockchain is the right solution, but many "documents" that I work with are private, not distributed, don't require consensus, don't have "rules" per say, and permissions are already handled by the data store. That said, the benefit of a hashchain exists -- ensuring a document in the chain isn't modified after it's been added and having a chronology of the different documents that represent a contract and their changes over time is still useful.
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Visual Studio IntelliCode brings you the next generation of developer productivity by providing AI-assisted development. Get some intelligence into your codez!
Not to be confused with Visual Studio Intellisense, Visual Studio Intellisense, or Visual Studio Code
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Soon, they'll add IntelliSnark and you'll be out of a job.
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 I'm doooooomed!
TTFN - Kent
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Now they just need IntelliName, to sort out the confusion between all their similarly named products.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Get some intelligence into your codez!
Does that mean that code written by outsourced countries that suffer from monsoons will improve in quality?
Does that mean that Q&A questions will actually be intelligible?
Does that mean that the future of Code Project involves:
- self-writing article AI's?
- AI's that automatically answer Q&A questions?
You never know. One day I may lose the article of the month competition to an AI! 
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At least seven tech giants still use the vulnerable software that hackers exploited to attack Equifax last year. If it's broke, don't fix it?
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The highlight of .NET Core 3 is support for Windows desktop applications, specifically Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and UWP XAML. So, "works cross-platform", except for this feature?
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Quote: For cases where the maximum isolation is required, you can deploy .NET Core with your application. We’re working on new build tools that will bundle your app and .NET Core together as in a single executable, as a new option.
So instead of being a core OS component that recieves security fixes automatically, you can bake a binary version into your application that will accumulate effective foreverday bugs because a large fraction of the userbase won't keep rebuilding with newer versions of it. I know I've heard that model recently, what could possibly go wrong.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The software giant has just announced that starting later this year, all consumer apps (except games) sold in the Microsoft Store will ship a whopping 95 percent of the revenue earned from app and in-app purchases to the developer. Works for me
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Of course, 95% of 0 is still 0.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You just described by income stream 
TTFN - Kent
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Microsoft Build has always been a time when we deliver a wealth of developer-focused announcements. It’s an opportunity to share our vision for developer experiences across mobile, AR/VR, cloud, web, desktop, IoT and AI. Presents for everyone!
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NASA's latest Mars explorer is on its way to the Red Planet. "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids"
It's probably just me, but that headline seems borderline not KSS.
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You’ll probably never use quantum hardware yourself, but there’s a high chance you’ll benefit from research that couldn’t have been completed without it. It may - or may not - be in the cloud
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