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It's no longer about cheap, commodity software. According to new research, it's about driving innovation through participation. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
Code is cheap. Show me the quality control.
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'sright there, in github like everything else these days. (Our industry really likes their monopolies).
Just do a pull, download half a dozen dependencies and/or build tools, execute a few score command-lines, et voila! Open-source simplicity.
TTFN - Kent
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ugh.
yep.
I've got a marketing guy "If we go with open source, we can customize it ourselves!" who then proceeds to do so.
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Jasper is an open source platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications. Jasper, go ask Siri about Cortana
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Jasper, go ask Siri about Cortana
Kent, lol!
Inspired by your imperative statement, I just asked my iPhone, "Siri, are you as good as Microsoft's Cortana?"
Siri replied, "No comment."
I'm impressed by that answer. Perhaps a smartphone should run for a political office.
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I wonder if Siri is trying to take the high road, or they're just trying to write a new zinger?
TTFN - Kent
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I can't wait to try it. Amazing. 
It's perfect for a project for a person with disability that I had in mind.
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With an update expected to launch sometime tomorrow, the Xbox One’s YouTube app will have a new “My Uploads” section that lets you pluck videos from your One and toss them online with just a few button presses. You can trim the clip down or add commentary through the One’s built-in editor, or just toss them in raw. "I like to watch."
But really... why?
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David Ramel wrote: ... Microsoft last week announced it will shift its OData-related development tool efforts from WCF Data Services to ASP.NET Web API, moving WCF Data Services to open source for further development. That angered many frontline developers whose teams or companies have invested a lot of work in WCF Data Services and now feel abandoned. They now have to consider their options and move forward with a new strategy. Sound familiar?
More[^]. I suspected before and they are doing it.[^]. 
Wonde Tadesse
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I'm not shedding a tear, I always found the .NET 2.0 options like .NET remoting and web services very well put together and easy to use. I've pretty much skipped all of the W*F bloated frameworks, and so far very happy to.
Wout
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I'm glad you are happy. May be the work you do won't require WCF and related techs so far. If so watch out W*F words from M$. Might be they will be changed to M*F words soon.
Wonde Tadesse
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I was using a few extensions that are great for any web developer using Visual Studio 2013. I’ve compiled the list of extensions here and added a few additional ones that are really useful as well. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this"
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Today at Microsoft’s Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv, Israeli startup StoreDot has demonstrated the prototype of a nanodot-based smartphone battery it claims can fully charge in just under 30 seconds. The bad news is that the charge only lasts 15s
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When I down a quad-shot cold-pour 20oz Mocha in 1/2 that time, I'm "ready* to go! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
 Geez, I'd hafta wait 100% that same 15 seconds just to start computing on my mobile device? 
Not fast enough, I tell ya.
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1% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
2% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
3% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
4% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
5% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
6% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
7% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
8% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
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You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Together, Chris and David started one of the most popular software development websites in the World, CodeProject.com, which has grown to include 10 million software developers as members. Who's who on the here's here
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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie talks about his new role, priorities and plans for the company's powerful Cloud & Enterprise unit in his first press Q&A since becoming part of the Microsoft senior leadership team. Nothing Earth-shattering or cosmic, but... the Gu!
Oh, there was this: "Take Titanfall, it's a 90-person company, and they have over 100,000 virtual machines running."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 90-person company, and they have over 100,000 virtual machines running."
That's... pretty astounding right there. I've dealt with the 500-1000 range before and that's a bit goofy. I can't imagine what kind of issues come up when you start adding zeros to that number.
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Now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don't expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I'd heard Mads and Dustin (individually) talk about some new features of C# 6 at conferences, but this is the first opportunity I've had to play with the bits. There are more features to come, and I suspect that the ones we've got aren't in quite the shape they'll be in the end. Just a spoon full of (syntactic) sugar...
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Years ago, Google figured out that users prize speed above almost everything when it comes to surfing the Web. They’re now applying that insight to courting developers, too, through a tool named Andromeda. "The universe is a dangerous place. But in our future my crew and I fight to make it safe."
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I'm excited to see the EULA where they say they own everything you upload to their cloud system, all the code, data, etc.
Elephanters.
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Demand keeps growing and salaries keep rising for tech workers with the right skills. Our survey of more than 3,500 IT professionals reveals which jobs are hot -- and which are not. Seems like it's been a while since we did one of these; maybe a year?
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The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
The first System 360 mainframe was unveiled on 7 April 1964 and its arrival marked a break with all general purpose computers that came before.
The machines made it possible to upgrade the processors but still keep using the same code and peripherals from earlier models.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Research published in the MIT Technology Review offers that there seems a direct link between increased use of the Internet and a decline in religious dedication. Something about correlation and causation here
Mind you, using the internet in the confessional is probably a sign
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