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We’re releasing the March 2016 edition of our 60-day evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare flavors. "The first hit is always free"
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Microsoft is trying to grab Oracle enterprise database users with a new migration offer for SQL Server 2016. May include fine print
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Kent Sharkey wrote: May include fine print
And constant nagging to update beginning next year.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I think there are any number of ways, some even credible, to measure productivity for developers. I think the trouble arises from the notion that they could be applied outside of a narrow context and also that it’s especially important how productive a developer is. My bugs/hour is less than 1. That's good, right?
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Microsoft buried a Get Windows 10 ad generator inside this month's Internet Explorer security patch for Windows 7 and 8.1 Stop me if you've heard this one before
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Teeth clinched.
Why the F do they want you all to be on this FREE OS so bad like their life depends on it?
This HAS to be a trap yet to spring.
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Windows 11 will turn it into a service and you will be up for a subscription.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So I can't ever again trust Microsoft, not even on subjects of security...Very refreshing!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I cannot see those Win 10 ads in my IE 11 on Win 7.
By the way, also the article says so:
Quote: I spent most of the night trying to replicate this behavior -- a blue banner on new tabs in IE11 with "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10" -- and couldn't get it to trigger.
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Open source database specialist MariaDB Corporation is launching its latest MariaDB Enterprise aimed at tackling the most pressing enterprise data management challenges. "Maria, say it loud and there's music playing"
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Our primate cousins spend 6 hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass—all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early ancestors had. At least until we got bacon
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Not the slicing/pounding, but the cooking made the difference; the biggest change was 400k years ago.
Site wrote: “What did humans do before they regularly had access to cooking?” he wondered.
They orderded a Big Mac using the internet.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. OK, now they're just messing with us
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I'm sorry I missed this earlier...
This is _the_ YEAR of the Linux SWITCH DESKTOP!!!! Squeeee!!!!!!
WE now return you to your previous programming...
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R is decidedly the most popular statistical/data analysis language in use today. R Tools for Visual Studio brings together the power of R and Visual Studio in a convenient and easy to use plug-in that’s free and Open Source. My timbers are shivering!
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“As pages increase in complexity, they often require multiple trips that create delays that really add up,” explains Ravi Netravali, one of the researchers, in a press release. “Our approach minimizes the number of round trips so that we can substantially speed up a page’s load-time.” Yes, please
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Our approach minimizes the number of round trips so that we can substantially speed up a page’s load-time
I worked for a company in 1998 that was working on the same thing. I'm serious.
The company created a server zipper. It was going to fabulously zip up data on server and ship to special people running our web performance pack.
The company went out of bidness. 
Also, more recently Amazon's Silk browser does the same thing by "zipping" up common content from common sites on Amazon servers and then Silk has fewer connect, obtain, disconnect overhead.
Also, 35% faster?
This is 2016. I'm looking for like 2000% faster.
EDIT:
Oh wow I found a PC Magazine entry detailing the package:
PC Mag - Google Books[^]
(Blaze Web Performance Pack)
Can't believe it.
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raddevus wrote: I'm looking for like 2000% faster.
Yes, please 
HTTP/2 (aka SPDY) should also help, but it needs the browser updated. This is supposedly a "free" speedup.
TTFN - Kent
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If you really want to speed up things, throw away the developments of the last 2 decades. Write the pages in simple HTML without those tons of css and javascript, animated images, flash, and all that crap. That would reduce the load time effectively to the ping time.
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Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin is one of the 17 software development visionaries who met at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in Utah in February 2001 to discuss the various lightweight development methods of the time. The result of that meeting would become known as the Agile Manifesto. Which means it's about time for the next Silver Bullet, isn't it?
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No retrospective - therefore nothing learned - therefore no improvement.
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Purr-fect 
TTFN - Kent
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Called InSight, the mission was originally supposed to launch this month, sending a lander to the Red Planet. Now Curiosity has time to get to the Schiaparelli crater
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Packaged as an Atom Editor, the new Ionide IDE enables F# developers to code across platforms with Microsoft's popular functional language. I've got nothing snarky to say about F# (that hasn't been said before)
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