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It's actually not anything new. They've just rebranded Xamarin Studio, which has been available for Mac for some time now.
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That's interesting.
Xamarin. It _should_ work.
It seems like you learn a lot of overhead and you get stuck in Xamarin tunnel using it.
It's supposed to be easier for multi-OS deployment, but I"m still not sure.
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If they transform into a Mighty Mini-Bot when not in use, they could give new meaning to the old 'Crystal Healing' fad!
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Third-party applications that allow single sign-on via Facebook and Google and support the OAuth 2.0 protocol, are exposed to account hijacking. Good thing people switched away from securing their own passwords
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good thing people switched away from securing their own passwords
Terribly insecure. Well, unless you are using some strong encryption like Rot-13 or if you're especially tricky, Rot-7.
Fhcre fgebat rapelcgvba yvxr guvf pnaabg or oebxra! 
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I once tried to logon to a site and the ONLY way to logon and download a program I wanted was to use Facebook and "like" them, then you would get the download.
I laughed in their face(book). Nothing is worth having to create an account on FB for.
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The Dial almost seems like it came right out of a science fiction novel, letting us interact with our Surface devices in countless ways with just a few simple gestures. Because just pressing the appropriate function keys is so caveman-like?
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“BlackNurse” could turn lone attackers with modest resources into Internet bullies. Hurrah for progress?
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While other browsers are busy fighting the "good fight" of ad blocking, Google has taken a different stance. Simply put, it won't build an ad blocking feature into Chrome. From the 'Department Where the Second Part of the Article Title Explains the First Part' department
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And block one of their income source?
M.D.V. 
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Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests. Seasons don't fear the number, we can be like they are
Or something like that.
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I can so relate to this. Mathematics is important in programming to but if I can't void it or work around it I'll do that instead.
I do love math and wish I had the patience to actually delve in to it because I have a great love of physics which I wish I'd indulge more.
Math can be difficult and ugly but when you don't understand it it can also be beautiful but damn if it isn't time consuming and requites lot of consciousness effort to grasp.
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Wimps!
Don't Fear the Reaper[^]
#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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In a study published Thursday in Science, Ishiyama and his adviser, Michael Brecht, not only found that rats squeaked and jumped with pleasure when tickled on their backs and bellies, but also that these signs of joy changed according to the rodents' moods. So... how did you spend those research grants?
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Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has asked antitrust regulators in various countries (including the European Union and Russia) to make Microsoft stop giving an unfair advantage to Windows Defender. Whatever happened to just winning by being a better product?
Like PC Tools, DESQview, and OS/2? (oh, and VAX)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Whatever happened to just winning by being a better product?
Out of scope... that is so old fashioned 
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Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough. How about open(ish) source?
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State Machines and business processes that describe a series of states seem like they'll be easy to code but you'll eventually regret trying to do it yourself. "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."
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If you’ve been following this blog, you know that in Visual Studio “15” we’ve been focused on making our developer tools easier to install, increasing performance, and enhancing developer productivity. We’ve been doing the same for extensions, and it’s time to talk a bit more about the implications of these changes both on extension authors and on customers who are using extensions. Because VS isn't beefy enough - it needs extensions
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Researchers from Dalhousie University (Canada) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) have published a working paper detailing a proof-of-concept attack on smart lightbulbs that allows them to wirelessly take over the bulbs from up to 400m, write a new operating system to them, and then cause the infected bulbs to spread the attack to all the vulnerable bulbs in reach, until an entire city is infected. Remind me again why we need internet-connected light bulbs?
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Don't remember who told it but is quite right: Only because we can do something, it doesn't mean we should do it
light bulbs connected to the internet? 
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Nelek wrote: light bulbs connected to the internet?
So the maintenance crew knows when one is burnt out and needs replaced. Simple.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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For that you don't need the bulb connected to the internet. There are a lot of alternatives.
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