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I put my lone Vista install down about a month ago. 11Yo laptop that came with it. Not upgraded at the time because my brother never bothered to get the free Win7 upgrade disk for his bought just before it launched laptop and I originally wanted to keep a same OS machine for support. After that I just stopped caring because for personal use I had my desktop and assorted netbooks/ultrabooks that were more portable with better batteries, and just used the clunker as a loaner for family members. My brother's mostly running Linux now, and with the deadline looming I finally upgraded the laptop to win7 a month ago. The main OS install went reasonably well, everything except the webcam and SD reader worked out of the box; and unless I end up loaning it out again I'm not going to make any effort to find working drivers for those two items.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Well-organized scrum meetings may help prevent breakdowns in communications which lead to breakdowns in software. Because not everyone needs to get work done
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The scrum master manages the process for how information is exchanged
Because left to their own devices, people really suck at communication.
And sadly, that is not sarcasm.
Marc
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Because it's the one job where you can be a clueless a**hole and have that be considered a success.
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Oh, there's certainly more than one job where that happens.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I put it in a sticky notes 
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Instead, we need something that fulfills the key things that made BASIC work: a tool that is ubiquitous, accessible, and free. Discuss
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Scratch (and Arduino)
Arduino (and rPi, Beaglebone, et al) yes, but Scratch is horrid, visually, usability-wise, and coding graphically low level if / while / assignment / etc. is the worst marriage of text-based coding and graphical UI's.
Marc
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Don't take this badly, but neither of us are the next generation of technologists.
My nephew is (probably) and he has created some pretty cool stuff with Scratch.
Its just a start bit the has the basics - as did I when I started with BASIC.
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The majority of computer languages fulfill all three criteria. They are but a click away. If you want a nice editor/debugger along with it, a few clicks.
That said, .NET is ubiquitous, easy to use, free and, as bonuses, extremely powerful and with a truly kick-ass IDE. (I vastly prefer C++ and honestly believe it's the best way to really learn how to program professionally, but if you want to just learn some programming, I can't think of a better, cheaper, way than C#.NET.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a tool that is ubiquitous, accessible, and free.
ubiquitous: JavaScript
accessible: It's here in your browser, JavaScript
free: JavaScript
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Sulphuric rain? Easy. Not burning up at 500°C or crushed by 90 atmospheres? Hard. Overclockers should be pleased
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But will it survive a child or, horror of horrors, a teenager?
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Samsung just can't catch a break when it comes to batteries. I'm going with irony here
Although "appropriate" and "karma" might also work.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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UI for UWP is a suite of 20+ UI controls for developers building UWP applications which include a variety of controls for various apps. Wasn't selling well?
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Two thirds of that sentence is correct.
This space for rent
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Today at the Windows Developer Day online event, Microsoft Developer VP Kevin Gallo announced that all developer documentation is now available at docs.microsoft.com. I guess this means we stop complaining about MSDN?
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I'm in shock. docs.microsoft.com actually came up on my browser.
Marc
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So it takes about 20 clicks to get through the "Aren't We Great!" fluff to something useful, and when you get there, the page refreshes every two seconds (literally).
I should have known better than to even bother.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. Just like Git, but not
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General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
And I was unable to find anyone who actually knew what boolean algebra was (to include one of my teachers "Math Encyclopedia" book). 
