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Sounds like these go in the same "Things that don't actually solve anything" category as AI and blockchain.
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It's often surprising the applications found for numerical methods after their discovery.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: after their discovery.
Yeah; very rarely before! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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AI and blockchain are game changers!... For the marketing department
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If you've noticed an uptick of spam that addresses you by name or quotes real emails you've sent or received in the past, you can probably blame Emotet. It's one of the world's most costly and destructive botnets—and it just returned from a four-month hiatus. I'd complain that these people need a better way of making money, but I guess this is a pretty good way to make a lot of money
Mental note: lose morals
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Cascadia Code was announced this past May at Microsoft’s Build event. It is the latest monospaced font shipped from Microsoft and provides a fresh experience for command line experiences and code editors. New fonts are almost as good as new icons
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Quote: To ensure Cascadia Code was the right choice for the font name, we held a poll on Twitter along with other names we were considering.
This has got me worried, is this the new MS approach to everything?
"What should we put in the next version of C#, guys?" "Dunno mate, let's ask the good folks on Twitter!"
It will all end in tears.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We should probably be grateful it wasn't called "Fonty McFontFace". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Programming ligatures?!? What in the name of all that's holy in the world of programming is that good for?
A font that deliberately obscures basic symbols in your source code by replacing them with composites. Yeah, we can tell how well that works...
Software Zen: delete this;
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My theory is that the PM had a love affair with APL many years ago and is using rose tinted nostalgia as a design principle.
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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To quote one of Robert Heinlein's characters, "Oh bog."
Software Zen: delete this;
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My theory is that the bulk of management at Microsoft are idiots.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: My theory is that the bulk of management at Microsoft everywhere are idiots.
FTFY
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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Dan Neely wrote: Joe Woodbury wrote: My theory is that the bulk of management at Microsoft almost everywhere are idiots.
FTFY
FTFY²
There are always exceptions that confirm the rule...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Dan Neely wrote: Joe Woodbury wrote: My theory is that the bulk of people management at Microsoft almost everywhere are idiots.
FTFY
FTFY²
There are always exceptions that confirm the rule...
FTFY³
Management may be bad, but don't rule out literally everyone else... 
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Yeah ligatures, they want to choke the developer.
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They're definitely choking something if they think this is on someone's priority list.
Software Zen: delete this;
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There are actually a wide variety of similar typefaces around, some of which (Fira Code at least IIRC) have been mentioned here, but as soon as MS does it everyone starts hating it.
Personally, I quite like it for some languages.
As with many things, choice of typefaces is subjective. If you don't like it don't use it, and quit bitching.
Or do you think that the typeface developer's should be working on other VS features, even though they're evidently graphic designers not developers?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: as soon as MS does it everyone starts hating it
Not true. I'm point out that using such a font to edit source code is inpractical at best and a hazard at worst. It obscures the symbols you, the programmer, use to express your intent to the compiler.Rob Grainger wrote: If you don't like it don't use it, and quit bitching.
I don't intent to use it. Bitching, however, is everyone's prerogative.Rob Grainger wrote: do you think that the typeface developer's should be working on other VS features, even though they're evidently graphic designers not developers?
I can see the purpose of having a typeface developer working on Microsoft Word. I can even see the purpose of having a typeface developer working on Visual Studio, if their intent is to improve the clarity and readability during the editing experience. My argument is that this is not the case here.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I've just tried it out as the editor font in VS 2017.
The main problems are:
1. A weird looking lowercase "L" - not a big issue.
2. The text is suddenly a lot wider than Consolas so on my portrait-oriented screen I can only get about 75% of the text I could before - this is a deal-breaker, big time.
Obviously the designer of this font only ever works on wide-screens and thinks to fill up all that pesky empty space of the right. Wrong decision. I am actually going to uninstall and delete this junk as soon as I figure out how - I have never removed a font before.
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3. It just isn't as clear as Consolas.
4. Line spacing is slightly more. - Just wasteful!
5. Zeros look like 'O's - they are not crossed or dotted.
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Following a comment from Rob Grainger, I just reinstalled it and it is quite different now. I suspect I was not getting the "real" Cascadia the first time.
New Review:
It is very similar to Consolas except the zeros are dotted rather than crossed. I have used it for a few hours now and am getting used to the weird lowercase "L" - it's not so bad. It is just as clear as Consolas and the line spacing and character spacing complaints are no longer valid.
I shall continue with it for a while and let everyone know if I find any issues.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 24-Sep-19 9:07am.
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Forogar wrote: Zeros look like 'O's - they are not crossed or dotted.
That's peculiar, because the typesheet at GitHub - microsoft/cascadia-code clearly shows a dotted 0.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I use Adobe Source Code Pro.
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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That's a solid choice.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It’s not quite a “Stairway to Heaven,” but scientists have come up with what appears to be a perfectly feasible plan to build an elevator to the Moon. Or, more accurately, a Spaceline from the Moon to the Earth. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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