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Windows 10 looks set to get a redesigned Start menu in a future update, with Microsoft finally killing off Live Tiles for good. No, not *that* useless feature, the other one
No - the other, other one
Yeah, that one.
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Why can I not stop thinking that they are going to mess it up and do it even worst with something "new and cool" to replace what they are deprecating?
M.D.V. 
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Getting back the W7 Start Menu ?
And may be Office classic menu too 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Even for phones, live tiles never made sense.
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So dead tiles now, then.
A dull, lifeless interface with ten times as much "whitespace" (in dull pastel rectangles) as usable area, because horizontally-sorted boxes full of whitespace are sooo much more functional and easier to use than tight vertical lists.
The ridiculous and annoying amazingly great horizontal sorting of the applets in the Control Panel proved that.
Just don't hope that anything they do will be an improvement -- expecting a better outcome with the same people making the decisions is foolish.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, yes, yes... but is the icon going to change?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Yes, yes, yes... but is the icon going to change?
All of 'em will be changed again!
Busy and productive times lie ahead for the great creative minds at microsoft!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll out the change across the United States in the coming weeks. Now, no one will know I'm visiting 76.74.234.210!
Sadly, US-only for the moment, but fingers crossed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: US-only for the moment
By default. You can still turn it on manually in other countries.
"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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So that's why FF is going so damn slow since last update?
M.D.V.
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I understand that in Canada, Trudeau will personally route all internet traffic.
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And apologize for it.
TTFN - Kent
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Last week, an email popped into my mailbox with a simple subject: "Jif vs. GIF." Its sender asked if I was interested in hearing about a peanut butter producer's interest in "setting the record straight on how to pronounce GIF." Everyone knows it's pronounced 'GIF'
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"Graphics Interchange Format", so not "Jraphics Interchange Format". Simple.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's pronounced, Ob-se-leet
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No-one should need more than 256 colours!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Tech companies are famous for having some of the world's most challenging and competitive interview processes. Almost as far apart as I'd like to be from the interviewer?
Or can I hang the interviewer from the cable?
No interviewers were harmed in the posting of this blurb.
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You don't need to be a maths-professor to understand MSDN. Being good at maths (abstractions) was good advice in 1970 if you wanted to go into "computing".
Nowadays, patience and perseverence gets you were maths can't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Understanding algoithmic complexity can be very useful though.
Once I was asked to code a task a certain way and instead proved that if we adopted that approach everyone involved would be long dead by the time the task completed.
After that I was given free rein to write the task correctly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Was the solution "42"?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Either the correct answer is "I would Google how to solve catenary problems", or I'd end the interview as a waste of time. Learning a customers domain knowledge is part of my job requirements; being an expert in whatever esoteric stuff they're doing prior to start is not.
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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A question in a job interview I had time ago was like "do you know how to...?"
My answer: "No, I never had to do this before, but if I get the job I will learn how to do it faster than other competitors"
I was lucky, the boss of the department had common sense and liked my answer.
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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When development is iterative and Agile, testers need to be embedded with the developers and work closely with them. Someone's got to clean up
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If you plan less, you better test more
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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