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I never understood why MS didn't try to replace javascript with a c# derivative.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It should have been easy - they already had the bolts into the browsers with Active Scripting, and I think C# would really translate well into a scripting variant (as seen in TypeScript).
Puzzle for the ages, I guess. Along with killing the JavaScript port of .NET, which I actually kinda liked.
TTFN - Kent
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The report, 'Prioritization to Prediction (volume 5): In Search of Assets at Risk', seeks to make some sense of the comparative risk surface of devices based on which operating system they are using. The keel-mounted rail gun on my PC is actually quite useful at times
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Fourteen deadly weapons that are used to slowly kill people from hypertension and brain death?
So that's:- Windows Update
- Telemetry
- Internet Explorer
- Edge
- WMP
- Baby blocks
- Just about everything on the app store
CoronaCortana- The Xbox app
- The help system
- The Settings app
- The Effluent Interface
- "White Mode"
- 14,693,683 emojis
Most OS problems only go up to ten.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What we thought was a planet appears to be gradually fading from view. Or there was dust on the lens
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When informed of the disappearance of the exoplanet they had invented discovered, the team leader commented: Sh1t! We'll lose one of our grants!
Quick! Make up some new sciency-sounding bollocks that makes it sound as if there's something important we have to investigate further!
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A timeline...
2005 Observed by Hubble telescope
2008 Identified and release of discovery photograph
2012 Independent confirmation of existence as a planet
2014 Selected for "proper" naming by the International Astronomical Union
2015 Formally named "Dagon", after the ancient Mesopotamian/Canaanite fish-god deity; looks like a merman
2020 It apparently has disappeared
It shouldn't take a Real Genius[^] to figure it outKent: Didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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MadMyche wrote: It shouldn't take a Real Genius[^] to figure it out
It was zapped by the CIA's laser? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yea verily, and god sneezeth and yet another heavenly sphere was created.
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Beware the coming of the Great White Handkerchief!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Microsoft's newly rebranded Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions are available for purchase. But there's no updated word on when promised new features and apps will be available. Because I know many of you were waiting for this moment
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But there's no updated word on when promised new features and apps will be available.
Whaaaattt? Microsoft not doing what was promised? That's new.
But for sure there is a new icon somewhere in the GUI.
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
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In other news: Libre Office is still free, doesn't contain all the GUI screw-ups that have been added to ms office, and also includes a diagramming app that handles Visio diagrams (so there's no need to pay for the latest, most-screwed-up version of Visio, either).
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The Rust project wants more developers to use the programming language but admits it has a challenge with adoption. It's oxidized?
And the stains! You can never get them out of your khakis.
Or is it because it never sleeps, and I really need a sleep now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's oxidized?
Exactly.
If it can't shine... then the buzzword bingos are not interested on it.
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?
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ZDNet said: Other common reasons are the learning curve, a lack of necessary libraries, and a lack of integrated development environment (IDE) support.
Oh, so nothing major, then.
And how much do you want to bet that ZDNet thinks that a "steep learning curve" is a bad thing?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And how much do you want to bet that ZDNet thinks that a "steep learning curve" is a bad thing?
Not necessarily bad but it might limit adoption.
Limited adoption is not in itself bad either. Depends on the context. Say some tech is necessary to solve certain types of problem, but the tech has a steep learning curve. It's neither good nor bad, it is what it is.
Relativity has a steep learning curve but it's necessary for implementing the GPS system.
Kevin
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Quote: "The results show the overriding problem hindering use of Rust is adoption,"
So, not being used is what's hindering its use.
modified 21-Apr-20 20:23pm.
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Kinda sounds simple when you put it like that. 
TTFN - Kent
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Chris Dickinson, Engineer at npm, Inc from Rust web site
My biggest compliment to Rust is that it's boring, and this is an amazing compliment.
I'm probably missing his meaning, and he probably means something good, but being boring isn't something that I want from a language.
I think of COBOL when you say a language is boring and I want nothing to do with COBOL.
As a Dev as soon as MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) sets in (because of complexity or esoteria), I am done with a language.
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raddevus wrote: As a Dev as soon as MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) sets in (because of complexity or esoteria), I am done with a language.
I think that's kind of what he was aiming for with that quote - "non-boring" languages may be the ones that try to do things in a cutsey/esoteric way, or that have trapdoors awaiting the developers.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: or that have trapdoors awaiting the developers.
I love the trapdoors. 
You've just fallen through a trap door...
Zork "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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The U.S., China, and about 100 companies are poised to capture the majority of the world’s data, according to Microsoft. But despite being one of the beneficiaries of that data divide, Microsoft says it wants to close it. "Sharing is caring for someone else."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft says it wants to close it.
Seriously? Looking at the telemetry of windows 10... who would tell?  
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
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