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This multimedia project consists entirely of original historical mission material.
Relive the mission as it occurred in 1970 Spoiler alert - there will be problems
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Over 8,000 royalty-free images and icons will be available in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint apps for users. In the coming months, Microsoft will be adding more premium content for Office 365 subscribers. Sharing in the bounty
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Royalty free, but only available for suscribers 
Lucky me, that I won't be needing them 
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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If the pandemic has left you surprisingly nostalgic for your office, imisstheoffice.eu, made by Kids Creative Agency, might be the closest thing to actually being back there. People actually miss it?
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Maybe there was some option for standing up and tell then "You guys, couldn't you you go to discussion room, or shut up! I didn't find it. (That option is available in our real world office environment!)
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did you really remember that there was that stip?  
M.D.V.
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fair enough.
I have worked always in mid size offices where 4 to 6 people inside. No cubicles, we all could see all just rising the eyes and looking above the monitors. People was (so far) pretty civilized though. No big complains due to office-mates beyond the typical chatting to each other or phone calls.
Anyways I have seen several dilberts where I could identify as well
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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Wally could do better. Some of us were in a conference room, waiting for others to arrive for a meeting, when a colleague pulled out nail clippers and started going at it, letting the clippings fly onto the carpet. 
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Greg Utas wrote: when a colleague pulled out nail clippers and started going at it, letting the clippings fly onto the carpet
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I prefer this one[^]. 
"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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State agencies are struggling to find actively working COBOL engineers who can update their unemployment benefit systems to factor in new parameters for unemployment eligibility. Get coding like it's 1959
Buzz-cut, pocket-protector, and slide rule available separately
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But we don't want to learn that! It was--- it was invented by a woman! It can't possibly be macho enough!
Fortran's the man's man's language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I never knew that! No wonder it takes 100 words to do what other languages do in 20.
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I had some brief experience with a (modern, terse, C-class) language whose macro facility allowed you to write a macro to transform
ADD A TO GIVING C;
into
C := A + B;
This was one of their examples in the user manual. Maybe they could have defined all of COBOL in their macro language; I don't know.
Actually, COBOL didn't require that many more tokens - or 'words', if you like. It was much more that the tokens were lengthy words, rather than single symbols. Similar to lots of people arguing in favor of C over Pascal because it used {} rather than BEGIN - END.
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I went from COBOL to C, and wondered wtf?!?
... As in why-tf were all the godawful variable names single-characters, and who-tf wanted to code that way?
It turns out that no-one does, because variable and function names in C# are, on average, three characters longer than COBOL variable and procedure names.
So who got it right from the get-go?
No prizes for guessing that it wasn't the snooty C programmers.
Remember: hubris comes before huckabuck, in good dictionaries.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Teetering on a razor, Smartphone giants try to balance infection tracking and privacy. At least it's two trustworthy, privacy-focused companies
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One or other of them probably secretly owns the company that's getting this data[^], too.
I can't believe that they're handing that over to a foreign company on a completely unenforceable "we'll do no evil" promise.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Honestly, I'm surprised the community edition of Visual Studio doesn't do this...
".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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Please! You'll give them ideas. I use that thing and don't want to have to disconnect from the net to avoid ads.
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I think they know very well that Visual Studio is essential to their market power. It is sort of "The first shot is free" idea.
VS, including the free edition (regardless of how it has been labeled over the years), has lead to millions of Windows applications, making customers choose Windows as their base OS. Without those, MS would be in a much weaker position today.
VS Community Edition is the ad, in itself! You would never expect a Coke ad to be interrupted by some other ad, would you? VS CE aims to present MS development as a great experience - something that makes you frown at vi, or even at emacs. It shows you how immediate IntelliSense is, compared to lint. Shows you the WPF abstraction level compared to X.11 
Which 19 year old who has been fiddling around with VS CE since he was 12 would want to work with 1970-style command line tools? Fight with old libraries handling 7 bit US ASCII text only? Providing a zillion options, but you have to open a command window and provide them as '--some-strange-option' to the command line tool?
If MS decides to ruin the VS experience by forcing ads onto the users, they have lost their minds. It would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. I am sure that they know better.
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An interesting analysis. Let's hope you're right. Curiously, I use VS CE but avoid Windows-specific stuff as much as possible. No "managed code", no GUI, no Windows-specific classes...just the bare minimum that you need from an O/S. And though command-line stuff is from the age of the dinosaurs, like me, I no longer have any tolerance for it.
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