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I like the No Agenda podcast, hosted by well-known PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry (of MTV fame, and also claims to have invented the technology behind podcasting).
It's perhaps not my primary source of news, but what makes it unique is that they dig into the popular stories to show how all mainstream media twists everything to appease their advertisers and corporate sponsors.
It may come across as satire for some, but they discuss world events at enough length to keep abreast of what's going on.
ITM!
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Stopped looking at the news a long while ago,
in passing might see the occasional headline if a paper is on someones desk but that's about it.
Some notable headlines/stories I can remember:
- Euro will be a hugs success (possible threat to USD)
- Al Gore to be next president
- Economy is bad
- About once a year: Castro Dead (finally they got lucky and it was really true, I think)
- Clinton Stains a Dress, Bush didn't inhale.
- Economy is bad
more recently noticed:
- Brexit, UK will be a third world country by year end
- Economy is bad
- Trump to run for selection, given no chance, Trump selected - no chance to win
- Economy is bad (have they still not figured out it's not bad, this is the normal)
And other such like gems, why the hell bother reading news, it's boring, repetitive, and too often plain wrong.
Only things that matter: sports (fave team is sh*t at the moment so no good news there either), the amount of cash in my wallet when I go out, what day it is, and did I forget wifey's birthday?
Sin tack ear lol
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I read the TP rolls in the toilet stall...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I get most of my news from my Bing home page. And that's mostly because I get Microsoft Points for viewing it, which pays for my xbox live subscription 
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I stream various (nation-ish) news from throughout the world and compare the lies and omissions; agendas and innuendos; then, basically, I've found that if I make up what I want to hear it's usually as accurate as the rest.
There's also the SoapBox[^]
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Starts with a free newspaper distributed in the train called "Metro". Contains mostly ads, some comics (yay!), a horoscope (today is your lucky day!) and sometimes a good recipe.
The group of smokers and active social non-smokers (people who don't smoke, but join us in the rain "for some fresh air" anyway), because it is predigested news complete with commentary.
If you meant online, then I'd say page 502 of teletekst; because it is convenient. Zerohedge, because it is fun.
Some of the news arrives by email, like the newsletter from CodeProject. And MSDN magazine of course, although that is not strictly "news".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I don't bother. It's just the same miserable/shock-tactic/biased cr@p, day after day, year after year.
The world can get along fine without me worrying about a billion useless details; I've got better things to spend my time on.
Here's a nice example: I was unaware that the UK had a new PM until about three months after it happened.
Perhaps not-so-surprisingly, the new PM (whose name I can't even remember) didn't care.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, that's it: Wossname May!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm with you on the news - I avoid it wherever possible and it bugs me so much that I can't avoid it completely!
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If you were a C#/Sql developer and needed to build an API that exposes your data that others could call into, what would you do/use?
I have seen oData using WCF, Web API, xml, http, etc. Just curious if you were to start this project what framework would you use?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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EntityFramework + ASP.NET
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And how would another developer call into that? I'm not that familiar with EntityFramework but it is more about representing the db, isn't' it? It's not a webservice, right?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Standard WSDL webservice, what else?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Probably WebAPI, although Nancy[^] looks interesting too.
"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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a REST service over WebAPI.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Web API/.NET Core/C#
Quick, easy, cross platform.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I stayed up all night, wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Still sounds like you are in the dark to me.
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And I thought that Wales was part of the Empire over which the Sun (still) doesn't set...
(xkcd: Sunset on the British Empire)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If your Mrs. was with you, did she also keep horizon on the sky?
And was she your Sol companion?
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modified 19-Jan-17 11:28am.
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Nah - the Earth is flat (and hollow as well, which is a bit of a puzzler) and the sun goes round it once a day. That's why Australian bars[^] never caught on over here.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So when the sun is on the other side does it burn the turtles feet?
Sin tack ear lol
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