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/me makes indelicate gesture of absolute disdain for such tripe.
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mikepwilson wrote: indelicate gesture of absolute disdain
Well ain't that a punch in the face?
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This week we published a new type of content called showcase apps. Are you looking for a 30,000 foot view into a real world sample or complex architecture? Showcase apps will help! A showcase app is a real world code sample with accompanying video and interactive PowerPoint decks that provide in-depth details. Use the decks to explore the design decisions behind the code sample and how the code was built. More "real world" apps for your amusement
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The meat producer said Wednesday it has created a small device that, when plugged into the headphone jack of an iPhone, emits the sound and smell of sizzling bacon on demand. I'm not sure if this is genius, or evil, so I'll go with evil genius
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I guess it's "Wake up and smell the bacon!"
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Microsoft is keeping one foot in the past with the promotion of 22-year company veteran Satya Nadella to its CEO post. But it didn’t have to be this way. Microsoft could have hired an outsider to set the company on a whole new course, and indeed, it explored doing just that. But according to a new report, some of the outside candidates were skeptical of whether the company could really be changed in a deep way. Something about 'old dogs' or 'turning aircraft carriers' here
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I'd love to know what "whole new course" they're thinking of here?
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Hire Zuckerberg as CEO and make a Facebook OS? Convert the company to making Flappy Bird clones? Have the company generate random article titles and hope for someone to buy them?
Yeah, I've no clue.
TTFN - Kent
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"This is a lighthouse. Your call."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Ballmer got into a shouting match with Microsoft's board when directors said they didn't want to buy Nokia and start making smartphones. Ballmer told the board last June that if he didn't get what he wanted, he wouldn't be CEO any more.
In the end, it seems he threw one tantrum too many.
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That guy should never have had a leadership position. Sounds a bit like our last Prime Minister (Gordon Brown)
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Gotta disagree. Nokia had MS exactly where it wanted them. All they needed to do was to threaten to go fully android if MS didn't agree to the deal and MS's choices were either pay whatever they demanded or abandon mobile and slit their own throat. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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The OpenShift.NET project integrates .NET and SQL server capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
.NET is open for business
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Reading view is a new feature in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8.1 that helps you focus on the main content of the Web page you want to read. Or: "How to hide all the ads everyone is adding"
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or just use AdBlock! works great 
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Reading view or similar feature via iReader extension in Firefox and Chrome do more than what AdBlock does. Try it and see.
Kevin
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Just tried iReader -- using that I have to click it and it then opens in a separate view where as AdBlock just cleans the page of ads "inline".
Have you tried Instapaper? If I want a stripped down view of an article with just the content I save it to InstaPaper which has the added benefit of being accessible on my iOS device offline too.
If I'm browsing I usually want to see the page just not the ads.
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Dave Calkins wrote: Just tried iReader -- using that I have to click it and it then opens in a separate view
But that's exactly what I want. I just want to read the text without the surrounding guff, not just ads. It also makes copy/paste eadier on occasions when I want to do that.
Dave Calkins wrote: where as AdBlock just cleans the page of ads "inline".
It's not just ads I want to avoid.
Dave Calkins wrote: Have you tried Instapaper? If I want a stripped down view of an article with just the content I save it to InstaPaper which has the added benefit of being accessible on my iOS device offline too.
No, may try. Getting an iOS device imminently - may arrive today.
Dave Calkins wrote: If I'm browsing I usually want to see the page just not the ads.
Often I do but there are occasions when I don't.
I like all of the options you mention. It depends on my context. I like flexibility. 
Kevin
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to me iReader does more than I want and does it in an awkward way -- I just want to view the page, not open a separate view to view the page in the page Just seems clunky to have this separate view I have to pull up to view the page I'm already viewing I guess.
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What you describe as a disadvantage is exactly what I consider an advantage! I often want to view a clean version of the page there and then. It's often easier on the eyes. Plus it often does make copy/paste of snippets easier on occasions when I need to do that. E.g., it stops you from inadvertently copying side content.
To me I regard Instapaper as complementary rather than an alternative, as sometimes I do want to save and consume later.
But, hey, we're all different.
Kevin
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The InstaPaper mobile app can be especially helpful if you want to read stuff offline. When you add to InstaPaper and then run the mobile app it'll download the stuff in your list. When I was using an iPod touch this was great as I could just pull it up before I left wifi and then have the articles available when I was out. Not as big a deal if you're using a device with network access anywhere of course.
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Don't you know that companies can pay AdBlock not to filter out their ads? That's how AdBlock makes money with ads!
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That wouldn't surprise me at all - however, I haven't seen any examples of that in my browsing so I can't say that has affected me.
In my experience it seems to work really well and does a great job cleaning pages of ads. Nice to view a web site and watch the counter go up and NOT see all the ads
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The functional programming language, ranked 69th a year ago, threatens to crash the top 10 in Tiobe's rankings. From "a little bit of interest", all the way up to "some interest"
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This almost got me excited and then I saw "Tiobe" 
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