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Well, MS is not gonna lure business developers into making apps with a 30% pay check cut, as you can write business software that's profitable without taking any pay check cut. So maybe some consumer app developers will go for it, but why would you develop for such a tiny eco system?
Wout
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Sorry about that - that was actually a news item in the Mobile newsletter (and the headline for that newsletter). How did it become the headline for the Daily? I'm not sure (other than I forgot to manually mark something to be the headline for that one). However, we have top men working on a solution.
Top.
Men.
TTFN - Kent
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The keyboard is still the predominant way we interact with a computer. This makes it all the more surprising to observe how many programmers use just two fingers when confronted by a keyboard and use the time honoured "hunt and peck" technique. It isn't stylish and it isn't efficien Fingers on home row
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Using both hands is inefficient. Do more with less.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Using both hands is inefficient. Do more with less.
Dare I ask what the other hand should be (simultaneously) used for? 
The article did resonate with me tho -- I'm always amazed at a colleague of mine who, despite being an excellent programmer with many years of experience, still looks down at the keyboard and mostly uses two fingers to type. But then, I suppose writing programs at 100 wpm is a bad idea... especially if you're using a language like J, K or... APL 
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Typing is the only useful skill I got out of high school.
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Typing gets exponentially more difficult to get really skilled at it the longer you wait.
60% of all people who learn to type will peak at 40-50wpm because they aren't physically capable to type faster. People who started tying in their teens don't have that limitation and they can get to 100wpm and beyong with practice.
It's similar to martial arts. Kids who start young have their limbs and joints grow a certain way and as adult they'll always be able to kick higher and faster than someone who started practicing in his 30's.
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I find it really dependant on my mental status and inspiration.
I always thought I am a bad typer, usually 3-4 fingers at most and slightly slower and more error prone than most. Then I discovered that in my "bright moments" I can type like the Devil, entire blocks of code without even a typo or the usage of autocompletion (usually slower than me in that cases). It's strange!
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0bx wrote: It's similar to martial arts. Kids who start young have their limbs and joints grow a certain way and as adult they'll always be able to kick higher and faster than someone who started practicing in his 30's.
I'm curious if you have any scientific reference that proves your statement? Because, from my understanding, kicking higher and faster depends more on muscle mass, strength, and stretching abilities than on limbs and joints grown in a specific way.
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No, but if I remember correctly I read about a certain Doctor Lloyd who was the main authority on typing research in the 70's.
Based on some experiment he concluded that at least half of the populous didn't even have the dexterity to physically wiggle their fingers fast enough to exceed 50wpm; let alone that they could learn to actually type that fast. This illustrated the ludicrous hiring requirements of companies back then and how much typing speed was overvalued at that time.
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Members of the European Parliament, along with civil society groups, have urged European member states to stick with strict net neutrality rules. Because the one thing the EU is good at, is neutrality
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 for the sarcasm 
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"We'll see your one free album, Google, and raise you a hundred!" The catch? Windows 8 and Windows Phone users only. Assuming you live in the States (the rest of us will just say there wasn't anything interesting in the list)
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Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth. Spoiler alert: it's because of aliens
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Microsoft is slated to pay Chinese authorities 840 million yuan (roughly $137 million) in back taxes and interest, according to a report by state-sponsored news agency Xinhua. In addition, the Redmond-based software company is on the hook for an additional 100 million yuan tax payment next year. Wouldn't it be nice to have an ATM like this around all the time?
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I didn't realize MS had sold $140M of software in China at all. I thought their national OS was WarezDoze.
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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True dat. Maybe it's just them trying to charge for the copies where "Microsoft Windows, really" was written on the DVD in Sharpie.
TTFN - Kent
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Spoon app-containerization technology for Windows offers some Docker technology, but with an emphasis on desktop apps. "Only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon."
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I used spoon when it first came out and it was great, but it became less and less pleasant to use over time. From super-easy to setup and run to more of being nagged / more barriers in place to use kinda thing.
Which was a pity. I really liked it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Developers don't need to be spoon-fed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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European privacy regulators want Internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing to scrub results globally, not just in Europe, when people invoke their “right to be forgotten” as ruled by an E.U. court. Have they forgotten how poorly this works?
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I suggest that if EUcrats want their internet censorship laws to apply worldwide, Google/etc should give them a taste of their own medicine and apply every other countries censorship laws to their connections. Targetting them at home would be difficult without affecting other innocent parties; but the IP ranges owned by EU organizations should be easy enough to get. Between China's Great Firewall (just dust off the old code from when Google was playing along; a bit dated but enough to make the point) and then add the filters required to comply with every other theocracy and dictatorship world wide. When they find 99% of the internet is blocked or broken perhaps they'll get the point.
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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Agreed. There was a good example of this a few months back when a German publication got themselves off of Google News. When they realized how much money they were losing, they came back pretty fast.
Although, I'm sure the EU could come up with their own search engine. Yahoo would probably love the traffic.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although, I'm sure the EU could come up with their own search engine. Yahoo would probably love the traffic.
The search engine most used in the EU to find proxies to bypass EU search engine restrictions? 
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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