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basic mastery
Isn't that something of an oxymoron?
But let's continue:
Knowing these building blocks contributes to what designers rather loosely define as “good taste” — the ability to quickly judge what works visually and what does not.
No. Knowing how to use paint, a paintbrush, and a canvas does not mean that what you produce is in good taste. Some examples if you don't believe me.[^]
you should always start by figuring out what your app does.
Ummm. No comment.
Always be on the lookout for inspiration.
I could always tell when an app was written in VB because the programmer's inspiration was so elephanting obvious.
Now try to find a few test users (at least five or so is usually best) to give feedback on your paper prototype.
My girlfriend, her friend, my poker buddies. Everyone's an expert, everyone has an opinion. They're neither, and they're usually wrong.
Plan your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app.
Uh, no, if I'm going to plan for a "universal" app, I want it to run on something more than just every device that runs Windows 10[^] Wait, there are more devices out there that run on other things other than W10, right? Right??? Maybe my opinionated expertise needs to be revisited.
Marc
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Isn't "successful UWP app" an oxymoron too?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's a PKI race to the bottom in 2016. Advances in web site authentication have been rare and nothing inspiring is in the offing. In related news, my hosting company is still asking for an arm and/or leg for a cert
Strangely, I originally typed "hosing" there.
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Microsoft's aggressive campaign to get customers to Windows 10 is raising some eyebrows, with scattered reports that some people's PCs are automatically upgrading from Windows 7 — without their explicit permission. Because they secretly really wanted Win10?
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Now they have a valid reason to discontinue support for Windows 7 and 8.1. Their testers and devs can never hold on to one long enough to debug a bug because they all auto update to 10 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because they secretly really wanted Win10?
But they don't know it yet. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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My home computer upgraded to Windows 10 while I was watching a YouTube video on it.
No warnings, no dialogs, no nothing. Just closed down all my programs and started the "upgrade".
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The Microsoft Windows 10 campaign is a lot like the Donald Trumph campaign. It just keeps getting worse and worst, and no matter how bad it gets the people seem to be happy to suck it up.
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Wouldn't they have to be logged in as admin?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Wouldn't they have to be logged in as admin?
Gaining Admin credential silently should be a tiny problem for MS; They can even break encryption without court injunction.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I'll say it again just because I'm annoying.
Is this fun or what.
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Fortunately, my pc is still in windows 8.1 until now.
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I'm guessing that most users are. My desktop is still on Win 7 Pro but I'm standard user. Win 10 regularly attempts an upgrade on shutdown and then fails, presumably because it would require me to enter admin credentials. That's fine as I don't want to upgrade just yet.
Kevin
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Neither of mine has hinted at trying, other than the "updates" that want to install the nagware.
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I'm not convinced of this. I run Windows 8 and look at every patch; none do this. My ex and three of my kids run Windows 7 or 8 and while it nags them, it doesn't upgrade them. My dad chose to upgrade (after asking his sons.)
(The only reason I don't upgrade my Windows 8.1 system is that Windows 10 and it don't get along--I strongly suspect either a flaky SATA controller or a marginal hard drive. I've since replace the hard drive with an SSD, but don't have the patience right now to try Windows 10 again on that box.)
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A revolutionary step in thermodynamics research holds the potential to dramatically reduce the power consumption of modern computers and mobile devices. "Magnets, how do they work?"
To quote the noted philosophers (who apparently skipped many classes), Insane Clown Posse
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holds the potential
I wonder if we can mark the place in time when science changed from "we announce an amazing new thing" to "we announce the potential of an amazing new thing."
Maybe it was around the point where AI or nanotechnology was first announced as an amazing potential thing. Maybe it was when the media became the voice of science.
Potentially. 
Marc
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What goes around comes around.
Remember old and slow core memory boards?
They also stored a 1 or 0 in magnetic direction.
Hope lower power consumption doesn't come at the expense of the speed we crave.
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Launched as an experimental project, the Servo browser engine is nearing its first release, scheduled for this June, as Mozilla's engineers have revealed in an internal discussions group. Oh good: a new browser to support (said no one ever)
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Written in Rust, so it will be interesting to see if it's security vulnerability-resistant - at least with respect to use-after-free and buffer overflow errors.
Kevin
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Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned. If only there was some way to block those adverts!
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I’m excited to announce that WebAssembly has reached an important milestone: there are now multiple, interoperable, experimental browser implementations. Write Once, Play Everywhere
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Microsoft is privately testing its next major version of Visual Studio, which ultimately may be christened 'Visual Studio 2016.' For those of you considering upgrading from Programmer's Workbench
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They expect us to start shelling out that much yearly?
My employer will choke!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Once you get shackled to the MSDN subscription treadmill it doesn't matter how frequently they pop out new versions. 
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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