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+5 pedant points (virtual) 
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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The initiative is designed to improve the security of open-source projects and push tech firms to adopt best practices. "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
Yes, I felt contractually obligated to use that quote.
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Despite widespread interest in containers, most developers are unsure how to drive significant benefits from them Guilty as charged
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Guilty as charged
Seconded! Every 6 months or so I look up Docker and the rest to see if I can understand what containers are about. The best I can figure out is that their like a VM that lets you ship a working system to the customer.
Marc
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There are differences (after all, you could ship a configured VM to a customer if you wanted to). The biggest thing is that the Container runs hosted directly inside the host OS, rather than inside a Virtual Machine, so it has access to resources that are denied to it if it were inside the VM. As they don't fire up separate OSes, they are a lot quicker to start than a VM and they also typically consume far less system resources than VMs. Where something like Docker shines is that it's a lot easier to take a snapshot of an OS into a common configuration and then deploy that snapshot out to other environments, so replicating Prod through to QA becomes a lot easier.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: is that it's a lot easier to take a snapshot of an OS into a common configuration
Does that include pre-configuring device drivers, etc?
Marc
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Yes. Basically, what I would do is get the OS to a bare configured install (with drivers upgraded, etc), then snapshot it. This would be the base container I would then put on other machines.
This space for rent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: most developers are unsure how to drive significant benefits from them
Maybe they can not?
For me, they are no more than VMs, so why spend time to utilize them at all...(ah...fashion you say...the shiny new...)
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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An upcoming competition will invite the public to propose and test 'quantum-resistant' encryption schemes Get the cat out of the box?
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Today we’re announcing the preview release of our new documentation service https://docs.microsoft.com, showcasing content supporting our Enterprise Mobility products. For all the content that didn't fit on the other six Microsoft documentation sites?
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I wonder, since you have to pay to play whether it will be any better then all their other docs?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Microsoft content has been pretty much useless to me for years. This is probably not going to be very good since only people who are subscribed can even see it, let alone improve and fix the issues. Since Microsoft got rid of almost all their technical writers 20 years ago, not sure where they are going to find the talent to keep this site up. Plus, Microsoft has not been very good with UX for years (if they had been Windows 8 would have been very different), so what can you expect from a help system without usability being a major input.
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I agree their docs have been pretty useless. When I google I purposely shun their help sites in favor of anything else.
The times I can't find info, for one of their products somwewhere else it seems like you go round and round kinda like talking to a politician.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Since users cannot find anything on MSDN, they can now pay for the privilege of not finding what they need on Microsoft Docs. Sounds like MSFT is not a stock to purchase right now.
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Hey folks, just one quick note here... the docs site doesn't cost money, in fact it doesn't even require you to sign in, so totally free and open as you would expect for our docs.
Thanks for checking it out 
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MSFT does want business contact and your verifiable business phone number; so obviously they're wanting to sell something.
This seems to be a separate entity to MSDN.
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That is for signing up for a free trial of the Enterprise Mobility software, nothing to do with using the site.
I think having that free trial button on the first page of the site is confusing the issue a bit.
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McLaren is still servicing the existing 100 F1s with a Compaq laptop from the early ‘90s. If it's not broke?
I guess that should be, "I bet they hope it doesn't break"
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Semi-autonomous vehicles sometimes need human drivers to take over, raising distraction concerns Warns?
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On the plus side it will increase use of the car pooling lane anyway
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I know one researcher who isn't married.
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Better than sleeping if there is an emergency. Of course the car may be safer without the driver.
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Which probably means that we'll see a few niche self-driving cars on the market in a few years. No seats, just tinted windows and a comfortable mattress.
Marc
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All of us could've predicted that (and we probably have somewhere, just not on a news website) 
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