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I'm a little perturbed that almost every one of their metrics are syntactic.
How about basic architecture like "Uses iteration when recursion is called for" or "Treats value types as if they are reference types." The skill is not in the specific grammar, it's in how it all fits together.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Last quarter, Microsoft hit a major milestone: $1 trillion in all-time cumulative revenue reports technology consultant Jeff Reifman. That's what: 10 installs of VS Ultimate Sooper Dooper?
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It's enterprise, chief. Both, system as well as edition. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Yeah. That one. I can never keep track of their names beyond, I WANT IT ALLLLLLLL! 
TTFN - Kent
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If you want all of them, that'd be a Community! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft recently spoke at an AI conference that AI is “the most important technology that anybody on the planet is working on today.” This announcement brought to you by the Department of Whatever I'm Working On Is The Most Important department
Did you know that this newsletter is THE MOST important one? After all the other ones, anyway.
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Chief Envisioning Officer? When I was a kid it was called the 'village drunk'...
But to make him happy I started to work on a - open source - AI related project right now...AI implant - the only way same can get intelligence...
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did you know that this newsletter is THE MOST important one?
I do !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I wish people would shut up about AI and chatbots
i cri evry tiem
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The FBI’s Next Generation Identification Biometrics Database went live nationwide in 2014 without much fanfare from the general public. That's OK, I already know what my face looks like
Do two faced people have two records?
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Darn well better or we'll be mad yes we will.
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What happens with people that have face transplants? Both the provider and recipient?
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They go on to make even more terrible films[^].
"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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Back-end changes at Outlook.com are making the old email client obsolete How about Outlook Express?
Yes, I know the answer is in the article, but that's the only other Microsoft email client I could think of. I couldn't remember the name of the old DOS-based one. Or was it just "Mail"? Or was that just the back-end?
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They didn't say anything about the 2011 version i may still be good 
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No pop/imap/smtp support on one end? 
Or did they explicitly have Windows LiveDead Mail not allow you to use those because of the availability of the other 'better' interface that's now being turned off.
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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Debate continues on whether employers consider a high rank on developer community sites like Stack Overflow when deciding who to hire. blah blah blah Betteridge's Law blah blah (but maybe)
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No.
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 don't know about SO, but:
Hiring Managers May Find You Online Without Help
That is certainly true. A couple days after CP announced the 2016 MVP's, I got a call from a hiring manager. I asked him how he heard about me and he said looks at the CP MVP's. I didn't take the job (it was too far away, and we had just bought a house), but I would have definitely received an offer.
I remember a client once, several years ago, hiring a summer college intern. The intern asked who else was working on the project, to which, when told, the intern responded, "What? THE Marc Clifton???" That was a fun story to hear.
Marc
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I believe it could aid or hinder getting a job. I try and have only a positive or agnostic reflection of myself online.
If you do well on the interview, then HR and the hiring manager would probably Google search you and see what they can find about you, maybe even preinterview. If you are a strong contributor to the IT community, I believe it would aid you. For example, many CP users post articles, tips, tech blogs, and Q&A helping the community. This is online and there for everyone to see, so it could be an aid. An aid of contribution and an aid on your technical acumen. And yes, I see some users on Stack Overflow and Code Project are cut throat in the Q&A section; so they think it helps.
If you post racial, sexist, or dirty materials online, then you probably won't get the job if they see it, even if you are in the top 10 of points for Stack Overflow or Code Project. If you are getting trolled, trolling, or are argumentative online, then it can hurt you. I only post online to sites where I can delete the entry if it comes out rough or insensitive.
* Note to self, delete in 48 hours.
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Oh, you are very active on CP / SO and the like. Great skills!
But what about your boss? Didn't he expect you to work for him while you were on those sites?
Ehm,...
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This is the hypothetical puzzle set by René Heller, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute Solar System Research (MPISSR). "All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead."
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Most of it is ads. They're wanting to know if we have a good ad blocker they can use.
Marc
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Skip this planet, there's no intelligent life here.
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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A team at Carnegie Mellon has found a way to make skin a user interface for gadgets I was just trying to select some text. Honest!
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