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Microsoft is releasing a first Visual Studio for Mac preview, as well as a near-final Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2017 for Windows. For reals, this time
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modified 17-Nov-16 4:55am.
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I'm sorry but this forum is for news items. You might want to raise this in the Lounge instead.
This space for rent
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Encouraging a new user to post a question disguised as a rant on The Lounge (a privilege normally reserved for those of us who've earned the master debater status)... are you trying to get him(?) banned?
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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Microsoft announced that it was joining forces with The Linux Foundation at the Microsoft Connect developer event in New York. "It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror"
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They are probably trying to find a way to buy them out then dump it.
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The story[^] posted above about Google joining the .NET Foundation also mentions Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member, albeit only one sentence at the very end.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Yeah, the story showed up all over the techpress a few hours ago. It's looking like ZDnyet might've jumped an embargo instead.
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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Fannie Mae has doubled its software output in the last 18 months thanks to agile software development and DevOps, which enables continuous integration and application deployment. And 'Nae _true_ Scotsman wears trews!'
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Two meaningless concepts multiplied together still equals zero. 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The idea is simply to let people fool around with example of machine learning, or download the code themselves to see how it works. "Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?"
You knew I had to, didn't you?
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The 'Minecraft' Hour of Code Designer lets novices create their own experiences. Bonus marks if you re-create Minecraft inside Minecraft
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Can't believe they discontinued the vastly superior "Project Spark" game builder/coding thing.
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A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles, has helped to untangle 'the memory web' by shedding light on how neurons in memory-related areas provide a long-term coding of associations between concepts. I don't know, Google it and find out
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After discovering malicious users that were using open-source projects to participate in dangerous activities like bitcoin mining, SourceClear created a free project to help the community discover suspicious builds before they become an issue. I really wanted to do a "Who watches the build watcher" here, but ... meh
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Quote: A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 technique.
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«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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 That was a great book[^]. Not sure I want to be around for the ending though.
TTFN - Kent
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I don't know why but "the island of dr moreau" came to my mind so fast...
This is not going to end well I think. As always a good idea will be used bad with even worse consequences.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No, you likely misunderstood a major point. The manipulated cells are NOT germline cells, only "common" somatic cells. That's still similar to implanting some device like a cardiac pacemaker. Hence there won't be any effect on future offspring of that individual.
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A 6 month safety trial with lung cancer patients... How are they expecting to differentiate between adverse consequences and the natural progression of the cancer killing them all?
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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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence research division has announced a partnership with the Elon Musk-backed nonprofit OpenAI. Future AIs will ask if you want to upgrade to Windows 10
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No thanks skynet, I'll stick with 7 
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Humanity's best interest is to pay me to retire. Where's my check?
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