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Impersonal computers?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Your smartphone is probably the computer you rely on most throughout the day
Not me
Sean Ewington wrote: But Intel thinks there's still a place for PCs.
Of course... under my desk 
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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Not for me if I have a choice, but I am learning to use the phone more since no personal computer at work, so use phone. Now I get news and youtube on my phone. Before this I used my laptop. It does not work as well. 
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Apparently it was just a bug that utterly erased tablets off Google’s Android sites in many languages and localities, and the tablet section has now returned, but for awhile it looked like Google has quietly crept out of the tablet business. This is what happens when you release an obituary about someone who didn't die.
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Ever had the nagging suspicion that your car's manufacturer was charging outrageous prices for parts simply because it could? Software might be to blame. Now hold on a minute, are you telling me NOT to repair my car at the dealership?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Now hold on a minute, are you telling me NOT to repair my car at the dstealership?
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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 Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. It's the end of the world as we know it~
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Try: "all the way."
NY Times, June 3, 2018: [^] "Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends"Quote: Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing, The New York Times found.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Oh Gosh! Now I am really surprised!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Does not seem to affect Facebook stock. As far as I can tell, people are not using Facebook as much yet the stock keeps soaring. It is pretty scary considering that the whole stock market is based on BS. When it finally crashes it will be catastrophic. Maybe Climate Change will kill us sooner so we will not have to worry about the Rich killing the world economy.
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Majority of Facebook's users are too addicted to drop it.
Next scandal from their side might be Instagram related.
modified 7-Jun-18 7:05am.
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As time goes on the all the remaining users will be have a really bad addiction to it. Those that are less so will finally get for fed up with it that they are able to wean themselves off of it.
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Why does this make me concerned?
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Because someone at Microsoft will think it's a great idea to re-implement GitHub using COM.
(I actually use GitHub for a half-dozen projects and half of those have alternative avenues of download, so I don't really care one way or another.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: to re-implement GitHub using COM.
 That made my day.
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Because at the same time they've registered TFShub.com and pointed it at the same servers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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This bothers me. Besides the obvious, such as how this will affect the pricing structure and quality of the service (I rate GitHub as a very high quality service), I just don't think that Microsoft should own something where, if I were to guess, the number of repos having nothing to do with the Microsoft technology stack far outweighs the repos that do. While very very unlikely, what's to prevent Microsoft from booting out any non-Microsoft repo? Nothing really, except PR.
The last thing I want to see is GitHub "integrated" with LinkedIn, or Skype, or some other ridiculous merging of disparate apps. We'll see how it goes, but I'll be ready to bail from GitHub and move my repos to Bitbucket or similar if I don't like the direction Microsoft takes things.
Then again, how hard can it be to set up my own git server to host my own repos? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Then again, how hard can it be to set up my own git server to host my own repos?
If you do it, get bigger hardware... I strongly think, many other users would join you 
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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Cue the creation of yet another repo service, because it won't be owned by Microsoft.
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Me disturb: they'll screw it up like they screwed up Skype.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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They screwed up GotDotNet back in the day, which was another coding site. I really hope they don't screw up GitHub but I'm holding my breath.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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The GNOME Foundation has announced it is moving to GitLab. … and closed the bugs I filed over the years in the process.
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On May 31, 2018 we had a 17 minute outage on our 1.1.1.1 resolver service; this was our doing and not the result of an attack. An honest write up on a service outage.
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