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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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Well handled and well explained.  It's great to see a large company admitting that it made a mistake instead of trying to sweep it under the rug. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Google has addressed an unusual glitch in its Search and Assistant apps that made SMS text messages appear when specific search terms were entered. Meanwhile conspiracy theorists agree, "that's exactly the excuse they want us to believe."
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A large majority of people say they are concerned about their online privacy, but this is not reflected in their actions according to a new study. Look, when Facebook asks me to turn on my location, I'm pretty sure they just want to know I'm somewhere safe.
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., thinks that Chinese internet giants are too cozy with the country’s Communist government. Alibaba co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai thinks Sen. Warner is trying to hold China back. Hey guys, let's all be friends and share technology.
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Microsoft announced a significant reorganization of its Windows business back in March. You take a block from the bottom and you put it on the top ...
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Apple was thrust into the middle of a long-simmering dispute on Thursday between the encrypted messaging app Telegram and the Russian government, which has sought to shut down the service since it declined to help Moscow intercept communications sent through its platform. Who will guard the guards themselves?
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We all know the meme: by the time you’ve learned one front-end technology, another three have just been released. Also, that one you just learned? It’s deprecated.
What we don’t often see is an examination why. *takes someone else's finger, points it at back-end developers. runs away*
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The history of the Windows XP common controls – The Old New Thing[^]
That doesn't mean that these common controls were introduced with XP; they were there in Win3.1.
I'd point to marketing and management; if it looks like it is using the default textboxes and buttons, they usually go into a fit and demand you buy some newer-looking non-standard controls.
Where people are now rejoicing that the Mac-OS looks more uniform - Windows no longer does, because the customers demanded it. It's why a WPF-app does not look like a Windows-application, and why there is often unexpected behaviour from the users' POV.
I've said it a thousand times: WinForms rocks (even on a Raspberry Pi!)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I've said it a thousand times: WinForms rocks
Amen ! But, I don't have a Raspberry Pi.
«... 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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