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Just how common are IQ tests? If the people bragging about their IQ score are any indication, I really don't put much stock in it...unless perhaps they are lying. Usually, smart people don't brag about their IQ. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. Do you mean that not everyone waits for a hack before fixing?
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A tweet by a Microsoft developer has caused a bit of hubbub today after it implied Microsoft was rewriting all of their Office Suite in Javascript. I thought I had an explanation of Outlook's performance there for a while
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I saw that last week and thought his clarification wasn't much of one. How does someone so illiterate become manager of anything? (Yeah, if you can't do, manage.)
modified 17-Jun-18 18:53pm.
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That may convince me to use it again 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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THE US Army has built a computational tool which it says can improve the cognitive benefits of coffee consumption by as much as 64 per cent. The best time to drink coffee is between 0000 and 2359
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While most of the attention is on .NET Core, work continues on the classic .NET Framework. An "early access” preview of .NET 4.8 shows the areas that Microsoft is most concerned about including high graphics Dots per Inch (DPI), accessibility, and concurrency. That's regular .NET, not Core, Standard, nor Menthol
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Although many businesses have begun moving to DevOps-style processes, eight out of 10 respondents to a new survey say they still have separate teams for managing infrastructure/operations and development. This news brought to you by the department of, "If it ain't broke, you don't need to lay off half your staff and get the remainder to do the same amount of work"
I'm still working on a bumper sticker version of that. I think it might be a while.
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If you have a hammer...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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A listing for an all-hands internal meeting appeared about what seems like a new project: Scout. So you can tell your computer where to go (in case you don't already)
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This would be a better application of Microsoft's own ad-line "Where do you want to go today?"
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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How lazy do we have to be? "I can't lift my hands to type anymore". If you are surfing for something other than music for listening, most likely you will be right there at the screen. This ranks right up there with the invention of the straw. I can get the cup within 2 inches of my lips...but then my arm gets tired...
Maybe I'm too much of an introvert. I don't like talking to people, why would I talk to a computer?
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j snooze wrote: I don't like talking to people, why would I talk to a computer?
It's not about the user; it is about the headline it generates and the growing marketshare.
Adding nonsense because it sounds good
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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The maker of Snapchat has introduced Snap Kit, a full-fledged developer kit that allows app makers to bring core features of Snapchat to their apps. I'd make some kind of appropriate joke here, but I'm really too old to know just what SnapChat is.
Something to do with overlaying rabbit ears on Chris during the weekly standup?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm really too old to know just what SnapChat is
At least you are not old enough to learn from your children what Snapchat is 
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Microsoft has started ramping up their own efforts to create a cloud-based AI infrastructure based on super-fast, dedicated, custom-designed AI chipsets. A Clippy for every chippy
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The model was trained on hundreds of memes in the “advice animal” style of text and image then tasked with producing its own captions. And then they came for the meme-writers, but I did not speak out -- as I only write blurbs, not memes
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Microsoft officials said the Windows 10 April 2018 Update is rolling out to all compatible devices now, two-and-a-half months after its phased rollout began. It's always April somewhere?
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As long as it is not April 1st
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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Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional scene from just a handful of two-dimensional snapshots Time to try train it on some Escher stuff (that should delay the Singularity)
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A little more work and it looks like it should be able to play Wolfenstein!
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Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. "And now for something completely different"
Only because I think I used, "Snakes? Did you say snakes?" recently
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Intel has announced that there's yet another CPU security bug in its Core-based microprocessors. I'd try to write something funny here, but I'm in my own lazy state
But it's already patched, apparently.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But it's already patched, apparently.
Nobody's fooled. We all know you have to say that in case Chris looks through.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The report claims Microsoft is in the process of developing its own systems for tracking what people place in their shopping carts, but doesn’t offer the details of how Microsoft’s technology operates, or how it may differ from others on the market. It looks like you're trying to buy bananas. Would you like help with that?
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