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Am I the only one using NPP?
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No, I use both - NPP for most text stuff, and VSCode for what passes for my dev work these days.
TTFN - Kent
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If you mean Notepad++, I use it all the time, just not for code in a solution.
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Microsoft is testing a new feature in the Windows 10 19H1 Insider builds (Build 1903) that changes how dates are displayed in File Explorer to a more "conversational format" such as "minutes ago", "yesterday", "hours ago", etc. Who let the guy responsible for the progress notifications into the code?
Ugh, compressing an idea into a short blurb can be hard sometimes. Does that blurb make sense to anyone? Can you figure out what I was going for?
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But will their "Icon Engineers" be able to make the transition to "Idiotic Date Engineers"
It "almost" makes you think MBAs are clueless morons.
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Wow!
What a great improvement!
So if I have to compare file versions, all the changes this morning will be alphabetically sorted under "this morning"!
That's wonderful!
Instead of inefficiently sorting them by date modified, so that they show me the dates and times in a list, where I have to go to all the trouble of running my eyes down it, all I'll have to do now is Alt+Enter each one, and try to remember the modification times of each!
Thank you, microsoft for this and all the other huge productivity improvements you're making to the Best! Windows! EVAH!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Please let the implementation date of this feature be 'never.' 
or:
"I hope they make this a ribbon feature, and make the font adjustable - AND BIG!" 
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This is one of my bugbears with YouTube, the summarised date information in some instances says "1 year ago" when what it means is "Between 1 and 2 years ago".
I am not sure a conversational-style is really helpful when it comes to the requirements and precision expected within IT - ever had someone say "Next Friday" when today is Sunday and what they mean is "The first Friday from today, or in 5 days time" and you think they mean "In 12 days time"?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Flexible working often leads to negative views from other employees, with 1/3 of all UK workers believing those who work flexibly create more work for others, while a similar proportion believe their career will suffer if they use flexible working arrangements, according to new research. I agree: yoga while working is not great
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Between-the-lines subliminal version: Women cause more work for others.
Is misogyny the latest hate vector for the far right, or something? Terrorists, immigrants, and asians obviously aren't enough, for some people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bug dealt with in Chrome and Edge, but still a problem for Firefox users. iframes were a bad idea: part 2007
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Anyone who abuses 11-year-olds should have his bits chopped off!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You sexist! Why do you assume that women are not just as good, if not better, then men when it comes to abusing 11-year-olds? Obviously, from a feminist point of view, "chopping his bits off" makes perfect sense but this is just another instance where the misogynist males automatically assume that the 11-year-old-abuser would be male! Pathetic! Support female child abuser's rights to equal footing with male child abusers!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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AI Now is a group affiliated with New York University that counts as its members employees of tech companies including Google and Microsoft. In a new paper published Thursday, the group calls on governments to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies before they can undermine basic civil liberties. Fake mustaches for everyone!
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To paraphrase; to protect civil liberties, this group proposes that only government and its minions be allowed to use this technology.
Microsoft President Smith: "...we don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom, with tech companies forced to choose between social responsibility and market success."
While there are moral and ethical issues surrounding facial recognition, this is pure crony capitalism. Smith is demanding government create massive barriers to entry to Microsoft won't have to actually compete in the marketplace.
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Shirley! Find my Nixon mask, and get me on a flight to Washington DC!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November..."
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Whether you are troubleshooting, streamlining performance, or doing regular maintenance on Windows systems, you need a reliable set of tools to see what's going on under the hood. These should be in your toolbox. Because Task Manager isn't always enough
Sorry, I usually try to avoid 'N things' articles, but I learned of a few options in this one.
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Russinovich's ProcDump[^] and PsList[^] are others that I use relatively frequently.
But, Hell, lots of the tools in the Sysinternals package[^] come in handy, from time to time -- it's even fun just thumbing through them to see what they're for (that goes for NirSoft utilities[^], too).
Russinovich is (or was, maybe -- I don't know if he still works for ms) kinda the opposite of the modern ms developer -- he knows what he's doing, and makes damned useful tools.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Even more frightening (IMO): he still does a lot of the dev on the tools, despite being a VP/Distinguished Fellow/demigod over there.
TTFN - Kent
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Heaven forbid Microsoft lose Russinovich, Lavavej, Chen and others whose names I don't remember (including a QA guy--if I see he's assigned a bug I report, I rest easy knowing he'll be on top of it.) Microsoft needs to see what makes these engineers different and learn from that.
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Don't be silly; they're too old and set in their ways.
Ms needs young blood, with great new ideas, and blockchains, and lots of new icons, and pastel colour schemes.
What did those old fuddy-duddies ever do for us, eh?
... Apart from...
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Absolutely concur - there are a handful of incredible people at MS: Sutter, Stephen T Lavavej (appropriately enough u/stl on reddit), Russinovich. I hope they are valued as much as they deserve.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a VP/Distinguished Fellow/demigod over there
So he's the kind of guy the junior ms devs should be looking up to, rather than apple's graphic designers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 (archive) still works also
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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