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Edge under Chromium, Linux on Windows and now Swift...
And then we wonder why the windows updates are so crappy... with such a damned mix of so different things...
My father always told me (free translation):
The more you enclose, the less you can press.
And I think Microsoft is trying to enclose waaaayyy too much
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You want top-quality software, sure. But when is it time to increase the size of the testing team, so that you can deliver said top-quality software? Asking for a friend (company) in Redmond
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Asking for a friend (company) in Redmond
The day new icons stop being en vogue.
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Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Researchers have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. "Don't think of a pink elephant"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Researchers have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals.
It will be impressive when they don't need to monitor. But by then maybe we will all be in the Matrix.
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When a new major .NET version hits Release Candidate, it is time to use the NDepend code review changes capabilities to browse which new APIs have been added. When in doubt, peek at the source
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As Google moved earlier this year to ban third-party cookies on its Chrome browsers and Apple plans to restrict tracking in its next iOS build, Abhishek Sen, cofounder of a British analytics startup NumberEight, says companies are looking beyond cookies as they explore new avenues to tap into consumer behavior. Accelerometers don't taste as good dipped in milk
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On Sept, 22nd we will launch the Microsoft Tech Community Video Hub, initially with content to support Microsoft Ignite, but it will be the future home for Tech Community videos to help you learn everything you need to know about our major products. In case you're tired of all the other homes for videos from Microsoft
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Recently I've been reflecting on the (loosely defined) quality and popularity of programing languages. When the alternatives are PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript...
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It's the lizard people favoring their own kindof kind.
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Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians For the one person who doesn't know the Answer
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I think it will get less time to see the film that to read and understand that... 
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You should try the book.
Seriously though, it's a great book. And outside of tech docs I'm not much of a reader.
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Or rather, books. (The guide is considered the longest trilogy in history, filling four volumes.)
That said, I fully agree with you. In the written story, you will find loads of funny details, descriptions and thoughts that simply can't be transformed into a screen story. Escpecially not when the story fills four volumes and the movie fills 110 minutes.
In a few, exceptional cases, movies based on novels do add something extra, but at least 98% looses a whole lot going from book to screen. Maybe most actions can be transferred, and I guess that is what the movie audience is looking for. What you loose is the rest, that which goes beyond visible, physical actions. (If a movie maker tries to convey something beyond action, the movie is quickly labeled as 'artsy', or even 'European', and rejected by the general audience  )
Edit: I forgot about the fifth volume of the trilogy.
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Jon McKee wrote: You should try the book.
Yeah, I know. Books are in the vast majority of the cases much better than the films. My only problem is time, I already have 3 or 4 books on the queue 
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Companies could be broken up or forced to sell off European operations. What if they changed their names to Gügl and Facebøk?
Fingers crossed those characters make it into the newsletter
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At the risk of being Soapbox material...
I had never expected something good from the TikTok Affaire.
But hey, if you do it, we can do it too.
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Nelek wrote: TikTok Affaire
That should definitely be the next Bond film
TTFN - Kent
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Oxford-based Diffblue has claimed its AI will automate one of the most important but tedious tasks in software development: writing unit tests. Could I get an AI to write and AI to write an AI to write...?
And as they point out in their subhead, "The code might have bugs in it to begin with, and we can't tell if the current logic that you have in the code is correct or not, because we don't know what the intent is of the programmer" Hurrah!
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So... in other words... this is so useful as shitting inwards
Sorry for being that explicit.
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If you were sorry, you would have deleted that. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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