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Or try a different distro?
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Microsoft is getting into the holiday spirit a bit early today by offering an MS Paint-themed “ugly” sweater for sale on its online store, with a portion of the proceeds from each sale donated to Girls Who Code. I just don't get the tradition, but here you go
I know, if it's good enough for Mr. Darcy... bleh
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How patronising can you get. Buy an ugly sweater, help a poor little girlie who wants to code. Grrrrrr.
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We take a look back at historic .NET technologies that never made the jump to .NET Core. In memoriam
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GitHub research suggests there is a need to reduce the time between bug detection and fixes. Send. More. Eyes.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Send. More. Eyes.
Don't forget the brains...
BRAIIINNNNSSSSS, BRRRAAAAIIINNNNSSSZZZZ... URGGNTTTTZZZZZ, PLZZZZ
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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Developers can use a new user interface framework to bring Android apps to Windows 10, macOS and Linux. Now your Windows apps can look like they were designed for a phone-sized screen!
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There’s also video showing the descent of the spacecraft. They found Kubrick's old studio?
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Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air. "Ultimately, protecting someone else’s data protects all of us."
Fortunately, it's patched.
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Microsoft gives Windows 10 users the last non-security update until January 2021. You can now rest easy for a while - your machine won't break itself for a while
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Cloud computing giant Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The sales force is slacking? Fire them all!
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These market valuations are barking mad.
I'm hardly the first to say this but this is surely Dotcom Bubble version 2.0 (3? 4?).
There is no doubt that well crafted social apps have great value in terms of adding value to an end user's business but I do not believe that Slack can be genuinely worth $27.7B. (And to be clear I am not dissing Slack, specifically).
But it's the markets, innit. If everyone believes then it's ok. It's when belief ends...
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markrlondon wrote: But it's the markets, innit. If everyone believes then it's ok. It's when belief ends...
True. See: Tesla vs GM/Ford/any of the real car makers 
TTFN - Kent
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Tesla is a good example. Its market valuation is surely unsustainable -- it will (surely?) never be able to perform up to it.
It seems to be an example of the emotional, rather than rational, nature of the market.
Then again, only Tesla is prepared for the great Martian car building endeavour, so who knows. I can totally see Tesla Cybertrucks trundling around Mars.
modified 1-Dec-20 17:33pm.
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Nah, Slack should be dissed specifically. It's been losing money at enormous rates. They have a market presence, but aren't doing anything that a relatively small team of engineers couldn't readily duplicate. What is their plan for profitability?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: t's been losing money at enormous rates. They have a market presence, but aren't doing anything that a relatively small team of engineers couldn't readily duplicate
But this is what makes me say Dotcom Bubble 2. They have value, sure, but are overvalued.
Then again, loads of people can say "I could do that", but it was Slack who did/are doing it. Even if what they did is nothing special, they still did it and got there first.
First matters in this industry.
Joe Woodbury wrote: What is their plan for profitability?
None. Their business model is, surely, to be first and to be purchased by a rich buyer who perceives them to be a necessary 'presence' against the likes of, say, Teams.
In this sort of thinking, this fulfils two functions: (1) It plugs a gap in the product/service range, and (2) it fulfils the latest faddish investor expectations.
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We have central wbankers to thank for this, and it will eventually end in tears.
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No, I don't think so. Central bankers have their own ills and wrongs and malignancies but this ill, that of grossly over-valued businesses, is not one that central bankers or governments can be blamed for. It is all about freely decided (well, emotionally decided) market sentiment and of a class of people promoting more of the same class of people.
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That's also true, but when central banks manipulate interest rates to zero and below, it's easy for firms to issue bonds to finance this kind of nonsense. They should know better, but everyone's playing the game. And "investors" are lapping these bonds up with little regard for risk, because at least they yield something. The number of zombie firms--ones that would go bankrupt if they couldn't keep refinancing their debt--is staggering.
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Companies could see how often individual employees carried out actions in Microsoft 365. So now it will look like the team is slacking?
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“Project Management” is an enormous industry. Software, training, certifications and even Masters degrees – everything you can imagine — to make us better at managing simple and complex projects. But we keep failing. Over and over again. Is there a solution? Yes. "To err is human"
I really wanted to use the HAL quote, but I've used that too often
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Getting tired of this negative shtick. Yeah, I've worked on mismanaged projects, but have also worked on well managed projects and some fantastically managed projects (one of which was mismanaged until the company hired a new VP of Engineering--that guy knew how to manage projects.)
I've also worked on well managed projects for products which couldn't be monetized profitably. This resulted in what may have appeared to be mismanagement by some, but was most everyone trying to salvage what originally seemed like a good product.
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No one gets paid for fixing well managed projects
TTFN - Kent
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ESA will launch the first active space debris removal mission in 2025. If they miss, they have to put in another quarter to try again
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Since shipping .NET 5, Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and more goodies recently, Microsoft has been touting speed improvements in many components -- including the red-hot Blazor project -- but some real-world developers are finding different results. New, hot stuff often isn't - news at 11
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