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Below is a loosely-categorized collection of links to CS textbooks in a variety of areas that are freely available online A little light reading for you
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The author considers Go to be one of the best modern languages of today (together with Dart + Flutter and Rust). I wonder if they've collected $200 yet?
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Though making predictions is more precarious in this environment than ever, here's my list of five Microsoft technologies which I think could impact Microsoft's business customer base in 2021. Alas, Bob 2021 didn't make the cut
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Or: Five Microsoft technologies that will die in 2022. ???
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If they make it to 2022. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If they make it to 2022.
If any of us do...
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Nothing about work during 2020 has been normal. So what does 2021 have in store? Here's what the experts told ZDNet. Better waistband on the sweatpants?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Better waistband on the sweatpants?
I've found that isn't actually the problem. What I really need is sweatpants with suspenders*.
*US suspenders, not UK. You pervs.
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I had the unfortunately thought that I might want to read this article.
IT should be titled. "Five no 6 no 99 new buzzwords to watch out for in 2021 and beyond"
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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The days of a clunky robot lumbering slowly on stiff legs, its head tethered to a bundle of cables, are officially behind us. The robot apocalypse now will be a musical
As they dance upon piles of our bones. Can't wait!
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Wow!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The robot apocalypse now will be a musical
Musicals are the apocalpyse, IMO! 
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References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being "modern" services. Seems about right for a government document
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But did they discuss chimney sweeps and VCR repairmen?
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The NextMind controller is a sensor that reads electrical signals from your brain’s visual cortex, and translates those into input signals for a connected PC. I could do with the next mind. This one's a little worn out.
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On January 1st, Cloud Print turns into a pumpkin. So, print all the clouds you can before it's gone
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A Japanese company and Kyoto University have joined forces to develop what they hope will be the world's first satellites made out of wood by 2023. Now the astronauts will have to worry about splinters
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They can watch their low-res version of 'Shrek' on a custom VCR. What's a floppy disk?
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" - part 1.44MB
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Microsoft is developing a new way to navigate Windows 10 computers, a “voice launcher” that will let users interact with the computer using their voice. And by "exciting", they mean, "irritating"
They're going to keep trying to get us to use Cortana until we actually do, aren't they?
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One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been that the working devices that go into a quantum computer and perform the actual calculations, the qubits, have hitherto been made by universities and in small numbers. Now they'll only be 5-10 years in the future
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We're running out of stones
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GameGAN, a generative adversarial network trained on 50,000 PAC-MAN episodes, produces a fully functional version of the dot-munching classic without an underlying game engine. At least now the AI are coming for the ghosts
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In the age of the cloud, containers and unikernels, the role of operating systems is changing. "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Sorry, that's just what I thought of when I thought of getting rid of operating systems. Brain might return soon.
No promises.
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We’ve all heard the arguments for the age-old debate between Java and .NET, and as with many things, there are many factors to consider to determine what best suits your application. But what if we take it a bit deeper to the virtual machine level? "There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference"
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According to sources, Microsoft is developing a new virtualized Windows PC experience called 'Cloud PC' that allows administrators to deploy remotely accessible Windows 10 PCs in the cloud. Windows VT 100
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