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A bigger Windows design push is coming later this year I feel complete now
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I con do'it, mon! (Funky Reggae music playing in background, with a cloud of stuff we will pretend is just smoke, and Nadella bravely leading the charge...)
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A study found that Java developers backtracked every 6 minutes, meaning they reverted their code to a previous state "Oh, I believe in yesterday"
I've been debating including this one for a few weeks now (so it's not technically new). Apologies if it offends.
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Because they are Java programmers.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Apologies if it offends.
Yeah, what Kent said. 
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Quote: Because they are Java programmers
When you say that stranger, you better smile! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It's an open-source IT world out there, and these days we're all living there. Breaking News: Open source company finds open source software popular
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Not sure if that is just plain confirmation bias or a not so successfully covered try for marketing..
M.D.V.
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A team of scientists from Tel-Aviv University have successfully given a robot the ability to hear sounds through the use of a dead locust’s ear. All I hear are crickets
OK, not directly related to our focus (other than the robotics angle), just sad for that locust that has to have a hearing aid now.
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Sounds like the dead locust IS the hearing aid now.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oh lord...
if we already fail to give proper / correct instructions to machines using languages explicitelly designed for it... what could go wrong, when we start "speaking" with machines if we can't even understand each other?
Additionally I wonder... will they get tinnitus or something like that?
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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These speakers can transcribe and translate meetings automatically They tell you when you're playing bad music?
I may not be able to get them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: These speakers can transcribe and translate meetings automatically
And then send a copy of the transcription to the tech giant overlord so they can parse it and help you shop for something you didn't know you needed.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: And then send a copy of the transcription to the tech giant overlord so they can parse it and help you shop for something you didn't know you needed.
This is a business product not a consumer one. They'll create a blabbermouth score for all employees based on how much time they spend flapping thier gums; and that number will be used by PHBs to reward the :sunsine:s who can't shut up as the most productive people in the company. "It's the biggest number, so they're best"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Here I was expecting that I could set up 4 or so speakers and depending on who's speaking, the sound would come out of a different speaker, to give you positional reference to each speaker.
Sadly disappointed. However I think that would be a cool, and probably useful, real "meeting room of the future" thing.
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The big news is that Flutter 2, as the release is called, has been expanded to become a portable framework rather than just a mobile framework, which means it can now be used to create slick, feature-filled web-based applications. "Won't you fly high, free bird"
And they didn't break compatibility?!
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Google is slowly phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and today, it’s making it clear that it won’t just replace them with something equally invasive despite the impact the change will have on Google’s lucrative advertising business. Do no evil (for a while)
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We aren't going to track you! We're going to follow you.
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They won't just keep tracking you; they'll do much more intrusive things as well. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Probably very accurate. 
TTFN - Kent
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"We do not need to track you anymore. We've just made sure that you tell us everything without us needing to ask."
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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As a developer you make repetitive changes to your code all the time. In many cases you don’t even realize that you are doing a repetitive task or that Visual Studio IntelliCode suggestions can help you. It looks like you're trying to edit some code, would you like us to repeat that change blindly throughout your codebase?
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Although I can give you Intellisense is damned powerful and can be really useful, I still think it is a doulbe edged sword and many times can break things in very "funny" ways, specially if you blindly trust it as you say.
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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Microsoft is ramping up the forced rollout of Windows 10, version 20H2 to more devices approaching end of service (EOS), as part of a new rollout phase. In case you were wondering why your machine rebooted itself recently
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Perseverance is running on none other than a PowerPC 750, a single-core, 233MHz processor with just 6 million transistors that’s most famous for powering the original “Bondi blue” iMac from 1998. Can I get it in Blueberry?
Although I guess for Mars it would be either the Tangerine or Strawberry ones.
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Quote: To make the system even more durable, the PowerPC 750 chip in Perseverance is a little different than the one in the old iMacs. It’s technically a RAD750 chip, a special variant that’s hardened against radiation and costs upwards of $200,000.
Yeah, I'll take one! just put it on my tab. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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