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Project Reunion is intended to consolidate the APIs for the various versions of Windows into a single API. Doesn't everyone enjoy a reunion?
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Quote: Let me give you some idea of how old I am ... When I started creating desktop applications using ... Windows Forms
Wow, so old! 
"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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Well, to be fair, I think he means .NET desktop developer. He was a big-time VB dev for quite a while before.
TTFN - Kent
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One of perhaps the strangest idiosyncrasies of the Windows platform is the association of the desktop, the digital workspace that users see all the time, with explorer.exe, the program in charge of File Explorer and file management. "It's a miracle"
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For .NET coders targeting Windows, the choices boil down to more traditional XAML-based solutions or newer options based on web tech. Clear as spaghetti
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“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
William Blake, "The Four Zoas, Night the Eighth"
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Employees say they are happier and more productive at home, but decision-makers disagree. Still accurate if the headline is cut to, 'Management still doesn't trust employees'
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More importantly, employees don't trust management to be productive . . . period.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That's axiomatic, because management doesn't produce anything. 
Those who can't, teach manage.
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Greg Utas wrote: Those who can't, teach try to manage.
FTFY
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
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From what I've seen, they're not even trying anymore 
I've worked under... *counts*... 5 or 6(!) layers of management and not even the manager directly above me took the time to get to know the team of five people!
The first time I talked to him was after almost a year and what I heard from one of the other managers was that he asked him "he's on my team, right?" 
Another one of those managers was the "release manager" (in a company that pretended to do scrum) and we had a release planned.
Apparently, the release was a big deal for some people and it had been planned for weeks.
Except I was the one clicking the "release" button and literally no one informed me of anything.
In fact, the architect intervened when I broke some promise they'd made, but never told me
I should mention that the managers weren't all friends, all were external (as was the entire team of 40-50 people), and some kept others on the payroll because they were friends or even directly financially involved.
It was a mess and a relatively small system that I would've build for, honestly, under 100K ended up costing millions 
Anyway, we managed to deliver at least something despite management and certainly not because of it.
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Sander Rossel wrote: It was a mess and a relatively small system that I would've build for, honestly, under 100K ended up costing millions 
Anyway, we managed to deliver at least something despite management and certainly not because of it.
Have been in a similar experience too.
And I hate it, seeing how many resources are literally thrown down the toilette... it makes me go 
I try to do what I think is right (open to get corrected if I am wrong though). But if I am "forced" to do something I not consider right... whatever (regardless not liking it, has become easier)... I get paid at the end of the month anyways.
Having kids is luckily making me more bullsh1t resistant, I do what I can / or am forced to and I go home to enjoy my family and / or to do something at home or a pet project
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?
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trust no one mr mulder....
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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What about a wearable that can detect how you move as you do a physical activity or play a sport, and could potentially even offer feedback on how to improve your technique? Great. Now I can have sweatpants that complain I'm not doing anything that makes me sweat.
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Having recently gotten "the treatment" from a Gastroenterologist, whey you talk about clothing that can measure "Movement" I get an entirely different picture.
(A lesson in "context is everything").
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Before the foundation of AI, Turing posed the question ‘Can machines think?’ Anyone have a few to send me? I'd really like to investigate.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Anyone have a few to send me?
Sure. The charge for each £50 note is £100, including delivery by Royal Mail. Minimum order of 50 notes, payable in advance.
:evil grin:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The Windows Sandbox and the Microsoft Defender Application Guard (WDAG) now launch faster in Windows 10 after installing the Insider Preview Build 21343 for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. They removed the cat "gifts"? (sandboxes are usually better without)
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It boots faster... aha.
Why did I think they could have made it safer? or more robust / stable?
I suppose I still am a bit too optimistic  
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
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Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package You mean those licenses actually matter?
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Apparently, the didn't follow the "feel good" ethical open source model.
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Quote: Since mimemagic is mostly a database of mime type data mappings,
So it converts a file extension to the appropriate mime type?
And you need a database for that?
And you need an open source project for that?
I must be missing something, but whenever I had to touch Ruby/Rails, I always had that feeling.
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The open-source licensing organization is investigating the hack and will then re-do the election. Just a little too open, I guess?
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It seems a little over 10 years ago, concatenating things on the front of the word Ops has becoming increasingly popular. And, to a point, increasingly meaningless. Stop - you must not Dev on Ops
With apologies to Dr. Seuss
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Kent Sharkey wrote: concatenating things on the front of the word Ops
Like an "o"? Oops.
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