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Free software is great, but the crapware that usually comes along with it on downloading sites is awful. There are ways to skip the crapware, though. "Freedom isn't free"
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This is an issue that pisses me off. Java is a huge offender of this...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Tragedy of the commonplace
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Does how to geek (the source of that article) play games with publication dates? The date on the bottom claims it was published 2 days ago; but their screenshot for what Google gives when searching for "vlc download" looks at lot worse than what I get. Theirs is topped by 3 crap bundler ads; mine only has one and immediately below it is a big card (of the sort Google uses when it's trying to answer your query directly instead of only providing search results) with a giant VLC logo and a link VLC's official download page.
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Microsoft has already announced a ton of exciting stuff this week, but the company isn't done yet. Today, it announced that the next version of its fully-featured Office suite of desktop PC applications will be called Office 2016. Just needs a ribbon on it, and they're good to go
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When you're starting your career in any field, you probably have high hopes but don't really know what to expect. Should you keep your head down and do what you're told or should you aim only for ambitious projects? Here's what I've learned in my experience as a software developer. Don't blow off the class on pointers
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Today's market leader may be tomorrow's foot-note. 
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 Yes! Definitely, "Don't try to chase the market."
To think of the hour I wasted thinking of learning Flash.
TTFN - Kent
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I *did* learn Flash 
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Is this your subtle way of saying, "Facebook is over"?
I hope so. And I hope you're right! 
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This ship made me crazy
Recognize under-performance and over-performance and avoid them
If others find you over-perform, my advice is to change company before you become like them.
Don't be quixotic and try to prove your bosses wrong.
Same advice, if truths are hidden and lies spreading, change company.
Try to avoid thinking in terms of "good" versus "bad." Be ready to play it either way
Living is judging what is good and what is bad. We must avoid the bad and maximize the good. If the boss is bad according to your judgement, it is time to leave.
It makes me crazy all these cheap bullshit that want to make you think it is OK to work in a toxic environment, and that you are the problem.
If you are not happy, the problem is not you, it is your body and mind telling you to get f***ing out of here before you become like your environment.
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Using Microsoft Roslyn and Visual Studio, dev shops with C# assets can compile apps to run in the browser with no extra coding. Because... Because? Because they can?
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And what will happen to all the referenced .NET assemblies, like IO and security and networking and so?
DuoCore can do that?
I cant see why someone who need JavaScript code - and can do it in C# - not going to learn JavaScript?! It is not that hard/bad...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I cant see why someone who need JavaScript code - and can do it in C# - not going to learn JavaScript?! It is not that hard/bad...
EXactly!
TTFN - Kent
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: It is not that hard/bad...
It is not that hard, but it is very, very bad.
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They say they're different as they use Roslyn, so it will work with all future C# versions.
But yeah, there seem to be a metric boatload of these.
TTFN - Kent
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First Xamarin, now DuoCode. I'm getting the warm and fuzzies here. 
/ravi
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Poor Windows RT has had something of an odd life. A product of the old, more fragmented Microsoft, it is a closed version of Windows designed for ARM processors that doesn't play nice with anything else. RT: retired technology
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A really very good approach by Microsoft to convince everyone to move to their new platform Windows 10. I am not sure, whether true or not, but the news are that this OS would be an update for Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 users, for free. Windows 7 users can get this update, by paying a few more bucks.
If this is the case, then I'm sure that Windows 10 is going to be used by many users, Windows 8 was not a total success; I also heard OriginalGriff say that, and yes Microsoft also knows that. Maybe that is why they're going to allow the users to get this as a free update on their machines. Windows 7 was the best version of Windows for PCs, and they're targetting them for the update too. Hopefully their good at it and they might get a good response too.
One thing that I dislike is, the new HoloLens thing. I mean, few years ago Google came up with the idea now Microsoft wants to do the same. I don't understand why they're not using each other's research, Google closed the department of this technology for now, and Microsoft started it. Wow!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Windows 8 was not a total success
I would say severe changed forced instead of introduced. For example if they would let users decide between old start menu and start screen. Similar thing was then (now praised) XP introduced category view in control panel. The very first thing on new PC for everyone was to switch it to old icon look. I don't think anyone bother to do it anymore as people just got used to it.
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: One thing that I dislike is, the new HoloLens thing. I mean, few years ago Google came up with the idea now Microsoft wants to do the same. I don't understand why they're not using each other's research, Google closed the department of this technology for now, and Microsoft started it. Wow!
Sometimes good timing is the key to success. Just like youtube was not the first, but instead was the first in right time. Is it the case for HoloLens? We'll see 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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"One thing that I dislike is, the new HoloLens thing. I mean, few years ago Google came up with the idea now Microsoft wants to do the same. I don't understand why they're not using each other's research, Google closed the department of this technology for now, and Microsoft started it. Wow!"
If you cannot see the difference between Glass and Holo, you've no imagination.
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CEO John Chen wants net neutrality to be mandated at the content and application layer. Some ideas should be painful to the thinker (and not the listener)
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