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Leading neuroscientist Matthew Walker on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack and Alzheimer’s – and what you can do about it So keep sleeping to live forever?
Briar Rose was accurate!
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I tried napping at work. I told the boss man I was doing it to live longer. Unfortunately, it made my career shorter.
modified 25-Sep-17 15:22pm.
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Not enough sleep, not drinking enough water, not getting enough exercise, not taking breaks to move around every 30 minutes, not walking 6000 steps every day...
Yeah, life kills.
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The company today confirmed at its Ignite conference that Skype for Business will be killed in favor of Microsoft Teams. New app, same, "Can you hear me now?"
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This is fantastic news, because as a user, I absolutely loathe the idea of growing accustomed to a UI and knowing where functionality is in an app.
Furthermore, I love to download new apps and install them and learn them. Or even better yet, have my machine taken over by the Windows Updater as it shoves new apps down my literal throat.
I also do not like being able to remember the name of any app I use. I like it when companies provide the same functionality but then call it something different so often, I just have to say things like,
Users: "uh, it's that thingy that you use to like umm...IM or like umm...welll...errr...video conference with...whatever they call that..."
I mean, that's what computing is all about, right?
Way to go, Microsoft!!! This is success!!
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+5
/ravi
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To paraphrase: "two bads do not make one good."
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Having just used Skype for Business, semi-successfully, I don't see how it can get any worse.
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This made me LOL for real!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I don't see how it can get any worse. Don't worry... they will prove you are blind
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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Interesting read: VentureBeat article
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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For certain values of "successful".
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MS Bool : Yes, No, Good Luck!
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Yes, it doesn't look very appealing. How is one's app going to get found? I'd think the future is in progressive web apps, because most people find things in a google search, not an app store.
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jgakenhe wrote: How is one's app going to get found?
That really is key. But even if they find you __and__ download your app, something like 50% will never run it once. Hmmm...
jgakenhe wrote: I'd think the future is in progressive web apps,
I'm reading a book right now on this. I seriously hadn't even heard this term before -- hadn't ever heard of Service Workers. This book is pretty good, but the samples are a bit messed up.
Building Progressive Web Apps O'Reilly - amazon[^]
Have you read it, by chance?
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No I haven't, but I'm interested. I have a web and app project at work coming up in the next 6 months and my first thought of Xamarin or doing separate Android and iOS apps. But since this will be for a small user base, I think a progressive web app would be the best solution. In fact, unless you are a MNC with millions of users, I think native apps are waste of resources.
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After building native apps for Windows, UWA, Android, iOS and Web I can agree with you.
However, I'm just at the early stages of Progressive Web Apps and I'm wondering if there is some native functionality that you just can't get.
Specifically, I am thinking of the copy to clipboard functionality that is so necessary for my app.
My web version doesn't have that ability and it is a part that makes the iOS, Android, Windows, UWA apps far better UX. It just does the thing like you expect it.
I wonder how many other things you may not be able to do with a Progressive Web App. We will see.
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It used to be "a fool and his money..." well, that may still be true for VC's, but for the rest of us lowly developers, it's "a fool and his time..."
Then again, what I do with my time is my own business, whether I spend it foolishly or fool around while spending it.
modified 24-Sep-17 14:04pm.
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Didn't read the article.
Have my own mobile app* (iOS and Android).
Agree 100%!
My mobile app is at almost nil right now. Please do not download it from Google Play or the App Store, because you'll ruin my nil-age.
*C'YaPass
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The trick is to write apps for other people while getting paid cash up front.
Let their vulture capital take all the risk.
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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In a new study, researchers have developed a method for converting integrated circuits into "Lego-electronics," whose simple lock-and-key design could ease the manufacturing process, enhance the production rate, and reduce the failure rate of the micro-scale interconnects. Beware the Kragle
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But will it hurt as much when you step on it barefoot?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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but also by a blindfolded person, suggesting that the technology could open up work opportunities in the electronics industry for individuals who are visually impaired.
Ummm.
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Microsoft’s first mission statement envisioned a computer on every desk and in every home, but Bill Gates also had another goal: that computers would someday be able to see, hear, communicate and understand humans and their environment. And this is how we get Cortana to tell jokes
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A DevSecOps best practice is root cause analysis, so that we can learn from live site incidents and prevent their recurrence. "Don't blame the sun, don't blame the sky"
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