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Peter Levine warns startups not to try becoming the next Red Hat. He needn't bother. No one has bothered for years. Well, who'd want open sores in their software anyway?
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The Surface 2 and the Nokia tablets are great hardware with a dim future -- but Microsoft could fix that. "And I think we can make it, one more time, if we try. One more time for all the old times"
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Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic. Just in case there was any doubt
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..yes, but also a people-person. That's what the test on the internet said
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic sadists are bad people, then why do they have the highest earning potential?
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That implies earning potential might play a role in people being good-bad.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft's Office for iPad, codenamed Miramar, isn't dead. In fact, it just might beat Microsoft's own touch-first Office implementation for Windows to market. "He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious."
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Microsoft confirms both IE9 and IE10 contain vulnerability, urges customers to upgrade to IE11; leaves Vista users out in the cold "Just another manic Monday"
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But extends end-of-sales date for business PCs running Windows 7 Professional Let the hoarding commence!
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Do they have something in exchange?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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From the view point of a typical consumer, Windows 8 is likely better: it changes any computer into some kind of smart phone, and that's what the consumer is intersted in: his computer behaves now like his phone.
For professional computer users, Windows 8 is ...
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: From the view point of a typical consumer, Windows 8 is likely better Sales tells otherwise...
Bernhard Hiller wrote: ... Agree...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It will still be available over the MSDN, as Windows XP is until today.
Women are waiting for love and men are waiting for women. - Wolf Wondratschek
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At Microsoft we have an amazing set of tools to inspire future developers Programming: it's child play
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Programming: it's child play
Indeed. The write-up for Kodu reminds me of this[^]. Note the name of the programmer.
Marc
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You've been everywhere, man. +5
TTFN - Kent
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One more from the insider a few years ago...
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/mik/2008/01/teaching-my-daughter-to-code/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Kent Sharkey wrote: At Microsoft we have an amazing set of tools to inspire future developers ...to be able to work only with our tool set....
Its easy for a c++ developer to work with c# but can we say the same but in reverse?
The man has to work with his mind not with the keyboard arrows selecting the proper method from the IntelliSence.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Most iPhone users admit to having “blind loyalty” and choosing the latest Apple handset when it comes time to upgrade without even considering Android or BlackBerry rivals Shocking news really
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And in other news, men come with balls, women with tits!
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Those two facts are probably less common.
TTFN - Kent
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..religiously defending their atheism
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One of the earliest and biggest promises of the .NET Framework when it was originally released was that it would free us from DLL Hell. We need a new name. I propose: GAC kak
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The Hell has been solved, for everyone who is willing to read a manual. The unwilling get what they should.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If I'm understanding correctly his problem is that he didn't specify versions for some components in his config file and got upset because the no version supplied default is the newest version installed which changed when he installed a newer version of the component.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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