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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: FWIW, the recent Win10 update debacle, coupled with the imminent demise of Win7 forced me to update all of my Windows boxes at home to Linux. So, Win7 hasseven fewer "users" out there I should have read your posting first.John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: what about all of the Linux boxes out there that are forced to change their browser user agent to claim membership in the Windows club in order to connect to certain websites? For the win.
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Oh, that's just bollocks.
200 million users going from windows 7 to Ubuntu or Mint does not mean winio has become more popular.
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Alexa and Siri are green-eyed with envy; Google Home is licking its chops anticipating how much more of your private behavior they will slurp: [^]Quote: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on Monday that it would grant Google a waiver to operate the Soli sensors at higher power levels than currently allowed. The FCC said the sensors can also be operated aboard aircraft.
The FCC said the decision “will serve the public interest by providing for innovative device control features using touchless hand gesture technology.”
A Google spokeswoman did not immediately comment on Tuesday, citing the New Year’s Day holiday.
The FCC said the Soli sensor captures motion in a three-dimensional space using a radar beam to enable touchless control of functions or features that can benefit users with mobility or speech impairments.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Microsoft in 2016 started working on the "Alternative Interview Framework," a new way of conducting developer interviews to reduce bias and do a better job of testing candidates for the skills they'd actually need on the job. When do we start noticing a change?
Apologies in advance if they shove this behind a paywall. When I added it to the queue, it was working, but the .com version is paywalled. They might do the same to this copy. But I have faith in France to do the right thing.
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One would hope that they would have long ago determined that this was an important factor...
Of course, their latest crop of software does indicate the opposite...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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From the article: Under the new process, Microsoft shares the interview questions in advance so that candidates can prepare ask for CODZ PLZ at CP. It doesn't mention whether the new process will be animated or tied down (with ribbons), if candidates will be fully screened, if there will be puzzles involving baby blocks, or if candidates with glasses will be forced to remove them, to give them blurred vision.
Y'all ask me, it's just another pile of their "modern" effluent.
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modified 1-Jan-19 8:38am.
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Each potential candidate will be given a new icon upon arriving for the interview. Their first clue that they will not be hired is that they will be referred to as a past MS dev framework that was abandoned just after wide acceptance was achieved.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 1-Jan-19 17:05pm.
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And anyone not wearing pale pastels (without stitched borders), may consider themselves not considered.
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Also unhirable: those who fail to immediately redesign the icon into something less appealing than the blandness presented to them, and then selling it as 'new and improved!'
modified 2-Jan-19 15:44pm.
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When do we start noticing a change?
I guess they are hiring more people to polish their icons and release untested windows updates...
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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In today’s high-speed environment, being able to process massive amounts of data each millisecond is becoming a common business requirement. We are excited to be announcing that an internal Microsoft project known as Trill for processing “a trillion events per day” is now being open sourced to address this growing trend. For your 'billions and billions' of data points
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Hey, Boss! Great news! We can now stream a trillion events per day!
Great! Connect it to the oracle db!
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Every so often, analyst firms will release lists of the world’s most popular programming languages. Hint: rhymes with 'blow'
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dice.com said: it doesn’t matter whether Swift (just to pick an up-and-coming language) occupies the tenth slot on one ranking, and the fifteenth slot on another; the fact that it places on all rankings should be enough for tech pros interested in mobile to give the language some consideration So just learn every language in the top 15, and you'll be set?
If they were saying that, at least they'd be saying something.
Another "Oh, sh1t! It's the end of the month, and I haven't written a word yet!" article, methinks.
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Through a series of missteps and outright neglect, Microsoft essentially handed over the fate of its web browser – and its ability to shape the online world – to rival Chrome. The white flag of surrender was raised this month. They stuck with IE6 too long? Oh wait, that was the last time they lost the web.
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Utter nonsense, giving trivial reasons, none of which are the kind of reason that motivate a company of that size to change direction so drastically.
It really is all about the data slurping.
MS can't get away with the kind of thing that google can, because it hasn't convinced half the people in the world that it's a friend that is working solely for their benefit.
By using chromium, they can claim that their hands are clean, during the next sixty scandals about privacy.
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modified 1-Jan-19 1:57am.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
By using chromium, they can claim that their hands are clean, during the next sixty scandals about privacy.
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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well thanks to them loosing the web that other people and companies could come up with other monstrosities like all the thousands of JavaScript frameworks...to say its all internal to Microsoft.. they went with developing azure and lagged behind in expanding internet explorer...
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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percentage abuse warning: Percentages used with no clear total value changes of the time period. Of the last 5 years, the total number of web browser users has surged, as such share of the whole might have changed but number of users might not have.
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For some time now Microsoft hasn’t really invested much into the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) site. The content there has been slowly aging and getting out of date. Microsoft has actually been investing in other learning avenues like the new Microsoft Learn site and EdX courses. That's awful! That's horrible. What's MVA?
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buildazure wrote: Microsoft is continuing to invest in Microsoft Learn training catalog instead of MVA going forward. I took a look at the version of the Microsoft Learn page that will be released in June.
It contains three links -- one to CP, one to SO, and one to google.
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Researchers at Yale University have developed a robotic system that helps robots be more polite (and more importantly, more useful). That should prevent any upcoming robot apocalypse
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With ownership comes conflict.
We should have a sweepstakes on when the war will start.
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A security researcher has disclosed exploit code for a fourth zero-day vulnerability in Windows operating system in just as many months. The bug enables overwriting a target file with arbitrary data. Once they fix this, Windows will be 100% secure
In the words of the 'security researcher', "It's a lame bug."
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So... Windows Update hasn't changed...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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