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Given all the problems they have had with the Bands, the only surprise is that it's taken this long to make the announcement.
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I don't see them making smart watches in future - I mean with all this history of failure, why would people buy those if they made any?
In fact, I have been considering my next phone and it'll most likely be an Android phone. They haven't exactly been impressive with their phone releases either. Started off great but nothing new released in 2 years, App store is still poor, etc.
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I loved what they were doing with the phones, back when they were serious about them - I ended up having 4 of them starting with a W7 phone. Ultimately I moved to Android because I was sick and tired of not having the apps available that I wanted. Unfortunately, Microsoft have had a strategy of masterful inactivity which leads me to believe that they just aren't interested - few announcements and a glacial development pace have resulted in a fairly massive loss of confidence. That, combined with a belief that the only thing MS is interested in is the Cloud, leads me to question their entire direction; or lack of one.
I started writing a blog post about developing for UWA but lost the will to live halfway through because everyone I asked has said they just aren't interested in developing UWA applications. When you have desktop apps that run happily on W10 as well as older versions of Windows, why would you waste your time developing an application that can only run on W10?
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Yeah, the lack of apps was a much bigger problem for me than I had anticipated.
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As far as I am concerned, they lost a lot of developer trust and goodwill when they killed Silverlight. Here was a technology that was growing in popularity and then Microsoft decided that it would be best if they threw it away, seemingly in favour of JavaScript apps - that was the big push at build. I just don't see developers rushing to learn a new technology now when they are concerned that it's going to get ripped out from under their feet.
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Well, you are looking at a guy who wrote two books on Microsoft technologies that were retired rather sooner than anyone'd have assumed given the initial hype 
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Yeah, that's gotta hurt.
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A few years ago, some of the VC++ guys jokingly asked me to write a book on .NET so that'd get killed off and everyone'd get back to native coding 
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You should try and may be I will go back to active coding when .Net dissapears
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Blame NTSF.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: NTSF
What's that? Typo for NTFS?
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<hangs head in shame>
Point is that it's not FAT.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi All,
That's day one done! Still typing on a phone as I took a trip to the supermarket. Still not home! Well the job doesn't seem too bad at the moment.
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So shouldn't your username be glennPattonInTescos?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks Everyone for your kind words and wishes today!  
I love my new office. I will face a few scary challenges but my colleagues appear to be smart, kind and understanding. And my former employer (Ericsson) is rumoured to present massive layoffs Tuesday...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: And my former employer (Ericsson) is rumoured to present massive layoffs Tuesday...
I never really mastered the art of predicting a staff shrinkage event, I was laid off 3 times in the 90s. Well done.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The rumour was all over the Swedish press, so I cannot take credit it. And now in the morning it is still unclear if the announcement is today....
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Browse 1,350+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library [^]
COOL!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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from the link: 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory Initial Conditions
Jeeze, people actually need libraries for such trivialities? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: trivialities
What are you talking about? I hear this is on the list for the next release of Kerbal!
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No, not really - I tend to re-invent that one each time i need it. Takes no time at all. 
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I know! Lazy slobs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just when I was trying to figure out how to cacluclate a spiral galaxy arm angle. Thank you.
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Does anyone here have any experience of living and working in Finland? I'm in the running for a contract based out of Helsinki up there, and I'm curious as to what it might be like. I live in Zurich right now, so not doing too bad quality of life wise. Just wondering if Finland might be worth a shot for a year or two. I love cold weather, by the way.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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