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I was using a few extensions that are great for any web developer using Visual Studio 2013. I’ve compiled the list of extensions here and added a few additional ones that are really useful as well. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this"
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Today at Microsoft’s Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv, Israeli startup StoreDot has demonstrated the prototype of a nanodot-based smartphone battery it claims can fully charge in just under 30 seconds. The bad news is that the charge only lasts 15s
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When I down a quad-shot cold-pour 20oz Mocha in 1/2 that time, I'm "ready* to go! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
 Geez, I'd hafta wait 100% that same 15 seconds just to start computing on my mobile device? 
Not fast enough, I tell ya.
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1% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
2% charged, 30 seconds remaining...
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You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Together, Chris and David started one of the most popular software development websites in the World, CodeProject.com, which has grown to include 10 million software developers as members. Who's who on the here's here
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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie talks about his new role, priorities and plans for the company's powerful Cloud & Enterprise unit in his first press Q&A since becoming part of the Microsoft senior leadership team. Nothing Earth-shattering or cosmic, but... the Gu!
Oh, there was this: "Take Titanfall, it's a 90-person company, and they have over 100,000 virtual machines running."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 90-person company, and they have over 100,000 virtual machines running."
That's... pretty astounding right there. I've dealt with the 500-1000 range before and that's a bit goofy. I can't imagine what kind of issues come up when you start adding zeros to that number.
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Now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don't expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I'd heard Mads and Dustin (individually) talk about some new features of C# 6 at conferences, but this is the first opportunity I've had to play with the bits. There are more features to come, and I suspect that the ones we've got aren't in quite the shape they'll be in the end. Just a spoon full of (syntactic) sugar...
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Years ago, Google figured out that users prize speed above almost everything when it comes to surfing the Web. They’re now applying that insight to courting developers, too, through a tool named Andromeda. "The universe is a dangerous place. But in our future my crew and I fight to make it safe."
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I'm excited to see the EULA where they say they own everything you upload to their cloud system, all the code, data, etc.
Elephanters.
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Demand keeps growing and salaries keep rising for tech workers with the right skills. Our survey of more than 3,500 IT professionals reveals which jobs are hot -- and which are not. Seems like it's been a while since we did one of these; maybe a year?
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The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
The first System 360 mainframe was unveiled on 7 April 1964 and its arrival marked a break with all general purpose computers that came before.
The machines made it possible to upgrade the processors but still keep using the same code and peripherals from earlier models.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Research published in the MIT Technology Review offers that there seems a direct link between increased use of the Internet and a decline in religious dedication. Something about correlation and causation here
Mind you, using the internet in the confessional is probably a sign
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On the contrary, most users are heard to utter, "oh my God" and "oh good lord" quite frequently.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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It has certainly made me question my faith..in humanity.
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The Internet certainly helps us to widen our view of the world, so the religions may have to adapt, but to what point?
During the service yesterday the priest started her preachment by refeering to Goooooogle when explaining "reconciliation". Is the search enginge our new god, having all the answers and knowing more about us than ourselves?
Maybe we have to reconcile us with that fact too?
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Google's plans for the living room come into focus with a simple TV interface, apps, and games. "The instrument (the telescreen it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."
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Microsoft's decision to open source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. "You can't turn a battleship on a dime."
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The #1 request from the community has been “What about Windows apps?” Today, we relaunched the tool as Windows App Studio Beta. With this release, you can build a universal Windows app project that results in an app for Windows Phone and Windows, all in a single session. Beta time (and one of the few ways to make universal apps at the moment)
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Researchers at Lancaster University in the U.K. have hit on a radically new way to encrypt data while exploring a completely different scientific field: human biology. "Two hearts beat as one."
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 THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Will it be called "unconscious coupling"?
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Sd times continues its tradition of being more vague beyond the point of useless than information leak.
Even ignoring that one of their writers was busted spamming articles to this forum, I'm baffled that you put anything so consistently worthless in the insider. 
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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Monday morning harshness: better than
Well, if I ignored all the publications people complained about, I'd be down to twelve articles from CP every day. Maybe.
Yeah, it was kind of vague (sounded kind of like a public/private key with an algorithm replacing the keys?), I definitely would have liked more details. But Sunday's newsletter is hard. Nothing much happens over the weekend, so my bar is a little lower than usual.
TTFN - Kent
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Build your first HTML5 app with Microsoft's open-source JavaScript libraries in this simple tutorial. Now that it's open source, it might be worth a look
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