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The reason for this change is that Microsoft says it wants to “encouraging more user generated-content and open up the Project Spark experience”. Is this in preparation for cancelling it Oct 6th?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: in preparation for cancelling it "handing it off to the community" Oct 6th?
Fixed that.
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Ah, right. Thank you - I forgot that's the new code phrase. 
TTFN - Kent
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At this year's Nexus event, the company revealed that this figure has now topped 1.4 billion actives over the last 30 days. Apparently these are the droids people are looking for
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But I use multiple Android devices; did they count me more than once?
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Based on the math used by tech writers, I'd bet yes.
TTFN - Kent
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If you’re having trouble finding them, ask yourself: Am I a bad client, or am I looking in the wrong place? You can usually find them cleaning up after the rest of us
Or alternately: here?
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The title of the article should had probably been software developers or application developers, instead of web developers. Web developers used to be regarded as web designers with some scripting and Photoshop skills, where an application developer can develop 3 tiered applications no matter the front-end.
I actually got started as a "web developer" about 15 years ago, specializing in HTML and CSS, with some JavaScript, and ASP 3.0. After too many short projects, I moved into application development and been there and gainfully employed since.
Yes, it is better to pay for top talent or even good developers, instead of having a bunch of mediocre performers. I myself do much more than my 3 team members combined, yet there isn't much difference in our salaries. They're lucky it isn't my business!
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As you’ve read, the new Office is here and for developers, this is an exciting time! The ability to insert add-ins into your documents, call new Office.js APIS, launch task panes inside your Office clients and run commands directly from the ribbon increases the productivity of your entire team! Programmatic access to the ribbon! W00t!
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Is Office.js a replacement for VBA, or a completely independent cluster-elephant (like VSTO[^]).
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: As you’ve read, the new Office is here...
Doesn't seem to be "here" in the UK yet. Our Office365 is still claiming that Office 2013 is the latest version. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Despite a mix of solutions from SharePoint to Office 365 Groups, Microsoft's approach to collaboration is stuck in the past -- it doesn't have to be that way Email deemed archaic?
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Both the UK[^] and US are currently experiencing unexplained growth in their productivity gap. I'd bet an analysis would show a positive correlation between email use and meetings and a nation's productivity gap.
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AKA: the more you talk the less you do.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Claiming that sacking person guilty of creating blotus notes as the reason why MS is failing kinda kills the credibility of the rest of what the author is saying. (Below the baseline level of implicit drek from it being published on infoworthless anyway.)
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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Google will soon let advertisers tap into one of the most lucrative types of ad targeting: email addresses. Pardon me while I go close all my email address accounts
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I guess I'll have to dust off my old trusty "blowme@devnull.com" email address. 
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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My only email address is:
SoYouThinkYoureGonnaSpamMe@mailinator.com
I just made it up this instant, but it's 100% real thanks to Mailinator.com
Seriously, check it...
http://Mailinator.com[^]
Mailinator.com is really cool.
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And when I didn't think things could get any worse...
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Gmail should automatically block them as spam. 
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And to think for the last few years I'd been thinking using one gmail address for friends/family/etc and a second for websites/etc had been a mistake that was over complicating my life. (At the time I assumed Google's spam filter would end up sucking as badly as my prior providers and after a few years I'd want to nuke the account I'd exposed to the wider web because it was full of garbage.)
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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Recently Ars was made aware of a group out there that claims to be actually preparing for the happy day when human consciousness can inhabit a machine. In fact, it's already experimenting a bit with some initial attempts at making that happen. "They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. "
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Replicants are coming.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Surely it is not an AI if the consciousness inhabiting the machine in human.
Reminds me of Nixon's head in Futurama.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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