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Still got a way to go to catch up with Jennens vs Jennens - a probate case that began in 1798, and was finally abandoned in 1915 when the legal fees had exhausted the estate of funds. 
"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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It's a good thing this didn't appear tomorrow, April 1...
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
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Microsoft today announced at its Build developer conference that it’s now selling five new Azure IoT Starter Kits, which are available for as little as $50 each. Some assembly required
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Quote: The Azure IoT Suite was first announced about a year ago, and last month the Azure IoT Hub, a key part of the portfolio, came out of public preview.
In addition, there’s a new tool called the Azure IoT Gateway SDK, which simplifies the process of connecting older devices to the Internet. And there’s an Azure Device Management Hub, too.
Does this mean that I can't use anything I build with the kit without paying MS a few dollars of tribute every month?
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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The joy of Azure. 
Also why they're pushing Azure so hard, I imagine. (There might be a free level of service, but I just don't care enough to bother looking)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I just don't care enough
That's the same problem I was trying to crowd source a workaround for by commenting.
In some ways my biggest concern's not the threat of a $2/month bill, or even opening a hole in my firewall for an Internet of Pwned Things device, but that by creating an Azure account and giving MS a credit card number I'd be one snafu from being bankrupted by a crook who used my credentials to spin up a thousand dollars/hour worth of bitcoin miners.
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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Partners receive a variety of benefits, which include: being showcased on Microsoft Azure IoT websites, a Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT badge, a Microsoft executive quote and PR opportunities with Microsoft, such as press release and blog support.
Seriously? I Microsoft executive quote?
Wow. I think I'm having an org....
Marc
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...written by the world famous experts in MS PR  and posted to a company blog no one reads by the executive assistant for a boss who was actually on the toilet during the 15 minute block of his calendar scheduled for approving several hundred quotes.
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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But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer. SELECT nobler FROM mind WHERE suffer=true OR TAKE arms
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Being a programmer is as close as a human can come to being a magician. You conjure, by concentration and will, a string of arcane symbols that your silicon brazier converts into anything that relies on information. When I was a kid, it was a trope in science fiction that computers were limited to uses of pure, formal logic (“They deal only with 1s and 0s”). Wrong! Our industry is a great unending field of rich soil, and all of our accomplishments are just the first shoots of grass. Those who can't, test? (Kidding, of course.)
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Because one can, doesn't mean one does.
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or should...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This preview lays a lot of groundwork for vNext, so you may not see a ton of new features. Not to be confused with Visual Studio 2015, because why would you?
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I have been reading their future releases as vNext for a long time. Something tells me, I am going to sit with my kids and then we are going to read a blog about the final stages of vNext. 
Besides, the .NET Core is not fully implemented. Most basic objects are not available in the framework.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This preview lays a lot of groundwork for vNext, so you may not see a ton of new features. Not to be confused with Visual Studio 2015, because why would you?
...and, not to be confused with visual 15"
Life is too shor
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This announcement means that every Visual Studio, from the free Community edition right up to the Enterprise edition, now has access to the Xamarin tooling so that developers can build applications for Android and iOS (though iOS development continues to need access to an OS X machine) using the .NET and C# tools they love.
There are no restrictions to this inclusion, either.
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Quote: Some enterprise-oriented Xamarin features are still restricted, and developers will need a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription to use these.
I'm still not convinced that Xamarin's tools are the right way to go - the only shop I know that tried it had enough problems they switched to ReactNative(?) instead - but if you want to try it out or are trying to port a large .net app instead of doing greenfield development; being able to try it without needing to buy additional licenses is always a plus.
Also, is this bundled in the just released VS2015 Update 2; or will we have to wait for the next patch to try it?
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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Really cool!
Xamarin is great, Xamarin Forms is awesome, still a lot of bugs and room to improve but nevertheless AWESOME!!
Only the price was a real turn off.
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.NET Core, the future of C++, IoT, and TACO (but not tacos)  A day early, so you wouldn't think I was fooling
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I already stop ads (at home) by using a custom hosts file. Don't need the browser (that can be compromised) to do it for me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You know the face: the frowning, skeptical expression you assume unconsciously upon hearing something you disagree with. It’s not just you, nor is it just a tic of the culture in which you operate. 
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Quote: Please note that “not face” is different from “resting bitch face,” the internet term for a female visage that fails to assume a beatific expression when relaxed.
WTF???!?? 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Researchers have developed a laser that spots illness-inducing bacteria before it makes you sick. Lasers are the solution to everything
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