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Google confirmed yesterday it was shutting down its Site Search service, which is the commercial version of the free service Google Custom Search, also known as Custom Search Engine (CSE). I know, "Google cancels something" isn't news, but some might be using this
And surprise, it means more ads.
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I have an application that has a search function. It's a big system, over 30 TB of content. I built the search site using Autonomy's IDOL intelligence engine.
It would never even occur to me to taint our good name with Google advertisements splattered all over it. I can't imagine the person who would do this. They must not care at all.
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Called "Upspin," the open source project aims to make sharing easier for home users. And your shared files will only be moderately scanned and archived
"With that said, the project does not seem particularly easy to set up or maintain." Bwahahaha
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With TypeScript 2.2, we’re bringing even more goodness to your editor. This release introduces some more useful quick fixes (also called code actions) which can guide you in fixing up pesky errors. And an object, for your untyped types
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I love Typescript, but it is starting to go off the rails with some of this stuff.
object, Object, { }, and any are all legitimate "generic" types in TS, and are each subtly different from one another.
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Around 1980, Bill Gates gave Microsoft, the company he founded, a clear mission: "A computer on every desk and in every home." "The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!"
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W! T! F!
Now I clearly see why ms has turned to sh1t.
It's being run by a moron who sees an early, excited aspirational statement to the press as being the be-all and end-all objective of a company.
The thing is, though, that when Gates said that, we all said "YEAH!"
When the morons-du-jour said "Let's f*** up everything that ms ever did and stood for", all we did was hope that they'd wise up.
Apparently, they haven't, and have no intention of doing so.
For God's sake, Linux! Become useful!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All Nadella has stated is
Quote: "It always bothered me that we confused an enduring mission with a temporal goal."
As they quickly achieved their original mission, then it seems perfectly reasonable to want a more enduring mission statement, which is what he is now doing.
I don't see anything wrong with this.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Yeah, "Mobile First!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A mobile device in every pocket, on every desk, in every drawer and on every floor. YEAH! 
#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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Yes, Android's done a great job.
Windows phones? What are they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Indeed. Thanks for appreciating the snark.
#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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Y'all didn't know that? - Youngins.........
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Gates: How can we get a computer on every desk?
Nadella: How can we milk this sucker for every penny?
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Gates statement wasn't a definition of the company's mission, but advertising it...
It is clear - as with every company - that the goal is to make money and go home early...
The problem with today Microsoft developments is that you pay and re-pay and pay more on their products...
You pay when getting it, you re-pay every year if it is like Office and pay more when Microsoft collects your usage data (that can be sold for good money)...
I have no problem to profit from software (I do it too), but I would like a more honest player...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So he replaced a clear, objectively quantifiable mission statement with:
to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
BS babble speak! Maybe Microsoft is behind all those spam messages for "achieving more." (at least for the male half of the planet.) 
Marc
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You beat me to it.
"to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" is a waffly statement that can't be visualised precisely. To "empower": to make possible but not actually do it? "Organisation" - but what about people, you and I?
I despair at the state of tech companies these days. We used to have Bill and Steve J and Larry E and they were crazy and it was great. Then we had Steve Ballmer, and Larry turned weird, and Steve passed and it just became kinda sad and all we had was Tim, Mark Z, Larry and Sergey, with Elon Musk on the side being the only one willing to do crazy.
Who, outside of us, knows the name of the Microsoft CEO? Who actually knows who the CEO of Google is?
Where's the passion?
I hope it's in the people who are front and centre. ScottG at Microsoft is out there doing incredible stuff. That's awesome. Android is powering along, and Apple released Swift and is pushing that hard and that's great.
That the passion is only to be seen in the hands of the developers is a good thing and a sad thing. It means even if the bean counters take over we still push the agenda. I just hope those with the passion rise back up to lead and champion the causes again.
And bring back a bit of rough and tumble. Those days were awesome.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: That the passion is only to be seen in the hands of the developers
And the dark side is that I'm not seeing much of that either. Granted my experience is currently being colored by some contract work in the incredibly boring insurance (property) industry, but it surprises me that at the lunch table, I'm the only one that does anything outside of the 8-5 job.
Well, ok, perhaps comparing other devs to me is not a reasonable comparison. 
Marc
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"on the planet" seems so limiting.
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Interestingly, Bill Gates succeeded in that quest more than he failed. Nadella, on the other hand, has done what, exactly? Besides, losing the phone market and pissing off just about every desktop user.
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Designers use "benevolent deception" to trick users into trusting the system. You mean the progress bars actually work in some programs?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: benevolent deception
Is that like "alternative facts"?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The Atlantic: It looks like your browser is unable to display ads …
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I wanna see you wiggle it just a little bit.
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It's about time UX designers took the feelings of procrastinators into account !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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