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Understanding how algorithms solve simple problems can help us tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges. Is it, 'peel all the coloured stickers off and put them on the correct sides'?
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The title promises more content than the article actually offers...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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It turns out Microsoft Teams still collects extremely detailed per-user usage data, and that this data remains available to managers. There's no 'I' in 'privacy' (oh...wait)
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A big tech company not doing what they should / said 
Surprise, surprise...  
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Worse yet, that stupid software insists that I am "away" while I actually work on my machine. I took a screen shot of that - how can I do a screenshot while being "away"?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The laptops on our desks are hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than the desktop computers we had in the 1980s and 1990s. But the interfaces are more or less the same. So...yes on rounded corners?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So...yes on rounded corners?
Yes. And a system-modal dialog box with flashing red text for each participant. Myspace, but newerized.
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Quote: “General purpose user interfaces in every application except for gaming have made no strides, no quantum leaps, since 1984,” Underkoffler told VentureBeat in 2018. “That’s the year that Apple turned the command line interface into the GUI, the graphical user interface. Everything that has come after has been a step to the side.”
That degree of ignorance from venturebeat doesn't surprise me, but I didn't realize dropbox was that incompetent too.
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But then Xerox made a prototype
Steve Jobs came on the scene
Read "Of Mice and Menus," Windows, Icons
A trash, and a bitmap screen
Well Stevie said to Xerox
"Boys, turn your heads and cough."
And when no-one was looking
He ripped their interfaces off
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It's a step closer to lowering the costs of satellite launches. "Satellite's gone up to the skies"
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Thanks to a (glorious) piece of science writing that has been shared online over the last few days, people are now learning what astrophysicists and (possibly) astronauts have known for a long time: There are most likely tiny chunks of dinosaur sitting up there on the Moon. On small step for Maiasaura, one giant leap for - what's that in the sky?
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I am pretty sure that you aren't allowed to say that there are dinosaur remains on the moon without mentioning Nazis.
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Can't wait to see the starting bid for a whole, intact Moonlosaurus. 
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2021 is shaping up to be a great year for developers, but not so much for companies hiring them, with 61% of HR professionals believing this will be their biggest challenge in the year ahead. Unless you're a developer wanting to be hired
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Some people update their LinkedIn profile...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with 61% of HR professionals believing this will be their biggest challenge in the year ahead.
That has been like that for ages... hiring good professionals is always a big challenge for them, most HRs have no ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing clue about us.
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They say it, but they aren't hiring.
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The Wine 6.0 compatibility layer is now available with better support for running Windows games on Linux and Unix-like machines, with early support for Apple's Arm-based silicon Macs. "Red, red wine, it's up to you"
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Semaphores are a synchronization mechanism used to control concurrent access to a shared resource. They also allow it to play ping-pong. Where did I leave my Aldis lamp?
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Windows 10X was announced way back in 2019 and it's finally launching later this year on a new range of 2-in-1s/notebooks from Microsoft partners. Unlike Windows 10, Windows 10X would be simple, sleek, faster, and more secure. X marks the spot?
My Magic Eightball says "nnnnnnnnope"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: X marks the spot?
They probably wanted to make us easy to find the spot to kick it in the as...
Kent Sharkey wrote: Unlike Windows 10, Windows 10X would be simple, sleek, faster, and more secure.
Why do I have the impression that this is only a marketing bullsh1t and that it will be a real PITA (even worse than normal Win10)?
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I remember these, and i was not impressed.
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The sprawling .NET 5 ecosystem can be hard to get a handle on. It wouldn't be a new .NET version without something to confuse and confound
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It wouldn't be a new .NET version without something to confuse and confound
Then wait for the v6 
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