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Even as Bill Gates weighs giving up his title of chairman of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), he’s poised to remain involved at the company he co-founded in an area of its deepest need: crafting must-have products. "Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam, rexque futurus"
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Sounds like a good idea. Gates seems to have pretty good focus, and had the power to force Microsoft to go in a positive stategic direction, which he has done successfully in the past.
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Good! It's about time someone fixes the shitstorm that is the whole Windows 8/8.1/Metro/RT/Bad usability mess up.
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It could work just as a soufflé could rise twice.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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That. was. beautiful.
TTFN - Kent
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His new official title now that he's stepped down as chairman is "Founder and Technology Adviser."
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Every year we release data on the "Most Popular Programming Languages" based on thousands of data points we've collected by processing over 100,000+ coding tests and challenges by over 2,000+ employers. Oh, look - another list of popular languages (but this one has happy numbers)
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Rubbish! No COBOL or VB - me no believe.
speramus in juniperus
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Maybe the use of Java in the mobile arena, e.g. Android, plays a significant part of that 22.2%
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Unreproducible bugs are the bane of my existence. Far too often, I find a bug, report it, and hear back that it’s not a bug because it can’t be reproduced. Of course, the bug is still there, waiting to prey on its next victim. These types of bugs can be very expensive due to increased investigation time and overall lifetime. They can also have a damaging effect on product perception when users reporting these bugs are effectively ignored. We should be doing more to prevent them. In this article, I’ll go over some obvious, and maybe not so obvious, development/testing guidelines that can reduce the likelihood of these bugs from occurring. The steps in this article don't seem to work for me
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While there is a long list of historical reasons why browsers have a locked-down DOM, and why the same origin policy constrains interaction to/from back-end systems for portions of a page, why in 2014 do email applications totally forbid JavaScript? I’m going to do that here, and outline what could happen if email application makers made that leap. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"I love you" - how many years have passed since that? Sufficiently long ago for forgetting it, obviously.
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Last week, Microsoft Research announced it was adopting a policy that allows it to retain a license for research submitted to conferences or publishers in order to post it to a freely accessible online site as well. And earlier this week, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson said it will release data from clinical trials, through an agreement with the Yale University Open Data Access Project. "Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking."
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The government believes vehicle-to-vehicle data links will help improve driver safety, and will push for legislation requiring it in "a future year." You just know someone's going to figure out how to put adverts on it, right?
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yeah, and hack your controls and drive your car away...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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WTF? There is an alert code for Air Raids? Seriously?
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Probably just a free text field to go with the exclamation in a triangle.
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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More petabytes for the NSA to track. 
/ravi
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Office 365 users now get the same service-level-agreement and compliance guarantees with Access-based Store apps as with the rest of Office 365. Access your Access, now in the cloud
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New U.S. government rules allow the companies to disclose how many FISA requests for member data they receive.
Will the "truth" set them free?
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Developers can integrate the SDK into their existing mobile or web apps to stream them on Chromecast.
All for dongle streaming, and dongle streaming for all.
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