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"Look at all we've done!"
"What about fixing some of the 14,000 reported issues?"
"Look at all we've done!"
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Just struck me that Microsoft is like that teenager whose room is a mess and who smokes and drinks in his room, and then sprays some air freshener thinking nobody will notice.
And when someone does notice, they throw a tantrum and scream that "you don't understand."
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+5 lifepoints for the fantastic analaogy.
Made me laugh. 
~George Bernard Shaw “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
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An idiot wrote: making it faster to open and work with projects stored in git repositories
I.e. they've added the 80% whitespace "Home" screen thing (they call it the cinema view or theatre view, something like that) that they've used to "improve productivity" in Office apps, which is horrendously inefficient, and generally a PITA.
An idiot wrote: improving IntelliSense with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
I.e. what Intellisense offers will now change, over quite short periods of time, so if you're used to using a number of taps on the tab bar to reach a specific function attr, forget it; you'll have to focus entirely on the Intellisense response and pay it your full attention, from now on.An idiot wrote: making it easier to collaborate with your teammates by integrating Live Share
Because you really need to load what should be a separate app, every time you load a project.An idiot wrote: we’re sharing the new search experience
I.e. the next version of VS will have the productivity-killing ribbon, so they're trying to get people used to the idea that they'll have to type searches, to find the functions they need, rather than use menus and toolbars.
An idiot wrote: new document health indicator and code clean-up functionality
Because who, in this day and age, do you trust to ensure that your code meets Your standards (i.e. that it's not full of bugs that will never be addressed, so there's no point flagging them)?
A plain ol' text editor is looking better all the time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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None of those things hold the slightest bit of interest for me. Not a one.
I am not at all surprised that the bug I reported to them over a month and a half ago is still being "triaged," whatever that means to them. Had this been my code it would have been fixed within an hour because it is an incredibly simple error.
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WPF, Windows Forms, and Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) are now open source, so you can create experiences with the freedom you want. Oh, that's how that works...
Followed by 'Really?!'
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This pleases me greatly.
This space for rent
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WTF is a "XAML Island"?
".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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Oh, that kludge...
They let you put UWP controls on WinForms (or vice versa - I'm not interested in the hacks enough to remember)
TTFN - Kent
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: WTF is a "XAML Island"?
Like Circe's island it is ruled by a sorceress and her sorcerettes, but, instead of men being turned to swine there, they are stripped of GUI and turned into toxic-waste sites for angle-brackets.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. Edge: we hardly used ya
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sounds good
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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Edge will be sorely missed.
... By every bite of disc space that the damned rubbish wasted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have no fear, they'll find a way to screw it up.
".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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I had to check the date on this one...
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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Hurray, yet another browser to use up all our memory and constantly crash.
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A new study suggests abuse and mistreatment by those at the top of an organization do not necessarily lead to abusive behavior by lower-level leaders. When offered leadership opportunities, prior victims of workplace abuse are more likely to treat their own subordinates better by learning from the bad behavior of their bosses. Which definitely explains why there are so many great bosses out there, right?
I guess the "could" is the most important in that title.
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Study finds people have free will.
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Definitely the most important word in that title.
Thankfully, I have pretty good bosses now. I am also thankful that it has been a while since my boss(es) were not good. The last time was at a horrible company and I was rather amused when I found out that division had been closed. It was so bad they perpetually had open personnel requisitions that they couldn't fill. At one point they got rid of their director of HR but it was obvious to everyone else why she couldn't talk anyone into working there.
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It depends on the type of "bad".
Many reasons that people are not good bosses are personal (illness, unhappy family life, general impatience or bad temper, poor social skills, etc.), which don't filter through.
Bosses who are bad because of psychopathy, however, reward people who behave the same way they do (total self-absorption, zero empathy, inability to accept anyone as an equal, etc.), whilst ignoring people with the traits that actually make a business successful, so as they say, "scum rises to the top".
A frighteningly large proportion of CEOs and other high-ranking people show very clear indicators of psychopathy, which is not really surprising, because the main aim of many with the disease is to achieve power over others, at any cost (at any cost to the others, of course; most psychopaths are personal cowards, unless they can make a big show of heroism, gaining glory for themselves from it).
So sure, bosses who are incompetent for personal reasons aren't infectious, but psychopathic bosses build a culture where psychopaths thrive.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With the help of some clever machine learning techniques and a handy supercomputer, NVIDIA has cooked up a way for AI to chew on existing videos and use the objects and scenery found within them to build interactive environments. Reality is over-rated?
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Amazon seems to be rolling out a new "Part Finder" tool to check the compatibility of PC parts. On some PC component product pages, a widget at the top lets you select the brand and model number of your existing rig to check if the part is compatible. Find out if the 'goesinta' matches the 'goesouta'
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"Sorry, but that part does not meet our the requirements. Try a much more expensive one."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Newegg needs to implement something like this. It's problematic to select an appropriate CPU for a motherboard and be confident that you selected an appropriate part.
".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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Microsoft has been toying around with the idea of making Windows a lighter operating system for a while, and there have been a couple of attempts at doing so. After Windows RT and Windows 10 S, the company is reportedly working on "Windows Lite", but there's a catch - it may not even be called Windows. Fingers crossed for 'Bob 2.0'
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