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Quote: Don't depend on File History for a pure "latest version" backup. Don't depend on a windows process? What? Say it aint so.
In seriousness, it's a good thing Microsoft has flaws, or else many of us wouldn't have jobs. We make their stuff better.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Improving performance is a constant process. First we ditched tables, spacer gifs, and inline markup such as the element in favor of CSS, reducing page sizes, and separating style from layout. Then we became aware of all our DNS requests, caching, and the total number of files and started using CSS sprites, moving many small images out of the HTML and into a single background image. Now it’s time we embrace the third epoch in performance optimization: symbol fonts. Comics sans Comic Sans.
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And what if we got together a bunch of experts who work on large sites to create a definitive front-end performance guide? And not just one of those boring guides made for robots, what if we did something fun? The definitive front-end performance guide... Get your web site in shape with this helpful (and humorous) guide.
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We are happy to announce we are releasing the Kinect for Windows samples under an open source license. You can find everything on CodePlex. We have posted a total of 22 unique samples in C#, C++, and Visual Basic. We’re doing this for a few reasons... Grab the code, then follow this new blog for Kinect programming tips and tutorials.
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Here's the programme. I am going to put TextPad and Sublime through Verity's Immutable, Scientific And Absolutely Perfectly Fair Six Point Programmers' Editor Test, and see who wins. I am aware I am treading on sensitive and subjective ground here, so I am going to apply legendary Microsoft blogger Raymond Chen's anti-nitpicking strategy. I will attempt to anticipate and dismiss in advance every possible commentard objection, and leave the right-thinking reader with an impression of calm, reasoned rationality, and definitely not obsessive paranoia. Because programmers do not tend to have strong feelings about their favorite editor.
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Is there an option I don't know about, or is Stob's definition of not getting in the way different than mine?
Quote: TextPad has an excellent search-and-replace dialog (non-modal, but goes translucent when it doesn't have focus, so can be left open without getting in the way).
All I get is the Aero glass effect on the dialog's borders which is useless for seeing anything behind it; never mind the rest of the non-opaque dialog.
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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Back when our team was dealing with operations, optimization and scalability... we had our fair share of troubleshooting poorly performing applications and infrastructures of various sizes, often large (think CNN or the World Bank). Tight deadlines, “exotic” technical stacks and lack of information usually made for memorable experiences. The cause of the issues was rarely obvious: here are a few things we usually got started with. When you're finished cursing and throwing things, try these tips...
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The book is a great read on practical applications of hardware hacking. It starts off with simple hacks: installing a blue LED, building a USB adapter for the device’s controller ports, and replacing the power supply. The rest of the book goes over how the security on the device was compromised, and the legal implications of pulling off the hack. We have just gotten a wake-up call from the Nintendo Generation.
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It was snowing when we arrived at the BlackBerry campus in Waterloo, on a bitterly cold winter day. There were icicles under the bus, and the bare trees and snow-covered fields turned Canada black and white. We were visiting BlackBerry’s home ground to hear the story behind BlackBerry 10, the company’s new operating system and the engine it hopes to power a dramatic turnaround. Two years of work had just ended, and the company was ready to talk about what it had done, how it had done it, and where it wanted to go. Everyone wants to know: what about the keyboard?
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In a surprise reversal, Microsoft has changed the default behavior of Flash content on websites viewed using Internet Explorer in Windows 8 or Windows RT. Previously, sites had to be on a whitelist before Flash would work. The new behavior effectively turns the Compatibility View list into an exclusive blacklist of badly behaved sites. Flash, Silverlight, Java... if it requires a plug-in, it's probably trouble.
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Microsoft made a bold bet to build its own hardware, competing directly with Apple's iPad, but it was never an easy task to create something new and unique. Microsoft's own tablet is the result of it facing a "big challenge" relying on its hardware partners to create a high quality physical device that could go up against Apple. Project "Georgetown," the codename for Surface RT, started with two simple goals: the tablet couldn't leak and it must ship when Windows 8 is ready.... After months and months of prototyping and tweaking, the end result was unveiled to the world on June 18th of last year. These are a few of the concepts and prototypes that led to that final product. From rough draft to smooth Surface.
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How about the Microsoft Sphere?[^] I likey.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This is why we can't have nice things[^].
Quote: Almost three years after Google released its WebM video encoding technology as a "free" and open alternative to the existing H.264 backed by Apple and others, it has admitted its position was wrong and that it would pay to license the patents WebM infringes.
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It's about f***ing time that software patents were banned/outlawed/removed/destroyed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This is why we can't have nice things[^].
404 Needs an "s" at the end.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/07/google-admits-its-vp8webm-codec-infringes-mpeg-h264-patents[^]
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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Ta. Fixed
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It's probably impossible to create a sane video codec that doesn't infringe any patents. For example, I give you US20020064313[^], which essentially patents the combination of macroblocks and RDO. And US20050238100[^], which patents having I, P and B frames. And US5539467[^], which patents B frames with motion compensation.
Or at least, one could argue that they do, and that's enough to get you in trouble.
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Why Microsoft is like the GOP[^]
Quote: Like the Republican Party, Microsoft’s leadership team never got the message that the landscape was rapidly changing to its disadvantage. The company’s fixation on the declining Windows platform reminds me of the Republican Party’s continuing focus on 18th-Century social values where no Internet existed, long-distance travel was done via horse and carriage, and Social Security and Medicare were not heard of.
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One of the devs at Khan Academy was wondering how Amazon's avoided the usual "good luck submenu" issues and noticed a simple geometric solution[^]. So, he's made the solution into a jQuery plugin[^]. Just the thing to help us semi-coordinated folk use your Web site.
As many of the people commented, this solution is actually ancient (and Apple). So, why doesn't everyone {cough}Microsoft{cough} use it for all their sub-menus (and sub-sub-menus, and sub-sub-sub-menus)?
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Nice!
/ravi
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AWESOME!
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Well, Microsoft have just made it a lot easier by open sourcing the Kinect[^] code.
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Probably because Microsoft didn't want the open source Kinect project that was released by some other people way before the Kinect SDK was, to overtake the official SDK.
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That is "only" the samples and not the full SDK, not?
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