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In other news: Computers can't tell whether stories stored in their memory are true or not. Computer-science researchers responded to this surprising news, saying: "What are you, an idiot?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft is revealing more about how people are using its Teams app, and it predicts the novel coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point that will change how we work and learn forever. How you gonna keep them coming to the cube, now that they've worked in sweatpants?
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If it gets a lot more people working at home instead of spending a stupid number of hours every week primping for work and commuting, it'll be a huge silver lining.
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Just wait for google's new remote-working app!
It'll be really, really convenient, specially designed to be easy to set up and use, even for people who don't know what a computer is.
With all that personal data to be reaped, google will pull out all the social-engineering and marketing stops to ensure that everyone want to feed it to their reapers, rather than anyone else's.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft thinks Windows 10 will forever change the way we work and learn
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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They also thought Bob was a good idea.
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Microsoft promises better communications as Azure cracks under increased demand during the coronavirus pandemic. Move everything to The Cloud! It scales!
That's a bit of an oopsie.
I guess they need to have Azure Incident Manager Service now?
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If a bit of increased demand is too much for them, potential new customers would do best to sign up with someone else.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Move everything to The Cloud! It scales! The cloud is nothing but another man's computer. It scales about as well as your own computer.
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Ain't this what PagerDuty is for?
It's my 2 weeks for it starting tonight. oh joy.
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Sorry for that. I know I don't miss it.
It must be double-irritating these days?
TTFN - Kent
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When pagers were clip-on devices, a colleague whose pager duty finally ended tossed it onto a busy street after bets were taken on how long it would last. They kept calling it until it failed to buzz. It survived longer than most of them had anticipated.
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what ever happen to robotic automation
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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AIs need to nap, too.
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Visual Studio Live Share was built on the bold principle of making remote developer collaboration as powerful and natural as in-person collaboration. Who needs Zoom, have your next team meeting in VS!
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I shall avoid using it in as sophisticated, supercharged, and frictionless way as possible.
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Microsoft's newest Windows 10 Fast Ring test build, 19603, adds File Explorer-Linux integration, as well as new user clean-up recommendations. Yup, it's the Year of Linux on Windows
It's like millions of heads all exploded at once...
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Did we ever find out whom they're doing this for?
Is it the same users that they added 43,000 emojis to the keyboard for?
Or maybe the three people who bought windows phones, for whom they also made the windows 8 and windows 10 desktop interfaces?
Or is is for the Linux guys (who don't want to run Linux on windows)(and many of whom don't even want to run windows on Linux)?
Or is it a windows-business-user thing, y'know, the users who only really want a web browser and an office suite?
Or maybe for average home users, who are obviously big fans of CLIs?
I'm only asking because they appear to be expending an inordinate amount of developer hours on this -- time that could perhaps be better spent on creating new icons.
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It's for the person who wants/needs to use a windows desktop while developing penguin stack software.
I suspect internal use is probably a major customer. Azure needs to support *nix well; but MS's network/user management tools are Windows focused. Letting the azure team do linux dev on windows boxes makes things easier for the rest of MS's internal bureaucrazy.
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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So maybe 500 people world-wide, then.
At least it's an improvement in the regard that that's bigger than the user-base that they turned the windows desktop into a phone interface for.
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It has been said that much of the good stuff that Microsoft does is due to internal requirements.
One alleged example is improved long file path length support in Windows. Improvements in this were apparently encouraged due to internal use of node.js and problems that devs were having with path length limitations.
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Not surprising. There's nothing quite like eating your own dog food.
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One of the main reason why I so much enjoy that The Old New Thing[^] blog of Raymond Chen is the number of posts he makes about legacy software and backwards compatibility problems. (The fraction of such stories are higher in his book than in the online blog, though).
I have lost count of the number of people I have had to explain why you simply can't lift that maxpath limit and let all programs have access to the full filename with no further question.
Frequently (especially with Linux guys) I have to make parallels to replacing IPv4 with IPv6 - an application setting aside 32 bits for an Internet address, with display functions for showing it as a.b.c.d, cannot simply be thrown an IPv6 address. Or the switch from 7 bit US-ASCII, first to 8 bit ISO8859-1 that couldn't go unencoded through a 56 kbps connection, and then to UTF-8, where advancing to the next character could mean anything from 1 to 5 bytes forward (or alternately, a rewrite to replace char[] with uint32[] throughout and rewriting all libraries).
Lots of people believe that they know the simple and easy way to switch to long file names. None do.
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Well, quite. For the avoidance of doubt I wasn't suggesting that improving path length limits in much of Windows/Win32 was easy, only that the (alleged) story is that Microsoft were finally prompted to do it for node.js internal dev purposes.
In fact, didn't Raymond Chen do a blog article about path lengths?
G'wan, you're Raymond, aren't you?
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I don't think Raymond Chen makes any attempts to hide his identity on the net.
Why would he? He markets his competence and professional interests well enough under his real name!
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