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In my decades of experience, I've learned that it really does start at the top. President Brad Smith is completely detached from running the company. Upper management takes their cues from him and it trickles on down. Smith lectures employees on business practices, but not on the importance of quality. Most remarkably, he appears to not even like Microsoft's products. I remain baffled as to why he is Microsoft's president.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I remain baffled as to why he is Microsoft's president. Sticking around for a while and sucking up to the new CEO?
TTFN - Kent
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in denial.. there are no bugs in windows .. period.
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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The GitHub Super Linter was built out of necessity by the GitHub Services DevOps Engineering team to maintain consistency in our documentation and code while making communication and collaboration across the company a more productive experience. Good timing - the cat's been lying on the laundry again
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C++20 is coming. As of this writing, the new revision of the language isn't a thing yet, but by the time you are reading this, it may be published. We do not speak of them.
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"Human Readable Magazine" talking about a language that's arguably not human readable.
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Over the weekend, Microsoft acknowledged a print spooler issue that was caused by last week's Patch Tuesday updates. It might be causing you to be unable to print, and that could even include software printers, such as printing to PDF. I wonder what this fix breaks?
KB4567512. Do you think they started counting those with negative numbers, or just that it's rolled over a few times?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I wonder what this fix breaks? I suppose we will know it in the next days
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Scientists hunting dark matter have stumbled across something else, with “unexpected events” recorded that could demand a rethink of modern physics. They found "something". Good, good. Who do I make the cheque out to again?
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IOW, it is most likely to be contamination by Tritium, but we'll go with "axions", because that sounds much sexier.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Uber has open-sourced Piranha, their tool for automated clean up of stale code caused by feature flags that are no longer required. Use it or lose it
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I think HoldMyBeer would probably be a better name for an automated code clean up tool.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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My static analysis tool finds data that is never read, but deleting it may not be safe because there could be side effects where it is initialized or subsequently written. 🍺🍺🍺
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indeed- refactoring code is definitely one of the best ways to break code
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I refactor often. And you're right!
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Greg Utas wrote: I refactor often. Why? Just write code the correct way the first time. Amateur.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I hope the Piranha doesn't turn around to bit them in their a...
M.D.V.
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There are three thrilling new updates for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the new Windows Insider Preview Build 20150. "Thrilling", "Linux", and "Preview Build". Three terms that I don't want to see together
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Thrilling like a thriller
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Thrilling", "Linux", and "Preview Build". Three terms that I don't want to see together Don't complain... "Windows Update" could have been added to the sentence.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Google's support for Microsoft's TypeScript in Angular was a key turning point for the young extension to JavaScript Why bother making it a success yourself, when your competitors can do it for you?
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TypeScript took off because coding in pure JavaScript is like, hmmm, I don't think I can come up with an appropriate analogy.
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Marc Clifton wrote: an appropriate analogy. I think you did
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why bother making it a success yourself, when your competitors can do it for you?
A bit like how Rx (also in Angular), invented by Microsoft, seems to be used mostly by non-Microsoft stack developers , while most Microsoft-stack developers have never heard of it!
Kevin
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