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Thurrott said something ? Oh, okay, back to sleep.
«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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But lovers of cr@ppy UIs can rejoice that the godawful UI designed and introduced for uwp will not be going away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pattern matching was introduced in C# 7.0 and changed the way we look at identifying the patterns and traits of our types. The changes in C# 8.0 make this even more intuitive and improve both flexibility and readability. "Methinks it is like a weasel"
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This looks like a really useful language feature
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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This looks like a feature that is completely not needed and is just there to justify the jobs of people to make new features.
There is nothing inherently wrong with this feature, it's just that it doesn't bring any new functionality to the language, just syntactic sugar basically.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, it doesn't bring new functionality but it makes some things easier to write and lets you express something that wasn't possbile before but felt it should have been there from day one. Like, for example, I always wondered why I cannot use the switch statement for type matching. Now I can, and it's a good thing.
And there is some new functionality, like default interface implementations. The thing is: Introducing new features will likely require a change to the underlying runtime itself, and I like that C# was pretty conservative about that in the past until today. But, agreed, some of the syntactic sugar is already overloading the language, but at least you are not forced to use it. C++ is a really ugly language, now that C# is almost 20 years old and still readable and quite clean speaks for their designers.
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They're trying to make c# typeless, like other bastard languages, such as VB, and javascript...
I don't like it at all.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: They're trying to make c# typeless, like other bastard languages, such as VB, and javascript...
I don't like it at all.
I've got mixed feelings about this. Both the strong-typed and typeless concepts have their pros and cons. It's more frustrating that you cannot combine the best of both worlds into a single approach.
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I "love" articles which assert that the new version/language "reads better" when it's blindingly obvious that it doesn't.
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Yeah, we know: it's hardly ever a code smell when you try to find out the concrete type of a variable instead of working with its generic type information (interface, base class).
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Facial recognition technology works even when only half a face is visible, researchers from the University of Bradford have found. Unfortunately for them, most people have 4/4 faces
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...only works for white men between the ages of 20 and 35 working for tech companies who sport a neck-beard?
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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I seriously doubt their claims. We don't hit 100 percent recognition with full face, how the hell can they do it with half?
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Maybe they are using super-high def photos, ie, 5000x2500 px, or something, of only the half face? And matching it to only the five profiles they set up, one of which is that face? Don't know - didn't read. But with enough creativity, anything is possible. (That 'creativity' may include 'lying.')
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Creativity and lying are synonyms for marketeering.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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In this article, I’ll be looking at a Remote Code Execution vulnerability I found in Dell SupportAssist, software meant to “proactively check the health of your system’s hardware and software” and which is “preinstalled on most of all new Dell devices”.
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The key bypass to this mitigation was in this sentence: “if the URL starts with http://, it will be replaced by https://”. See, the thing was, if the URL string did not start with http://, even if there was http:// somewhere else in the string, it wouldn’t replace it. Getting a URL to work was tricky, but I eventually came up with “ http://downloads.dell.com/abcdefg” (the space is intentional). When you ran the string through the starts with check, it would return false, because the string starts with “ “, thus leaving the “http://” alone.
So close, yet so far...
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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My 6-month-old Dell laptop doesn't have that problem... Because it doesn't run Windows, and therefore doesn't run any of the bloat/crapware that the various laptop manufacturers foist off on the user.
modified 2-May-19 10:24am.
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Guess their developer who came up with that idea is also a master of SQL injection prevention...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it. Soon to be read as evidence in court
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A round for the house.
The hero's we needed!
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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Gosh, YouTube was really bad looking in 2009. On the other hand, now that its design is not so ugly anymore, it's overload with JavaScript-fanciness.
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Yes, it was a killing but it was euthanasia. Actually, I think they put it out of our misery.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yes, this is good because it was one of google's first major misinformation campaigns against anyone who didn't want to use google products -- chrome, in this instance.
Since then, they've used similar misinformation campaigns for numerous things, like internet privacy, their absolute right to publish other people's material without paying royalties, etc.
It's nice to see that such a small company, that had such a small start as a provider of information on the Internet, managed to turn things around and become such a great giant at stealing personal information and producing misinformation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For the last several months, we've been talking about an internal project ongoing at Microsoft, codenamed "Windows Lite" which is a new version of Windows powered by Windows Core OS and built from the ground up as a modern platform for new devices. Because Windows 10 was, "The Last Version of Windows"?
I'm not entirely sure that the acronym 'FFU' is their best choice.
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Better than "Flash Update Core Kernel" yes, obscenely ugly.
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