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In an effort to boost the number of apps in the Windows Store Microsoft and Unity are running a contest offering $100,000 as the grand prize to developers who bring their games to the UWP Windows Store. There are catches, of course (beyond needing to actually write and port a game)
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Would a game where Cortana is put under a guillotine qualify?
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The full version of Minecraft: Education Edition includes the much-anticipated Classroom Mode companion app, enabling educators to manage world settings, communicate with students, give items, and teleport students in the Minecraft world. Reading, writing, and redstone?
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Redstone is Turing complete, and can be used to teach basic logic and programming.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The idea of software craftsmanship, as expressed in the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship, is (in part) to encourage software developers to strive for excellence in their work in order to create productive partnerships with customers and to add value steadily for those customers. "All headlines are click-bait"
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Quote: He points out that in a craft such as, for instance, cathedral-building, the work is intrinsically beautiful in its own right. In contrast, using the same sort of stone as was used in the cathedral to build a bridge, the goal is to make the bridge sturdy and utilitarian, such that people don’t even notice it.
The way that bridges and Cathedrals are made (when made from stone) are almost exactly the same and in both cases it was thus so as to make the maximum amount of structure from the minimum amount of mass (because in masonry, weight is cost) which is exactly how you should do software too.
If elegance is an emergent property of that, then so much the better.
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New editions join ActiveState's professional-grade language lineup, which already includes Python, Perl, and Tcl "But, you don't have to know the language, with the moon in the sky "
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That’s according to NSS Labs which today announced the results of its latest Web Browser Security comparative test. Not even the hackers want to use Edge
Alternately:
Give them a minute, they'll get to it
It's easy to secure if you have no features
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Its the same story with Macs and security... hackers are not wasting their time since the market share is so small.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Yet it can't correctly display a very simple webpage that I have had for twenty years. Every other browser I have tried handles it just fine. Edge doesn't so I do not use it.
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Not hard to avoid hackers when your product is not used by most.
Statistical bias at it's finest.
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ooooo. Choose your own Shark-snark! I prefer this one:
Kent Sharkey wrote: It's easy to secure if you have no features
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A new report into revenue for the third quarter shows what a significant lead Amazon Web Services has in the public cloud market. They're a monopoly! Quick, get some government to sue them.
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Microsoft yesterday stopped providing Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders. Save your copies, they might be worth something one day
Along with all those AoL CDs
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They should revive 7. It's way better than that crapware the call 8 & 10.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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NASA wants ideas from private companies and the science community about instruments that can be used to explore and study the surface of the Moon. Uhm.... look up?
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von Neuman strip mining!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Report doesn't prove social media is good for you — but it does help debunk the idea that it's bad for you. I guess I'll just have to die early then
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I'm screwed, too
Loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
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Ditto. However, I see it this way, though they might be breathing longer than us, they are not living longer than us...damnit!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But it can be a correlation by accident as also vegans life longer. Not while vegan is "so healthy", but because these people are more interested in living healthy (like not smoking but sports)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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How do they even have enough data for that kind study????
Although I'm just judging by the headline--can't read the article while I'm at work
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No mention of normalization vs age, so I'm going to assume they actually proved that younger people live longer.
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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They don't actually live longer. It just seems that way to them.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm impressed at the professionalism of the team conducting the survey, how they diligently collated data from the last five generations, to assess life expectancy.
And it's true. A hundred years ago, there was no facebook and people died younger.
Kowtow and thank facebook for this.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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