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Key people working on the .NET platform at Microsoft are concerned about the continuing perception that it is tied to one company. The "New Microsoft" ain't your grandma's Microsoft
The Windows and Office folk though...
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Counting pre-release announcements, MS .net was officially Windows only for the first 15ish years of it's life. It's only been officially cross platform for 5; and early versions of .net core fell well short of being full featured replacements for the legacy stack.
Give it more time. I hear it heals all wounds. (Or was that wounds all heels?)
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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Agreed, it takes a while (and VSCode might be a Trojan Horse for it on Linux). I do think the biggest problem is too many Linux folk still think of the company as Micro$oft and refuse to even look at it. Personally, I think they'd love it if they tried.
TTFN - Kent
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Dan Neely wrote: Or was that wounds all heels? This is my church, this is where I hurt my heels.
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opensource was purchased by microsoft for lotta money..
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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.NET bound to Windows - for years... it wont disappear in a few months... And packing all that Windows only stuff into it so hasty didn't helped...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Microsoft has neutered a large-scale fraud campaign that used knock-off domains and malicious apps to scam customers in 62 countries around the world. Six domains down, six billion to go...
Also, OAuth is helpful for the bad guys as well. Whodathunkit?
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The Chinese Yutu-2 rover found something interesting on the surface of the moon that has puzzled scientists, and the mystery has finally been solved. Just don't bring it back to Earth. I've seen that movie.
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Apple on Thursday announced a new set of tools and resources for teachers and students as part of its Swift coding education initiatives. "'Will you walk into my parlour?' said a spider to a fly"
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It’s important for us to think about what automation might mean for the future of programming. They can't get rid of us that easily
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New KDP security feature is currently being tested with Windows 10 Insider builds. That should keep us completely safe (for a few weeks)
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Back in 2017, Microsoft first released the redesigned WinDbg tool in Microsoft Store. It comes with modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, and Time Travel Debugging. "Kills bugs dead" (with a lot of help from you)
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How does the brain filter out distractions and enable us to focus on the task at hand? This is really interesting... Do I smell donuts?
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Researchers have found that people who work desk-based jobs are less likely to experience cognitive decline as they age compared to others who work physically active jobs. The catch is usually just under the seat - it lets you recline more in the chair
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Are they suggesting that desk jockeys aren't physically active jobs? I've had to dodge stress balls, walk to and from the rest room/snack area, avoid meetings and eye contact with fellow co-workers and who knows how many miles my fingers put on in a day hitting Ctrl C/Ctrl V from stack overflow...other coding sites.
I'd like to see a construction worker do that, they get to suntan all day on the side of the road watching someone that gets paid more than them drive a big machine around.
(note: construction workers are wonderful people, no offense should be taken by this comment.)
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The German codec creator says VVC is a more efficient successor to HEVC My future download cap thanks you
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Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible. Not sure if it scans darkly or not
Sorry, brain is elsewhere at the moment (it's supposed to be in a meeting. Not sure where it's wandered off to.)
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Not sure if the name of a nature's massive destruction weapon is a good name for something supposed to help you making things more secure.
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Coming soon: Google Meteorstrike!
TTFN - Kent
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Google makes progress in enabling Flutter to be used to create desktop apps for Linux, macOS and Windows. My heart is a-flutter
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A MacOS for the fanboys,
3 -nix for the rebels
10 Windows for the masses
And a Flutter to rule them all and bind them to the dark lord
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Today, Intel announced Thunderbolt 4, it's newest connectivity standard. You might recall that the company is actually letting go of Thunderbolt 3, with its 40Gbps speeds being offered up to USB 4.0. "Very, very frightening me."
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One of my senior-guy hobbies is to maintain a list of different standards and formats I have been working with, all since my teenage years. It covers everything from document formats to dry cell batteries and silver film formats. The size of the list is shocking - every section of it! (and it has made me think of the term "standard" in a quite different way than I did before)
Some of the entries refer to flopping standards. There are a number of standards I considered so seriously that I have decided that they deserve to be mentioned as considered but rejected - I was very close to invest in them, and partially did. E.g. years ago, I bought external disks for long time archival with both USB and FireWire800 interface, just in case USB died out, and I got a FW800 card for my PC. But the disks were never plugged in to anything but the USB port.
For now, I am not even considering TB. I can manage very well with USB3 for disks, HDMI for the screen, while waiting to see if TB4 will be the same great worldwide success as TB1, 2 and 3 was
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In this blog post I’m going to focus on building a desktop app with WinUI 3 Preview 1 and .NET, leaving C++ for future posts. Try it before they try "fixing" it again
Fixing as in pets, not plumbing.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I’m going to focus on building a desktop app with... new icons?
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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