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Without access to data, it's hard to make tools that actually work. Enter synthetic data: artificial information developers and engineers can use as a stand-in for real data. Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be real data.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Without access to data, it's hard to make tools that actually work.
Then the ones programming the apps that generate the data have a very, very dark future... haven't they? 
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Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition has caused Windows devs to “go native” by learning to love open source ways of thinking and doing. Go pull my other request
Then again, it might explain a few things about stability
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The forthcoming Linux 5.10 looks like it will include further fixes for the Year 2038 problem, aka Y2K38. "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future"
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Experienced programmers have tales to tell about the things they had to do to test and debug their applications. printf("Made it this far");
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functionize wrote: Experienced programmers have tales to tell about the things they had to do to test and debug their applications.
is he implying that microsoft only employs newbies and morons? 
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Rest assured that Gartner has its share of buzzwords in its 2021 trends listing, but the technologies in whole tell a story. Here's a look at the trends and some color commentary. For next year's game of Buzzword Bingo
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Kent Sharkey wrote: For next year's game of Buzzword Bullsh1t Bingo
FTFY
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Yup, but I try to keep it PG 
TTFN - Kent
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We’ve lived with C# for two decades. How much has it changed? For those that missed the start of the show
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I can accept highly biased... but, is it a good review?
Genuine curious, since I don't have the time to read it carefully right now.
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meh Pretty much just the bullet-points. Probably more of a "highly opinionated survey" than a review.
But...Monday.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: meh Pretty much just the bullet-points. Probably more of a "highly opinionated survey" than a review.
Thanks, then I will use my time with something more useful... like the other news
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Microsoft Edge WebView2 for Win32 C/C++ is generally available and ready for use in production applications! For those that want to web their win
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Kent Sharkey wrote: is generally available and ready for use in production applications!
In other words...
We have released our alpha version, please be so nice and start using it, so we can try to fix the bugs you find and get to the beta stadium.
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One of the recurring things that come to bite me and my team is having a less experienced engineer or new joiner work completely alone on a project for weeks or months. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."
Or senior, IMO. It's always helpful to bounce ideas off of someone.
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As often... it depends on the lone ranger and on the team...
Although I can see the point of the quote, there are exceptions (that are more common than they should)
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NASA has granted Nokia $14.1 million to build the first-ever 4G mobile network on the moon. I'm guessing that won't count in my 'free long distance' plan?
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Are they leaving some cell phones too (just in case)?
I wonder if the aliens in the dark side of the moon will get them and start using twitter or whatsapp.
Why did noone think on this before? We could have saved a lot of time and computing power from SETI@Home...
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A bug in the latest release of Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers, is causing random debug.log files to be created on user's desktops and other folders. Testing in production again?
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Now the big question is... is the bug coming from Google or from a Change-Request of Microsoft?   
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Microsoft has announced that it is ending the ability to cross-sign drivers, effective 1 July 2021. This will effectively make it impossible to release new or updated drivers for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 systems, including Server 2012 R2. No means no (support)
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Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are still under Extended Support by Microsoft, and will remain supported until January 2023. Windows Embedded 8 and Windows Embedded 8.1 are supported by Microsoft through July of 2023.
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So… “Sorry, big government contractor… that big, multi-million dollar piece of equipment that you build for the government? We know you found a bug, but we can’t update the drivers anymore, because of Microsoft’s policy.”
Good that my hardware is old enough to have already the newest version available
Quote: One thing with which I have historically credited Microsoft is their willingness to listen to the community, and change their course when necessary.
Does this guy live in a parallel universe? Are we speaking about the same Microsoft?
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Such a universe wouldn't be parallel, it would be upside down and backwards.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Nelek wrote: Quote: One thing with which I have historically credited Microsoft is their willingness to listen to the community, and change their course when necessary.
Does this guy live in a parallel universe? Are we speaking about the same Microsoft?
I think it was historically true but it ceased to be true somewhere around the Windows 8 timeframe. At that point, they began to lose contact with their customer base, even including their key corporate customer base from what I have been able to see.
Oh, and I just realised that Microsoft have announced this for operating systems that are still supported. Well, together with losing touch with what their real, actual customers want it seems that they have also lost the ability to remember and stick to long term published strategies.
modified 19-Oct-20 8:10am.
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