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It's socialism in reverse - enormous state subsidies to the already enormously wealthy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Computer scientists from Aston University have developed a way to drastically improve the battery-life of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, by minimising the power consumption of mobile apps by as much as 60 percent. To levels of, "works in theory, just needs a complete rewrite to work" levels of 'improve'
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Another exploration of the blindingly obvious.
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Nice to know that my old alma mater is managing to achieve things, since I left.
... But let's not get into discussions about why it achieved bugger all while I was there, eh?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did they try to switch it off and on again?
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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Removing FaceBook tripled my battery life
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Services from Google on Monday became unavailable for up to two hours as user traffic followed a tortuous path through operators in Russia and Nigeria before hitting the Great Firewall of China. "Unintended anomaly" is my next go-to excuse
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Dear Friend,
my name is Mpakwe Zurigbo, I work at NEMO (the Nigerian Enternet Ministry Office).
During an "unintended anomaly" of internet traffic, we could get hold of 12,765,983,712 data packets worth about $2,500,000 US Dollar. I want to suggest a business...
Why does the story remind me of Nigerian emails?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The article has the word "leak" in it, so why is no-one maniacally tweeting that it's fake news?
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A first working draft proposal for the next version of C clarifies and refines existing features, rather than adding new ones Updates aren't just for those new-fangled languages
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It's hard to improve on perfection. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Let's hope that they start a trend.
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I’m excited about our plans for how Visual Basic.NET will be supported .NET Core 3.0! Finally, those Linux developers will have a REAL programming language
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The current plan is that C# 8.0 will ship at the same time as .NET Core 3.0. However, the features will start to come alive with the previews of Visual Studio 2019 that we are working on. It's looking more and more Python-like all the time
Yeah, kind of a dupe of a Lounge item. Hopefully you'll forgive me.
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I believe the comment about C# more and more Phyton-like is more of a joke than a serious statement. And I also believe there are many of us, C# programmers, waiting for the new features mentioned in the .NET blog post, but I would like the final release also incorporate the announced "records" and the "with" clause features.
Sorry for my bad English
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I'm a bit surprised they are effectively deprecating .NET Framework with this, as some of the new features won't work on .NET Framework, only on .NET Core.
With such a major change, .NET Standard should at least get a major version bump to 3.0 rather than 2.1, to indicate potentially breaking changes, in accordance with Semantic Versioning.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: ... rely on new runtime enhancements, and we will not make those in the .NET Runtime 4.8 either. So this feature simply will not work on .NET Framework 4.8 ...
What a great feature! And what about the features of .Net 6 which we use? Will all of them be supported by .NET Core 3.0? I doubt that...
And what a nice code example:
var area = figure switch
{
Line _ => 0,
Rectangle r => r.Width * r.Height,
Circle c => Math.PI * c.Radius * c.Radius,
_ => throw new UnknownFigureException(figure)
};Why is that bad code?
I could ask such a question in a job interview. I want to see if the candidate understands basic OO concepts and the consequences of unclean code.
(This code places the calculation of the area into an extra class, instead of providing a method in the interface of figure. Adding a new figure type means finding all such places. Of course we can expect many different implementations scattered all over the code base, ...)
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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this was a contrived sample to show how the new switch expression works.
while you remark about this particular expression being better handled with override and a common class is accurate, it misses the point....
further this handle the "not a figure" case, which overriding wouldn't! 
and Line, obviously, has no need to implement area ....
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HTTP is switching to a protocol layered on top of UDP. IPoAC finally getting it's due?
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So everyone can now save a bit of memory bloat by going to Network Settings, browsing to their network adapter, and removing the TCP protocols from it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A lump of metal defines the world’s system of weights — but that changes this week I'm on a diet, trying to lose a few Plank's constants worth of mass
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I did it my weigh.
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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If the new system doesn't involve hamsters, it will be a pity.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the IPK has been found to have lost around 50 micrograms in mass, roughly equal to a single eyelash .... The exact reason for this discrepancy isn’t know
No, I'm not going to apologise!
It's perfectly normal for people to take souvenirs, when they visit somewhere new!
And they're replacing it with dog food, anyway, so it can't be all that important.
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Microsoft hasn’t had a great time with Windows 10 in 2018. As good a time to start as any
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