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The ms team's start-of-day one-hour chant:
Please let them find problems in the Google code!
Please let them find problems in the Google code!
Please let them find problems in the Google code!
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"We fired our QA team, and we won't pay more than a third of a QA member would cost us in a year to find bugs in our code."
Is it any wonder MS products are turning to sh*t? That explains their focus on icons.
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New Confidential Computing Consortium will promote the use of TEEs (trusted execution environments). And now I feel so secure
Oh... SEC-UR-IT-Y! That's what our customers were asking for. Well, we need a new coalition to make that...
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So a new club links together to promote the use of tees to iron out problems?
Do they think our heads are made of wood?
OMG! A pun thread in the Insider! The sky is falling!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A team led by Professor Stephanie Wehner has developed a so-called link layer protocol that brings the phenomenon of ‘quantum entanglement’ from a physics experiment towards a real world quantum network. Message may arrive, may arrive in the wrong order, and may arrive with additional cat in the box
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I think the number of cases of "has it been hacked or hasn't it?" are due to take a sharp increase.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A Californian-based start-up has unveiled what it says is the world's largest computer chip. Who needs Moore's Law?
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If you don't think that 400,000 cores is truly mind-blowing, just imagine the price of the SQL Server license!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Assuming the data I found was more-or-less current, A SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition 2-core license costs about $7,000 per core, for a total of $2,800,000,000 (that's 2.8 billion dollars) for the server.
I'd love to have that sales-critter's quarterly bonus. 
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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Neuroscientists have created interactive maps that can predict where different categories of words activate the brain. Their latest map is focused on what happens in the brain when you read stories. It totally works! It just told me I was reading an article on brain mapping
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While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. If this doesn't get everyone to upgrade, I don't know what will
They have already changed the icon. What more do you people want?!
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The could just combine command prompt and powershell into one instead of having two prompts...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's not really what I meant. Having separate tabs with one being command prompt and another being powershell is not combining into one.
I mean get rid of command prompt and combine it's functionality (including all of its commands as they are names and all) into powershell.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Fair enough. Yeah, that would be handy.
They've done some of the standard CMD commands in PowerShell, but they tend to get weird if you don't use the parameters quite the way they expected. (i.e. you can do 'dir', but 'dir /p' breaks it)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but 'dir /p' breaks it
exactly
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I think that was the plan at one point and people complained.
Kevin
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Stupid people
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I mostly use the PowerShell prompt these days myself but many dislike combined functionalities. I myself used to hate the combined address + search bar that Chrome (I think) introduced. Then everyone else moved to it or at least provided the option. I don't use Chrome but I've now gotten used to the combination.
Part of what put me off was that, early on at least, Chrome's address bar was way inferior to Firefox's. Things may have moved on now and I don't use Firefox now either! 
Kevin
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Well, there isn't much in Command Prompt to combine into Powershell. Many of the "commands" are actually executables, so perhaps the way to "combine" it is to do the same with the built-in commands.
You'll probably tell me that's already done and you would probably be right except that the names and syntax are different and from what I can tell there are some missing options.
As for batch file processing, I think they both operate similarly if not altogether exactly -- so at least in that case they are combined. I do find the powershell scripting language more powerful.
Which browser do you use, out of curiosity? I'm used to using chrome, but it's become a hog and I'm getting concerned with the data leakages.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I used Firefox for about 13 years. About a year ago I switched to Opera as default after having used the Chromium version roughly 50-50 with Firefox for many months prior and mainly since Firefox Quantum was released. After eventually customising it to my liking it became good enough for me to jettison Firefox. I still have it installed and run it up from time to time but now Vivaldi is my second browser.
Chrome was never my default, although I've had it installed almost since day 1. I'm always curious to see what gets added to each browser (so I have several installed) but it's proven difficult to switch me from whatever happens to be my default at any time. Way back in the day it was IE. That stuck for ages until maybe the first or second year of Firefox. That stuck for over a decade. Opera is now proving sticky, so it will be interesting to see how long it holds with me.
In terms of memory usage, I don't know. Whenever I check they all seem to be about the same. But they don't seem to have any adverse consequences on my system so I'm not bothered. Main criteria for me are overall features and usability (subjective).
So, for you it all depends on what your must-haves and must-nots are. Personally, I've found that no one browser is better than all others in all respects, so it's a package-deal.
Kevin
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The GitHub Student Developer Pack is back for another school year. The program has provided over 1.5 million students the best real-world developer tools and training for free since its introduction six years ago. Give a seven year-old a repo, and I'll show you the final build
Or something like that. I'm not as pithy as St. Ignatius (or Voltaire/Aristotle/everyone else the original is attributed to)
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‘I think we just have to have proper, timely and aggressive enforcement of the antitrust laws’ "Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures."
(Because His Billness would of course have an opinion on this matter.) 
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I like the use of the term "platform gatekeepers".
It implies that people might be held responsible, rather than company entities.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The mission will conduct an in-depth exploration of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life, honing our insights into astrobiology. "All these worlds are yours, except Europa."
Granted, they're not putting a lander, so I guess "they" won't take us out for it.
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