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Redmond is still being a bit coy about precisely what Game Mode will and won't do, but the picture has become a little clearer. So, Windows ships with a built-in Xbox?
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UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it It's almost like you can't believe anything on Twitter
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Quote: "What's most remarkable is that the tweets posted by the bots is far and away more interesting than 93.718% of non-bot tweets", Professor Shi noted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft performed the study by analyzing the keystrokes and other activities of people who were using computers during their habitual sleep patterns. Nap time!
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I don't suppose this could be used to convince management to let me sleep on the job? 
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft performed the study by analyzing the keystrokes and other activities of people who were using computers
Is that a fact?
And people were worried that too much personal information was being sent to ms by winio.
Pish-tosh!
They only have keyloggers on our machines to help us!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow, that is surprising.
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That's what I said, but she wants to cuddle instead.
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In this blog entry, we would like to discuss some significant changes that were made in the .NET 4.6.x garbage collector (GC). So you can imagine it might actually affect your code
OK, it *might*, but I've only met a few people actually challenging the GC.
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They should remove garbage collection, for a version or two, and force everyone to go back to alloc and malloc.
That'd stop people whinging about it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Publicly known “magic string” lets any site run malicious code, no questions asked. Fortunately, it's not "Open Sesame"
Maybe not too common, but common enough
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It’s time to go codeless. And that promises great futures for our developers. As CIO for Salesforce and a 22-year history in technology, I can say that with the utmost confidence. Well, we had a good run, time to find a new job. Sorry folks.
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The turtles still need to write code.
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Yawn, that's been the mantra for more than 30 years. *Snore*
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It seems like every year we’re creeping closer and closer towards a codeless future, as technology evolves to favor low-code and no-code development.
SalesForce is an amazing product, however using it is like coding, it's just been abstracted so much that it doesn't resemble coding like a programmer would expect. Furthermore, having evaluated the product (and several others), while beautiful and powerful, it is so confusing, the updates no longer match the online documentation, and they put no effort into removing obsolete docs from their website, that I estimated for my friend at a non-profit, that she should plan on investing $20,000 in training (time and materials) for someone to get up to speed to do the basic stuff. Oh, and their import "wizard" is like a lobotomized Downs Syndrome child (apologies if that insults anyone.)
That said, their customer service was superb! 
Point being, you can abstract the coding all you want until you get something that looks like the interface in Minority Report, but it's still "coding."
The real thing to toot one's horn about is not that you've eliminated coding but you've made a user interface that is so intuitive and easy to use that it doesn't require documentation, tech support, or the equivalent of a hamburger flipper's year salary for training.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: The real thing to toot one's horn about is not that you've eliminated coding but you've made a user interface that is so intuitive and easy to use that it doesn't require documentation, tech support, or the equivalent of a hamburger flipper's year salary for training.
Yet someone still has to maintain it, and that requies coding, it can't be implemented in itself.
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I reserve the right to post stuff solely for the purpose of mockery. 
TTFN - Kent
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And if you had posted it as something other than news I wouldn't be making a sticky mess all over your shoes...
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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?
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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.
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 Fair enough, I'll just post it to the Lounge next time.
But mango zitango, this is a very slow news week. No one in the office? 
TTFN - Kent
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What a load.
I work with Salesforce all day, every day, and have been doing so for the past 4 years. The so-called "codeless" development is indeed codeless. Drag, drop, add a few items from listbox A over into listbox B, and done, now need to drag and drop another bit to consume what you just set up and... so on and so forth.
Point is, there is no business user who thinks in an appropriate enough manner to map out processes in this way. So you need a developer to do it. Because most developers are able to take business talk and map it to an instruction set. Whether that instruction set is code, or drag-and-drop boxes with lists of properties, is irrelevant. The mapping exercise still needs to be done, and most business folk don't have the aptitude to do so. In short: Codeless? Yes. Developerless? Not even close.
What you end up with in this scenario is a bunch of software developers dragging and dropping stuff on a web page all day long, and they hate it. 2015 Stackoverflow developer survey had Salesforce as the #1 most despised technology. Even more than VB.
If I owned a business, I would never use Salesforce because I would have to hire a developer who likely hates his/her job.
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Let me attempt to translate this:Quote: If you think of it like a pyramid, as no-code and low-code development capabilities expand, we’re adding more layers of app builders and designers at the bottom of the pyramid, but there is still a need for programmers at every level. That’s part of what makes working at Salesforce so exciting. Our platform has capabilities that the most technically advanced programmers can thrive in, as well as no-code capabilities for the least technical individuals.
How about: "Our product is so bloated we lost track of what we added to it."
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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We all know that reading is important. But we’re also busy. So we try to optimize by reading more quickly. And in this way, we miss the point of reading entirely. "I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia."
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Bacon, you bet. 
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I didn't read this post.
Marc
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