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A fresh challenge to Intel’s PC dominance That of course will mean "all" day, not "all day"
My favourite line: "The obvious question is why do these devices even exist?"
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Because they needed another dead puppy, Windows phone wasn't enough!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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If they have a less expensive tablet alternative to surface, especially if it uses HD resolution (instead of 3:2), it would be a great fit for the product I'm working on.
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Scientists and engineers may benefit from a long-abandoned approach to computing. It's true! I'm pretty sure my father never had an analog computer
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Does a slide rule count?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Does a slide rule count?
No fair stealing half of my joke by posting first.
My Dad probably never had one of those. I'm pretty sure my Mom did though.
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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C++17 introduces a number of new language features, support for UTF-8 character literals, inline variables, fold expressions, and more. On the C++ standard library side is parallel versions of the STL algorithms, a file-system library derived from Boost, and other additions. Or as 99.9% of developers react, "So?"
+/- 99.9% 19 times out of 20
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Quote: The final standard of C++17 (formerly known as "C++1z") is now official.
So I'm guessing the next one will be called C++1aa, because compiler developers will end up joining AA because they end up drinking too much trying to make it all work.
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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Reading the Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background. "Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?"
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Collectors of the digital tchotchkes are clogging up the ethereum network, delaying transactions, and causing a pile-up of unprocessed transactions. More proof the internet is a feline conspiracy
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Modernize a .NET App with Docker and Windows Server Containers, A Developer’s Guide to the New Hamburger Menu in Windows 10, Visual C++ Support for Stack-Based Buffer Protection, etc. Windows Containers, protecting your stack, AI, and (as always) so much more
Sorry, that Stephen Toub article on C# 7.2 coming in the "special issue" on Dec 15.
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MSDN Magazine still exists? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: MSDN Magazine still exists?
Yesterday a coworker has a subscription (printed version) that he never reads and asked if I was interested in them. I said "sure!" Sigh. The ads were more interesting than the articles, but only for a few seconds. I miss the days of Byte magazine, when it was a 500 page tome filled with cool software tricks and cooler DIY hardware stuff. But times change, and for that I now look at the IoT online mags, where some of the hobbyist aura I so loved about this field when I was a kid is happily having a reincarnation. And they say you can't relive your childhood. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: where some of the hobbyist aura I so loved about this field when I was a kid is happily having a reincarnation
Yeah man... paper is out. Apparently this digital stuff is catching on.
Marc Clifton wrote: And they say you can't relive your childhood.
As they say, growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.
Jeremy Falcon
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BYTE was a great magazine, with the Circuit Cellar my favourite part. That part lives on in a magazine called Circuit Cellar Ink, although the original author Steve Ciarcia has since retired.
Ken
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RTek23 wrote: That part lives on in a magazine called Circuit Cellar Ink
Forgot about that. Seems their site is down:
Error establishing a database connection
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Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. Your users will be so happy you don't support their version of Windows any more
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This update contains major performance improvements, new features, as well as fixes for bugs reported by you. I still think they need a longer version name
Maybe throw a build number or adjectivey South African animal or something into it?
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Don't forget: 'Uranus' needs to be in any truly professional product!
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Some Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 users are reporting they can't check for updates using Windows Update and Microsoft Update. No word yet on a Microsoft fix. That's odd - it seems to be working for Windows 10. What are the odds?
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The phenomenon may be more common than we think The brain is a weird thing, I think
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I didn't hear thudding. I heard the twanging and snapping of the wires. 
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I heard Godzilla.
(Actually, I did experience a faint thudding [it was more like the compression sound the thud would make as though my ear drums were preparing for a loud sound], even when I told myself not too. Damn brain.)
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