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Cortana isn’t dead, but it’s no longer an Alexa competitor "Don't make a girl a promise... if you know you can't keep it."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What is Microsoft doing with Cortana?
Isn't it obvious? Just screwing it up, as many other things 
M.D.V. 
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That is definitely the tl;dr version of a lot of articles about Microsoft lately. Sadly. 
TTFN - Kent
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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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If you sometimes find yourself happening upon a word you’ve no idea how to pronounce, a new feature announced by Google this week is here to help. It fails if you ask it to pronounce 'pronounce'
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I am curious how it will pronounce: "Supercalifragilisticoespialidoso"
For references... see "Mary Poppins"
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I'm amazed it has it - Quote: soo·pr·ka·luh·fra·juh·li·stuhk·ek·spee·a·luh·dow·shuhs
It's really quite atrocious
(and slightly different with the British pronunciation)
TTFN - Kent
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Great... now I've got Dick Van Dyke's atrocious accent going through my head...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You are welcome 
M.D.V.
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Even my 10 years old girl can do that!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Everyone should learn to code, right? If everyone learned programming not only would people have better jobs, the economy would be growing, and ultimately we’d all have far superior lives to the ones we lead now. Debugging code?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Debugging code?
Will we have to learn Esperanto or classic latin / greek to deal with legacy code?
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Nelek wrote: Will we have to learn Esperanto or classic latin / greek to deal with legacy code?
No. You have to learn Hebrew and Sumerian. 
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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Meh. That's the modern font. For real legacy coding, you must learn the Paleo-Hebrew font. 
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 everyone learned to code we'd have a lot of bad coders and no one to pick up our trash (actual trash, not the code), fix our cars or file our tax returns.
Currently, we need more teachers and caregivers, which are kind of important jobs.
We're talking about the future of our children and the present of the sick and elderly, so, obviously, it's not nearly as important as everyone writing Hello World.
Our corporate overlords will be pleased that they'll have no problems hiring (cheap) coders in the future while making the money to afford to hire scarce freelancing teachers and caregivers (who'll go at an hourly rate of €100,- to €200,-).
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CodeQL is a semantic code analyzer and query tool that can be used to find security vulnerabilities in codebases from BuggyCode where BugType=bufferOverflow select bugs
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static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
DoSomething();
}
catch (Bug bug)
{
SilentlySwallow(bug).Then(Cough);
}
}
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Kryptowire, a security company that has developed an automated mobile vulnerability discovery and exploit generation engine and is a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mobile security research and development program, has revealed a total of 146 new vulnerabilities impacting Android device users. Well that saves users a lot of time
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Call me conspiracionist, paranoiac or whatever... but MS got a huge project for the government (don't recall if DHS or Pentagon) and now a "colleague" company finds a lot of vulnerabilities in the OS of the company that loves to find and publish bugs in Windows?
Coincidence? 
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This lets Google contest a controversial ruling that could deal a major blow to software development by establishing that companies can deny access to basic code elements through copyright law. I {Go} can't {Go} imagine {Go} what {Go} Google {Go} will {Go} do {Go} if {Go} it {Go} loses
I know - rewrite everything in C#!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I know - rewrite everything in C#!
Let's hope... Although if they use VB they will be safe, because noone will for sure try to copy it or claim they copied from
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The claim here is that Google violated Oracle's copyright by using the same API surface in their (Google's) java library/sdk thus obviating the need to use Oracle's. It's a little bit like saying two CPU manufacturers producing the same but competing cpus (ala Intel and AMD) can't have the same pin-outs thus making it impossible to swap an AMD cpu for an Intel one or vice-versa.
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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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An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, “remove the water” from an underwater photograph. The result is a “physically accurate” image with all of the vibrance, saturation and color of a regular landscape photo. Won't the fish suffocate?
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Amazing! 
/ravi
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