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Joe Woodbury wrote: My theory is that the bulk of management at Microsoft everywhere are idiots.
FTFY
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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Dan Neely wrote: Joe Woodbury wrote: My theory is that the bulk of management at Microsoft almost everywhere are idiots.
FTFY
FTFY²
There are always exceptions that confirm the rule...
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Nelek wrote: Dan Neely wrote: Joe Woodbury wrote: My theory is that the bulk of people management at Microsoft almost everywhere are idiots.
FTFY
FTFY²
There are always exceptions that confirm the rule...
FTFY³
Management may be bad, but don't rule out literally everyone else... 
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Yeah ligatures, they want to choke the developer.
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They're definitely choking something if they think this is on someone's priority list.
Software Zen: delete this;
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There are actually a wide variety of similar typefaces around, some of which (Fira Code at least IIRC) have been mentioned here, but as soon as MS does it everyone starts hating it.
Personally, I quite like it for some languages.
As with many things, choice of typefaces is subjective. If you don't like it don't use it, and quit bitching.
Or do you think that the typeface developer's should be working on other VS features, even though they're evidently graphic designers not developers?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: as soon as MS does it everyone starts hating it
Not true. I'm point out that using such a font to edit source code is inpractical at best and a hazard at worst. It obscures the symbols you, the programmer, use to express your intent to the compiler.Rob Grainger wrote: If you don't like it don't use it, and quit bitching.
I don't intent to use it. Bitching, however, is everyone's prerogative.Rob Grainger wrote: do you think that the typeface developer's should be working on other VS features, even though they're evidently graphic designers not developers?
I can see the purpose of having a typeface developer working on Microsoft Word. I can even see the purpose of having a typeface developer working on Visual Studio, if their intent is to improve the clarity and readability during the editing experience. My argument is that this is not the case here.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I've just tried it out as the editor font in VS 2017.
The main problems are:
1. A weird looking lowercase "L" - not a big issue.
2. The text is suddenly a lot wider than Consolas so on my portrait-oriented screen I can only get about 75% of the text I could before - this is a deal-breaker, big time.
Obviously the designer of this font only ever works on wide-screens and thinks to fill up all that pesky empty space of the right. Wrong decision. I am actually going to uninstall and delete this junk as soon as I figure out how - I have never removed a font before.
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3. It just isn't as clear as Consolas.
4. Line spacing is slightly more. - Just wasteful!
5. Zeros look like 'O's - they are not crossed or dotted.
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Following a comment from Rob Grainger, I just reinstalled it and it is quite different now. I suspect I was not getting the "real" Cascadia the first time.
New Review:
It is very similar to Consolas except the zeros are dotted rather than crossed. I have used it for a few hours now and am getting used to the weird lowercase "L" - it's not so bad. It is just as clear as Consolas and the line spacing and character spacing complaints are no longer valid.
I shall continue with it for a while and let everyone know if I find any issues.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 24-Sep-19 9:07am.
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Forogar wrote: Zeros look like 'O's - they are not crossed or dotted.
That's peculiar, because the typesheet at GitHub - microsoft/cascadia-code clearly shows a dotted 0.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I use Adobe Source Code Pro.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That's a solid choice.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It’s not quite a “Stairway to Heaven,” but scientists have come up with what appears to be a perfectly feasible plan to build an elevator to the Moon. Or, more accurately, a Spaceline from the Moon to the Earth. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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I like the theory explained in "limit", the elevator is not to the moon but to a space station
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I hate to break it to TNW, but the fact that a lunar space elevator is feasible with current material science is something that's been known for decades while one under Earth gravity is probably impossible.
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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The simpler the system, the simpler it is to understand, the simpler it is to find issues with it and the simpler it is to implement it. For the Architecture Astronaut in your life
There is usually at least one...
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A previously undocumented attack group with advanced hacking skills has compromised 11 IT service providers, most likely with the end goal of gaining access to their customers' networks, researchers from security firm Symantec said on Wednesday. "I'm just the man in the middle of a complicated plan."
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On Tuesday, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) team from MITRE, a non-profit focused on information security for government, industry and academia, published its list of the CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors. Collect the whole set!
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IBM's new Quantum Computation Center in Armonk, NY will be home to 14 quantum computers, with cloud-delivered access to enterprises and academia. Are customers expected to bring their own cat?
53 seems a rather strange size, doesn't it? (I was going to say, 'odd', but that's obvious)
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Microsoft has released a new update for Windows Defender that has broken both the Quick and Full antivirus scans. When users use these scan options, Windows Defender will only scan approximately 40 files. Hopefully you don't have more than 40 files
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Seriously? 
The worst is... it doesn't surprise anyone anymore 
M.D.V.
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Just set FILES=255 in the CONFIG.SYS file... 
(yes, I know I`m showing my age)
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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A new CNBC report states that the company has partnered with Luxottica, the parent company behind Ray-Ban, to help develop the new smart glasses. My phone is up here, buddy
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apparently shown strong interest in these new glasses, although the company has so far been unable to reduce the size of the device into a form factor that will actually look good." That hasn't stopped Microsoft with their hypergoggles (or whatever they call them)
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The much-anticipated .NET Core 3.0 milestone release is shipping in five days, Sept. 23, but it won't include a stable Blazor WebAssembly. They're still waiting for Buck Rogers to finish it
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But we get a new font.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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