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Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know. "You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough."
Sad to see that Microsoft has fallen to only #7 on the list. They must try harder!
Apologies - listicle, plus huge title banner and irritating graphics and format. But I picked it as I'm evil.
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Some of this is pure silliness. Caveat Emptor, etc
#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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In revised list:
#2 Code Project for employing Kent
#1 Slate for publishing this inane list (which Kent then snarks on)
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For sure... but then it did come from Slate, so what do you expect? carbon foot print, mining data, etc. waa waa waa
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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They say crime doesn't pay.
Seeing that the richest people on earth score very high on this evil list proves the opposite 
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Made me think of this.
Bob Dylan lyric: … Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Being evil doesn't necessarily equate to crime even if most of the time it does.
#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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Software development is perpetually in a state of flux. Coders are constantly fighting a battle to keep their skills relevant. Exactly the same, but now we do it in shiny silver jumpsuits (because it's the future!)
/sssssssssiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhh
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Software development is perpetually in a state of flux
He is right... I always develope in machines with f.lux[^] installed in it 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft-centric technologies are featured prominently in a new examination of the top in-demand programming skills published by careers site Dice.com. In case you were too busy using those to see how in-demand they are
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The new, Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge starts rolling out in production today. browserCompatibilityChecks++
As I have the feeling it's not going to behave 100% like Chrome.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As I have the feeling it's not going to behave 100% like Chrome.
Most likely. At least it would be a huge surprise for most if they did.
How could they behave the same, when they do not have the same icons anyway?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As I have the feeling it's not going to behave 100% like Chrome.
You are right... It is not clear yet, if the data they gather from users is going to land in Microsoft, in Google or (most probably) in both of them
M.D.V.
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A broad group of tech firms including Microsoft Corp. has thrown its support behind Google LLC in its high-stake copyright dispute with Oracle Corp., which will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this year. "If you go to war, a great empire will perish"
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They will probably lose, but they shouldn't.
The API is not the product -- it's not even a product (when was the last time you saw a boxed API on the shelf of a computer shop?)
If companies don't want programmers to use their products at the programmatic level, they shouldn't provide public classes/functions at all, let alone in an API.
But once you provide such public classes/functions, trying to keep them private is completely contrary to their intended function.
And allowing developers to use the same keywords/names and expect the same behaviour across a range of different products not only makes sense, but it makes the only sense.
What they're doing is tantamount to trying to copyright the button, or the combobox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What they're doing is tantamount to trying to copyright the button, or the combobox.
IIRC someone patented "slide the finger to unblock" and won a related process. So no wonder that they now try to copyright. Doing things good and having customers / developers as first priority (or even the first 5) is long gone 
M.D.V.
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That was apple, and android had to not use it, any more.
Unfortunately for apple, everyone preferred the method that android replaced it with -- so apple copied that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Unfortunately for apple, everyone preferred the method that android replaced it with -- so apple copied that.
And they didn't get sued? Here you have... the proof that google is not that evil [/sarcasm]
M.D.V.
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Or they're just not completely stupid.
Having common interface elements, etc, benefits everyone; ridiculous lawsuits end up not even benefitting the plaintiff.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In my world of analogies:
Oracle is an automobile manufacturer. They make a car known as Java
Android is another car; which is made by Google.
And the API... It is road that both kinds of cars can drive on
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Works for me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am surprised to see Microsoft on that list. I wonder what they'll think when someone copies the Win32 API.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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They already have (at least in part):
Borland's 32-bit DOS extender implemented a subset of the Win32 API.
Phar Lap's 32-bit DOS extender ditto
wine (on Linux  ) must reimplement much of the Win32 API.
And IIRC, there is some (not very popular) project to produce a clone of Windows NT (at the API level).
To the best of my knowledge, none of those have been sued by Microsoft.
Microsoft have done many stupid (IMO) things, but they are not the worst players in their field.
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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One of the most notable trends of the 2010s was an increase in data breaches. "The calls are coming from inside the house!"
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Good Lord!
An intelligent and well-written article on betanews?!?
No buzzwords, no click-baity hyping of the title?
Whatever is the world coming to?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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