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Where's the map?
It's broke.
What?! What happened to it?
Well, I rolled it up and set it in my back pocket. You know, just like I've always done with the old-fashioned maps.
Yes, and...?
Then I sat down.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The release of the second CTP for Visual Studio “14” includes several notable features, which while not earthshaking should provide some usability enhancements in various parts of the editor. For those who'd rather read about it, than risk their hard drive to it
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You're losing your edge Kent 
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/sigh
I really need to watch that checkbox.
TTFN - Kent
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In defense of Kent, the first referenced the announcement itself, the second was someone else's writeup of the CTP2. That seems reasonable to me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In defense of neither of Kent's posts, both InfoQ and SDTimes so called "articles" were nothing but drivel. One reduced it to PHBspeak; the second changed a few words around in the Visual Studio Blog post[^] making it less clear and with a copied content level so high that it would bend the needle on my plagerism-meter if I was foolish enough to try measuring it. In both cases the site in question lived down to the wretched clickbait farm standards I've come to expect from them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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That's true, neither of those organs are known for their quality of reporting.
I'm beginning to wonder if Kent et al. should drop them from their "news sources" feeds altogether.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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touch support in a code editor? not sure I'd want to reach up from the keyboard to the screen.
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Dave Calkins wrote: keyboard
Keyboard? No. Modern programs are expected to run in smart-phone-mode. That is, an all-touch interface. And while you create such programs, you ought to feel like the future user of such programs. 
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yes, sorry I forgot. moving forward everything is now a smart phone or tablet. there is no computer 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: than risk their hard drive to it
There's a VM available for Azure subscribers to connect to.
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When Microsoft and Google are in the headlines, it is usually related to one of the companies tossing a bit of mud at the other in an attempt to make one look superior. Not today, though, as the two juggernauts are putting down their swords to work together to bring more open source projects to Azure. "Peace for our time."
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Hedging controversy, NASA also announced that the probe is still in the solar system. "V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve."
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It will probably be lost in the back pages, after talk of cancelled Garth Brooks concerts and potential line-ups for the losers play off of the world cup, but quietly the most amazing thing the human species has ever done is done...
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The online retail giant launches Zocalo, a storage and sharing service designed for companies. Yeah. That looks like it will wean people off Word. Sure. Yup.
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You can have my Office 2010 when you pry it from my cold, dead hard drive 
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If I understand it correctly, this is a replacement for SharePoint, not Word, and world would be a better place without SharePoint.
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Microsoft is about to release a new kind of search tool that it's been working on for years: Delve. "I want to learn everything about everything. I want to eat it all up. I want to discover myself."
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Quote: It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. At 08:35 a.m. it is 27% complete installing updates. At 11:32 a.m. it runs out of disk space and blue screens.
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And I probably will wish I never did hear of it.
Marc
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Oh a panacea! i just love a good panacea when I can get one.
Remember the Segue scooter? It was going to be IT. Now you can barely find a place to buy one.
Delve... is Bing... is Live Search... is Windows Search...is DOS Find /i "delve" *.ini
From the article
Delve uses "machine learning" and artificial intelligence to show you the documents, messages, and people you don't know you need to see. Microsoft describes it as:
Delve highlights key information of interest to you, based on what you are working on and the actions of people in your network.
Every large software company has only been promising that since the Unix Epoch! 
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With companies operating 24x7 and employees increasingly working from mobile devices, the pressure on IT staff to stay in touch even when they are on vacation is becoming almost an unspoken requirement. "It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same"
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Nope. When I'm on vacation nobody from work can get contact me. The fires can just keep burning till I get back. Or somebody else can take a shot at them.
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