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Mars, the Red Planet, may seem beyond reach in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003. But the space company Uwingu has launched a "Beam Me to Mars" project to let the public send messages to the Red Planet in order to raise funds for space exploration. "A year has passed since I wrote my note"
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Microsoft has announced that they have released the Visual Studio '14' CTP 3 for download and also an early build of the .NET Framework vNext. Are these things coming faster, or is it just me?
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Well, concerning the .NET Framework it's not really a "vNext", no 5.0, just another .NET 4.0 in-place upgrade (4.5.3?) with RyuJIT and stuff. VS on the other hand is getting over the top and skips an entire major version (what happened to Visual Studio 13?), a move I never expected from DevDiv given they did a v13 of the C++ compiler.
The things are coming faster, but at the same time the packages are getting smaller. So, nothing really changed.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: VS on the other hand is getting over the top and skips an entire major version (what happened to Visual Studio 13?),
VS2013 was last years news 
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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Last week, I stated that software is hard to develop. This week, I would like to concentrate on two of the reasons why. Did you write tests for your test code?
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We only test the parts that work.
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Many SME employees retain alarming levels of access to critical business applications after they've stopped working for a company, a survey for cloud services firm Intermedia has claimed. They know you keep the keys under the mat
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Basically a large number of companies have a totally inadequate employee off-boarding process and don't change their passwords nor close off access.
The rise of BYOD has made this even worse - after my last move I continued to receive email for several days on my iPhone and I personally went through and deleted the company apps myself because I was not confident they would be closed down from that end.
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A little bit of dead code isn’t a problem. However, as the amount grows it can quickly get out of hand. And, dead code tends to grow, not shrink. Don't forget to double tap
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If the coder is still there, it's better to clean the coder !
Wonde Tadesse
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I agree. Coders aren't known for personal hygiene
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And it adds to the KLOC! 
TTFN - Kent
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Oh, yes, and you should add comments about why you commented out the code. 
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And the comments should be useful unlike the mvc controller that I looked at "it's crap hence I commented it out!"
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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// Let's see if anyone notices and complains...
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Oh yes, our code base is full of it.
But you can make it easy to spot, e.g. with the #region directive:
#region old version
#endregion See the beauty of it?
And you can name old projects which you won't ever need again accordingly before you add (!) them additionally to the source code repository:
AbcConfig
AbcConfig.bak
ExhvPlayer.bak
ExhvRecorder
AudioMixer
AudioMixer.ori
When you check out the current workspace, you'll get all of that crap useful code. And, yes, you immediately see what's old and unused.
But worse: many cs-files have the Build Action "none". Can you imagine how I felt when I realized that after adding globalization/localization to many of them?
 (We need a pukey - i.e. a puking smiley).
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Is Firefox really the best defense against Google's control of the Internet? Or should Mozilla just clean up its own mistakes rather than throwing stones at competitors? There are other browsers out there?
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Stop drinking Coke, says Pepsi.
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Google had previously confirmed its plans to launch a YouTube-powered music subscription service, but thanks to a series of leaked images via the blog Android Police, we now have the first taste as to what that service may look like, and what sort of features it will offer. Because the world needed another music service
But I guess everyone is playing music off YouTube anyway, might as well make some money off of it.
Have they been taking naming lessons from Microsoft?
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has just announced his resignation from the Board of Directors at Microsoft, after rumors had suggested this move would come sooner than later. He's taking his ball (team) and going home
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I LOVE THIS ______ (Substitute TEAM for COMPANY.)
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS=HARDCORE, HARDCORE, HARDCORE.
Classic Ballmer.
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Did this announcement occur at about 10:20am?[^]
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Funny that. Yeah, I think that is about the correct timing on that (or at least time for the market to react).
TTFN - Kent
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