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So that's where Dave went.
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Microsoft has finally launched the official preview for the touch-first version of Office 2016. Word, PowerPoint and Excel are available to download right now from the Windows Store on Windows 10, and include a touch-first UI great for editing documents and presentations on the go. Word: Fingerpaint Edition
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Word: Fingerpaint Edition
 great sarcasm (as usual) Kent! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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As is customary, this ReSharper 9.1 EAP release includes new features, improvements to existing features, bug fixes and also continues improving our impending release of ReSharper C++. Not that C++ folk like pretty code, but there you go
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After years of using C# + ReSharper, then recently getting back into C++, I can tell you I've missed a lot it's features mightily.
svm[tab] is a lot less to type than
static void main()
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There are few examples of software about which I can say I can't "live without them."
ReSharper is one 
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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In an editorial published earlier today, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler laid out the broad strokes of the agency's upcoming proposal for new Open Internet rules. "The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
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While I'm all in favor of "net neutrality or an open internet", I'm also not in favor of gov't regulation. I think a morally voluntary approach would be best and most flexible.
However, that said, the Internet Providers brought it upon themselves by being a bunch of greedy arses.
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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I'd agree with you if there were more than 1 reasonable choice in many locations (I think I have three myself), but it seems much of the US is run by an oligopoly.
TTFN - Kent
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It's not the FCC's jurisdiction.
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In a new job description, that was posted on February 3rd, it starts off by saying, "Do you want to be the game changer in bringing more apps to Windows platform?" Using words like 'game changer' signifies that this is big shift for Microsoft and that they are taking on an ambitious strategy when it comes to apps on Windows. "1.2 Any player may declare a new rule at any point in the game. The player may do this audibly or silently depending on what zone (Refer to Rule 1.5) the player is in."
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That's as long as your "game" would usually be rated 12 by ESRB or equivalent.
So game's that are invalid as Store Apps include Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto, ...
Until they eliminate censorship from the Store, I'm really not interested.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The realities of mobile app development today mean every developer must weigh multiple tradeoffs: Enjoy full app life-cycle support and commercial IDEs, or piece together open-source solutions; Choose native, hybrid, Platform-as-a-Service or HTML5-based platforms and widgets; Access an ever wider array of device-specific functionality; and create delightful user experiences while managing customer expectations.
It's a mad, mad mobile development world.
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As functional idioms have become more mainstream, and C# has added functional capabilities such as lambdas and LINQ, it seems like C# is "catching up" with F# more and more.
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
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Christopher Shields wrote: "Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
That is a great quote!
Marc
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Sadly not accredited. Note to Christopher - when you include great quotes, please accredit them..
Thanks to Google, I now know this is due to Edwin Louis Cole.
(Sadly most of his other quotes are religious hogwash).
"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: I now know this is due to Edwin Louis Cole.
Good to know.
Your Alan Kay quote is great too!
Marc
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BTW, the clickey refers to CP, not F# for fun and profit. 
Marc
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What with big business, marketing, biased news agencies, government propaganda (from every government), criminal activity and endless drivel on social media, I can imagine a day when the internet is defunct.
It's a way off, but I think it'll just become so useless and full of crap (even worse than right now) that'll it just won't be worth using 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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"Lieutenant, the Chinese are engaging in a mass post-spamming campaign on our government pages. The interior ministry page is nearly overrun. Launch a Level 5 Poking offensive at once!"
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People talking about Test Driven Development often split into two camps: fundamentalists, preaching no line of code should be written without a test, and deniers, refusing to use TDD at all. Amen
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Yup - pretty much my experience with TDD. I've tried hard to stay in the middle but it's tough.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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As it is Free/Libre Open Source Software (I refuse to use the acronym due to the easy dental puns), and as are bytecode environments as Java and C#, as are scripting languages like Phyton, or pattern programming in C++, Agile methodologies...
Any technology or methodology should be use cum grano salis and not with blind religion. The latter is in fact the reason of the poor quality of many current softwares and secondarily of the large amount of legacy code still present: it is not fancy, not bug-free but it works.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Similar story to agile.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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