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Kent Sharkey wrote: cruft in their keyboard
I am still using the HP keyboard that came with my first Windows system from around '98. I do take it apart and clean it every few years though, so no cruft! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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They get replaced by robots.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So what do older programmers have to look forward to
CodeProject Lounge and Q&A. 
«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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You might remember that a couple of weeks ago Microsoft started offering a great deal on OneDrive storage – users could get 100GB free just by using Bing Rewards. Now that deal is available to everyone. "You're getting a car! And you're getting a car!"
Supposedly. It doesn't seem to be working for me yet.
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I use Bing at work (it is the only search engine not locked byt the Company Internet Policies) and I would like it... if it could find the broad side of a truck in a barren wasteland with only a truck in front of it.
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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Quote: Computer maker Lenovo has been forced to remove hidden adware that it was shipping on its laptops and PCs after users expressed anger.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31533028[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson told the committee that a total of 20,086 records had been lost because a "computer programmer pressed the wrong button between May and July last year".
Waow!
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He'd obviously just been the victim of a stop and search
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All lies.
A programmer pushed the wrong button.
... right.
Try harder.
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I'm pretty sure we had a QA question: "Help. Deleted 20K stop and search records. Need Excuse. Urgntz"
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Harvard Magazine "Self-Regulating Coffee Drinkers?"
This is comforting:
"a study released in January by other investigators at HSPH found that drinking up to six cups of coffee a day showed no association with any increased risk of death (including from cancer or cardiovascular disease).
Another group of researchers at HSPH reported last year that coffee drinkers who increased their average consumption by more than one cup a day during a four-year period had an 11 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes in the following four years, compared with people who did not change their intake. The study also found that those who decreased their coffee consumption by more than a cup per day increased their type 2 diabetes risk by 17 percent.
A third recent HSPH-affiliated study that tracked 50,000 women for 10 years found that those who drank four or more cups of caffeinated coffee per day were 20 percent less likely to develop depression than nondrinkers." [^]
«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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With the amounts of coffee I take in every day I can point straight to immortality 
And if my genes are telling me how much coffee to drink then I for sure have a Bialetti ancestor 
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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"coffee drinkers who increased their average consumption by more than one cup a day during a four-year period"
Would be drinking more than 1460 cups a day?! 
I'm OK with one cup a day.
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Now those would make great interview questions.
Marc
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Not sure.. As that would mean any person who has read this is better suited for the position than who has not. Interviews should focus more on critical thinking & problem solving imho
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A year is a long time in technology, but the past 12 months has seen one of the most surprising and exciting shake-ups in recent history: Microsoft and Google have swapped places. "Up is down and black is white"
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I stopped reading when I got to the line about Spartan being a "cross-platform" browser.
Only if you count 3 versions of Windows as platforms, there is no sign of it running on other platforms.
While MS are doing much better recently, this is a firm puff-piece and they should hang their heads in shame.
"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 stopped reading when I got to the line about Spartan being a "cross-platform" browser.
You often see the odd daft statement like this in such articles.
Where MS has become cross platform, if you like, is in the cloud and mobile apps. In fact, with the latter, we now get complaints that Microsoft is writing for other platforms before its own! On the desktop the complaints used to be that it only wrote for its own platforms, with the occasional nod to Mac.
The new Microsoft is not its playing nice, so much as its being more open out of necessity.
Kevin
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I'll believe that when Bing becomes usable.
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There's no Hope for Bing.
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Renewals of custom support agreements will boost price to $400 for each Windows XP PC. "House rules: You gotta pay to play."
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What I personally find most amusing about this is that embedded versions of XP are still in support until 2019[^]; so it's not even like MS is having to develop extra patches to support the dinosaurs.
When regular XP fell out of support there were even blog posts explaining how to registry hack your copy of XP into requesting patches for the embedded version. As of December[^] it still worked with the main gotcha being 3rd parties pulling the plug. 
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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