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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to change how we connect to Wi-Fi. To avoid the cumbersome network login process, a team has come up with a way to grant computers access to a Wi-Fi network based on their proximity to a router. None of them do, if you don't mind sharing
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The folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that the word “Internet” will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some of our writers very happy. It was a good try people. Back to AoL!
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Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications. Maybe this means they'll skip the jokes next year?
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When programmers are "in the zone", they need fast access to things like code examples, syntax help, and answers to technical questions. To provide this, we now have programming Instant Answers aka "How we're trying to convince people not to just Google it"
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Keeping the right components installed and updated on your machine is one of the core values That Visual Studio provides – which is quite a task given the rapid evolution of developer frameworks. You mean, I don't have to install MFC anymore?
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The team focused on improving developer productivity by cutting down time, mouse-clicks, and keystrokes to make the actions you perform every day more efficient. It's still missing the "right click here to finish your program"
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The registry bloat that slows down PCs over time won't be a problem with UWP apps, according to Microsoft. But don't worry, they'll figure out something to keep the slowness happening
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No joke: Red Hat is offering access to the full array of RHEL development tools for nothing more than an email address sign-up I thought it was already?
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The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft. Windows 11, powered by Linux
Despite being posted on April 1, it actually seems to have happened.
And of course you know what this means! It's The Year of Linux, of course!
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Isn't there such a thing as a no-compete clause? They probably hired him as a janitor.
Wim Coekaerts has joined Microsoft as Corp VP of Open Source in our Enterprise Cloud Group. As we continue to deepen our commitment to open source, Wim will focus on deepening our engagement, contributions and innovation to the open-source community.
Same difference. 
(ok, that was low, even for me)
Marc
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Hi all,
Alex Regueiro, a fellow developer, initially had started work on a C# library to talk to and from a person's Apple iCloud account. I found this to be potentially useful, say, making a Windows forms desktop GUI or some other app that is not native iOS or Web Based, say, for example, to give a secretary an appointment-management tool that they can use just on their own computer. The idea would be to provide them a user-friendly appointment booking screen that they can use and then it might, e.g., automatically populate my iCloud contacts and calendar entries so I can have the info on my phone, but without the need to train the secretary how to do it.
So, that being said, Alex told me where to find his library on an obscure website named Launchpad (or not so obscure) and he emailed me the latest version of the code. Alex told me that he is no longer maintaining it, but that I was free to start a GitHub for it if I want.
The library, as it stands, just logs in and logs out of someone's Apple iCloud account with his/her username and password. However, it would be nice to have a .NET-based, fully-CRUD gateway to iCloud. Alex's approach was to parse the output of sending web-requests to iCloud, however, I am still getting up to speed.
I posted the project on GitHub -- with Alex's permission -- at:
https://github.com/astrohart/iCloud.NET[^]
if anyone cares to submit pull requests.
Basically, the functionality that is desired is to make a C# driver for Apple iCloud so that you can talk back and forth to it in a more object-oriented fashion and not only read what's in someone's logged-in icloud account, but create, update, and delete entries too.
Brian Hart
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Pffft!
My dishwasher can sound like EDM.
I suppose I should run with that?
My wife looks at me like, no Ron, just you.....
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a bump in the graph translated into a well-known pattern of recognisable notes.
Article doesn't say what well-known pattern. Beethoven's 5th?
I guess there's truth to Musica Universalis (music of the spheres)[^]
[edit]  Finally watched the video. I was right!
They could have been a bit more subtle about it though. [/edit]
Marc
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Xamarin now free in Visual Studio | Ars Technica[^]
The Xamarin SDK is also being open sourced.
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft bought Xamarin, the popular C#-and-.NET-on-iOS-and-Android, last month. At its Build developer conference today, the company announced the first big step for its new acquisition: Xamarin is now included in every Visual Studio version.
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Duplicate subject and link - scroll down this page just a little bit to this post from just 10 hours ago.
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We are making this change so that all developers can leverage the capabilities that SQL Server 2014 has to offer for their data solution, and this is another step in making SQL Server more accessible. SQL Server Developer Edition is for development and testing only, and not for production environments or for use with production data. SELECT db WHERE FIRST hit='free'
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Thank You for sharing 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Is this working with Win7? Or is it just one tool more to "advice" to upgrade to 10? 
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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They don't make it easy to find - especially not on the Dev Essentials site, but it looks like it's Windows 8+ only[^] (at least supported, it might install on Weven)
TTFN - Kent
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That's for the 2016 Preview. 2014 (the current release) works on Win7+.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Earth is a bountiful planet rich in resources. And, if you believe Stephen Hawking, that might cause our demise. "You still on Earth, or on the ship, with me? Well, it doesn't make very much difference because sooner or later we'll, all of us, be on the menu. All of us."
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To cloak ourselves, humanity could emit a continuous 30 megawatt laser for 10 hours, once a year, and block our transit signal. That would hide the dip in sunlight Earth makes as it passes in front of the sun from an alien’s eye view.
OK, this is stupid. From some angle, the earth is always transiting the sun. So we'd have to have the laser on continuously to block the planet's transit from (whatever the scientific term is of a line going through the center of two circles].
That quote assumes we know exactly where they are coming from!
[edit]Then again, just sending out continuous broadcasts of Trump speaking should be enough to obfuscate anything. No need for a 30MW laser.[/edit]
[edit2] March 30th, eh? I think this is an April Fool's joke. I would hope that no scientists or journal (but I know that's asking too much) would publish such stupidity. [/edit2]
Marc
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We don't know what "resources" an alien race may or may not seek.
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