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Kent Sharkey wrote: as they fear that could endanger their position within the company
...or they worry that new technologies introduce unnecessary complexity, may be untested, may be ephemeral trends that will fade away leaving them with unloved legacy, or, maybe, provide no real improvement to profitability or any return on the investment needed to upgrade?
(or is that just me being cynical about consultants who love to push the bleeding edge?)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Test subjects in a UW experiment navigated simple mazes based solely on inputs delivered to their brains by a magnetic coil placed at the back of the skull, showing how humans can interact with virtual realities via direct brain stimulation. "Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is."
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted today, sharing details of Microsoft and LinkedIn integrations, now that the acquisition has cleared regulatory hurdles. OK, time to panic: "LinkedIn notifications within the Windows action center"
Isn't it enough my poor rules filters have to deal with their emails?
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Researchers have developed a way to use commercial inkjet printers and readily available ink to print hidden images that are only visible when illuminated with appropriately polarized waves in the terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Oh, I have my TeraHertz frequency polarized light right here, let me look
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I believe my bedroom lamp is within the terahertz range. And I always have my RayBans at hand.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Here[^] is the original article.
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I think they hid a few images in that CAPTCHA to open it - I was starting to worry that I was a bot there for a bit.
TTFN - Kent
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Didn't get a captcha. Are you sure you're not a hamster?
You should've become aware when Chris' started to drop sunflower seeds at your desk.
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Forrester: AI will disrupt how developers build applications and the nature of the applications they build. BlurbBot 9000 says, "They will be funnier now"
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Microsoft is delivering a new beta build of Windows 10 to testers this week, packed with a lot of small additions. Is it wrong to shout, "Shut down" in a crowded office space?
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I would prefer to tell cortana to "get the fvck out of my system" 
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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...because it is going to be needed more frequently?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My system shuts down and restarts without me needing to say anything.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The company wants to offer cell plans for sale through the Windows Store, but that might not fly I'm sure they'd love to sell data plans for those
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This time around, the plan is for ARM to be just another PC platform. RT: Really Terminated
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MIT researchers have developed a new approach to training speech-recognition systems that doesn’t depend on transcription. It sounds like you said, "Kill all the humans". Is that correct?
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Microsoft is combining some of its previously separate large-format conferences for 2017, and is pushing back its Build developers confab to May next year. Seattle is lovely that time of the year
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that maybe Visual Studio 2017?
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Launched before mobile and cloud computing, the Microsoft .NET framework has gone open source, added tools for cross-platform development, and adopted a common library model. "More, more, more! How do you like it? How do you like it?"
Again, not much new if you've been paying attention, but handy all in one spot
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Kurzweil hasn’t always been right, including on the future of clothing, but he has proved surprisingly adept at foreseeing innovations. "People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it."
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In the old days of OOP, inheritance was the way to go to extend your objects' functionality. Now, it's almost shunned. See why and learn a better way to handle it. I hope not - I have a rich uncle
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Article implies inheritance should die; proceeds to use inheritance in one of the solutions. Seems legit  Mostly joking. He does raise a good point about class hierarchy but implying decorator can replace inheritance is foolish at best. He even seems to realize this fault later in the article.
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Decorator pattern seems like a poor mans multiple inheritance.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It can be but can also be more flexible - depends on what you need. I think of it like a builder pattern for behavior. Instead of just smashing classes together (inheritance) it routes classes through each other. It also avoids the Deadly Diamond[^].
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Forsooth.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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