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By ignoring Win RT's failure the author's nuking all of his credibility by ignoring that Win10S has the same fatal to consumer adoption that their previous attempt to do this did. The win32 apps that are most heavily installed by consumers aren't in the store. In their place are dozens of paid scamware craplets.
This is the dumpsterfire than Win10s will burn in: https://imgur.com/a/n3HZW[^] (Yes, this is the same gallery I've used to flame Win 10 S[tupid] in the past.)
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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The best parts of Neon are being brought to the new Opera browser, codenamed Reborn. The fat lady isn't singing yet
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The Opera team used to be great innovators, but "innovation" in computing nowadays has obviously degraded to "including interfaces to facebook, twitter, and other social media web-sites".
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After moving to Chromium in Opera 15 it jettisoned a huge number of features from Opera Classic. But it does now have a number of (for me) usability enhancements over Chrome such that it is my second browser, relegating Chrome to third place.
For people who mourned the demise of Opera Classic there is Vivaldi, which is the real Opera Reborn and continues to improve.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: But it does now have a number of (for me) usability enhancements over Chrome
Not being fugly is a good start.
Not being an intrusive piece of sh1te only makes things better.Kevin McFarlane wrote: Vivaldi
I liked not having to install a third-party plug-in to use/save sessions, though. That functionality is a major draw, for me.
Holy Cr@p!
I've just noticed that Vivaldi has the Cisco FindIT plug-in!
And it actually works properly! (Unlike in any ms browser).
Cool!
Now I can uninstall chrome altogether!
Thanks for inspiring me to look!
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I like investigating what's in the various browsers. In fact, over the years I might have seen something in, say, Opera, and decided that was cool but then sought out an equivalent extension in Firefox. But without Opera being there I might not have thought of that feature.
I do find though that no browser is better than all others in every respect, so I sometimes switch temporarily depending on the task in hand.
Kevin
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Azure Functions Visual Studio beta lets developers integrate Azure Functions into development flows Build summary: Cloud, cloud, edge, cloud, edge, cloud, cloud, edge.
(And that's 'edge', not 'Edge')
modified 10-May-17 12:36pm.
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You typoed "fudge".
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An associate professor at the University of Alabama has explored how brain-wave-sensing headsets could be used to guess passwords and PINs. The headset for the study uses the brain's EEG signals to control gadgets or computers. Beware of hackers with brain-wave scanners?
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OMG! Do you think they'll be able to get my colander to do that?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Well the designs for my tinfoil hats are getting better and fancier, every week.
Get your orders in early, to beat the rush!
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Microsoft has made a change to its forthcoming ASP.NET Core 2.0 web framework so that it is now incompatible with the Windows-only .NET Framework, causing confusion and annoyance for some .NET developers. Can't keep track of the players without a program
Not sure what's confusing (beyond the accumulation of different .NETs): ASP.NET Core for .NET Core, ASP.NET non-Core for .NET Standard, no?
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Baseline: They F-ed up, big time.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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They just can't do new things without breaking the old...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But didn't everyone know that .NET Core was a separate framework to the "legacy" .NET Framework? I've been building ASP.NET Core apps for about 6 months now - it's different to the legacy version, that much is obvious. You can do practically everything that legacy .NET can do, but in many cases it's done differently.
It seems to me that people have only paid attention to the .NET bit of .NET Core and missed the "Core" bit completely. It's a different framework!
The article also omits that you can use .NET Standard 1.6 class libraries with .NET Core 1.1 web apps.
Quote: Workarounds are available in some cases, such as calling into libraries compiled for .NET Framework from .NET Core, but this does not always work.
Just don't do this.. you'll just cause yourselves even more headaches down the road. 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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You missed the point... There is a thing called .NET Standard, and both .NET Framework and .NET Core were aiming to that... So all .NET Core code would compile with no problem on .NET Framework (no the other way for obvious reasons), but now Microsoft says it is not so...
.NET Standard | Microsoft Docs[^] - and it is not right anymore...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I use .NET Standard for my class libraries. I think the idea of compiling .NET Standard to work with the legacy .NET Framework goes completely against the spirit of .NET Core.
There was always going to be trouble building apps on a framework designed to work cross-platform against a Windows-only platform (I would have thought that was obvious to everyone?)
At best, it could only ever have worked as a short-term stepping stone for porting apps completely over to .NET Core.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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If .NET Core even had a good web server implementation I think this would be fine, but Kestrel is still not ready for prime time. I think they need to get the basics figured out before they try to push the new framework forward. Right now it still needs to lean on .NET Framework to function in an enterprise environment.
I think someone must be watching Angular's release cycle and thinking "If only I could annoy developers this much..."
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Kestrel will never be ready for prime-time (and I mean to face the outside word), and it is not because of how mature it is, but because of design decisions...
Kestrel designed to host a single web application locally, with the possible most efficient way (speed/resource) and any other concerns (security) should be done on a proxy server Kestrel hides behind...
(I wrote an article about how to configure such proxy)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Kestrel designed to host a single web application locally, with the possible most efficient way (speed/resource) and any other concerns (security) should be done on a proxy server Kestrel hides behind...
Agreed, but that's the way things are going.. micro-services and lightweight containerised apps hosted in the cloud (Azure does this very well, I'm sure AWS can handle the same things too). Trying to build heavy enterprise e-commerce MVC site isn't going to work.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Trying to build heavy enterprise e-commerce MVC site isn't going to work.
I can't see why? Those small 'services' can easily scale, by adding more of them behind the same proxy with a small NLB...
You need 1000 users more - add an other instance of the Kestrel (probably via VM)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I was really referring to MVC web apps with thousands of view controllers - the old(ish) way of doing things 
You can certainly create as many services as you like; your front-end can be anything (web app, mobile app, Chrome Extension, desktop app, etc) or anywhere (CDN, stored on the desktop, Windows/Linux services, Cordova app, etc). Having to front-end and back-end tightly coupled together (WebForms, ASP.NET MVC) is a thing of the past though.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Exactly.
I appreciated your article, btw, but to me the fact that it was needed underlined how wrong-headed the current direction of .NET is. A dependency on a runtime should be enough to handle common tasks. Wiring in new dependency models just adds new things to break.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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So it's confirmed.
The design team from ms office has been transferred to .NET.
At least now developer-only types will start to understand why the rest of us b1tch, so much.
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Most programmers write code for an abstract computer. The thing is- code runs on a real computer that works in a specific way. *Your mileage may vary
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