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Microsoft is hoping developers will be updating their UWP apps en masse to support their new Fluent Design language, and to help them along Microsoft has published an app in the store that demonstrates all the controls available. Sadly not compatible with VB6
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Malware researcher encounters bogus download links during multiple visits. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum"
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Find out if your development tools and methods match up to today’s state of the practice—and how that practice will evolve. Apparently I'm in as un-modern a dev org as can possibly be
Well, we are using Git and GitHub, but other than that, I think it's pretty much 0.
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Mainframe developers are not just retiring, they are expiring -- and young developers have little interest in mainframe careers. "I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME."
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mainframe careers
You can still make a career out of mainframes? (And yes, the company I work for has COBOL programmer positions on their job listing board.  )
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Marc Clifton wrote:
You can still make a career out of mainframes?
Nowadays it's called cloud computing.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I just spoke with a client t'other day that mentioned they were having all kinds of problems with their AS-400 since one of their guys retired! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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AS 400 are rock solid.
We had a disaster event at a previous job. The [flat] roof of the dilapidated building dry rotted and collapsed with several inches of water during a tropical storm. The entire server room and building was flooded and we had to shut down for days.
A disaster recovery team was called in to clean and restore the hardware. It was an exciting event with everything from an on-site mainframe, AS-400s, MS SQL Servers, and Web Servers (we had 3 different database technologies in play with a nightly process trying to keep them all in sync). We literally went from technology to technology without ever converting all the old stuff forward. We had a motley mix of developers - some looked ready to expire.
Anyway, these disaster recovery guys said AS-400 is rock solid. They picked it up, shook the muddy water out and turned it back on. No problems
Not everything else came back online 
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Pualee wrote: They picked it up, shook the muddy water out and turned it back on. No problems
We just went through a less dramatic but similar experience. They had to shut down building power last night to replace a faulty electrical panel. This meant that hundreds of machines had to be turned off overnight.
For our group, it included a dozen lab systems plus our three build servers. One of the servers has been continually powered up for years, and only very rarely restarted. All started up successfully this morning, much to my surprise and grateful relief.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I suspect a lot of the work will end up outsourced to Elbonia, etc by default. With the resultant effects because even there the better devs will avoid it leaving only their bottom of the barrel to do maintenance. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Energy-saving Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) could help meet demand for wireless communications without affecting the quality of light or environmental benefits they deliver, new research has shown. Is the light bad in here, or are you just downloading torrents again?
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Israeli spies looked on as Russian hackers breached Kaspersky cyber-security software two years ago, US media report. "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
Or hack each other's antivirus software
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Microsoft’s support for Windows 10 November Update (version 1511) ends today. The company’s support for Office 2007 ends today as well. "All around me are familiar faces. Worn out places, worn out faces"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The company’s support for Office 2007 ends today as well.
*sigh*
Outlook 2010/13 both have a UI change I detested enough to've avoided updating for the last half dozen years. I wonder if I can find a 2016 preview to see if that one's any better or not.
The todo list (I think that's the name) - a right sidebar calendar preview had its hard coded display period shortened from a month to a week. Since unlike a MS PM whose life is scheduled in detail down to his bathroom breaks the calendar I have hooked up to it is for major events/bills/etc being able to see several weeks ahead was a major usability feature since it mostly let me ignore the calendar grid view entirely.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Microsoft MakeCode is a web-based environment for kids and children to learn to code with physical computing devices such as the micro:bit and Circuit Playground. Is it a block-oriented language?
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Leveraging 10 years of data, GitHub is introducing automated features it says are "just the start of a longterm roadmap" Maybe they should make fixing my merge errors a little more automated first?
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"Ultimately, GitHub wants to free up developers to think creatively and do their best work."
With that in mind, they will soon announce the deletion of 90% of GitHub accounts and accompanying code.
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"Ultimately, GitHub wants to free up developers to think creatively and do their best work."
With that in mind, they will soon announce that they are moving all their repos to TFS or SVN since Git CL is so complicated it prevents developers from thinking creatively, except how to "bash" Git. 
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Today, at Oculus’ Connect conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company’s ambitious goal for VR growth: 1 billion users. "Lost in the joy that only a wirehead knows, he never saw them arrive."
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Now if only that meant they would also stop consuming resources, taking up space, and creating new users when they're not busy killing the living ones. Oh wait, that's why we're going to Mars. 
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I want a billion people to send me $1 each.
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Isn't that the GoFundMe/Patreon/KickStarter business model?
TTFN - Kent
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The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that support .NET Standard 2.0. Now everyone can write apps no one wants
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