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A project to build the $50 phone has been launched on Crowd Supply, promising to deliver "an open-source, Linux-powered" handset with "no carrier locks, bloated apps, or data mining" and that "doesn't depend on big companies". If I wanted an ugly, limited-function phone, why not get a Nokia?
OK, I don't think Nokia's are ugly - especially the bananaphone[^], but I needed a name people would recognize.
modified 30-Aug-18 13:40pm.
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Holding that thing is going to hurt when the RPi's header pins stick you in the face. 
I'm just kidding, of course.
I'm sure they'll make sure the RPi's header pins face outward toward your hand. 
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Commuters are so regularly using travel time for work emails that their journeys should be counted as part of the working day, researchers say. What about lying in bed at 3am thinking about that bug?
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only if you could ask the office to pay you for it.... "researchers"... which bug ? the bed bugs hheee
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Engineers have developed a "see-through" camera from a pane of glass, a photodetector, and some really clever software No selfies?
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These announcements represent an important milestone in the work that Microsoft has been doing to enable Go developers to build and run better apps and services, with support for Go in tools like Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Team Services, as well as on our Azure cloud platform. "Go, Speed Racer, go!"
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Mimecast examined more than 142 million emails that had passed through organizations' email security vendors. The latest results reveal 203,000 malicious links within 10,072,682 emails were deemed safe by other security systems -- a ratio of one unstopped malicious link for every 50 emails inspected. I'm sure they have no vested interest in that result
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So what? "Virustotal" fails with about 100% of links in emails I submit there.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Call for Code is a worldwide, multi-year initiative that challenges developers to solve pressing problems with sustainable software solutions. So... not another Flappy Bird clone?
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A newly released report revealed that DevOps practices are actually paying off for organizations in terms of performance and quality outcomes. For DevOps trainers and consultants
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About halfway down, they fess up that they are referring to "elite group[s]". In short, the report finds that competence pays off by massive margins. That suggests (going off averages) that most DevOps teams aren't that great.
I'm curious if they could look closer at these "elite" teams. I'll wager that they are either dominated by a relatively small number of highly competent people or the entire team is a relatively small bunch of highly competent people. Further, they likely have managers who respect their underlings and know how to present technical issues to management (an undervalued skill.)
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According to a new project uploaded to the Chromium team's code review site, users may soon be able to login into Windows 10 using their Google G Suite accounts. Eh, I just use 'password' everywhere anyway, so I have that already
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You should make that 'p@ssw0rd' to make it more secure.
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You’ve saved me! Now to go update all my bank passwords. 
TTFN - Kent
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Project Paper Cuts is dedicated to working directly with the community to fix small to medium-sized workflow problems, iterate on UI/UX, and find other ways to make the quick improvements that matter most. Coming soon: Project Bamboo Spikes Under Your Fingernails
Or maybe: Project Spoiled Milk
Project When you pull a piece of skin off the side of your nail and it goes too far (they are merging with Microsoft after all)
Project Band-aids for your Boo-boo
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Depending on your age and experience as a .NET developer, you might or might not be familiar with the technology known as Windows Forms. "It may be done, but it's not dead."
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Winforms C++ MFC coding was hell
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According to our CIO, "If all new applications aren't web apps, we're not doing it right." What he doesn't seem to understand is just what this article is talking about. Not everything needs to be a web app and I can easily write a WinForms app in half the time it takes me to write a web app (with the obvious disclaimer that I may just suck at writing web apps).
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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I am coming to the conclusion that there is something of a religious zeal among some developers against winforms.
Strangely enough this same group will happily use console applications, so I really don't understand the ridicule that winforms receives - is it because the technology is relatively easy to get up and running with?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I am coming to the conclusion that there is something of a religious zeal among some developers against winforms.
Is winforms the new VB? 
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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I've never seen zeal against WinForms, but it's so old and out-of-style that no one considers it for future projects.
I still use it for writing temporary testing / prototyping / troubleshooting apps.
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Steve Crane
August 29, 2018 12:51 am
WinForms as it is known now may have been introduced with .NET 1.0 but was really in existence before that in Visual Basic at least as far back as VB4. How WinForms works in terms of form painting, generation of stub methods you complete, etc. is functionally much the same as it was in pre-.NET Visual Basic.
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Peter Morlion (@petermorlion) (WRITER OF THE CRAPPY ARTICLE)
August 29, 2018 12:16 pm
Thanks for that! I didn’t realize that (I have no experience with pre-.net VB). Good to know.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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WinForms remains an excellent tool; it has become the demonized whipping-boy for devs struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following the WPF/Modern/Silverlight/RT debacle ... who returned from la-la-land shell-shocked to find the world over-run by the web and its host of discombobulated troglodyte ingredients: ECMA/Java/Script, CSS, etc.
I imagine if Sinofsky and crew had not led 600 (?) engineers into the valley of WPF/Modern death, and if WinForms' laggard non-vector graphics engine had been replaced by Direct X 2D, and all the good ideas implemented in WPF plugged into WinForms ... well ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Remote audio plus machine learning equals rudimentary remote screen viewing. Beware of starting web chats with hackers?
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Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to a computer program. "So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' your friends which are no more"
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