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Microsoft’s upcoming $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub has cleared another major hurdle: the EU has approved the deal after determining that there are no antitrust concerns in Microsoft buying the popular open-source software repository, via the Financial Times. They can always sue them later to get some money when they need it
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It's fair to say that the Windows 10 October 2018 Update has not been Microsoft's most successful update. "It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end"
Long, but worth it IMO. Stuff like, "There's surprisingly little time spent actually developing new code: for a Windows release, two stints of 6-8 weeks over an entire three year period."
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Even though I wasn't using Win10, the problems with the Oct update is what spurred me to move to Linux.
Microsoft should just stop all this Windows foolishness, and come out with it's own Linux distro.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Microsoft should just stop all this Windows foolishness, and come out with it's own Linux distro.
It has one in Azure Sphere.
Kevin
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Microsoft should just stop all this Windows foolishness, and come out with it's own Linux distro.
Are you sure? Do you really want them to get deeper involved in Linux?
That would be for sure the year of the iMAC 
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"The unreliable updates have been a cause for concern since shortly after Windows 10's release."
Youngster who doesn't remember "the odd service packs suck" problem with Windows NT 4.0.
More seriously, the update problem has also existed with Visual Studio. I see two problems at play; first, the release date takes on more importance than anything (which is compounded by managers reluctant to pull the plug on delaying features.)
Second, the increased dependency over-reliance on automated testing. Automated tests aren't magic; issues which can be found through automated tests require that the tests be written to find them. In turn this requires quality test engineers. There are also many issues which can only be found with use, again with quality test engineers. Regardless of how the the testing is done, the goal of the test engineer is NOT to prove a product works, but to prove it doesn't. Their job is to break the software as badly as possible.
modified 22-Oct-18 12:57pm.
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Every now and then, I’ve wondered how people view a person graduating with an engineering degree. Today's discussion topic
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Here's a guide:
"Educated": The degree "I" got.
"Trained": The degree every else got.
"Useless": The degree I actually got (and which most people get.)
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Hey, I got a "Useless" degree too - did we go to the same school?
TTFN - Kent
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You go to Columbia College Hollywood film school? I guess not then.
At least I didn't bother getting an MFA like one of my brothers.
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Liberal Arts people that go on to be baristas claiming academic superiority?
Say it ain't so. Never seen that before.
</sarcasm>
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Bachelor Common Art and Cultural Sciences (if it has a long name it has to be good, right?) and Master's Journalism here!
I've never been a barista, but I've been kicking your butt in code since 2010 
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Thank you for proving my point. 
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Meanwhile, your closing </sarcasm> element was never opened to begin with
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You're just digging so much deeper, my friend
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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I'd say you're a malicious person, calling me a barista and all that, but then I read your signature
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You wound me, oh non-deliverer of caffeine!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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I'll accept that as an apology so we can bury the hatchet before more people get hurt 
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Do they generally think that he or she is truly “educated,” or is this instead someone who has undergone vocational training aimed at a specific job?
Wow. Talk about asking the wrong questions.
How about: "Do they generally think the he or she has learned nothing useful or applicable to real world engineering, in archaic programming languages, taught by gentrified teachers who may have been able to teach something 30 years ago?
Such is my experience with the college graduates I've encountered. The only exception are those that are self-motivated to learn current skills on their own time, and that aren't "busy" playing computer games in their free time. 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: The only exception are those that are self-motivated to learn current skills on their own time, and that aren't "busy" playing computer games in their free time.
Doesn't motivate one to take on a new class; studying yourself is not only cheaper, it gets more results.
So why pay for some official paper?
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: So why pay for some official paper?
Because sadly a LOT of companies only call you to an interview if you have one of those "official paper"
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A quantum internet will revolutionize communication technology by exploiting phenomena from quantum physics such as entanglement. Then we can spend all time watching videos of cats in boxes!
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The problem is that you can't read the road-map without an electron microscope.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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will they be alive or dead?
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
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is introducing a new Coder’s Rights project to allow programmers and developers to research and develop freely without worrying about facing serious legal challenges that may inhibit their work. "Know your rights. All three of them."
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