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Since they brought github for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock they need to do something ....like put some files there that no one will use...
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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Quora announced tonight that one of their systems was hacked and has led to the exposure of approximately 100 million user's data to an unauthorized third-party. Well, their mission is "to share and grow the world’s knowledge"
That's all I know about them.
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Bleeping Compute wrote: 100 million user's data
Well, at least it wasn't a plural number of users, so only one was affected.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, I'm glad my user id isn't 100 million!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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There's now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes. That actually took longer than I thought
"There is no simple way to detect whether this vulnerability has been used." Yay, team!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That actually took longer than I thought
They were busy hacking Quora. And designing new icons.
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And the best thing about getting into a cloud system is that you don't have to hack into a million computers to steal data from a million users.
The cloud should get awards for being the best hackers' productivity tool of the century.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly Well, isn't that nice of them?
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As my dear old granny used to say: "Never trust anyone who only tells you what you want to hear".
I'd append "Because you can be damned sure that they're not doing no evil".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Flutter is our portable UI toolkit for creating a beautiful native experience for iOS and Android out of just a single code base In case you want to take a flutter on it
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This is the first preview of the next major version of Visual Studio. In this Preview, we’ve focused on a few key areas, such as making it faster to open and work with projects stored in git repositories, improving IntelliSense with Artificial Intelligence (AI) (a feature we call Visual Studio IntelliCode), and making it easier to collaborate with your teammates by integrating Live Share. For those who haven't upgraded to VS 2017 yet
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"Look at all we've done!"
"What about fixing some of the 14,000 reported issues?"
"Look at all we've done!"
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Just struck me that Microsoft is like that teenager whose room is a mess and who smokes and drinks in his room, and then sprays some air freshener thinking nobody will notice.
And when someone does notice, they throw a tantrum and scream that "you don't understand."
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+5 lifepoints for the fantastic analaogy.
Made me laugh. 
~George Bernard Shaw “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
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An idiot wrote: making it faster to open and work with projects stored in git repositories
I.e. they've added the 80% whitespace "Home" screen thing (they call it the cinema view or theatre view, something like that) that they've used to "improve productivity" in Office apps, which is horrendously inefficient, and generally a PITA.
An idiot wrote: improving IntelliSense with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
I.e. what Intellisense offers will now change, over quite short periods of time, so if you're used to using a number of taps on the tab bar to reach a specific function attr, forget it; you'll have to focus entirely on the Intellisense response and pay it your full attention, from now on.An idiot wrote: making it easier to collaborate with your teammates by integrating Live Share
Because you really need to load what should be a separate app, every time you load a project.An idiot wrote: we’re sharing the new search experience
I.e. the next version of VS will have the productivity-killing ribbon, so they're trying to get people used to the idea that they'll have to type searches, to find the functions they need, rather than use menus and toolbars.
An idiot wrote: new document health indicator and code clean-up functionality
Because who, in this day and age, do you trust to ensure that your code meets Your standards (i.e. that it's not full of bugs that will never be addressed, so there's no point flagging them)?
A plain ol' text editor is looking better all the time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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None of those things hold the slightest bit of interest for me. Not a one.
I am not at all surprised that the bug I reported to them over a month and a half ago is still being "triaged," whatever that means to them. Had this been my code it would have been fixed within an hour because it is an incredibly simple error.
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WPF, Windows Forms, and Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) are now open source, so you can create experiences with the freedom you want. Oh, that's how that works...
Followed by 'Really?!'
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This pleases me greatly.
This space for rent
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WTF is a "XAML Island"?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Oh, that kludge...
They let you put UWP controls on WinForms (or vice versa - I'm not interested in the hacks enough to remember)
TTFN - Kent
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: WTF is a "XAML Island"?
Like Circe's island it is ruled by a sorceress and her sorcerettes, but, instead of men being turned to swine there, they are stripped of GUI and turned into toxic-waste sites for angle-brackets.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. Edge: we hardly used ya
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sounds good
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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Edge will be sorely missed.
... By every bite of disc space that the damned rubbish wasted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have no fear, they'll find a way to screw it up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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