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Lin Clary wrote: With this edition, we’ve focused on productivity
Oh, well, that's **cked it, then.
As soon as some idiot starts going on about "productivity improvements in software", you just know that that translates to:
I don't actually use it myself (I just work here), but I think that if I did use it, I would want it to work this way -- and I obviously know better that than people who use it every day in ways that I don't understand, to do work that I don't even understand.
Just make everything easy to find, Boys. Let US worry about OUR productivity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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While in the general case I tend to agree, in this case Rust is largely community-driven. It's just that currently a lot of the community are at Mozilla, who are still the main users of Rust. So "productivity improvements" in this case are driven by real developers who use the language day-to-day.
The development of Rust is very open - new proposals are visible and proposals from third parties are accepted and integrated.
So far they seem to be heading in a good direction.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: on making Rust developers as productive as they can be.
So, we've included a copy of Visual Studio Community Edition with the option of C# or C++.
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Here I am going to take you on a little guided tour through three new C# features you can try out in the preview. A reminder of future features
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C# must have been really badly broken, if they've had to fix it seven times.
Mind you, the way MS "fixes" things, these days, it's probably becoming more useless with each invocation, so will need several more versions even after good devs take over.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: C# must have been really badly broken, if they've had to fix it seven times.
Like so many things, it wasn't broken until someone decided to fix it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. It's official
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"Guys, this damned google browser is kicking our asses!"
"Well, there's not a fat lot we can do about it; we're too busy breaking our core products, so that the boss can look good because his cloud initiative is making the most profit."
"But There's gotta be some way we can kill the google browser!"
"I know! I know! Me! Me! All we have to do is get some of our own useless devs assigned to it -- they managed to kill the best office suite in the history of the world, so killing a browser will be like picking their teeth, after a meal!"
"I like the way you think! But how do we do that?"
"Oh, that's the easy bit! We can just pretend that we've gone all open-sourcey, and our guys can just join in on the browser's development!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why not this conversation:
"Guys, this damned google browser is kicking our asses!"
"In best case, how much money would Edge make if this weren't true."
Crickets
"Screw it, if you want a browser get Chrome or Firefox. Let's spend the money on QA for Windows."
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And by "QA" you mean, "Change the icons?" 
TTFN - Kent
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Changing the icons requires Icon Engineers. QA need to verify and test those icons.
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Has is occurred to them that using a capital E in the name with an icon that looked just like that of IE might have be part of the problem? Using COM another part?
How about "The Web Surfing Thingy That Isn't Chrome or Firefox"
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While Edge has it's share of problems I am a bit concerned that we may end up in a situation where Chrome becomes the new IE6 - effectively defining the Web simply by virtue of its installed base.
Meanwhile, I've started using Firefox at home, largely due to its excellent speed, privacy controls and the fact that I simply trust Mozilla with my data more than Google right now.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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If you put lipstick on a pig, it is still a pig.
Unfortunately the converse is not valid; because in reality if you put a pig on some lipstick the lipstick gets squashed
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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And you can always kill the pig for delicious pork, sausage and bacon!
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Defining what the actual problem is that one is trying to train neural networks for, seems to be a big part of what makes AI work or not work, they suggest. Why?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why?
Since it's IBM, a struggle to stay relevant.
Were it a University, the same AND grant money.
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An LI (Low Intelligence) wrote: Defining what the actual problem is that one is trying to train neural networks for, seems to be a big part of what makes AI work or not work, they suggest.
Maybe they could train an AI to spot highly erroneous commas.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Researchers have created new artificial intelligence that could spell the end for one of the most widely used website security systems. We'll have to change the acronym
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Of course, the idiots who use recaptcha will respond by using something that is even more of a PITA, because, well, their arrogance is far more important than their visitors.
What we really need is an AI that recognises sites that use cr@p like recaptcha, and automatically adds the sites' URLs to the hosts file.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Blockchain has entered Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment' as a new report cites dozens of purported success stories that turned out to be failures. "Say it again..."
With your choice of this[^], that[^], or the original[^] as an explanation of that blurb.
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I think the Code Project Snark Express (TM) put that one to rest several times.
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The Temptations had already released it on an album (Psychedelic Shack) by then (itself one of my favourite albums.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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