|
An attempt at translating Gallo's remarks (minus the Foley factor):
"We are just as creatively confused now as when we went off on the Modern-Metro tangent, which we threw under the WPF/XAML bus with SilverLight developers when we went off on the RT/Core tangent which we threw under the UWP bus.
Let's make it simple: we want your money, we want you forking it over frequently."
«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
|
|
|
|
|
Confusing! By win32, they actually meant Winform and WPF. Looks like C++ win32 dev is dead.
|
|
|
|
|
A recent ActiveState survey titled “2019 Developer Survey: Open Source Runtimes” found that developers spend 20 percent less time on programming than last year. Efficiency!
|
|
|
|
|
But they missed the point that it's because the newer coffee machines are 83% slower!
You can't make conclusions based on only partial evidence!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
The Binance exchange, which stores Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies for members, said hackers took 7,000 bitcoins in one go. Withdrawals have now been suspended on the platform. Sorry, worth $50. Correction, worth $732MM. Nope, now it's...
|
|
|
|
|
Golly.
Who would have thought that something like this could happen, with a currency that's value is based entirely on its use by criminals?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Mark_Wallace wrote: with a currency that's value is based entirely on its use by criminals?
..based on the limited availability of the resource. Scarcity means value.
Criminals prefer dollars.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
|
|
|
|
|
Google Chrome developers launch new iframe replacement tech. Because iframes aren't awful enough
Remember when people complained when Microsoft created their own HTML elements? Yeah. Good times.
|
|
|
|
|
Microsoft first introduced the concept of “PowerToys” in Windows 95. It was originally a way for Windows engineers to test a prototype feature, and Microsoft packaged some of the best ones into a PowerToys bundle. Shovel another one on the open-source pile
Only two so far, and missing some of the good PowerToys I vaguely remember. Maybe it will go somewhere?
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft first introduced the concept of “PowerToys” in Windows 95.
And then introduced Clippy   
Kent Sharkey wrote: It was originally a way for Windows engineers to test a prototype feature
All those engineers are probably retired, testing is being relegated to the users in Windows 10 
Kent Sharkey wrote: and Microsoft packaged some of the best ones into a PowerToys bundle.
I only hope they are x64 and Windows 10 compatible, it has been a while since then
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.
|
|
|
|
|
The power toys were a great thing.
But now?
With the morons who are now in charge of ms dev?
IDGAF, and I won't bother downloading whatever cr@p they think is useful.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Still remembering last year, he wanted to reopen Google office in China and then backed off at the last minute due to employee protests. In China, for all companies, data has to be stored within the country making them fully accessible to the communist government which does not have a great human rights record.
This person truly has no credibility.
|
|
|
|
|
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t. Let's go back to complaining about email?
|
|
|
|
|
or not working ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
|
|
|
|
|
"These services are necessary for keeping companies running smoothly,..."
No they aren't. Businesses have managed to do quite well without them for many decades.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
writers these days...never had it so easy... pick a subject out of the air... throw in some graphs..n fake stats... write what you feel...and there you have it..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
|
|
|
|
|
Trust is the cornerstone. Whether developers creating new products from Microsoft's software platforms or corporations and other institutions relying more on AI and the cloud, the T word means everything. I'll just put this here and run away
|
|
|
|
|
The only trust Microsoft has built with me is I can count on them to screw something up when I'm trying to meet a deadline or to force an update at the most inopportune time.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not even touching this.
I don't have three weeks to spare to respond properly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
In a new paper, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have shown that neural networks contain subnetworks that are up to one-tenth the size yet capable of being trained to make equally accurate predictions—and sometimes can learn to do so even faster than the originals. Homeopathic AI!
"If we can determine precisely which part of the original network is relevant to the final prediction, scientists might one day be able to skip this expensive process altogether." << this is why I don't have a PhD.
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: "If we can determine precisely which part of the original network is relevant to the final prediction, scientists might one day be able to skip this expensive process altogether." << this is why I don't have a PhD.
I do have a PhD, but this is still bollocks.
Fractal NNs were always an idea, and were always best left as just an idea.
It's hard enough to predict what an NN will come up with (and if you can't predict it, it's very probably wrong), so saying that a "sub-NN" will do anything useful at all is a -- and I can't emphasise this enough -- A F***ING, BLOODY, MINDLESS, STUPID THING TO SAY!
So ms, apple, google, and law-enforcement agencies will love it to death!
Skynet really is too good for us.
We need to be wiped out before we destroy the possibility of a genuinely intelligent species taking our place.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
The mobile framework is now a multi-platform UI framework, supporting the web, desktop, mobile, and even embedded devices. {There should be a flutter-related pun here}
But I'm too lazy today.
|
|
|
|
|
The ticket-buying, car-renting feature arrives later this year. Because filling in all those forms are haaaaarrrrddddd
|
|
|
|
|
Organizations that really want to make Agile processes work realize they have to make an investment in people. You can invest in people now? What kind of ROI can I get, my GICs are only giving me 2.5%
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
