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As of November 2, 2015, we will introduce JetBrains Toolbox—a collection of our popular desktop tools (IDEs, utilities and extensions) available on a monthly or yearly subscription basis. "An all-you-can-eat buffet does not mean you should eat all you can"
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Porting MSBuild to .NET Core will take a while. As we do all development in the open on GitHub, you are welcome to join in and pick up an issue that is up-for-grabs. Finally, you get to work for Microsoft!
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..does not sound like a very wise move from their perspective; make it easier to leave their primary platform in a time that one sees a lot of "complaint" posts - but makes me happy 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sources of dissatisfaction among IT employees "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"
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I would prefer a Dolly Parton reference.
Fact: Good employers don't survey their employees.
Ergo: Any employer which surveys it's employees is not good.
Outcome: Any employer which thinks it might not be good and then performs a survey will find that it is indeed not good. It is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
This is, of course, made even worse when the employer brings in "outside consultants" -- who make money by selling "solutions", not by saying "no, you're fine".
Plus, you can't monitor a system without altering its behavior.
modified 3-Sep-15 15:07pm.
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Yeah, my answer is, "I was perfectly happy until your stupid survey arrived in my mailbox; now I'm royally pissed off and it'll take me at least an hour to get my train of thought back you malodorous pervert!"
modified 3-Sep-15 14:45pm.
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Ignorance is bliss.
I guess IT folks are just a little less ignorant
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For those who don’t know, Microsoft is currently working on it’s first non-patch update for Windows 10, currently codenamed Threshold 2 and was originally supposed to launch sometime in October. But as of recently, it appears that release window may have slipped ever so slightly, as according to my sources, Threshold 2 will now launch in early November instead. For those waiting for "Service Pack 1" before installing Windows 10
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Maybe they'll fix the annoyances with connecting to VPN and make the photo app actually useful...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh, the VPN annoys the bejeebers out of me now. Especially as I had to "upgrade" to phone verification, so now it's four clicks, find iPad, run the authenticator app, wait for it to realize I'm trying to connect, enter my PIN, and another click. Definitely too many steps back (plus, Edge is lame).
TTFN - Kent
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Like I told Maunder a few weeks back[^] when he first complained about 4 clicks instead of two, your first world problems leave me remarkably unsumpathetic:
The short version of my current Weven VPN experience in 20 easy steps is:
0) Click start.
1) Click on the Cisco VPN app pinned on the start menu (because I can never remember WTE it's called to use search).
2) Click on the Connect button on the app which opens by the tray.
3) Realize I forgot my VPN password.
4) Start a new explorer instance.
5) Double click on My Documents.
6) Find the GPG encrypted file the VPN password is in.
7) Double click on it.
8) Wait for GPG to open.
9) Click on Decrypt.
10) Enter my password.
11) Click OK.
12) Open the file.
13) Enter the password and token from my RSA key into the VPN app.
14) Click connect.
15) Wait.
16) Click OK to dismiss the welcome banner I get sent by my employer.
17) Close the password file.
18) Right click on the decrypted password file.
19) Select secure erase from the context menu.
It gets even more fun if my VPN password has expired and I need to add steps to change it including waiting a minute for the next RSA token number and then updating and re-encrypting the password file. And you're whining about a mere four clicks. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Did I add the part where it drops my VPN regularly, and I've had to do my steps 10 times in a day (and I only do half days)?
I didn't say I had it worst, just that they really took a step back in Wen. And yeah, IT departments suck the joy out of life. 
TTFN - Kent
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I'd advise you go with something like keypass for those "forgotten" / "randomized" passwords ... might save a few steps for you.
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Just wondering ... what's with the "new" Threashold moniker?
Is it to indicate some sort of ... you're on the "EDGE" and about to fall to death? Or are they going to "rename" Windows in the future to "Doors" instead?
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It's a Halo reference (I think Threshold was the planet next to the ringworld or summut), but beyond that, I don't know the connection. Maybe they're calling for Master Chief to come save them.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft's re-entry into the browser market could have hit a roadblock: barely anybody is using it. We already have a browser that allows us to download Chrome
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Interesting to see that while Chrome is definitely king, both Edge and IE combined outscore Firefox usage on Windows 10.
To my own surprise, I use Edge a lot since I moved to Windows 10. At first, I thought that I'll be just continuing to use IE because everybody was whining about the lack of features and incompleteness of Edge, but actually the slim and spartan (pun intended) nature of the browser is a great plus to me. It's clean and simple and blazingly fast, and runs pretty smooth without many issues. It lacks an ad blocker right now, but that's not really a big deal because with a customized hosts file, you barely see any ads in Edge as well (sometimes I think the hosts file solution works even better than an ad blocker because it seems to me that if some sites detect you are using ad blocking software, they will push even more crap on you via hard to block CSS inline stuff etc.) Since I was never a friend of extensions in browsers because they just open up another target vector for malicious software, they're not really missing for me. I never understood what's so great about Chrome and extensions, but maybe that's because I'm old school and happy with having Favorites for important sites and don't use any of the social network crap etc. or have a million accounts for which I need a million different passwords to manage.
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It is a great browser, however I just hate that input box for URL address doesn't appear when edge is first opened. It is extremely annoying to have to click to get the input. Not sure what was the UX team thinking.
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Alexander Siniouguine wrote: input box for URL address doesn't appear when edge is first opened
Yeah, I like Edge also, but it is annoying and you can hardly tell if you're typing the URL in or what is going on. Quite a confusing interface.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: I never understood what's so great about Chrome
F12 Dev Tools.......
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Got that on IE and Edge too.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You don't say.........but they are pretty crap implementations (haven't dug deep into Edge yet, however)
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Not in my experience, they've got everything that Chrome has.
But hey, go ahead and ignore reality and spout stuff based on your biases rather than experience and reality.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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