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"They let me pick, did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research."
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Great, another "intelligent" personal assistant for my smart phone that I won't ever use. 
Honestly, does anyone REALLY use these things?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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For those that didn't know, Microsoft has a free online app creation tool called Windows App Studio Beta, which allows a user to create an app regardless of experience. And then after your boss "writes it", you get to maintain it for eternity!
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"Developers! Developers! Developers!" That chant might trigger nightmares of a rather sweaty Ballmer, but what was true almost a decade ago is now even more critical for Microsoft's success. "Give me one more chance to make it up to you."
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Hello,
I think that Windows 10 and Universal Apps concept is very useful.
Developers will have an option to create one app that works on each device (Mobile, Desktop, Xbox).
Today cross-latform programming is becoming more and more popular.
If Windows 10 will appear on 1 billion devices (as Microsoft said) I think it will trigger developers.
This is new idea and we will see how does it work.
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While I agree in principle, I disagree strongly with the fact that the only way to distribute such an app is through the Store. If MS would enable alternative stores, then I'd have no problem - you simply choose which stores you trust and proceed from there.
I simply don't want to put MS in charge of deciding what is OK for my app to do: not in security terms, but in censorship terms.
Until that changes, I have zero intention of pursuing Universal App development.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I understand your concerns but look, Google and Apple have their Stores too.
Android is more flexible because you don't have to publish your app in Store.
Microsoft is trying to sort it out I guess.
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The problem is not the tools Microsoft delivers to developers - they are good.
But Microsoft forces on the developer community his ideas of anything, and always the last idea is the best, so there is no real hard-core developers for the Microsoft world as that world is over-fragmented...And if you are using an older fragment you almost unable to get any help from Microsoft...
As Microsoft gold partner we have every two years, present a piece of our application to Microsoft and we forced to use specific thing (there is a list every two years) even it is completely irrelevant to the application...Last time we had to show how our application use Azure...Our customers do not agree to use any kind of cloud platform, they not even agree to let us host their servers...But we had to re-write a part of our application just for show how we use Azure...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A starting point would be to support open standards.
Does Windows 10 support OpenGL? If remember correctly the last version of Windows Phone did not.
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There’s this continued and surprisingly widespread delusion that technology is somehow neutral, that moral decisions are for other people to make. "First, Do no harm"
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I raised very similar ethical questions in my blog post Bankrupt Development[^].
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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The text on the left side of that page was very difficult to read until I added the background image to my content blocker. 
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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Rule 0: Do not store passwords in plain text
Rule 1: Do not store credit card details outside the payment transaction
Rule 2: Any error message must add actionable information to the situation
Rule 3: Do not ever blame the user for a problem
Rule 5: Deal with incomplete data as best you can
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The amalgamation of man and machine will be the ‘biggest evolution in biology’ claims Professor Yuval Noah Harari "Upgrading is compulsory"
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I already am... except on Thursdays... I can never get the hang of Thursdays!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Some factors to consider when deciding what to make of this story...
1) The Telegraph
2) Professor of history, Yuval Noah Harari.
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At least it's not the Daily Mail 
TTFN - Kent
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The Daily mail is my favourite when it comes to science.
It has been engaged in a 20+ year categorisation project to divide the entire world into that which causes cancer, and that which prevents or cures cancer.
A surprisingly large number of substances (coffee, fish etc.) have appeared multiple times in both categories.
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The way the human race is going I very much doubt we'll make 200 years.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I found it depressing how the comments section is full of theists who evidently were offended by "God-like".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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GNU firebrand Richard Stallman says Windows and Apple's OS X are malware, Amazon is Orwellian, and anyone who trusts the internet-of-things is an ass. Because you knew he'd take a moderate stance
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As I said before, what a paranoid wacko.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Repeating it doesn't make it true Zac. It just means you've re-iterated an opinion.
Telling people what colour underwear I'm wearing doesn't affect my security, but it's none of anyone else's business. Are you of the opinion that arbitrary pieces of 'non-consequential' information (however the hell one defines that) should be forcibly collected and aggregated?
I'm not, neither is Richard.
How would you feel when advances enable a profile to be formed from what was once deemed inconsequential information? Would that situation not present itself as one of concern to you?
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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