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Side effect of order to move to IE11 by Jan. 2016: A third as many deserted to Chrome as met Microsoft's demand. "It was beauty killed the beast."
Yeah. No idea why that was the first thing into my head.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "It was beauty killed the beast."
Uh, yeah, IE ain't no 'beauty' by any stretch of the imagination! 
Just the opposite: The beast is being killed by beauty.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
"It was beauty killed the beast."
MacSpudster wrote: Just the opposite: The beast is being killed by beauty.
Far from being "just the opposite", your version means exactly the same as Kent's. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's it - time to promote you to a management position. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I call BS on this report. The author needs to show causality before saying Microsoft's mandate pushed people to Chrome.
Chrome itself forces you to upgrade its version. Are people abandoning Chrome because they don't like being told what to do? I don't think so.
People move to Chrome because they prefer it. Microsoft could have simply made auto-update the default in IE8 and we'd all be running IE11 and there would be no discussion.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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 But Microsoft isn't permitted by the unwashed crowd demons to do the same as the other evil empire: Google. 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Work is still stuck on IE10 and FF31. 
IE's generally held back by one cluster-elephanted internal site or another; I decline to speculate on if they'll upgrade us before the deadline or not. They tend to push FF updates once a year or so, but never to one of Mozilla's LTS releases (where they could have security updates only but no changes to the JS/HTML/etc functionality) for some reason. As of a few months ago, FF updates were blocked because the new certificate verification code and the bluecoat HTTPS MITM proxy didn't get along for some reason. I need to try an unofficial upgrade again soon; they just deployed new BC certs; I'm hoping that means they've fixed WTE the problem was. Chrome, in an inexplicable exception to the rest of their policies has always been allowed to auto-update itself. 
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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Wunderlist, OneNote and a new (and as yet unannounced) Planner project-management portal are among Microsoft's evolving family of to-do/task management apps and services. You know what would help? Some organizing software.
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There seems to me a systemic flaw in this approach, but hey, it's Microsoft. What else is new.
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A recent survey sheds light on how developers are currently using F# and what frustrates them the most about it. ... says survey by company offering F# training
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We are happy to announce that the Microsoft Virtual Academy training course, A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10, is now available on demand. Video helps the Windows 10 star
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The easiest way to make it be at 100% is to resist change, because change is when bad things happen. 100-ish is good enough
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Live blog for June 3: [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Since C++ (by deliberate design) does not include a native garbage collector or memory compactor, programs that perform dynamic memory allocation and de-allocation (via explicit or implicit use of the “new” and “delete” operators) cause small “holes” to accumulate in the free store over time. "Memory management is too important to be left to the computer."
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What can I say? Slow news day. /shrug
TTFN - Kent
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What a useless article :- presents the problem but offers no solution at all.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: presents the problem but offers no solution at all.
Sure he does:
For those types of niche systems, the best, and perhaps only, practical options available for preventing any holes from accumulating in your briefs are to eliminate all deletes from the code
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: preventing any holes from accumulating in your briefs
This sounds like an altogether different problem...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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He listed several, but didn't explain them:
Quote: If your application inherently requires post-initialization dynamic memory usage, then use pre-allocated, fixed size, unfragmentable, pools and stacks to acquire/release data buffers during runtime.
I've used those approaches before and they can be extremely fast, especially when you manage thread synchronization yourself.
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We are very pleased and excited to announce the availability of the Project System Extensibility SDK. With it, you can define a new project type and begin writing extensions to customize the user experience or add features in just a few minutes while owning very little code. When projecting your next project
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This is one of those things that looks to be absolutely brilliant but which I have absolutely no idea how or why I'd actually use it. Anybody else see a good use case?
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Maybe you wanted to integrate a new language into the Project system. That's all I've got.
"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'm actually working on a project that mixing ASP.NET Forms with MVC - I made it possible by adding some extensions, however defining a new project type shoudl be easier...
(To be honest it is possible ot define new project types even today, but it is a bit too complicated so I decided to do it with extensions, maybe the new SDK will make new project types easier)
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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Ah, but you supposed that I meant my meaning was meant to mean the non-mean of the meaning when, in fact, I meant not of any opposite meaning, but meant to opposite the order such that the meaning was still meant to mean the same meaning. 
