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Microsoft is positioning UWP for traditional line of business (LOB) applications with an emphasis on rapid application development (RAD) using the Windows Template Studio. Because positioning it as the general UI model definitely wasn't working
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I wonder why they didn't just modernize WPF. It's a mature and proven framework for LOB applications that unfortunately is stuck in 2010 from a technology perspective. Instead, they decided to reinvent the wheel. Literally, because UWP just uses the same old concepts and has the same old features like WPF or Silverlight, but often in a rather crippled implementation. For example, you cannot have read-only dependency properties or use property coercion, and it's missing essential controls. On the other hand, new concepts in UWP, like themed resources or x:Bind, and modern controls, are missing from WPF. It's a mess of two worlds.
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'Greed-Accelerated Development 'is the completely achievable desire to want more from your work than just the immediate benefit while not paying any additional price for it. "The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
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Working with oracle years ago - shudder. To say their licensing was aggressive is an understatement. So these two Oracle guys come in for a meeting to discuss our product development plans, meaning, you need more licenses and pay us more money. Before they left, my VP turns to me and says, "Start the mysql project now."
Nuf said
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've heard too many stories like that... 
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charlieg wrote: Before they left, my VP turns to me and says, "Start the mysql project now."
Great story.
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The amazing part of the story is what I left out. Our product was rapidly scaling to N instances passing through the database. We could have lived with some version of log(n) licensing (hey, we sell value too). The sales guys wanted N. Further, when we discussed the idea of a working queue of threads, the Oracle sales guys shut that down immediately. Nope, it's N or nothing at all. The meeting was surreal - I don't think the sales guys had heard of mySql or Postgres. I think what rankled us the most was their total lack of concern that they were pricing our product out of the market. Damn near sociopathic behavior.
When you run into this, most normal people have trouble believing what they are hearing.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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A new study found that blue light can cause macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of blindness. Everything is killing us, part 470
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Note : Change all anchor tags to bright red !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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More than three-quarters of the admins surveyed want Microsoft to release feature upgrades just once a year – or even once every other year. One admin decried an upgrade pace that 'never ends.' "The train it won't stop going. No way to slow down"
That's feature upgrades, not security patches, I hope
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Let me get this straight; these IT departments are so weak-willed that they are unable to resist the six month upgrades. Perhaps they should take it easy.
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its micrsoft asking people to beta test their s/w on the staff laptops and desktops and its it that have to bear the brunt of "my laptops not working" "Cant copy and paste" "My outlook stop working"... blah .. blah...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Utter nonsense. If you want to be on the early/beta release ring you can. Or you can opt to be in the slower ring. With corporate accounts, you can be on an even slower update ring. These people are whining just to whine--it's virtue signalling at its worse.
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It runs cool and uses one tenth the power of traditional spinning drives. It measures up
I wonder how I can work a few into the budget?
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You want to make sure to fill up the entire space, so you need 32.
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The threat was demonstrated this week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The threat targets MacBooks that use Apple’s Device Enrollment Program and its Mobile Device Management platform. So, you just have to follow people home from the store?
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At the DefCon hacking conference two researchers demonstrated that using machine learning techniques, you can de-anonymize the authors of code samples. No hiding for the one who broke the build
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Larger cable providers once again take a beating for perceived value—even when it comes to bundled plans It's not just you
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The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers. Size doesn't matter
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Size doesn't matter
I would answer you, but that would be soapbox content  
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.
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In the meantime, the Defense Department may be reorganizing how it does space "Now, the lids about to blow, when the Thunderbirds are go"
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Finally 
Gone is the Outer Space Treaty, which was started by the US. Next war, attacking sattelites will be normal.
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.
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Computer scientists in Australia teamed up with an expert in the University of Toronto's department of English to design an algorithm that writes poetry following the rules of rhyme and metre. Then they came for the Elizabethan poets, and I did nothing as I took STEM classes
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Shall I compare thee to an overheated CPU?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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