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What I find most interesting about the article is that the site will only open in a few browsers (try it yourself). I haven't investigated why, because, well, total lack of interest; I just won't use the site.
But it gives the impression that they're taking the "They must be doing this, because it's what we'd want to do!" path with their commentary.
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According to a recap on the school’s website, Nadella said that a lot of the MBA students were, like him, fairly experienced and knowledgeable before they had even started their studies. What he said school could offer them, among other things, is an opportunity to cultivate leadership traits, including the three attributes he said Microsoft looks for in job candidates. I have to admit I'm posting this entirely to read your comments
You'll come up with many more better than I could, I'm certain.
Yes. I'm lazy.
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Based on recent Microsoft updates, they better keep looking!
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Ah, that's a taste of what I was looking for.  mmmmmmwaah!
TTFN - Kent
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It's a pretty sad day when 'Common Sense' isn't at the top of a list like that.
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Which explains a lot, doesn’t it?
TTFN - Kent
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#4: The ability to ignore current problems in favor of new things.
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Well, if the rules for selecting a leader are so precise, then we don't need leaders to select them; a monkey could do it.
Attribute #1: The ability to create clarity when none exist
Ah, so that's where the moronic idea to make scrollbars disappear came from! Some idiot misread "clarity" as "transparency"!
Attribute #2: A knack for sparking energy
Oh, I so dearly love company/town hall/etc. meetings!
"We're doing GREAT! We're GREAT! I gotta tell ya that we're doing GREAT!"
Unfortunately, frequent displays of insincere enthusiasm are major indicators of psychopathy (didn't your grandma ever tell you never to trust anyone who smiles too much?), so if you look for this in leaders, you'll be opening the doors to psychopaths.
And note that there's no mention of enthusiasm for the product, or for producing a good product; just the "We're GREAT! Did I tell ya we're GREAT!" cr@p.
Attribute #3: An ability to succeed in “an over-constrained space”
Screw that!
It's corner office, or I'm hitting the road!
Note well that there is no focus on quality, in these "golden rules" of leadership -- not that we needed to read the article to realise that the quality of ms products has dropped all the way down to Hades, since Bill (Mr Crazy Enthusiastic about the Product) Gates gave up the reins.
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Attribute #1: The ability to create clarity when none exists
They never had any clarity where Windows or their development platforms should be going and still don't have any....let alone their program managers ...
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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Maybe that's why they're looking for new leaders...
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your guess good as mine
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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Researchers have that found that 3D printers spew tiny particles into the air as they operate, though the quantity and nature of these potentially toxic aerosols are poorly understood. A new study identifies a startling variety of these emissions, and the conditions under which they’re produced. Everything will kill you, part 3(D)
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Reminds me of an article I saw this morning which declared that paint removers contained harmful chemicals. Well, no sh*t.
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Maybe the harmful chemicals within the paint remover are neutralized by the harmful chemicals in the paint... I think this is the double-negative effect.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The article completely misses the burning question:
Am I allowed to make myself some vampire teeth, or not?!?
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Researchers at NIT Kurukshetra, IIT Roorkee and IIT Bhubaneswar have developed a new Leap Motion controller-based method that could improve rendering of 2-D and 3-D shapes on display devices. Why does it keep rendering a tower surrounded by four shorter buildings?
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Dr. Dogsbollocks wrote: "We see this technology as a tool for deaf and disabled people's communication"
Um, yeah, because being deaf means that you can't use a mouse or keyboard, and being disabled means that it's preferable to wave your hands around like precision-guided dancing cobras, while sitting in front of a keyboard and mouse.
I despair at the moronity that surrounds us, sometimes, I truly do.
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France and U.S. technology giants including Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Monday urged world governments and companies to sign up to a new initiative to regulate the internet and fight threats such as cyber attacks, online censorship and hate speech. "For me, the greater the odds, the greater the shal-ahnje. And as always, I accept the shal-ahnje."
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"fight threats such as ... online censorship and hate speech"
Unless you have hate speech, you don't have free speech. (Of course, their concern isn't speech any reasonable human would consider hateful, but that with which they merely disagree.)
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Reuter: a new initiative to (a) regulate the internet and fight threats such as (b) cyber attacks, (c) online censorship and (d) hate speech.
a = c
d = c
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As a government agency aimed at scientific exploration, NASA regularly open sources its software and technical apps for the world to enjoy. After all, their goal is to do science for the benefit of all humanity! This week, they’ve open sourced Open MCT, a web-based mission control framework. For all you rocket surgeons
*Rockets sold separately
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Over the years, we’ve learned that sharing the evolution of Visual Studio, with you – our users – early and often helps us to deliver the best possible experience for our community. Oh, a new icon. FINALLY!
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We have 14000 "active problems", but never fear, we're doing something NOBODY asked for; a new icon and colors. (The last was absurd--"More than half of you use the blue theme," so we're changing it. Sounds like the "lets have colorless icon" monkeys are back.)
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Sadly, you have just given a perfect description of the 21st-century microsoft.
Quote from MS: By adopting the Fluent Design System approach to depth, lighting, and materials, we’ve visually enhanced the icon so that it’s much more visible against a variety of backgrounds
Translation:
"While we newbies were @#%$ing around, trying to avoid looking at bug tickets that we don't understand, we found something that was actually taught in our moron-level, useless university course, so we spent all our time and effort on pissing about with that, and then we used the skills we learned in the university's bullsh1tting communications course to tell everyone what a great job we'd done!"
And the rest of the article is pretty much the same.
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MS faffing about with the UI again. I hope they don't change too much. It will just piss people off.
The "big bang" change from VS 2010 to 2012 was heavily lambasted. I was one of the lambasters!
But then from VS 2013 onwards, after some tweaks, I now think it's ace and VS 2010 sucks. 
Kevin
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