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You've heard of "software as a service" - Microsoft has implemented "customer as tester".
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: “We shifted the responsibility for base functional testing to our development teams in order to deliver higher quality code from the start,” explains Fortin.
So their development teams got twice the time (or more) to do the same work they had been doing? Color me skeptical.
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Ah refreshing, I find the speed of innovation too high, slowing down is fine with me 
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RickZeeland wrote: Ah refreshing, I find the speed of innovation too high, slowing down is fine with me
While you typed that, 73 new JavaScript libraries were created.
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One moment please!
I agree with you that this can / will end badly.
Just; We are the ones who manage the free market economy, which is not generally bad.
That some big players are getting bigger and bigger is more likely to us consumers who for several years more and more feel on the Internet everything is "free"
Microsoft ... Visual Studio / MS SQL
Google ... search service and some more.
At some point the price has to be paid ...
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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0x01AA wrote: At some point the price has to be paid
I agree. I don't think everything should be free.
A lot of work has gone into technology that needs to be paid for.
Also, it is very interesting that you make this point because I just watched Jaron Lanier's TED talk, Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet | TED Talk[^]
His final call is that all the companies should start charging for everything. I believe he is saying that will drive people to question what the companies are doing instead of just saying, "well it's free".
It's an interesting point.
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Btw: You did not replied to my post (or it is a mistake of cp again these days). Now I was about to edit my post, I will do it here (not related directly to your reply here).
When I think more about all these presented in the article....
Of course _not_ support some Features can end in indirect censorship. But the more "dangerous" Thing with Google I see is, that "anybody" simply enter a "search/question" in Google and takes the proposed as "_the truth_" and this one worries me a lot more.
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And please do not Count at the Moment that I will be informed about an answer  CP seems to have some strange days at the Moment
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An example what has been deleted more or less from the Scene:
Borland/Embarcadero: They had since more than 20 years a Thing called vcl which supports "visual inhertitance"! WPF and xaml compared to that early technics are simply "shameful". Of course wpf/xaml is not really that bad, but compared to this 20 year old borland technics it is something smelling. And yes I'm aware the architect was the same Person, as far what I know...
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It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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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.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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.
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The article completely misses the burning question:
Am I allowed to make myself some vampire teeth, or not?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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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