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An audio recording of a lock being opened provides enough data to reproduce the key required to open that lock, even with a cell phone's microphone.
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The biggest bugfix actually required me to build a private copy of System.Windows.Forms.dll 😬 .NET 7 shipped with a nasty bug in Form.ShowDialog(), and a fix is being fast-tracked for the 7.0.2 servicing release in January. github.com/dotnet/winforms/i…
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😢 R.I.P.
Fred Brooks was the author of "The Mythical Man Month" a book that was hugely influential on so many of us. Also his paper "No Silver Bullet" would be on most people's shortlist of most influential papers.
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Via @sabrinaesaquino
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“XML provides a proper engineering solution to data exchange, so we use JSON instead. JSON gives software developers a more convenient experience by not addressing the hard problems that XML took on.” – at Asker, Norge
Why CSV survives - the enduring nature of comma-separated values (CSV) #data
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"I have a tactic for making them longer: be really vague about what you're writing about, and use lots of fancy words."
— 12 yo on essay writing. I explained that this technique is already widely used.
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Good times; way back we showed the Silverlight was obsolete before it even launched and that you could do everything using just standard HTML+JS (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros…). Nearly got fired for showing that.
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A farewell to Simon Peyton Jones as he leaves Microsoft Research
Subject: RE: New horizon
I would like to add a few words to what Chris has written. I know I am also speaking for Mads, the current lead designer of C# (cc’d)
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you ever get chicken at kfc or whatever and think that some other random person is eating the other leg of the same chicken?
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After 23 years at Microsoft Research it is time for me to move on. I shall be leaving MSR at the end of November.
I do not yet know exactly what comes next. I’m sure I will continue my work with Haskell and GHC, and in computing education, but I’m also looking for new horizons.
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RUSSIAN TURTLES 🐢
An alternative universe in which 4 mutated turtles were born in Russia in the mad 90s.
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Now you can use sharplab.io to learn CIL and immediately observe how it is JITted into native code😍
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📖 “No Bugs” is up! It’s the latest practice in the open review of _The Art of Agile Development, 2nd ed._ This is a big one and I can’t wait to see what people think. jamesshore.com/v2/books/aoad… #aoad2
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"Full-time college students in 1961 allocated about 40 hours per week toward class and studying, whereas full-time students in 2003 invested about 27 hours per week."
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Microsoft’s cloud vision led to a 2020-revenue performance that outpaced both Google Cloud and AWS onmsft.com/news/microsofts-c…
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I just found out that the original author of “Norton Commander” - the DOS program I cloned works at Microsoft and I sent him some fan mail.
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Say hello to the @rust_foundation! 🎂🎉 teapawt.org/rust_foundation/status…
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Don't miss out on the Fire Side chat series finale for the Extending F&O with the Power Platform #TechTalk series. It's only happening once and will not be recorded. Make sure to submit your questions ahead of time...see you there.
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