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Ha, ha and sand it smooth.

I was working for a company that was doing fantastically well but my salary increases and % bonus were in the low single digits. I negotiated a 50% raise. The extra money allowed me to save and invest for the future.

My experience is that developers are hardcore in their opinion on Microsoft: they are either all in or have no interest in dealing with them.

I don't see Microsoft being able to move developers with this purchase.

FB was cool to teens when it was limited to college students. Scarcity is gone and coolness left with it.

Events would be a nice service for Twitter to move into.

I interviewed at a Fortune 100 tech company when I was 35. The head of the development center declared to me that "people don't come here to retire". I was hired because they needed a niche skill that I possessed.

Meh. Too often falls back on nudity to make up for failure to develop a more immersive environment. Said in another way, they used nudity to make up for a small CGI budget.

Just wondering if there are any plans to make this available to management for viewing workers surreptitiously?

I would expect this to be an enterprise request almost immediately.

What a difference a word can make:

This post heading:

Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join

and the source article:

Google is essentially building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join

The one word changes the article from providing an interpretation of a set of facts to a declaration of a proven fact. Since Recode has some gravitas the difference is even greater than if it was a blog mill churning out click bait.

Partnerships between tech companies is not that unusual. Now if it happens to amount to anything significant that would be odd.

They don't have a need to spy on everyone, just a compulsion to.

Seems more like the tub is overflowing rather than draining.

The only way this stops is for the FCC to direct backbone providers to block non-US IP addresses that flood people with these calls.

Send it in a certified letter. Address it to the CEO and send certified CC's to the FDIC, CIO, and a reporter for a local or national tech newspaper column.

It may sound archaic but you have to raise the visibility if you're concerned about changing the banks behavior.

Or Precious: the go llvm compiler.

Probably a few million people who would love to push that button. Myself included. One of those places in the city where you're guaranteed to sit in traffic no matter what time of day on night you approach it.

A constant theme for support of H-1B's is that they supply the US with an irreplaceable resource for starting new technical companies.

Despite this I have not heard reference of any individual who came to this country on a H-1B visa to work for an Indian outsourcing company who later participated in a significant successful startup. Honest question, does anyone know an example of this having occurred?

The science has come a long way from the incandescent light in my dorm closet.

I don't know about that. I see Tim Cook as being closer to Steve Ballmer than Steve Jobs. Operations vs Vision.

This is a classic embrace, extend, extinguish.

Maybe it's not focus but quality of content.

When I see that a story is from medium I don't bother with it. History has taught me that once in a while something there might be of value but mostly it's very light reading and not worth the time to explore.

Since the product doesn't actually exist yet they should perhaps say Plans rather than Introduces.

Most of Microsoft's income comes from businesses. They already use a subscription service called Software Assurance. That's the income they will need to replace.

For now it is. If service income is to replace on premise licenses the price will have to go up.

If they offered it a la carte I would be a lot more interested. Our company is just getting over Microsoft hegemony. I'll never be part of getting back into that by buying Microsoft services that are intertwined.

Twenty to fifty years from now historians are going to reference the ACA as a case study of early 21st century American government:

1) hyper partisan political process

2) special interest control of the content of laws

3) release of information by the government used as a method to manage the electorate rather than inform

4) front loaded benefits with back-ended payments

5) political class taking credit for the good stuff and leaving if for others to clean up the mess

Generally speaking, all aspects of American government in this place and time are reflected in the ACA. All aspects share the same sustainability issues.

If it was Verizon or AT&T or some other ISP doing this there would be outrage. But I guess it's cool if it's Google.

From the OP: ".NET Standard is a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation.

Sounds like baseline API that will be present on all .Net <foo>.

Sorry for the off topic but is anyone else getting very high cpu usage from O'Reilly websites? Any known resolution or work around?

With Chrome developer tools I see one error: "Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document."

So then UWP is basically dead for 99+% of it's use cases.

For mobile: use Xamarin.

For desktop: use win32/.net so you can support pre August 2016 versions of Windows.

For Xbox and ARM where you also need support for desktop and mobile devices: use UWP.