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Seems fairly complicated. React devs should read about XAML, where components have “templates” that allow the consumer of the component to specify how it’s rendered, leaving the co…

Can be incrementally improved by using a more human-focused color model than HSV, like CIECAM02 or CIELAB.

One thing that’s been really motivating at Microsoft lately is a sudden increase in the number of hackathons. In each of the last three months I’ve had the freedom to spend a week …

That’s intentional in the US, otherwise people would sell votes or get coerced to vote.

I work on Windows and run nightly builds of a developer branch. Occassionally some big regressions slip through, like networking or Hyper-V not working, broken graphics drivers not…

Thanks to Movies Anywhere I've started just buying movies instead. iTunes regularly has tons of movies on sale for $5-10 and you can almost always get iTunes gift cards for 15% off…

Washington state is fighting it: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-gov-jay... Washington state will act under our own authority and under our own laws and under …

You can exclude bin directories from Defender: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028485/windows-10-...

FaceID requires a swipe up too, so it’s no better for gloves.

This has all been available in Visual Studio for as long as I can remember.

They take our tax dollars. I would have liked some of that to go to the Paris accord.

I'm excited by the specs, especially given that Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefront 2, Call of Duty WW2, and Destiny 2 are all hitting this holiday. Should be the best way to play t…

On paper it's incrementally better--significantly higher clocks, more RAM and much more memory bandwidth. But the bigger news is that all existing Xbox One games get 16x anisotropi…

http://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/?si... "But what will happen when the point has been reached where everybody could be comfortable without working long hour…

Moot point given that we have a fascist with nukes running the country. Absolute security of planet earth is pretty low right now.

I'm not an economist, but from what I've read, running a trade deficit isn't necessarily a bad thing. The US ran trade deficits through the 80's and 90's while the economy was boom…

Trump explicitly called for a Muslim ban during the campaign. Rudy Guiliani is on camera saying that this EO was drafted as a legal way to implement a Muslim ban. I am not a lawyer…