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You realize that all of Pride and Prejudice is ~280KB, right? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 :)

They do, they’re called scribes.

XAML components ("controls" in MS terminology) contain both declarative markup and code. And it's flexible because the visual presentation can be completely overriden by the compon…

> and now we're making traditional UI dev like web It's been like that on Windows since 2006 with XAML. In fact, if you squint at typical JSX, it looks like XAML. Disclosure: I wor…

Not really, that's how Windows works too since Vista. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa9... And it's what enables effects like this in Windows 10: https:/…

About the same here in Seattle. It makes saving for a down payment even more depressing. I don't understand who is able to buy these houses when my partner and I can't as software …

We're on a small rock flying through an infinite universe. Our lives exist in a small blink of time. Computers run billions of operations per second using software with countless d…

A small example is my girlfriend getting charged for a pregnancy test in the emergency room even after she told them she doesn't have a uterus.

Not sure why you're being downvoted. XAML definitely supports complex widget composition in markup. Since the XML is basically just describing an object graph, it's a more concise …

One cost of all the guns is all the extra security. Schools resembling prisons, TSA, metal detectors and surveillance everywhere... doesn’t that also infringe on my freedom in a wa…

Missed opportunity for "reticulating splines"

RIP Ursula. I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness and am in the middle of the Earthsea series and it's absolutely fantastic. Love her writing.

The estate tax is justified as a means of reducing the concentration of wealth. However, the truly wealthy and their estate planners avoid the tax. The low yield of the tax is a te…

The cost of electricity is artificially low because it doesn't include the cost of the associated pollution.

The market is ignoring externalities. https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

> The concept was tried with Windows 8; they had to go back to offering both desktop and touchscreen options. Still using the same platform. The idea is to use responsive design ra…

Hopefully this means the iPad Pro will gain support for trackpads and mouse input.

Apple Watch has a crown and a touch screen. iPad Pros have keyboards, pens, and a touch screen. Apple TV has directional and trackpad input. All support voice input. All work fine …

That's an orthogonal problem. Why should the Apple platform arbitrarily require you to use different toolkits for different form factors or input modalities? They already support p…

Same experience for me. The University of Washington headache clinic recommended Vitamin D and Magnesium supplements and it made a marked difference in my mood. Turns out having co…

Wow. And this: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help... I really don't want utilities making value judgements for me.

You need electricity to power everything you do online. I don't think anyone would support being charged different rates based on what you plug into a power outlet.

Best thing to do is probably to contact your representatives and senators in order to get Congress to act on net neutrality.

That's exactly how it works. It took about an hour after linking my Vudu account before they showed up on the Movies Anywhere site and iTunes.

Nice, my UltraViolet codes for Mad Max and The Revenant now show up as 4K HDR versions on iTunes. And I even got the Black and Chrome version of Mad Max as a bonus "iTunes Extra." …