List of April Fools' Day Announcements
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#282https://com.google - Google showing off their new gTLD in a silly manner.
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#283MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input…
The interface is a significant improvement compared to Windows 8.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com? People here give way too much importance to TLDs.
I know a lot of folks using .dev for locally running "development" instances of websites/apps. Maybe .local is now a better choice.
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#285https://com.google - Google showing off their new gTLD in a silly manner.
I always thought "do a barrel roll" was kind of stupid, but it's cool that it still works on com.google.
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#286Google Actual Cloud platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o https://cloud.google.com/actual-cloud/
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#287Systemd is forking the Linux kernel: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community
This was simply a case of someone getting the systemdaemon name on github. It's not the systemd project.
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#288http://blog.tablelist.com/tablelist-april-fools-2015-champra...
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#289The Play Framework folks will be offering the "Certified Reactive Application Programmer" - in short: CRAP certification https://twitter.com/playframework/status/583131097396989952
I just love the checkbox for "Yes! I want my organization to be full of CRAP™ developers!"
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would have been pretty impressive if they created a whole gTLD just for an April Fools joke.
indeed because "The evaluation fee is US$185,000." http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel...
"At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128.
Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in the auction, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation on Friday.
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'It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi,' the source said, adding the bid was $3.14159 billion.
'Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.'"