Microsoft Build 2018
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I enjoy watching this show every year, so I'm doing that now. The preshow isn't happening apparently, so all I get is music.
For those who care:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/events/build#
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@magus said in Microsoft Build 2018:
The preshow isn't happening apparently, so all I get is music.
You need entertainment. You've got us.
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Nadella talks about trust and responsibility. I'm fighting hard with myself not to turn this shit off.
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@mrl said in Microsoft Build 2018:
Nadella talks about trust and responsibility. I'm fighting hard with myself not to turn this shit off.
Jeeze. By that yardstick you'll never watch anything by medium to big-sized companies. And even a lot of the small ones will be right out.
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This is the worst keynote in years. Nadella is just talking about principles, and new tech and stuff only comes in as examples.
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@rhywden said in Microsoft Build 2018:
Jeeze. By that yardstick you'll never watch anything by medium to big-sized companies. And even a lot of the small ones will be right out.
The last 3 years, the keynote has been primarily there to excite the crowd, by showing off new tech. This is a developer-focused event.
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@magus Still not seeing the big issue here.
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@rhywden said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@mrl said in Microsoft Build 2018:
Nadella talks about trust and responsibility. I'm fighting hard with myself not to turn this shit off.
Jeeze. By that yardstick you'll never watch anything by medium to big-sized companies. And even a lot of the small ones will be right out.
If there's Nadella talking about trust and responsibility, then no.
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@mrl Yes, we get it, it's Microsoft, they're the big bad, yada yada yada.
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@rhywden said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@mrl Yes, we get it, it's Microsoft, they're the big bad, yada yada yada.
Wrong again. But please do try again, I want to see how many ways my simple post can be misinterpreted.
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@mrl Yawn. Wake me up when you have something interesting to say.
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@rhywden Do you really have to go around finding threads to tell people their words don't matter in?
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@mrl This is the guy who said Microsoft's big focus for 2018 was quality, while simultaneously signing-off on Edge and Teams to be released to an unsuspecting public.
(Don't get me wrong; I like him WAY better than Ballmer, whose mantra seemed to be "figure out what Google's doing and rip it off badly", and under whom the only big Microsoft successes happened because they were in areas he didn't interfere with.)
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@magus As I've been told, this is the raison d`être for the DailyWTF.
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Packing up the critical parts of the Kinect into a tiny package anybody can install on their product is pretty cool.
I really hate how they're glomming the "Azure" brand onto everything; it's just going to make everything confused and annoying.
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@blakeyrat said in Microsoft Build 2018:
Packing up the critical parts of the Kinect into a tiny package anybody can install on their product is pretty cool.
So did they ever fix the thing where the Kinect was essentially useless to anyone with a living room smaller than an aircraft hangar?
I really hate how they're glomming the "Azure" brand onto everything; it's just going to make everything confused and annoying.
Well, this is Microsoft we're talking about. It's not.NET like.NET they've never.NET done this.NET sort of branding.NET before.NET...
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@masonwheeler said in Microsoft Build 2018:
So did they ever fix the thing where the Kinect was essentially useless to anyone with a living room smaller than an aircraft hangar?
They... put the sensors into Hololens and all the WMR devices. And those need about half the space SteamVR wants.
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Cortana and Alexa can turn each other on
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Microsoft has like 80,000 employees and not of them could improve this stinker of a joke? Sheesh.
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@blakeyrat Alexa has some very amusing responses to certain questions. I have recently learned this after my new bride moved in with me; she takes a certain delight in trying to find the easter eggs.
Some of the better ones:
- Alexa, what's your favorite movie?
- Alexa, do you have a boyfriend?
- Alexa, open the pod bay doors.
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@masonwheeler So does Cortana which is why it's even more surprising that joke they just told on stage was humor-cancer.
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@blakeyrat That joke was told by Alexa, so presumably Amazon wrote it.
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I'm just waiting for Anders to show up and introduce Typesharpscript to the world. The only language you'll need to learn ever.
On a serious note, I wish they had some Blazor related product but looks like too soon for that.
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Seeing a deaf guy and a chinese guy talk into their phones and read eachothers' text on stage was pretty great.
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@masonwheeler Kinect: Yes, they solved the size issue with the vastly improved Kinect for Xbox One - which everyone complained about assuming it was the same as the 360 version without actually trying it.
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@the_bytemaster Well that's good to hear. Better late than never I suppose...
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@masonwheeler said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@blakeyrat Alexa has some very amusing responses to certain questions. I have recently learned this after my new bride moved in with me; she takes a certain delight in trying to find the easter eggs.
Some of the better ones:
- Alexa, what's your favorite movie?
- Alexa, do you have a boyfriend?
- Alexa, open the pod bay doors.
Google Assistant's are the best.
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@pie_flavor But your use's of apostrophe's aren't.
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@magus An apostrophe is used as a possessive or contraction. Here it is used as a possessive. Google Assistant is the name of the subject here, and I am referring to answers that Google Assistant has, therefore they are Google Assistant's. If I were to remove the apostrophe, I would be saying that each answer would be a separate instance of Google Assistant in actuality.
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@pie_flavor Cool story.
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@magus My pendant is bigger than yours.
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@blakeyrat said in Microsoft Build 2018:
I really hate how they're glomming the [whatever] brand onto everything; it's just going to make everything confused and annoying.
Modern marketing in a nutshell.
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@pie_flavor said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@magus My pendant is bigger than yours.
There are some things I really don't want to know about you.
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My favorite bit from today was that they're letting you bring
MetroModernFluent Design bits back to Win32 applications. Take a trip to the UWP XAML Islands and add some mystery controls (revealed by glowy edges) and translucency (that disappears in the background) to your boring application today!I can't wait to see what excitement tomorrow will bring. :/
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@parody said in Microsoft Build 2018:
Metro Modern Fluent
I mean it's legitimately a new style compared to those first two. I personally rather like it, or at least parts of it.
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@parody said in Microsoft Build 2018:
I can't wait to see what excitement tomorrow will bring. :/
ASP.NET Core 3: Now supporting WebForms.
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@unperverted-vixen said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@parody said in Microsoft Build 2018:
I can't wait to see what excitement tomorrow will bring. :/
ASP.NET Core 3: Now supporting WebForms.
I don't do .NET web coding, but they are adding WinForms, WPF, and UWP to .NET Core so you might get something along those lines.
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And they finally enabled generic type constraints for
Enum,Delegate, andunmanaged!
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@pie_flavor said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@magus My pendant is bigger than yours.
Who's pendant's the biggest?
@pie_flavor's's.
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Graph Graph Graph Graph Graph Graph Graph....
They even said directly that "We need you to put your data in the Graph."
Graph.
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@parody Oh god, is that going to be the next dumb-ass word that IT marketing are going to abuse to pieces? :(
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@dkf Not exactly. The Microsoft Graph is a specific system that has specific uses. I don't imagine anyone else would be as excited about it as they are.
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@dkf Thankfully they've moved on to other things. I was worried that there'd be Graph in my peanut butter before too long.
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Can we build a coin miner that uses IoT to hash the Graph into a Cloud Blockchain?
Filed Under: I almost made myself throw up with that one
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@timebandit It's what Google did with Sheets, so I suppose it makes sense?
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@parody The ability to deploy and update them sounds kind of interesting... but javascript is horrible at data types...
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@mott555 Why not skip all that complexity and just use blockgraph?
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@magus said in Microsoft Build 2018:
@parody The ability to deploy and update them sounds kind of interesting... but javascript is horrible at data types...
Just be careful with
=LEFTPAD(...).
