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Tue, 15:10: RT @dsyme: Weck/Buecki's Compound Types appear in Swift as "protocol composition types", eg. see this MSR proposal to MSFT http://t.co/ME86…
Tue, 15:24: biggest thing about Swift for me; taking still-kinda-niche concepts from FP & making them default for every mainstream developer
Tue, 15:25: And because Apple, they can dictate modern programming, contracts, inferred types etc with really minimal pushback vs eg Microsoft & WinRT
Tue, 15:56: excellent history of how MSR Cambridge pushed Microsoft forward to modern programming structures (w links) http://t.co/82YAk6NNBT
Tue, 16:16: amused to hear @sbisson lecturing PR on the technical inaccuracies in their clients pitch on programming language security ;)
Tue, 16:26: RT @cliffsimpkins: Thank you anti-vaccine movement - RT @acsifferlin: LOOK AT THIS MEASLES GRAPH. LOOK AT IT AMERICA. @CDCgov http://t.co/u…
Tue, 16:28: & didn't add Yahoo as either search provider RT @rjonesy: Apple dropped Yahoo weather data for Weather Channel in iOS 8.
Tue, 16:30: @jaboonday I've been assuming contractual but if anyone would know the technical side it's @Carnage4Life
Tue, 16:37: Google Internet weather balloon bursts, falls into power lines http://t.co/DNGuyIFNrs
Tue, 16:46: RT @sbisson: So true, la vie de journalism: http://t.co/dWd5JEXu1Y

Tue, 16:47: amazeballs RT @SpragueD: Data journalism! RT @WFMU Awesome History of Words that Mean 'Cool,' Except for 'Awesome' http://t.co/Y1mL5TmT8d
Tue, 16:49: RT @edbott: I would read MT @timanderson Anyone done a comparison of WinRT sharing contracts, Android intents, & iOS 8 app extensions? Key …
Tue, 16:58: Why help Android siphon off their game developers by propping up OpenGL? (but is ray tracing really the future?) http://t.co/UqxLIf6Pkj
Tue, 17:02: this. *this* RT @timanderson: Twitter suggestion: if someone dms to you, it should be possible to dm a reply even if they don't follow you
Tue, 17:06: RT @FCousteau: Woohoo! My team & I down below at Aquarius can officially call ourselves aquanauts for @ mission_31 ! http://t.co/fsrLcf7Hoo
Tue, 17:07: RT @dsyme: Watching the ObjC community coming to terms with a 21C language :) https://t.co/vD4M2gwak3
Tue, 17:09: RT @R: Just saw a link to “Top 100 Attributes of Leaders” - I assume the number 1 attribute is “they never waste time reading click-bait li…
Tue, 17:15: think back to how Compaq hollowed itself out at insistence of Wall St. look at Dell going private to avoid the same. Wall St value again?
Tue, 17:17: DOS licensing folk? MT @mikebaz did it really? "Compaq licensed DOS back to Microsoft and it became the real version" http://t.co/DhCnxrItz8
Tue, 18:06: @maryjofoley get a press copy of http://t.co/n7R4vyHXSp

Tue, 18:20: RT @vibronet: The v1 of the Graph Library is out! Head to http://t.co/dI8USMNtkV for a great overview #AzureAD
Tue, 18:31: Xbox One bath salts edition? RT @blowdart: "McAfee Joins Microsoft as New Chief Economist" WOW. Way to make me panic GeekWire.
Tue, 19:39: RT @sbisson: Finishing up a piece on Microsoft's AI research. Fascinating work going on in MSRC, needs hyperscale to work. Oh look, Bing.
Tue, 19:41: I don't want touch first Office. I want a PDF previewer for Outlook on Windows RT desktop. preferably yesterday
Tue, 19:44: US friends; is there an equivalent to UK late payment fees I can charge a company that keeps ignoring an unpaid invoice?
Tue, 19:49: sweet! big data prediction of wind speed from flight info we already have #msr http://t.co/GJ9rKivHOg
Tue, 19:49: RT @stevesi: .@BenedictEvans @adymitruk cross platform has always been a dream of devs, an empty promise for the industry, and a nightmare …
Tue, 19:56: RT @dotMorten: Converting a WinPhone sample from Silverlight to WinPRT. A little surprised that I'm deleting more code/xaml than I'm addin…
Tue, 20:27: RT @nokia: Taking your #Lumia1020 for a splash? Available for a limited time only -- up to 100m depth :) http://t.co/RbGpcVMGA5 http://t.co…
Tue, 20:29: have been wondering how Cousteau was going to use his Lumia 1020 underwater; limited edition custom dive housing

Tue, 21:50: when the Bing research bar randomly appears in Excel, the delete key stops working #weirdOfficekeyboardbug #helphelphelp
Tue, 23:43: me to Excel: replace all cells with - in Excel to me: you can't use a URL there me: WT Actual F?
Tue, 23:49: I code little except super-freaky Excel formulae these days. data formatting errors make me wish for strong typing in Excel. or better data
Wed, 01:49: RT @schnoll: The #Office team at #Microsoft is looking for participants to join us in pre-release beta programs. Sign up at http://t.co/Ja…
Wed, 11:14: RT @sugru: Q. How do you turn an #Oyster into a #Panda? A. @Jude_Pullen + #sugru that's how :) http://t.co/ox4AAWGrKj http://t.co/tbaWOjGLCK
Wed, 11:16: and 900 trees; complex carbon calculations RT @sbisson: Surface on Delta will save 1.2 million gallons of fuel a year, #businesstransformed
Wed, 11:17: Chris Weber; Lumia 930 will come not just with wireless charging built in but in UK will have wireless charging pad in the UK
Wed, 11:18: second or third Microsoftie this morning talking about having used prototype Surface 3 for ~3 months
Wed, 11:20: that's nice; Chris Weber skipping his slides so we can get to the demo because it has some productivity ideas he hadn't come across ;)
Wed, 11:21: interesting to hear how Nokia folk are finding they're more productive with Microsoft IT; newer version of Office 365, in particular SQL BI

Wed, 11:26: I'm a nitpicker; Brett from Ms talks about what syncs between Win 8.1 PCs and I think about the Office settings that don't sync ;)
Wed, 11:29: not surprised that European employees want companies to supply devices instead of buying their own; why should I pay company bills for tech?
Wed, 11:36: sweet! browsing web on Xbox using SmartGlass controlling w WP 8.1, press button on phone screen to grab content back onto phone to browse
Wed, 11:37: is it sad or sweet that so many Microsoft guys use Cortana to say/do nice things for their wives?
Wed, 11:57: RT @cstross: Imagine the hilarity when the Streisand effect collides with the Secret Service’s prototype-level tweet sarcasm detector algor…

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