If you think Microsoft has no in-house testing team, you are delusional! Microsoft does not use conventional QA testers, they use whats called SDET (Software Design Engineer in Test), and they have a very large team of that: https://www.microsoft.com/en-i...

Who gives a shit how they do it as long as the end result is a more secure product? And FYI, in house teams are not always capable of finding all the bugs no matter how much money and resources you through at it, that's when bug bounty comes in, to get an outside perspective.

So if you are unhappy with Windows 10, downgrade back to Windows 8! Here are the steps to downgrade:

1. Go to "All Settings"

2. Click on "Update & Security"

3. Click on "Recovery"

4. Under "Go back to Windows 8.1" section, click "Get started"

5. Stop COMPLAINING!!

So basically you just didn't bother to do a simple Google search. Follow the steps below to enable keyboard in table mode:

1. Switch to tablet mode

2. Right click on the task bar

3. In the pop-up menu select "Show touch keyboard button"

4. Enjoy touch keyboard in tablet mode

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Watch this documentary, it will explain everything:

http://trumpthemovie.com/intro

This is absolutely false. Some of the syntax is similar, however, if you are building anything more than a simple console app, you will discover there are huge differences in platforms. For example, when building web apps, there are major differences between IIS architecture and a container such as Apache Tomcat. Similarly, there are large difference between how the two VMs optimize code and threading so a Java developer cant just jump into .NET development and vice versa.

You have a class which was originally written by someone else which is doing too much or is not following single responsibility principal, so you refactor out the pieces into other methods and classes, you then find method and variable names no longer reflect what the original method was doing and requires update. Or simply because you felt like it and using an IDE you fucking can! Seriously IDEs are great! I don't understand people on Slashdot who think if its not hard, its not worthy! IDEs provide so many benefits I would not be able to list them all. Here are some: - Intellisense sorting and cleaning of unused of import/using statements - Jumping to declaration of a method or variable - Hover over variable to see type - Debugging and stepping through code with ability to add/remove breakpoints on a whim - Hover over variable during debug to inspect its value - Watch variables - Edit conditional breakpoints quickly - Add bookmarks to code and jump between them - Highlight code errors and jump to them quickly - Compare code side by side - Show code smells - Run/debug test cases with a single click - Code completion for those hard to type/remember method names

Then stick to Lynx, the rest of us will continue to enjoy our dynamic web pages where the whole page doesn't need to load just to see if you have a new email, or reply to a comment, or the sub total of your pizza based on how many toppings you added...

Yea, it's not like a malware writer couldn't come up with a specially crafted XML string which takes advantage of a vulnerability in the XML parser of whatever the most popular reader/writer may be. Face it, software will have bugs regardless of who writes it or whether it's open source or not.

Except you are wrong! I work for a company that recently built a mobile version of one of their apps and initially we went down the path of building native versions of the app due to the insistence of one key person. At the end, we ended up using Xamarin studio because native development offered nothing of value and ended costing extra time and money. For example on Android if you want to provide something as simple as an action bar across all version of the OS, you will have to resort to using a 3rd party library like ActionBarSherlock (http://actionbarsherlock.com/) because not all features are available across all version of the OS and that is just on Android; we offer our app under Apple (and previously BlackBerry) as well and each of those platforms have similar complexities. Unless you are building some resource intensive app or 3D game, it makes no sense to go down the path of native development. People on the internet who have no experience in the real world development always have this mentality that native is better, the idea that c/c++ > Java/C# when in the real world you have to be smart and pick the RIGHT TOOL for the job and not make a irrational and emotional decision.

You can built incredible apps and UI using PhoneGap. Browse the list below and you'll be surprised how many popular apps are built using nothing more than Javascript and HTML5:

http://phonegap.com/app/

Just because an app is using something like PhoneGap doesn't mean it will provide you with a inferior experience than a native app. A lot of apps these days are using things like PhoneGap and Xamarin Studio, you just don't realize it. Browse to the list of apps built with PhoneGap below, you'll be surprised how many popular apps were built using Javascript and HTML5: http://phonegap.com/app/

Except most app developers want to target as many users across as many devices as possible so it makes more sense to use tools that target the most "common denominator". It makes very little financial sense to spend months on a native app that runs on handful of devices rather than most device using a tool like PhoneGap.

I'll put it this way, chance of creating an AI like the Skynet which forms conciousness with the ultimate goal of hurting humans, then managing to spread computer to computer to protect itself from getting unplugged and somehow getting hold of a robot assembly to build vessels is remote to none. To form the conciousness required to match or rival the humans you need insane processing power which we simply don't have yet, a simple PC ain't going to cut it and frankly I doubt even the Chinese super computer is enough to run an AI which could form the complex conciousness and self awareness required to form ideas about hurting humans. Its just not going to happen any time soon.

I swear Netflix's House of Cards foreshadows everything we are seeing in American politics. Its almost like watching a documentary.