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Time for another @richcampbell talk already - this time on the history of .NET. #NDCOslo
Just realised that I've actually seen Richard deliver an earlier version of this talk at @ADNUGUK. Quite happy to listen again though!
Microsoft was originally a programming language company, not an OS company.
This slide takes me back to my own introduction to programming!
Nobody at Microsoft set out to write .NET.
Up until this point, Microsoft did not create their own languages - just different versions of existing languages.
C# was originally codenamed COOL (C Object-Oriented Language).
With MS breaking the Windows team up and rolling it into DevDiv, they are the most developer-focused they've been since the 80s.
"What next? Perhaps they'll buy Github?" 😂
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First up today is @fransrosen on Attacking Modern Web Technologies. #NDCOslo
AppCache can be exploited to redirect users to malicious content.
Service Workers are also a potential attack vector, though there are more limitations.
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Last session of the day at #ndcoslo - "Code phonology" by @Felienne.
Programmers are immersed in programming like fish in water - are they the best people to articulate what programming is?
Spreadsheets are functional programming - except so intuitive that people don't realise they are programing.
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.@adamralph giving a practical guide on finding service boundaries. Hoping this ties up earlier sessions on DDD, architecture and technical debt. #ndcoslo
Systems tend towards the Big Ball Of Mud architecture due to entropy.
This is often the gradual accretion of small, innocuous changes over a long period of time.
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I knew that a massacre took place during 1947. But when I started to read up on the subject, it shocked me to see just how unaware we are about the "Nakba" that took place & the tales of horror it caused & most of all how the narrative got distorted by the perpetrator.

#Kashmir
Because how can this crime, nothing less than a genocide, be so ignored outside of the area? How can massacres, several hundred thousands killed & a million forced to flee, not even render a whisper in our history books?

#Kashmir
It is time to lift this historical injustice to the surface & give the victims the right to own their stories.
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#Kashmir
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
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#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.
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#History/#Art thread – From my recent trip to Madurai/Tirunelveli. On Jain sites (some with a rich history dating back to at least the 3rd cent. BCE), early Pandyan rock-cut cave temples (7th-8th cent. CE) & the amazing Vettuvan koil.

Pic: Mahavira (~8 cent CE), Kizhakuyilkudi
Before I start on the places, the history around all this is fascinating & splits opinion. Is it apt to call the script Tamili/Tamil Brahmi? Did it develop independently in the Tamil country/come with the Jain monks from the north? Were 8,000 Jains actually impaled in Madurai?>
>Were the Saivites overaggressive in promoting their faith? Shall only be happy to discuss on these separately (unless it gets too long/irrational). And I’m not posting every inscription from the places here, despite their importance. Again, shall be happy to discuss them.
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If you want a news website anyway, here you go.
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Liberal Leavers had a plan. It would never have won competing in a straight 2-way fight against the status quo.
If EUref ballot had offered Remain vs Flexcit-type plan (move to EFTA/EEA for long time), result would have been maybe 70/30 for Remain (?).
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