This Week I Learned - Week #293

This Week I Learned -

innerText, innerHTML and textContent properties of document object appear to do the same thing but are different

* The new Azure cross-platform PowerShell module “Az” is a replacement for AzureRM and AzureRM.Netcore.
- Az runs on PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell Core.
- Az is always up to date with the latest tooling for Azure services.
- Az ships in Cloud Shell.
- Az shortens and normalizes cmdlet names.
- All cmdlets use "Az" as their noun prefix.
- Az is Open Source

* Kudu is now integrated with the Azure Portal

Mint is the genus of the herb, peppermint and spearmint are two subsets. Spearmint is milder and more classically European, peppermint is rather more aggressive, and much more popular in the US (where it's usually labelled as just 'mint').

As smartphone adoption surges (India has 700 million phone users), along with the networks capable of transmitting high-quality videos, the nascent Indian market is seeing explosive growth...Amazon has content in six regional Indian languages besides Hindi. After Fox paid an eye-popping $2.5 billion last September for the TV and digital rights to the next five years of Indian Premier League cricket, the service began charging for those broadcasts. Amazon and Hotstar offer Rs 999 annual memberships while Netflix’s plans start at Rs 500 a month. Netflix, ..is in nearly half of all American households. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio, with almost 240 million wireless phone users as of August, is acquiring rights to everything from soap operas and Bollywood films to the Winter Olympics for subscribers to its mobile phone network. Indians are watching digital video content for an average 8 hours and 28 minutes each week, which is more than for TV - Mint

* "I had a challenging couple of years prior to the Games in Rio. But the greatest thing I  did, and what I am perhaps most proud of, is I didn’t pity myself....I finished fourth not because of a trembling hand or epilepsy; I finished fourth because I wasn’t good enough for third" - Abhinav Bindra on his performance in the Rio 2016 Olympics

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