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We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. And then they came for the artists and I did nothing because - look at that baby daikon!
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Microsoft's Xamarin team detailed what's coming up for .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that will see the company take the open source, cross-platform framework for building native UIs for iOS and Android into the desktop arena -- but not to Linux. I'm so glad they're simplifying their UI models down to 15 choices
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That's what fits in a nibble and we don't know when we'll break the 4-bit boundary for computers.
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BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. Unfortunately, he learned all this in the last year of work
Not me - him.
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Microsoft announced that it's adding a new 'news and interests' feature to Windows 10, and it's going to be built right into the taskbar. Just like no one has asked for!
I use my computer to avoid the news, not have it reminding me of it all day...
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Even if you want news, the "choices" these feeds make rarely make sense (at least try to indoctrinate me, not flood me with articles on celebrities.)
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Have they seen out taskbars? No room for anything.
And the people who have vertical taskbars...
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Video killed the radio star... ♪♪♪
But we still have both. 
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In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in. Spoilers! No one tell me how it turned out.
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As if our society needed help to destroy itself... 
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Civilization was destroyed at 2000-12-31 23:59:59, but everyone was too drunk to notice.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What a joke; having issues is not the same thing as complete economic and social devastation. In short, we aren't living in paradise so the Luddite (who is a massive hypocrite) is right!
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Companies are obsessed with finding the next 10x engineer to join their team, but 1x engineers aren’t as enthusiastic about the idea. 10x0 < 1
OK, it's low code not no-code, but I think the math may still work
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How can an industry mag publish such drivel? There's no such thing as a 10x coder unless compared to the worst performers. Adding the right tools or frameworks when none existed before might get you 3x, but all developers will benefit from that. The people interviewed in the article are at low code and VC firms, so are either talking their own book or know little about coding.
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Greg Utas wrote: How can an industry mag publish such drivel?
Bullsh1t buzzword bingo? Managers and HHRR without a damned clue? Morons where there should be competent people?
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I hesitate to suggest it, but an advertisement masquerading as an article?
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Greg Utas wrote: I hesitate to suggest it, but an advertisement masquerading as an article?
very probably too.
and increasing lately 
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Has S(tupid)D(rivel)Times ever published something that wasn't drivel?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think these CTO's are comparing bad developers, the 1x (the ones that write spaghetti and add loads of unnecessary complexity to a project), to good developers, what they call 10x.
I'd go as far as to say the bad ones are adding negative value, so they're more like -2x.
So the message shouldn't be "find 10x developers", but find competent developers.
What I wonder, why am I not hearing this about managers?
Even the "10x" developer can be useless if the team or project is not managed correctly, and it rarely is.
Actually, why not any profession?
We all know good ones and bad ones.
You have your favorite cashier because they handle your groceries 10x faster (this one's even measurable)!
Heck, I know people who switch doctors after months or even years and almost immediately have their ailment cured (or at least diagnosed)!
In the case of doctors it could even save your life, so definitely find 10x doctors.
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'There'll be no more work from external/unpaid contributors' – dev Put a fork in it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Put a fork in it?
Or just fvrk it?
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The backslash was intended so that the symbols ∧ and ∨, used in the Algol programming language to represent “and” and “or” respectively, could be represented in Ascii as /\ and \/, saving space for a character. All your DOS paths are just figments of your imagination
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Quote: Re: Backslashes aren’t real
My physics teacher told us the inertial forces are not real too... but try to not hold yourself to something in the bus...  
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Torvalds, Linux's creator, finds AMD's processors deliver a much bigger bang for the buck than Intel's CPUs. It's not a new year until there's a new Linus rant
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