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Kevin Priddle wrote: Levels is on a quest to launch 12 “startups” in just 12 months,
Well, if I counted every startup I've created a Heroku repository for, I could easily come close to that.
Marc
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Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have discovered that humans prefer increased autonomy for robots. So ditch management and hire C3PO is what you're saying?
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It's totally true. I am very happy with my Robot Overlord and it's not just because he's standing here overlording me either. 
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The problem with the research is the starting point - the most important thing in the word is to play with Lego blocks?
Also - they found that team performance is better with more robot autonomy, not that humans prefer it...That robot overlords who make us happier is b*****t to create interest where there is not much (we already knew robots can help us - see car industry)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I reckon there's an easier way; most humans would be happier when fed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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... and a computer determined this right?!
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When the Snowden leaks dropped last year, some feared that the reveal widespread state surveillance would be followed by a clamping down on transparency efforts. A new Pew Research poll suggests that the effect is more in line with Kafka than Orwell, however: the threat of ubiquitous surveillance may have resulted in a self-imposed cooling effect on online discussion. Cooler and crisper than the Ice Bucket Challenge.
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VMware, beset on all sides by containers, public clouds and other existential threats, embraced them all. Every single one of them. There is only one path to a united future: I call it love.
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After finishing several projects, Krasimir Tsonev started seeing the good practices and formed three principles for Black Box Driven Development. That way after your project crashes and burns, we have a record of what went wrong.
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You got it all wrong - this black-box is used to make your understanding of the code even worst (and with JavaScript it means a lot!)... 
1 and 2 is good, but has nothing to do with JS but with programming in general.
But 3 is the best! Go with this and you will get a slow application even with the best JS engine (hint compare prototype extension with adding function to single instance only)!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The American Statistical Association (ASA) leadership, and many in Statistics academia worry that the field of Statistics is headed for a future of reduced national influence and importance. You can dress statistics up, but ...
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Can we believe them?
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In the face of a climate emergency, Dr. Ken Caldeira says, we may be able to temporarily limit the damage by, essentially, simulating a safer version of a massive volcanic eruption. Geoengineers hold stone over the Earth, prepared to smash it like a beetle. kun kun kun.
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Sean Ewington wrote: In the face of a climate emergency,
I'm so sick of people taking these idiots seriously.
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...and I'm tired of people who refuse to accept scientific evidence and put their own temporary well-being above issues that may affect future generations. I'd like the world to remain capable of supporting my descendants.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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"BUT EVERY SIMULATION WE DID SHOWED IT WOULD WORK"
Sure they did. And when you want to see doom and gloom the simulations magically produce that also. 
Think the environment is in trouble now, wait till someone tries to fix it. 
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Nobody seems to know whether 'Threshold' and 'Windows 9' will be one and the same or separate operating systems. I imagine we'll find out for certain soon(ish)
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Uh, could we slow the roll on this OS update situation. I just got Win8. Sheesh!
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Beginning next year, if you buy a cell phone in California that gets lost or stolen, you’ll have a built-in ability to remotely deactivate the phone under a new “kill switch” feature being mandated by California law—but the feature will make it easier for police and others to disable the phone as well, raising concerns among civil liberties groups about possible abuse. “It’s great for the consumer, but it invites a lot of mischief”
Sure, you're probably not in California, but as goes the Valley, oft goes everywhere else.
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The Indian call centre scam that warns users that their computers are infected is one of the longest running and most annoying Internet rackets. TechCentral’s Regardt van der Berg took one of the scammers for a ride. In case you're wondering how the scam works
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Not as good as Troy Hunt's series of videos on the same topic:
http://www.troyhunt.com/search/label/Scam[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Except the author didn't scam them; he figured out how they gain trust, and disconnected before files were deleted. Where's the scamming the scammers part of the story?
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You're looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company. Ignore the click-bait title, there are a few good ideas here
Although, it's amazing any company ever succeeded without his wisdom
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I profoundly disagree with "Big companies can accommodate poor communicators" - if you have a "rockstar" who isn't a communicator, invest in making them a better communicator. If you don't do this then other employees will see that this person is accorded high status and that they don't communicate well and will emulate this harmful behaviour.
What big companies can accommodate is raw beginners - and if you are smart enough to turn your uncommunicative rockstars into their mentors you have it all sorted.
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Oh, yes please. I have lived in companies that suffered under a rockstar a-hole. It is a nasty virus that spreads, and makes live horrid for everyone.
TTFN - Kent
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